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Abigail Hake / Christy Heitger-Ewing Julie Young / Kara Kavensky Megan Jefferson / Samantha Kupiainen Seth Johnson

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CORK AND BARREL: NEW WINE BAR CELEBRATES GRAND OPENING IN ZIONSVILLE

Sarah Hine, owner of Cork and Barrel in Zionsville, was tired of the lack of wine available at local breweries and restaurants. So, she decided to do something about it. Along with her husband, Alex, and mother, Suzanne Taylor, Hine opened Cork and Barrel on September 21.

4 Business Spotlight: Art IN Hand 7 Wild’s Apple Farm Grows More Than 800 Kinds of Apples In Zionsville

9 Cork and Barrel: New Wine Bar Celebrates Grand Opening In Zionsville

13 Drawn To Inspire: Former Disney

16 Stuffed! Unique Recipes For

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ART IN HAND 211 S. Main Street Zionsville, IN 317-733-8426 artinhandgallery.com

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Located on Zionsville’s famous brick Main Street, Art IN Hand is a 20-year-old cooperative gallery where artistic talent is nurtured, showcased and promoted. The gallery is owned, operated and staffed by a community of 23 local artists, several of whom are also juried members of Indiana Artisan, a statewide organization that recognizes high quality artists from across Indiana.

Art IN Hand offers a wide array of unique artwork, including paintings, prints, photography, handmade jewelry, decorative and functional pottery, glass, wearable fiber and woodworking.

Community involvement is also a focus, and for several years the gallery has partnered with local schools to showcase student artwork, featuring a different school each month beginning in October. Art IN Hand also donates proceeds from its annual September silent auction to benefit local animal rescue organizations. A member of Zionsville’s Chamber of Commerce, the gallery is proud to be a part of a unique downtown community.

On November 7, Art IN Hand will display a tree of holiday ornaments, all handcrafted by the artists and something patrons look forward to each year. The gallery’s inventory is ever-changing, and offers fine art for home and office, as well as one-of-akind gifts.

Art IN Hand is located at 211 S. Main Street in Zionsville and is open 7 days a week. Give them a call at (317) 733-8426 or visit online at artinhandgallery.com.

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Grows More Than 800 Kinds of Apples In Zionsville Writer / Megan Jefferson Photographer / Kerch Creative

David Boots grew up in Texas and Georgia.

In 2004, he moved to Indiana and was looking for work. The owner of Wild’s Apple Farms was hiring extra help, so Boots showed up, worked hard and was asked to come back the next day. He continued to work at the orchard and when the owner turned 90 years old, in 2004, he offered to sell the farm to Boots, who excitedly accepted.

Boots and his wife currently manage all the business operations at Wild’s Apple Farm in Zionsville where they grow more than 800 different kinds of apples. Their mission is to preserve heirloom varieties. Boots says the big commercial productions can’t grow the older varieties because they are pressured to grow the most popular, newest apples.

“With these heirlooms here, there’s a lot

of good character, history and really fun things about them that we are trying to preserve,” he says.

Often, customers call Boots looking for an apple that they can’t find elsewhere.

He often hears stories asking for an apple variety that their mom used to use to make apple pie or a variety they remember from their childhood. Boot’s says it’s very special when they can fill these niches.

Wild’s Apple Farm does most of its business through farmers markets. You can even find them at Noblesville and Broad Ripple Summer Farmers Markets where they usually sell 20-30 different apple varieties.

“The community response has been great.

Everyone loves that we’re here,” Boots says.

“They like how we’re a smaller operation and everybody loves the local produce.”

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services. Wild’s Apple Farm offers this by appointment only. Because they grow so many different varieties of apples that ripen at different times, Boots needs to take customers around the farm, letting them know which apples are ready to pick and talks about the unique qualities of each apple and their history.

Boots grows several varieties that were developed by other local growers.

“I’m always interested in talking to the other farmers who are basically trying to do what we are doing,” Boots says.

