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TO THE
MUSICIANS
HALL OF FAME
Rock, bluegrass, gospel
musician Dave LeDune
to be inducted in March
RFKS VISIT
Democratic presidential
hopeful rallies Vincennes
in 1968
CONSERVATION
EDUCATION
Cindy Spillman building
womens outdoors skills
LOST
ROCK
LEGENDS
Columnists reflect
on recent deaths
of iconic stars
HAD EM ALL THE WAY
1981 Vincennes Lincoln basketball teams state championship

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EDITORS DESK
he summer following my high school graduation was my first encounter

with a homeless person. A woman, elderly, frail and raggedly looking was
pushing a grocery cart on the streets of our nations capital. In the cart, she
hadmost likely everything she owned, plus the paper bags she wascollecting with
leftover fast food.
I can recall how our teachers/sponsors on the trip
told us to keep an eye out for homeless people. They
knew it would be a new experience, and scenes that
a group of farm girls from Indiana would know very
little about. And, I have never forgotten the scenes
from the streets in Washington, D.C., where our club
was touring that summer.
In the years that have followed, I have walked by,
mostly in downtown Indianapolis and some in other
cities, several other homeless individuals mostly
men. Ive seen the jars or cans where beggars are
asking for loose change. Sometimes Ive thrown in a
dollar, but mostly Ive just kept walking. Sometimes Ive even picked up my pace,
because the sooner I get past the problem, the sooner I can forget it, and back into
my own comfort zone onto wherever it is that I am going.
And, in all those years of walking or driving on as quickly as possible, I
can truthfully say I had never had a personal encounter with someone who was
homeless...until I met David earlier this year. I had never been face to face and
talked with someone who had so very little hope, was so depressed, and who had so
little reason to wake up the next morning. He was that someone who was not sure
if they would get something to eat the next day, or if it got too cold how they were
going to keep warm.
The night we met David was not a comfortable night for me. I was far, far
away from my comfort zone. I would have been just fine walking briskly by, and
going back up to my nice, warm hotel room. It was already really late, and I was
tired.
Thankfully, a teenager in our group had the fearlessness to ask us, the
adult chaperones, if it was okay to share the pizza we were about to order with
David.David was one of about eight men holed up with their blankets on the
sidewalk just down from our hotel in downtown Atlanta.It was pretty cold outside.
And, although it was southern Georgia, we were bundled in our winter coats and
gloves. Despite the blustery wind, the other seven homeless men were already
sleeping soundly wrapped in their blankets. The young lady in our group asked
David if hed like some pizza.
There was a corner market nearby, and we had become the owners routine
late-night pizza customers all weekend because we had lots of hungry teenagers.
In a soft, but clear voice David told her that he would love some pizza. But he
said what he really needed was some clean pants, because his were soiled.
Suddenly, we were compelled. We rolled our 15-passenger van out onto the
expressway, Googled on our smartphones for nearby superstores, and found David
not only some pants, but a thermal undershirt, boxers, some gloves, and a few
personal hygiene items, plus a backpack to put it all in.
When we arrived back, David was appreciative. He said his son and sister
had both died unexpectedly, and that was part of the situation which led to his
homelessness. A big tear slowly rolled down his cheek.
Back up in my warm room, my heart was heavy. The need was so great, and
we had really only made an insignificant contribution to a really big problem
not just in downtown Atlanta, but all over the country and even here in our own
community.
When I looked across the street the next morning, David and all his friends
who were sleeping nearby had moved on. Maybe just for the day, or maybe for
good.
Now when checking the local weather on my phone, I look to see if spring has
arrived yet in Atlanta, and hope that David is keeping warm.
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CONTENTS
March 2016 Vol. 8, Issue 4
4 Editors Desk
20 An Idealistic Vision
By Melody Brunson
RFK brings campaign to Vincennes

in 1968
A homeless man named David
7 Financial Wisdom
Bipartisan Budget Act changing Social

Security
By Clifford York
Page 14
Page 28
By Bernie Schmitt
24 Kennedy Connection Helps in

Fulfilling Islanders Wish
Man who helped rescue JFK able to
fulfill long-held wish
By Bernie Schmitt
26 Yeah, Im a Boomer, But ...

Eagles tribute to Glenn Frey was rough
on band and audience
By Bernie Schmitt
27 Calendar
Ag Day, Drum Enchanted Evening, Knox
County Chamber Bandwagon
28 There Was No Way We
Could Lose
1981 Alices state championship felt like

a sure thing
By Bill Richardson
33 The Boomer 1040

Working: The new retirement
By Angie Moore
34 Spangles Our Times

Vignettes of Vincennes history in single
volume
By Bernie Schmitt
Photo provided
8 The Stars Have Lined Up Just

