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Here’s something you don’t hear about every day — shipping an entire playground. But thanks to some kindhearted folks in St. Matthews, Brown Park’s former playground, which was set to be replaced, is now making days a little brighter for children living in poverty in Belize. Belize is a small country located on the Caribbean coast in Central America.

“The Mayor was in the meeting and excited about the opportunity,” Stratman says.

“Davis found a donor in Texas to ship the playground, and it went from Louisville to Texas to Belize. E-Z sent a foreman to Belize to reconstruct the playground. It wasn’t damaged, just worn, and time for a new one.”

Stratman adds that the playground is now “the largest playground in Belize, even though it was just run of the mill here.”

The playground includes small slides, a bridge, glider and corkscrew climber.

Meanwhile, at Brown Park, the new

The idea came from Ed Davis of E-Z Construction. After being awarded the bid to work on the park improvements, he asked the city about donating the old equipment, rather than it being demolished. He had been to Belize previously on a missions trip with Hand in Hand Ministries of Louisville and saw the severe poverty there. Of course, the city “would have been willing” to donate, says Kenan Stratman, Director of Public Works for the City of St. Matthews.

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playground and new restrooms are finished, so the entire project is complete.

“The new footprint is twice as large, with several free-standing play structures, an artificial turf mound, a single unit playhouse with mailbox designs, like a post office, earth mound, buddy rocker, similar to a see-saw, dome climber and ten spin,” Stratman says.

Stratman describes the ten spin as “a new-age merry go round, but it is designed to sit or stand and spin self.”

Panels that look like a pilot’s controls and a bank teller will also be added to the playhouse, along with a feature that looks like a lemonade stand.

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There’s also a musical component that kids can play, and a Cabesa, “like a spinning wheel that makes music,” Stratman adds.

The main focal point structure has a vine climber ladder, two slides, a bumper ladder and a rock-climbing wall.

The City wanted the new park features to be suitable for a larger age range of kids. The older one was more for younger children ages 2-5 years, “The new one has components for older kids, too,” says Stratman, adding it is for “ages 2-12 years.” And in keeping with a nature theme in colors of greens and browns, rather than traditional bright colors, “it’s more a fit to the park.”

Inclusivity was important as well.

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The playground has “lots of equipment suited for children with different types of capabilities, some low to the ground for wheelchairs and users with disabilities. The surface is wheelchair accessible — a pour in place rubber surface, not wood chips,” Stratman says.

The reservation pavilion roof was also replaced, and four unisex restrooms were added, replacing port a potty restrooms. A new water fountain was installed, and all should be fully operating now.

The new restrooms are unique in that they are pre-made structures by Hunter Knepshield in LaGrange, constructed there and delivered on two trucks in halves, set by crane, then the plumbing connected.

Stratman managed the project and selected the components along with Mayor Richard Tonini and the park committee. The design was by the Carman company from Lexington.

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Future plans include replacing and upgrading the park’s walking trails, but there’s no timeline yet for that project.

The playground improvements had a personal interest for Stratman as well. He grew up in Louisville and went to school at Saint Xavier. He studied civil engineering at the University of Kentucky and then worked as an engineering consultant with HDR, where the City of St Matthews was a client. He came to work for the City in 2015.

The park, located off Kresge Way, was donated to the City by the James Graham Brown family in 1977. The park is well-known for hosting holiday events each year. Halloween in Brown Park is a “long tradition,” says Stratman, and has more than 5,000 kids attending each year.

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KEEPING IT FRESH FOOD LITERACY PROJECT EMPHASIZES HANDS-ON FARM BASED EXPERIENCES FOR STUDENTS Writer / Christy Heitger-Ewing

My great-grandparents tended a huge fruit and vegetable garden on their property, as did my grandparents. Oh, how I loved visiting Grandma’s house so I could plop myself down in the middle of her strawberry patch and gobble down scads of red ripe berries. But my parents didn’t plant a garden, nor did I. “It seems that every generation is a little bit more removed from the land,” says Carol Gunderson, Executive Director of the Food Literacy Project. It’s a sad but true statement and one that others took note of, too. In fact, that’s how the Food Literacy Project came to be.

Back in 2006, an area farmer noticed that a good number of children hadn’t a clue where their food came from so he thought how great it would be if there was a program where kids and teens could have an authentic, hands-on experience working on a vegetable farm. The Food Literacy Project began as a pilot at Oxmoor Farms, and it was clear that local

youth really enjoyed the field-to-fork experience.