Often farmers will try to create fruit with specific characteristics. Certain strains may not be exactly what they were looking for but are still really fun and interesting for a different reason. Boots grows some of those apples because he likes providing customers with apples that you can’t find anywhere else.

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CORK AND BARREL N E W W I N E BA R C E L E BR AT E S GRAND OPENING IN ZIONSVILLE Writer / Samantha Kupiainen . Photographer / Michael Durr

arah Hine, owner of Cork and Barrel in Zionsville, was tired of the lack of wine available at local breweries and restaurants. So, she decided to do something about it. Along with her husband, Alex, and mother, Suzanne Taylor, Hine opened Cork and Barrel on September 21.

“I’ve always really loved wine, and I wanted people to have the chance to really experience multiple different types of wine and a variety of different brands,” Hine says.

“There are just so many thousands of wines out there and, for me, I just wanted people to be able to taste so many of those different ones, which is why we carry up to 300 different ones. They really have a chance to know what they do and don’t like.”

As a unique twist, the wine bar carries up to 300 different wines and will rotate them in and out throughout the season — most establishments only carry about 40-50 different wines. It also offers a variety of different ways to taste its selection of wines.

“You can pay to taste any of the wines that we have in the bar,” Hine says. “You can do a wine tasting flight, you can do a regular wine glass flight, you can buy a glass, you can buy a bottle, you can buy a bottle to take home because the wines that we carry here are boutique wines.”

Because Cork and Barrel carries boutique wines, its selection doesn’t include massproduced bottles that you can find in the grocery store or liquor store. It’s Hine’s goal to introduce the community to other wineries that they’ve never heard of.

For its decoration, Hines wanted to create an atmosphere similar to patrons being in their own living rooms.

“It’s a real casual, laid back environment,” she says. “It’s couches, love seats, sofas and chairs where you can just kick back and relax for a while. We have a few high-top tables in there, but we really wanted an environment where people can learn more about wine but just feel very comfortable and like it’s your own home or your own living room.”

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As for food, Cork and Barrel offers a selection of meat and cheese from Indiana-based companies. It will have charcuterie available from Fair Oaks Farms and Smoking Goose Meatery.

Additionally, it’ll offer fruits and vegetables, humus, paninis, desserts and chocolates. Also available for purchase are gift baskets, wine tumblers, wine bottle lamps and various other wine items.

For Hines, choosing to open shop in Zionsville was an easy decision.

“We live in Zionsville, and we have loved this area for a long time,” she says. “I’m

originally from Indiana, but my husband is from upstate New York. I moved him out here for the first time in 2007 and it was quite an experience for him. He really loved the area and, for us, it was bringing something back into the community of where we live and work. My husband works for the post office here in Zionsville.”

Now that it’s been open for more than a month, Hines says business has been great.

“Opening day was good,” she says. “We had a steady flow, a lot of people have been waiting for it for so long. We’ve been doing events and different things

around the community for the last year and a half. I really wanted to see if people were interested in it and having a wine tasting bar. We’ve just gotten such a great response from it. Everyone has been excited because a lot of people, especially moms who aren’t necessarily beer drinkers, they still go hang out.”

Cork and Barrel is located at 6625 Whitestown Pkwy in Zionsville. It has an event space that guests can rent out. For more information about Cork and Barrel, such as upcoming wine and painting events, visit them online at corkandbarrel.wine or call 317-366-3316.

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DRAWN TO INSPIRE FORMER DISNEY ILLUSTRATOR AMY DUARTE NOW CALLS ZIONSVILLE HOME

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Amy Duarte has been drawing since she was old enough to hold a crayon. Her earliest memories are of creating art. When she was five years old, she saw the movie Cinderella and told her parents authoritatively, “That’s what I want to do!”

Miraculously, at this young age, Duarte knew that she wanted to be an artist for Disney. No small goal for a young, deaf girl living in Indonesia.

The previous year, Duarte began speech therapy.

“My mom knew that it would be beneficial

for me, long term, to learn how to talk and to lip read,” she says. “My mom rewarded me with Kentucky Fried Chicken after my challenging therapy sessions.