Right
Dave LeDunes journey to the Wabash
Valley Musicians Hall of Fame
By Bill Richardson
12 The Sonic Boomer
38 Boomer Connoisseur
Does wine glass shape really matter?
By Joy Neighbors
Photo by Bill Richardson
40 Tickets Now On Sale for Alice

of Old Vincennes
Musical opens Memorial Day weekend
By Bernie Schmitt
42 Sieur de Vincennes
Heritage group wants statue to honor

citys founder
By Bernie Schmitt
46 Boomer Fitness
Not too late for resolutions
By Kaila Stevens
On the Cover: Karl Donovan, a senior
starter, paraded around the floor on the

shoulders of his teammates after winning
the Arthur L. Trester Award.
Photo by Indiana Sports Weekly
Page 18
The plight of aging rock stars
By Todd Lancaster
13 Boomer Toys, Trappings and

Trivia
Beardless Billy Gibbons
By Todd Lancaster
14 Someone You Should Know
Cindy Spillman, regional director for the

National Wild Turkey Federation
By Joy Neighbors
18 Day Tripper
Strike black gold at the Oblong Oil

Field Museum
By Joy Neighbors
Photo by Joy Neighbors
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FINANCIAL WISDOM
Bipartisan Budget Act changing Social Security

By Clifford York
ast November, the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015

was signed into law averting a United States default and
deferring
further
discussion
of U.S.
debt and
spending
levels until
after 2016s
presidential and congressional elections.
While the new law simplifies
some issues for our nations
leaders, it may complicate others
because the BBA includes provisions that affect Social Security
retirement benefits.
Social Security rules are

changing again
When the Senior Citizens
Freedom to Work Act of 2000
(SCFWA) was signed into law,
it eliminated the Social Security
earnings test for Americans who
reach full retirement age and
want to continue to work. (Full
retirement age for people born
after 1943 is about 66. For those
born after 1960, full retirement
age is 67.3) The earnings test,
which remains in place for Social
Security beneficiaries who are
younger than full retirement
age, causes $1 of benefits to be
withheld for every $2 in earnings
above the annual earnings limit.
While the SCFWA was
a welcome change for many
Americans of retirement age, it
changed the way taxpayers approached Social Security benefits.
Prior to the SCFWA, many people thought, as the Social Security
Administration suggested, they
would receive approximately the
same amount of benefits whether
they retired early, at full retirement age, or later. Early retirees
received lower benefit payments
than people who retired at full
retirement age or later, and late
retirees received higher payments
than people who retired at full
retirement age or earlier.
While that may have been true at one

time, rapidly increasing longevity caused
some experts to reach a different conclusion.
Laurence Kotlikoff, a professor of Economics at Boston University, wrote:
For a high-earning, 60-year-old couple ...
if they wait until 70 to collect their retirement
benefits, they will still be up $350,000 compared to taking their retirement benefits at 62.
Thats the power of being able to wait to collect
a 76 percent greater check every month from
age 70 through 100 if you live that long.
One of the unexpected consequences
of the SCFWA was it created loopholes in
the Social Security system. By employing
specific claiming strategies, taxpayers could
increase the amount of lifetime benefits they
received from Social Security.
Receiving higher benefits helped Social
Security recipients; however, paying higher
benefits had the potential to put additional
stress on an already taxed Social Security
system. CNBC reported a paper published
by The Center for Retirement Research at
Boston College estimated these strategies
could cost roughly $10 billion each year.
That claim has been disputed by other
experts in the field who argue few new
retirees are able to delay taking benefits long
enough to truly maximize their income
from Social Security. The Decision to Delay
Social Security Benefits, a 2012 paper written by John Shoven, director of the Stanford
Institute for Economic Policy Research, and
economist Sita Nataraj Slavov, reported:
We have shown that delaying Social
Security is actuarially advantageous for a
large subset of the population ... However,
we find little empirical evidence that actual
claiming behavior is related to the actuarial
advantage of delay. Indeed, most individuals
appear to claim shortly after reaching age 62
or stopping work. Labor supply appears to
be the primary determinant of the claiming
decision. We do find a consistent relationship between education levels and delayed
claiming, possibly because education may be
associated with financial literacy or a longer
life expectancy.
While there is a clear monetary advantage
to delaying Social Security benefits, few people
actually chose to delay, so the cost to the system may not have been as high as projected.
BBA changes claiming rules

Regardless of analysis suggesting the
cost of claiming strategies could be much
lower than believed, the BBAs new rules
eliminate two claiming strategies Claim
and Suspend and Claim Now, Claim