“We consider it an invitation to participate meaningfully in a local food system. This is why we’ve tried to shy away from giving tours or too much information,” Gunderson says. “We let the experience be the driver of the education because we know, through research, that people are more likely to have a life-changing encounter if the learning is active rather than passive.”

Gunderson maintains that it’s not so important that kids recall the names of all vegetables as it is for them to recognize the veggies in a meaningful manner — i.e., the crunch of the radish or the bitter taste of arugula.

The organization’s mission revolves around youth transforming their communities through food, farming and the land. So much of their work involves grade-school children learning to plant, harvest and cook together.

“We have an outdoor classroom on a

working vegetable farm so they’re engaging all of their senses by growing, harvesting and preparing healthy food together,” Gunderson says. “It really gives kids a positive experience with a vegetable, which truly an extraordinary number of people have never had.”

Gunderson stresses that it’s a totally different experience to participate in harvesting something and preparing a dish from scratch than simply having peas show up on your plate. With field-to-fork, students have investment in what they are eating and they get to cook it in the outdoor kitchen.

“They decide what goes in the dish — maybe more kale and less mustard greens,” Gunderson says. “They get to have ownership over the recipe because it’s their creation.”

Teens, ages 16 to 19, can apply to join the Youth Community Agriculture Program (YCAG) where they engage in the work of farming and selling produce at local farmers markets. This year they have a crew

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of 15 youth working 30 hours a week in the summer program.

“This is where teens really do a deep dive into the food system,” says Gunderson, noting that lecturing kids to eat their vegetables because they should is a tough sell with kids of all ages — teens, in particular. However, once these teens are exposed to working a garden with their hands, their perspective shifts.

Gunderson vividly recalls a time when the teens were preparing to take their veggies to the farmers market.

“We were making signs for the market and discussing the selling points of our vegetables,” Gunderson says. “I remarked, ‘Oh, our carrots are rich in vitamin A,’ and the kids were like, ‘No, Miss Carol. It’s not about the nutritional properties of this food.

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Another aspect of the Food Literacy Project is the professional development they offer to educators who have gardens on school grounds.

“We help teachers understand how to utilize gardens during the school day,” Gunderson says.

They also partner with food service workers and cafeteria managers to help them think creatively about how to get kids interested in fresh, local food.

The Food Literacy Project works with literally a garden planted right in the bed of families, too, as there are neighborhoods in a pick-up truck,” Gunderson says.

Louisville where people have physical and economic barriers to accessing healthy food. In addition, they’re starting a second living classroom at Iroquois Farm, an urban farm “We’ve found that kids can be the drivers on the south end of town. It’s an endeavor of change in their own families and peer that the students have been instrumental groups,” Gunderson adds. “It’s like how in launching.

I learned about recycling at school and came home and taught my family. I see that “To see people from so many different happening with food. If kids can bring home backgrounds come together for a common these messages, recipes and fresh food, they goal to clear a weed patch or to cook a can be the change in their own household.” meal together is amazing,” says Maggie “Mushroom” Epperson, a two-year YCAP They also send a truck farm into the participant. community as an outreach — taking the farm to the community rather than bringing As students become one with their food, the community to the farm. it has a positive effect on their relationship with and appreciation for nutrition.

“It’s an edible mobile learning garden — “Choosing to eat fresh and healthy because it tastes great is a good place to start, but pretty quickly teens, especially, discover that their bodies feel better when they eat differently,” Gunderson says.

For instance, they are less lethargic and have more energy.

The program also teaches students leadership and team-working skills. Denaee “Dragonfruit” Trumbo, a senior at Iroquois High School, says, “With farming, there’s so much to do [that] you can’t do it alone so you have to learn to get along with people and work as a team.”

For some, the program serves to inspire an entire career. Such was the case for Epperson, who recently finished her first year in the Culinary Nutrition program

at Johnson and Wales University in Providence, Rhode Island. Epperson credits YCAP for breeding her interest in pursuing culinary school.

“YCAP has fostered in me a curiosity about how the food system works,” Epperson says.

“I gained a true appreciation for the way that food is grown.”

Gunderson, who has been with the program for 13 years, says she never tires of witnessing the children’s sense of wonder.

“I love seeing that spark of recognition when a kid, who hasn’t had much exposure to being on a farm, has an experience that they can connect back to their lives,” Gunderson says. “For instance, when they smell herbs in the garden and a light bulb goes off in recognition and someone yells, ‘pizza!’ That moment never gets old.”

She was also bursting with pride when a 21-year-old former student who had participated in the program since he was 13 called to say that he had won a fellowship through the Safe & Healthy Neighborhoods.