I am so grateful for her pushing me to do this. Speech therapy likely saved my [professional] life and to this day, when I pass a KFC, I smile.”

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I THINK IT MAY BE INSPIRING FOR YOUNG CHILDREN TO SEE ME ON YOUTUBE AND THINK, ‘HEY, I COULD DO THAT!’ - AMY DUARTE -

Duarte’s parents strongly encouraged her to follow her dream of working as an artist for Disney. When Duarte was 14 years old, she moved to LA with her mom. While earning a degree in art at Cal State Northridge, Duarte would illustrate her letters to friends. One of her friends had left a letter of Duarte’s on her coffee table when a guest saw it and asked to meet the artist. This created a side-hustle for Duarte. She began storyboarding commercials for companies, including McDonald’s, Snapple and Hanes.

“It was the perfect part-time job for me during college,” she says.

The art students were encouraged to apply for internships at the start of their junior year. To Amy’s excitement, spots were available with the Walt Disney Animation Studios. Around 1,400 applicants applied for 15 highly coveted spots. Duarte’s application was accepted. She was subsequently offered her dream job of being an artist for Disney.

In her 20 year-long career with Hollywood, Duarte worked a number of animated features including Atlantis (her first film with Disney), Home on the Range and Bolt. Some of the movies that she has worked as a Senior Visual Effects Artist include: Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, Ironman, Spiderman, Fantastic Four, and Mr. and Mrs. Smith.

Throughout her career, Duarte has worked on more than 30 major motion pictures.

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Aside from drawing, Duarte’s other love is horses. Her love of equestrian sport led her to meet Max Duarte on the polo field at a club in Los Angeles.

“I’ve always been a horse girl since I was very small,” she says. “It started when my mother would take me to pony rides at the park near my grandmother’s house in Bandung, Indonesia. My parents signed me up for proper horseback riding lessons near our home [in Jakarta]. I got into the world of dressage and show jumping and competed in several Southeast Asian international competitions. As an adult, I eventually ventured into the world of polo, starting at the California Polo Club in Los Angeles.”

Now living in Zionsville, Duarte continues her animation and graphic design work. She is also an accomplished children’s book illustrator, with “Angels Amongst Us” and “Coming Down, Looking Up” (written by Marian S. Taylor) as several of the titles of the books already published. Duarte and her husband Max live near family where their children can enjoy playing with their cousins and, conveniently, a polo field is nearby.

Duarte posts many of her personal collection of illustrations to Instagram and recently started a YouTube channel where she discusses the creative process of her artwork.

“I think it may be inspiring for young children to see me on YouTube and think, ‘Hey, I could do that!’” says Duarte, who admits that she was nervous to post her first video due to her less than perfect speech. The reviews are five star.

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Thanksgiving is such a great time to be with family, watch some football and stuff your face full of some of the best comfort food out there. But cooking a Thanksgiving Feast can be daunting, unless you do it year after year.

It takes strategic planning, off the charts time management skills and the energy of a 6-year old — which is probably why most people leave it to their in-laws or friends.

Those who take on this beast of a feast year after year after year really revel in the chaos and strategy of it. It’s a full day in the kitchen, staying up late the night before and getting up early to get that turkey started on the big day. And it’s always helpful to have tried and true recipes to round out the menu! “Vintage” recipes tend to be some of the best. I mean who doesn’t love their great grandma’s green bean casserole or

their aunt’s secret recipe pecan pie? But a good mix of old and new is sure to satisfy most of your guests. If you are ready to try something different, here is a stuffing recipe sure to please. It typically entices wanting seconds from non-stuffing lovers and is sure to satisfy your tastes.

DRIED CHERRY & SAUSAGE STUFFING: Ingredients -½ cup butter (1 stick) -6 celery stalks, finely diced -2 medium onions, finely diced -1 loaf French bread, cut into 1-inch cubes and toasted (10 cups) -1 cup dried cherries -¾ pound Italian sausage, casings removed, cooked, and crumbled -¾ cup fresh flat-leaf parsley, chopped -1 teaspoon kosher salt -1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper -2 14.5oz cans of chicken broth

Directions (1) Melt the butter in a 12-inch skillet over medium heat. Add the celery and onions and cook until they are translucent, about 5-7 minutes.