It was a leadership opportunity for young African-American men.

“He said that the Food Literacy Project played a part in him getting where he is in life and he wanted to know if he could bring a cohort out to the farm,” Gunderson says.

“I can’t think of anything more rewarding.”

The Food Literacy Project’s office is at 9001 Limehouse Lane in Louisville. For more information, call 502-491-0072 or visit foodliteracyproject.org

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During the past couple of decades fans of the television quiz show, Jeopardy!, have been captivated by the skills and knowledge presented by trivia phenoms like Ken Jennings and James Holzhauer, who both won millions. Yet this past June, local fans of the show were particularly interested in the program because it featured a young man from Middletown, 17-year-old Jackson Jones, who was a contestant in the Jeopardy! Teen Tournament.

Once the metro Louisville area caught wind of Jackson’s appearances, he became a bona fide hometown celebrity. Friends, neighbors and even those who don’t know him personally were messaging each other about his television debut. His school

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Even though he didn’t reach the finals, “I don’t remember the details, but I do remember the correct answer was ‘Benjamin Jackson was still awarded $10,000. He says some of his earnings are earmarked for Franklin’,” he says. “I didn’t get it right, but college. His mom adds that the contestants I still had the highest score so I did get to are also researching donating a part of their progress to the semi-finals.” winnings to a charity.

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A 1985 graduate of the University of Kentucky Law School, Harville moved to Louisville with his wife in 1988 after she also graduated from law school. Harville spent most of the first 20 years of his career working primarily for insurance companies, so he has a solid understanding of how those companies handle injury cases.

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LEGO THAT EGO THE COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE OF SELF-FORGETFULNESS

Writer / Dr. Dave Schroerlucke

The world of elite sports is littered with big egos. This should come as no surprise.

When positive attention and praise (not to mention loads of money) are heaped upon an individual for a talent they have developed through years of dedicated effort, it can be a challenge to not have a big ego.

Accordingly, we often give our cultural heroes a pass on their vanity. On some level, we feel that accomplished performers have earned the right to be a bit egotistical.

After all, excellence cannot be purchased or stolen. Sure, money can provide access to the best teachers, coaches and mentors.

But no one can actually master a skill for someone else. Accordingly, there is a certain air of superiority that accompanies excellence.

Ego, the Latin word for “I,” was introduced into the popular lexicon by Sigmund Freud. In his psychoanalytic theory, Freud positioned the ego as the part of the mind If you want to be one of the best at what you that mediates (both consciously and do, does it help to have a swollen ego? unconsciously) between internal drives and the constraints of social and physical reality.

After briefly exploring the meaning of

ego, this article outlines the ways in which For non-psychologists, ego is generally a preoccupation with ego concerns can used more simply to refer to one’s sense negatively impact motivation, goal-setting, of self or personal identity. In colloquial pressure performance and flow. I will usage, the word ego almost always carries a ultimately make the case that practices negative connotation and is associated with designed to keep the ego in check hold vanity, megalomania and narcissism. For the purposes of this article ego will be used promise in enhancing performance. to refer to one’s self-concept, exaggerated

or not.

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Ego is simply an idea of who you are that you carry around with you. ~Wayne Dyer~ OCTOBER 2019

Ego and Motivation As explained in a previous article, Seeking Mastery, research in both sport and

educational psychology has revealed that the way an individual construes the meaning of success and failure in achievement settings (achievement orientation) is predictive of important differences in performance.

Individuals with a predominantly competitive or ego-orientation (success = superiority over others) are more vulnerable to competitive anxiety, negative self-talk, escape thoughts and self-handicapping behaviors, particularly when faced with the possibility of failure. Task or mastery-orientation (success = improvement over time), on the other hand, is associated with greater intrinsic motivation, persistence in the face of difficulty and better overall performance.

These differences have been attributed to the fact that ego-oriented individuals are more likely to perceive performance failure as a threat to their sense of self-worth. Thus, individuals with a dispositional task or mastery orientation are generally considered better equipped to handle pressure and other competitionrelated challenges than their egooriented counterparts.

Take-Away Strategy: Focus On Task Mastery Ego and Goal-Setting Achievement-orientation is often reflected in goals. Ego-oriented individuals often focus almost exclusively on outcome goals (e. g. win the tournament, set a world record) whereas those with a mastery orientation are more likely to set process goals (e. g. maintain good footwork, follow-through completely).

Outcome goals tend to generate more pressure than process goals because the outcomes of competitions generally depend on a number of factors that are outside of the individual performer’s control such as external conditions, teammates’ or opponents’ performance, referees and

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By adopting goals that are task-involved (focused on enjoyment and personal improvement) rather than ego-involved (focused on demonstration of superiority), athletes and performers are far less likely to be derailed by the increased anxiety, reduced confidence and diminished performance that often accompany the failure to achieve outcome goals.

Take-Away Strategy: Set Process Goals.

Ego and Pressure Ego concerns play a central role in the feeling of “pressure” in competitive settings. One theoretical model goes as far as suggesting that self-presentation concerns should be considered the fundamental causative factor in the phenomenon of choking under pressure.

According to the self-presentation model, “pressure” amounts to a heightened awareness of the potential social

implications of a poor performance for one’s public self-image. This is what sport psychologist Michael Gervais calls “FOPO” (fear of other people’s opinions). Performance anxiety, then, can be viewed as a form of social anxiety that “revolves around the self-presentational implications of competition” (Leary, 1992).

Because pressure cannot exist without a context, it must continually be manufactured through storytelling.

Sports and other performance domains provide a backdrop in which ego concerns take center stage as competitors attempt to bolster their public image through performance outcomes. By detaching from the compulsion to situate oneself within a dramatic narrative, performers can free themselves from the anxiety that accompanies the need to portray an idealized self-image to others.

Easier said than done, of course.

Take-Away Strategy: Drop the Storyline.

Ego and Flow The state of flow, which is psychologese for being “in the zone,” is widely regarded by performers and psychologists alike as the ultimate antidote to choking. Defined as a state of total absorption in an optimally challenging and intrinsically satisfying activity, flow implies a complete absence of ego-consciousness.

In one of the earliest empirical studies of flow states in sports, Susan Jackson (1992) found that loss of self-consciousness increases the intensity of the flow experience. Conversely, when the self becomes salient, flow is disrupted and performance typically declines. Masters and Maxwell (2008) articulated the relationship between flow and selfconsciousness most succinctly with the aphorism “conscious flow is broken flow.”

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Take-Away Strategy: Stay In the Moment.

Summary The aim of this article was to persuade the reader that, despite the obvious and well-established correlation between self-esteem and achievement, having a massive ego is not necessarily conducive to optimal performance and even carries some inherent disadvantages.

• Undermining intrinsic motivation • Prioritizing unpredictable outcome goals • Increasing vulnerability to competitive stress • Disrupting flow states The brief discussion of these risks also hinted at some potential strategies for reducing susceptibility to ego-threat: • Focus on mastery • Set process goals • Drop the storyline • Stay in the moment

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LOUISVILLE ARTISANS GUILD INVITES COMMUNITY TO EXPLORE & MEET LOCAL ARTISTS

Writer / Kelsey Schneider

is an all-volunteer, 501c3 non-profit organization.

“Before a child speaks, it sings. Before they write, they paint. As soon as they stand, they The people who are recognized for their dance. Art is the basis of human expression.” time devoted to the Guild are all volunteers - Phylicia Rashad. of various committees and Board members.

“Creativity takes courage.” - Henri Matisse. A sand cast, glass Fleur-de-lis (with LAG’s logo) award mounted on a wooden base is “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose given to the Volunteer of the Year, annually, ourselves at the same time.” -Thomas with his or her name engraved on a brass Merton. plate along with the names of previous recipients’ names and the award is put on “Art washes away from the soul the dust of display for one year. everyday life.” -Picasso.

The Guild holds a Volunteer Appreciation Jacqueline Gedrose presents words of Celebration each January. wisdom from artists and creatives. These quotes about art that Jacqueline likes are LAG meets regularly, usually bi-monthly, to both inspiring and insightful. host guest artists and business consultants and to discuss recent shows and exhibits.

Gedrose, President of the Louisville These meetings are a tradition to share Artisans Guild invites you to become a insights and observations. member if you’re an artist yourself. The Guild is Kentucky’s oldest guild dedicated The Guild continues to educate and to the pursuit of excellence in arts and empower area artists through workshops crafts. LAG (or Louisville Artisans Guild) on jurying into the Guild: applying to OCTOBER 2019

art shows, how to approach galleries for representation, how to prepare for shows, photographing their artwork, writing artist statements. And business concerns such as liability, insurance, taxes, EIN numbers and applying for sale and use taxes in various states.

In 1956, the Louisville Artisans Guild began “when five local craftsmen, George Kiewart, Daniel Peterson, Jane Samples, Thelma Hogan and Nelle Peterson, met at a local bar to share their success and frustrations while pursuing careers in the visual art,” Gedrose says.