(2) In a large bowl or pan, combine the celery and onions with the bread, cherries, sausage, parsley, salt, and pepper. Add the broth and stir until well combined.

(3) If you want some inside your turkey, use a spoon to loosely stuff the mixture into the turkey just before roasting.

(4) If not, pour the rest of the into a baking dish, cover and bake in a 325° oven for one hour; uncover and bake for another 15 minutes. Serve warm.

After you’ve had your fill ( I hope you wore your stretchy pants), watched your team win, and then napped for a bit, it’s time for dessert.

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Holiday desserts are seriously the best.

There’s just something special that makes a pumpkin pie on Thanksgiving taste way better than one on any other normal day.

Fall recipes are always delicious, but some of the best and favorite out there tend to be pumpkin related. If you haven’t tried a pumpkin roll before, you might want to.

They aren’t really that hard to make and it might quickly become a Thanksgiving dessert table staple.

Cream Cheese Filling: -2 cups powdered sugar -8 oz cream cheese -¼ cup butter -½ tsp vanilla

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(2) Pour and smooth evenly into a cookie sheet you have lined with parchment paper.

(5) Once cooled, unroll and spread evenly with cream cheese filling. Gently roll back up.

(6) Place on a platter, sprinkle with powdered sugar and refrigerate. Serve Chilled.

Sponge Cake:

Filling:

(1) Sift flour, spices, and baking powder in a large bowl. Add eggs and pumpkin. Mix until combined.

Here’s what you’ll need: -3 eggs -1 cup sugar -⅔ cup pumpkin -¾ cup flour -1 tsp baking powder -1 tsp ginger -½ tsp cloves -½ tsp salt -2 tsp cinnamon

(3)Bake at 375 degrees for 12 minutes.

(4) While the cake is still warm, sprinkle lightly with powdered sugar, invert onto a clean tea towel and roll up. Let cool until room temperature or in the refrigerator. *You’ll want to roll while still warm to reduce cracks. And use powdered sugar on the towel to prevent sticking!

(1) Mix together room temperature cream cheese and butter, add vanilla and powdered sugar. Beat ingredients until creamy and smooth.

And now that you’ve eaten your way through the table a few times, splurged on desserts and shared all the things you are grateful for, it’s about time for bed. Being around friends and family makes for some great memories, but all that turkey will probably have you ready to hit the pillow.

May your day be filled with joy and laughter, and the best stuffing and pumpkin rolls you’ve ever had!

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“WorkInBoone.com is designed as a free resource for Boone County employers to recruit employees and provides an easy way for job seekers to connect with local businesses,” says Amy Hammerle, workforce and community development manager with the Boone County Economic Development Corporation (Boone EDC). “The website links job seekers directly to local companies via their career website or email address.”

An initiative spearheaded by Boone EDC, WorkInBoone.com offers Boone County employees and employers with a simple, one-stop shop for finding and filling jobs.

Complete with an easy-to-use map, the website currently hosts job listings from nearly 100 Boone County employers, ranging from large corporations to small businesses.

people to connect with employers in the area. And on our end, we also needed it to be easily maintained.”

In launching the site, Boone EDC made sure to educate Boone County businesses on their efforts in hopes that they’d add their info to WorkInBoone.com.

In putting the site together, Boone EDC had “We connected with them via email, one major factor in mind. e-newsletters and personalized emails,” Whitehead says. “Amy Hammerle even went “The number one thing that we wanted door-to-door to visit with our employers. with WorkInBoone.com was simplicity,” It’s important to note that we really says Boone EDC executive director Molly canvased the Boone County area to make Whitehead. “We wanted it to be easy for sure that employers were aware.”

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This being said, WorkInBoone.com will always be an ever-growing database, as more and more employers list their job openings.