“The group of five were soon joined by fellow artists to discuss their craft and the business concerns of selling,” Gedrose says. “As the group grew, they decided on a name, The Louisville Craftsmen’s Guild and filed Articles of Incorporation with the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1957.

As stated in the Articles of Incorporation, the object and purpose shall be:

• To encourage the development of everhigher standards of performance and accomplishment in arts and crafts to the end that the Kentucky-Indiana area shall be known for the quality and number of its work.

• To provide those persons who are interested in crafts with an opportunity to initiate and participate in, to promote and maintain the general welfare of these crafts in Kentucky, through the use of shows and exhibits, educational facilities and dissemination of information.

Early on meetings were held in members’ homes and exhibits were held at various bank lobbies, the Actors Theatre of Louisville Lobby, the Jewish Community Center Gallery, and downtown office building lobbies. As membership grew, meetings were moved to Community Rooms of local libraries and Board rooms of local banks or to member artists’ studios.

Over the years the Louisville Craftsmen’s Guild grew to include artists, craftsmen, educators, collectors, high school and college students and many others in the Kentuckiana area. In 2002, the Guild updated its name to The Louisville Artisans Guild to reflect the broader membership base and its commitment to both practicing and supporting roles in the visual arts.”

Young artists are encouraged, by LAG, through their high school Emerging Artist section of their Fine Arts and Crafts Showcase and their Louisville Artisans Guild Art Scholarship. Young artists are

invited to attend meetings and participate in their all member Exhibit held in a local gallery. To encourage young artists, a couple of local high schools are invited to participate in a “Clothes-line” exhibit at LAG’s Fine Arts and Crafts Showcase every year. Patrons of the Showcase and Showcase artists are encouraged to submit encouraging comments on a form that are returned to the respective art teachers after the showcase closes.

Membership dues are waived for high school and college art students.

According to Gedrose, “In 1991, the Guild decided to offer a scholarship, in memory of the Guild’s first President, Nelle Peterson, to a high school senior pursuing a major in the non-performing visual arts. The first couple years the scholarship was funded from “passing the hat” at Guild meetings and other members donations. The onetime monetary award has grown from $300 to $2,000. The major source of funding for the scholarship now comes from 100% of the proceeds of the Scholarship Raffle at the Fine Arts and Crafts Showcase in

November. Members donate artwork to be raffled off for one dollar chances. The winner for each art piece is determined by a blind draw from the box of tickets for the specific item.”

In the fall of each year information about the LAG Art Scholarship is sent to all Louisville public and private high schools and all high schools in the counties of Kentucky and Indiana that are contiguous to Jefferson County. The online scholarship application will be available through the

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There will be 70 booths filled with talented artists offering unique gifts including photography, ceramics, printmaking, drawing, fiber, wood, metal sculpture, scratchboard art, jewelry, pastels and 2D and 3D mixed media. Several artists will also be demonstrating needle-felting, watercolors and painting.”

In a clothes line display LAG will have an Emerging Artist section in their Showcase with high school art students exhibiting. A booth showcasing LAG’s 2019 Scholarship winner will also be included with the Emerging Artist.

“In addition to our 70 booths of juried artists, and Emerging Artist section, the Scholarship Raffle completes our Showcase of Fine Arts and Crafts,” Gedrose says.

“The Scholarship Raffle is the major fundraiser for the Louisville Artisans Guild Art Scholarship, and 100% of the

money raised in the raffle fund our annual scholarship. LAG members graciously donate their artwork to be raffled off with $1 tickets. Winners for each piece of art are determined by a blind draw of all the tickets for that piece. All winners will be notified by phone Sunday afternoon.”

Parking and admission to LAG’s Fine Arts and Crafts Showcase is free. Showcase hours are November 2 from 10 am to 5 pm and Sunday, November 3 from 11 am to 4 pm.

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A RIVER OF MEMORIES FROM FLOYDS FORK Writer / Bob Hill Photographer / John Nation

Among the memories that came to Cerise White-Snyder after 40-plus years gone from the Floyds Fork bottomlands were walking along the top of the narrow concrete wall around the Seaton-Mills Cemetery, a timeworn, iron-gated enclosure that securely captures local history in time and place.

She was then maybe seven or eight years old. Looking at the worn, pitted, four-footwall off Seatonville Road almost a halfcentury later she wondered how they did it, her brother, Jay, and sister, Amber, along with her, tip-toeing across the top of those narrow walls, arms stretched out for balance, glancing down at hand-carved gravestones with names dating back to 1797.

But it was a game, a silly kids’ game they played without ever telling their mother.

“I guess she would be afraid we’d get hurt,” White-Snyder says. “But we’d climb and play and whoever fell into the cemetery died. It was appropriate, don’t you think?”

Also appropriate is the preservation of that cemetery and that bottomland, once a farm, then a golf course, then a horse farm. It’s now become the entrance to the Turkey Run Park section of The Parklands with its canoe launch, hiking trails, well restored Ben Stout House and BrownForman Silo Center.

The fading memories of the former residents such as Cerise White-Snyder will have to preserve the rest. She was then one of seven White children whose lives quite literally stretched along Floyds Fork from Broad Run to Stout Road to Seatonville Road.

along Stout Road, the oldest kids would walk a mile near Floyds Fork and through the old Irongate Golf Course to the SeatonMills Cemetery where their father would pick them up to help him milk a dairy herd off Old Heady Road.

Their father, J. B. White, was a perpetual tenant farmer, an old school hard-working man whose day jobs included gas stations, construction sites, warehouses and factories – while milking cows before and after.

“We got off the school bus about three o’ clock because I remember I wanted to watch a little glimpse of the Audie Murphy movie on channel three,” Cerise says. “Mom would have beans, potatoes and cornbread ready for us when we got home, and we’d start walking and meet dad over by the cemetery about four o’clock.”

His children were his obligatory un-hired hands. The family moved early and often as J. B. White worked different area farms.

They lived for a time in a snug old white house on a gravel road off Stout Road that paralleled Floyds Fork – along with 18 of their father’s bird dogs.

On many school mornings, the White children would walk almost two miles up and over a steep hill past what’s now The Parklands Silo Center to catch the school bus at Broad Run Road.

From there they all went to the Jenkins farm on Old Heady Road to milk the cows.

“There were 110 cows and every one of them was named,” White-Snyder says.

“There were names like ‘Romanos,’ ‘White Malcolm,’ ‘Black Malcolm,’ ‘Scabby’ and ‘Three Titty.’ “We had to check them off as they’d come in. I was the feeder and took care of the baby calves, and Amber did, too.

Then dad would drive us all home and we’d go to sleep and then get up in the morning and go to school.”

They also lived for a few years in the old Seatonville schoolhouse near Seatonville Road and Echo Trail – a long gone, twoSo more than 40 years later – seeking to story structure converted from rural school unite history and The Parklands – we were to a satisfactory, if not child-crowded, home. walking up the same gravel road along Floyds Fork she walked as a child. We After walking home from the school bus were looking – as it turned out – for their

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pushing them down the hill to get them started. They would play “Kick the Can” – a game born of The Great Depression that combined playing hide-and-seek, having no money and freely kicking a tin can in But the futile search rekindled memories of any direction.

She remembered a mantle filled with Easter them all living there – and the things that baskets: being a good student despite the kids do when money is no object. fact she could not even read the blackboard until she got glasses in fourth grade, playing “Right across from the barn my brother golf inside the dairy barn with tobacco put this wire through a can and we could actually hear the vibrations,” White-Snyder sticks, the siblings building play houses of sticks – and throwing sticks at one another says. “We thought he was a genius. We to see who could catch them. thought he had invented the telephone or something.”

“I mean, that doesn’t sound like a game,” she says, but you had to make up games as you As we pushed further up the hill seeking went along. We didn’t have very much to any remnants of her old house, she remembered an old man who would sit on work with.” the front porch of his wooden shack, a man to be avoided: “We always heard he would The farm work was endless, very much part of who and what they were. But they never shoot somebody.” kept score – or even time.

She remembered the children getting “We didn’t pay any attention to time,” she bicycles for Christmas — her father old house that no longer existed, a fishing pond that has since been filled in and a barn filled with snakes that had been torn down.

says. “Mom and dad always did that for us, time to go to school, time to go milk.

Nobody actually ever told us the time and I never looked at a clock.”

She remembered the late 1960s winter so cold their three ponies froze to death – one of them her favorite, a solid white named Sugar. She remembered her father’s rules of parenting, his daughters couldn’t date until 18, his sons at 16, she couldn’t even go to the school prom.

She remembered her father plowing tobacco fields and planting tobacco behind a mule, two older siblings setting the tobacco as she followed behind them to replace any plants they missed.

“I’d be so tired that dad would throw me up on the back of the mule and I’d hang on to the harness horns for dear life,” she says. “He’d hit that mule on the back of the butt and tell it to go home, and it was a long way, too. I’d put my head down and

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lay on her back. I didn’t even watch. She’d gallop straight back to the barn, ready to eat.