“We’re constantly adding to it and getting more employers plugged in,” Whitehead says.

Although all businesses are welcome to be a part of WorkInBoone.com, the site provides extra information on a selection of featured Boone County businesses.

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More than two decades ago, an idea popped into Vicki Cooper’s head. Stitching had always been a hobby for her and when a store on Zionsville’s Main Street was closing, she thought how great it would be to buy the place and open a shop that sold pattern cross stitch, needlepoint supplies, threads and other assorted gadgets.

“I didn’t want to go through the rest of my life wondering, ‘What if I had made the jump and tried this?’” says Cooper, who at the time was working in corporate America and longed for a change.

She went for it, and on March 1, 1997, Persnickety Stitchers opened its doors, becoming a destination shop for devoted stitchers. For those who live several hours away, it’s a trek to come to Zionsville for materials. Nevertheless, serious stitchers do it.

“I have people who drive from northern Indiana, southern Indiana, Illinois and Ohio,” Cooper says. “A lot of time stitchers plan their trips based on which city has needlepoint, cross-stitch and knitting.”

She says what keeps her in business is that stitching is a very tactile hobby.

“People want to see it, feel it, touch it before they buy it,” Cooper says.

They also want to personalize projects by adding embellishments. “Beads, buttons, and charms add extra dimension and texture,” she says.

Cooper notes the distinction between sewing and stitching. Sewing involves clothing machine-driven whereas stitching is handwork.

art. It’s different from knitting as well.”

The popularity of projects varies depending on what’s trending. Cooper recalls when owls were all the rage. Animals, in general, come and go. Florals, on the other hand, are always en vogue. In addition, Christmas stockings have stayed the course — both the traditional and modernistic ones.

“Stitching is a creative outlet for folks as you get to choose colors and textures,” Cooper says.

Evelyn Byerly, a customer of Cooper’s for 20 years, says she loves coming to the store because she’s always stimulated and inspired by the colors and variety of textures, canvases and patterns that Cooper supplies to the public.

“She’s always willing to work with me and any “If you sew, you’re going to hit Joanne other customers to make sure we are totally Fabrics,” Cooper says. “Our thread and fabrics satisfied with what we have put together,” Byerly says. “Time is our most valuable are different because we’re doing a different 20 / ZIONSVILLE MAGAZINE / NOVEMBER 2019 / atZionsville.com

commodity, and Vicki wants to make sure that the time you’re spending yields the most satisfactory product possible.”

In the 22 years Cooper has been in business, the biggest change she’s seen has been the number and types of threads available.

Customers appreciate the level of variety Cooper carries.

“We’re reminded of all that we have every time we have to do inventory,” Cooper says with a chuckle.

She sells a multitude of threads, including cotton, silk, over-dyed silk, over-dyed cotton, velours, synthetics (rayons and nylons) and metallic threads of all blends.

“One trend is to mix and match textures because every thread has a different surface to it and it will reflect light differently,” Cooper says.

Persnickety Stitchers offers a variety of classes in needlepoint, counted canvas, counted thread and ornament finishing. Cooper arranges classes on demand to accommodate customers’ schedules.

“You can walk in, say you want to take a class, and we’ll schedule it on the spot,” says Cooper, who has noticed that lately there has been an uptick in the number of people who are interested in learning needlepoint, in particular.

“We’re seeing empty nesters who have some extra time on their hands now that their schedules aren’t so packed with kids’ activities,” Cooper says. “And for moms who are looking for something to do when they are sitting at swim meets or track meets, they can sit and stitch.”

Another reason Cooper suspects people are venturing into stitching is to decompress from screen time and other life stressors.

“Studies have shown that stitching is good for de-stressing and relaxation, plus you get something concrete when you’re done,” Cooper says.

Persnickety Stitchers is located at 58A North Main Street in Zionsville. For more information, call 317-873-5010 or visit online at persnicketystitchers.com. atZionsville.com / NOVEMBER 2019 / ZIONSVILLE MAGAZINE / 21

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