He’d just take you back home, and dad and Amber and Jay would take the truck home.”

But what she most remembered was a bunch of them riding an old bathtub down the side of a hill near their house into Floyds Fork. We kept walking up the graveled path seeking any remnants of their old house, the exact hill they slid down.

She found the hill – she thought – up near the new Parklands road that connects the elaborate playground and modern fountains of the nearby Sprayground at the Parklands Creekside Center with her memories of riding in a bathtub down a steep slope.

“We’d take the bathtub, I guess dad would help us pull it all the way up the hill, and we’d all hop in and slide down,” she says.

“There were these little flimsy locust trees along the way and we’d all grab hold if we

wanted to slow down. We’d slide down here into that river, or what we thought was a river. Even if it was just a creek, parts of that creek was over our heads. Can you imagine us being brave enough to do that?”

Her father, J. B. White, 78, the son and grandson of farmers, grew up in Adair County. He moved to Louisville at age 16 to work at an uncle’s truck stop on Seventh Street Road near the Yellowstone Distillery.

He married his wife, Wanda, 57 years ago.

Altogether they had nine children in the almost 20 years between 1957 and 1976 – losing their first child at birth.

Some of their tenant-farm houses had no water or indoor bathroom facilities. Wanda would help her husband with the farming when she could, the old family movies show her helping with the pigs.

J. B. White got into construction, helping build the Ford plant and the Watterson Expressway and then at Midland Warehouse. He then found work and rental homes on dairy farms, milking cows at 3 a.m., going to his day job, coming home and milking the cows into the night.

“I went about four years and never missed a day’s work or milking,” he says.

They lived for about three years in the old Seatonville school house which was perched up on a small rise above Seatonville Road.

“If they hadn’t told you it was a schoolhouse you would never think it was a schoolhouse because they redone it,” he says. “We had a cistern there and they had it fixed up real nice. I slept upstairs, right by a bunch of windows. And I could look out there.”

White has a fine memory for detail, the places they lived and the people they met. In “Mom didn’t have it easy,” her daughter says. time he also became very familiar with the

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Floyds Fork bottomland geography, moving his family to several farms, a series of tenant and 50-50 farming deals, always bringing his many bird dogs with him.

One job in particular – the John Jenkins farm – came about due to the sudden death of John Jenkins.

“His tenant shot and killed him, and there wasn’t nobody who knew anything about his cows except me,” White says.

At one point he was also milking his own 10 or 12 cows by hand. He was eventually farming about 800 rented and leased acres – corn, hay, alfalfa and tobacco – and still working his day jobs.

“I’d work three or four days and never laid my head down,” he says. “I stayed busy. I raised us a garden, six acres of tobacco and about 30 acres of alfalfa.

“I’d cut it until about 2:30 in the morning,

stop and go get our border collie called ‘Scotty,’” he says. “All you had to do was go to the dairy barn and say, ‘Scotty, it’s milk time, and he’d get those 110 cows in. If one cow had a calf over in the field he’d bark three times and you’d know right where she was at. That was the smartest dog I ever saw in my life.”

The recent rains that buried the Floyds Fork bottomland came as no surprise. He remembered a time 40 years ago when the old golf course and two bridges across Seatonville Road were all well under water.

“The flood would swim a horse right across Seatonville Road,” he says.

J. B. White later moved back to Adair County. Not surprisingly his daughter, Cerise, got into training horses and now owns White Spirit Farm near Waddy, KY., where she trains and breeds horses – and recently began hosting weddings.

Our walk up her old gravel road – the land where she played as a child now preserved in a totally different fashion for other children – we eventually made our way back to the Stout Road home of Virgil Hawthorne, 63, who grew up just below the White’s old house.

“That house has been gone a long time,” he told her. “It burned down.”

Hawthorne also remembered Cerise’s father: “He had a lot of bird dogs.”

And he knew of their old gravel road that once forded Floyds Fork.

“That’s the original horse-and-buggy road my mom rode when she was a kid, back in the 1920s. It would come out on Seatonville Road,” he says.

The two of them talked for almost as hour – catching up on old names and places. Cerise White-Snyder says all in all she thought she had a pretty good childhood. Virgil Hawthorne nodded in agreement.

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CANCER SURVIVOR OPENS UPSCALE WIGS BOUTIQUE TO SUPPORT OTHER PATIENTS & SURVIVORS Writer / Tyrel Kessinger Photographers / Christine Mueller & Hollie Colwick

Heidi Fuller is a positive person. So much so so that she’s even found a way to put an uplifting spin on cancer. Because, well, that’s just who she is. In 2015, Fuller was diagnosed with Stage 3 uterine cancer.

She did her best to brace herself against the “storm,” as she calls her war with cancer, but she found she had no idea

what to truly expect. After making it out on the other side, having learned what she learned through the school of hard knocks, she knew she wanted to help others through their own storms, those that, like her, were initially unprepared as to what to expect.

So, in 2016, Fuller opened Awakenings Boutique, an online store selling wigs (as well as other cancer-treatment related

items such as lotions and nausea candies) to help meet the same needs that had plagued her during her own bouts of chemotherapy and radiation treatments.

She recalls that she herself did not have the most pleasant experience when she went to get her own wig — a time that is already rife with unpleasantries. The less than desirable interaction left Fuller wanting to make the experience of others going through the hell of cancer as fun

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and enjoyable as possible. Her plan was a success. Fuller, soon after, opened a physical store in August of 2018 (also called Awakenings) which is located in Middletown.

“For myself, losing my hair was more traumatic for me than the cancer diagnosis,” Fuller says. “And this is common for probably 95 percent of women who are diagnosed with cancer.

It’s the ultimate insult of cancer, you know, taking your hair. It was just very traumatic to lose my hair and have to wear a wig. But I truly found my strength when I decided to take my own hair. I cut it short, I shaved it. In that moment of shaving my head, I just became very fierce, determined. I promised cancer that I would be its forever worst nightmare.”

Fuller was born in Troy, Ohio but has lived in Louisville since 2000. She’s been married for 15 years, has two-stepdaughters (ages 18 and 21) and an adopted four-

year-old daughter. She had been working with Starbucks’ business development department for 10 years negotiating franchise contracts. Needless to say, she had (and still has) a lot on her plate when cancer came calling. She realizes that many people aren’t as fortunate as she was, that many don’t have the same level of support that she did.

“Life still goes on even though you’re sick and it has to for a lot of people,” she says.

“But there’s no reason anyone should have to do it alone, especially something that can be as disheartening as losing your hair and having to wear a wig.

“By the time they get to me they’ve usually gone through so much,” she adds. “And now

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they have to come in and pick out a wig and no one is looking forward to that. So I make that experience the most comfortable and fun as possible. As far as comfort goes, I shave my own head now which is kind of ironic because it was so traumatic for me to lose my hair, so I shave my head and wear the wigs myself so they come in here and they see that I don’t have any hair and that I wear the wigs. Immediately it just provides a level of comfort for them. It gives them confidence.

They see me with no hair and they think ‘Okay, I can do this, she doesn’t have hair, maybe it’s not so bad.’ Or ‘Oh my gosh, she’s wearing a wig, I had no idea it was a wig.’ That’s probably one of the biggest things I do to support these people.”

Through her fight against cancer, one thing made itself apparent to Fuller — most people don’t know what to say or do for people who have been diagnosed with it.

Particularly those who have never had any close friends or family to face down their

own “storm.” So Fuller offers some advice to those who are wondering the best and most appropriate way to talk to people with cancer or facing chemo treatments and things you can do and get for them that serve a more practical and useful purpose.

“When you’re going through this you get all kinds of things,” she says. “People are sending you all kinds of stuff and really wanting to support you, but what you find is you get a lot of items you can’t use.

Flowers is a big one. Everyone wants to send flowers. You can’t even really have flowers around you, you can’t take them to the hospital, you can’t take them to chemo. They just sit there. There’s no use for them. Sympathy cards, like ‘I’m so sorry you’re sick.’ You just want to laugh.

You kind of want to forget that you’re sick for a while. So you should really find out what they’re basic needs are. If they have children, maybe providing transportation to soccer practice or go to school or proving meals so the caregivers don’t have

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Fuller also stresses that the caregivers shouldn’t be overlooked. The obvious focus is on the individual fighting cancer, but the people taking care of them need help and support, too.

“My mom and my husband were my caregivers, and they just struggled to keep up with my medicines and my surgeries and they kind of got overlooked through the cancer storm,” Fuller says. “They needed people to talk to and items as well to help me, like a cancer planner or books or something to help them be caregivers to me.”

Fuller may be in a better, happier place today but there will always be those whose dark times have yet to come or whose silver linings might not be so silvery. She’s prepared

though, and Fuller and her store are ready to offer respite from any gathering storm, no matter its severity.

“When they’re in here, at Awakenings, I feel there’s light through the darkness,” she says.

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