More Later rather abruptly.
Claim and Suspend (a/k/a file and
suspend strategy). The strategy allows
individuals to claim and then voluntarily
suspend their Social Security benefits.
Since they suspend the benefits, they can
accrue delayed retirement credits. When
a working person claims and suspends
benefits, his or her spouse can claim
spousal benefits, allowing a couple to receive benefits today, and receive benefits
enhanced by delayed retirement credits
in the future if the working spouse
claims benefits after full retirement age.
The new rules established by the BBA
will make Claim and Suspend strategies
unavailable beginning May 1, 2016. As
a result Americans who are at (or past)
full retirement can take advantage of the
opportunity, but they must claim and
suspend before April 30, 2016.
Claim Now, Claim More Later (a/k/a
restricted application strategy). This
strategy allows married individuals
to claim spousal benefits from Social Security while not claiming their personal
benefits. Delaying personal benefits
means they are able to earn delayed
retirement credits. When they reach
full retirement age, they can choose between receiving their personal benefits
or receiving their spousal benefits.
The new rules eliminate this strategy at
the end of the year. Americans who reach
age 62 in 2016 may be able to employ it,
but younger Americans will not have the
opportunity.
If you are currently employing these
strategies, you may be grandfathered. More
information will be available when the
Social Security Administration offers its
interpretation of the new rules, and that
should happen before the end of this year.
If either of these strategies is a part of
your current retirement plan, and you are
not at an age where you can execute the
strategy, you may want to work with a financial professional to redesign your plan.
The opinions voiced in this material are for general information only
and are not intended to provide specific advice or recommendations for
any individual. This material was prepared by Peak Advisor Alliance.
Peak Advisor Alliance is not affiliated with the named broker/dealer.
Clifford York is an associate wealth advisor for

Carson Wealth Vincennes and brings two
decades of financial services experience to the
firm. Clifford resides in Vincennes with his wife,
Angie, and their three children. His hobbies
include golf, working out, coaching his childrens
various youth sports teams and he has a passion
for deer hunting. One can contact Clifford at
cyork@carsonwealth.com.
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The
STARS
have lined up
JUST RIGHT
Included in Dave LeDune's collection of instruments is this banjo, made in 1982. The banjo was given to LeDune by the
late Bill Stedman, a Vincennes dentist, upon Stedman's retirement. Stedman and LeDune became close friends through
the years, and often traveled to bluegrass festivals together when they weren't making music. LeDune had the banjo
restored to good enough condition that it can be played.
Photos by Bill Richardson
Dave LeDunes journey from Indian Prairie to

the Wabash Valley Musicians Hall of Fame
By Bill Richardson
ave LeDune says there are

worse habits he could have
picked up along the way, other
than making music.
The 63-year-old Carlisle man, a telecommunications specialist for AT&T out
of Vincennes by trade, has spent the better part of his lifetime playing a variety of
stringed instruments and singing.
Its all led to LeDune being inducted
into the Wabash Valley Musicians Hall
of Fame, in a noon ceremony on March
13 in Terre Haute.
To me, it means that even though
I didnt go on the road, and didnt go to
Nashville, Im still being recognized in my
community and the Wabash Valley for
being a good musician and a good singer,
said LeDune, It really means a lot to me.
You dont think about something like that
ever happening. You just play.
Play LeDune has done, almost since
he was a toddler, growing up in the Indian Prairie community in Sullivan County, a few miles east of Carlisle. LeDune
attended elementary school in Pleasant-
ville, then graduated from Dugger Union

High School in 1970, before making his
way to Vincennes University.
LeDune grew up in a musical household. His father, Cyrus, played the banjo
and the mandolin, both by ear, and an
aunt played the piano. He says Cyrus was
his biggest inspiration.
I still have that banjo. The mandolin, too, LeDune said. Hed bought
them from a pawn shop in Terre Haute.
Cyrus taught Dave to play on both
instruments, then bought his son a ukulele. Together, theyd play gospel songs.
We got to the point where wed do
some ragtime and a little bit of Dixieland
stuff, Dave said. This went on from
about the time I was 8 years old until I
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was about 12.

Then in the 1960s, a lot in America
was changing, especially the music.
It wasnt really cool to play a mandolin or a four-string ragtime banjo, he
said. So I laid it aside.
It stayed aside until the early 1970s,
after hed married his wife of 43 years, Beth,
a nurse at Union Hospital in Terre Haute.
As LeDune recalls, the Harvey
brothers Randy, Dick and Tom
were going to perform for a homecoming
event at the Indian Prairie Church.
They asked if Id play banjo. But
they didnt want me to play that old
four-string banjo. They wanted me to
play a five-string banjo, he said.
LeDune told the Harveys he didnt
know how, but they wouldnt take no for
an answer.
They said I had six months to
learn, he said.
So LeDune bought the five-string
banjo, and played it for the first time
in public at the homecoming. It led to
regular performances at area churches,
as a group called the Bluegrass Gospel
Brothers for a couple of years.
It was the start of what LeDune calls
a lifestyle. Since then hes continually
been a member of one band or another.
Ive been fortunate to play everything from gospel to classic rock and roll,
to rock, to country, Americana to old-style
mountain music, he said. Thats why I
have so many different instruments. And
Ive enjoyed every minute of it.
One of the most successful groups
LeDune has been involved with was The
Scrubby Pine Boys, in the early 1980s. The
original lineup included LeDune, Richard Yates, Tim Ridgeway and Ron Lucas.
Ridgeway dropped out after a little over a
year, and was replaced by Kevin Doyle.
A highlight was the recording a bluegrass record entitled Back to Indiana.
The record featured LeDune on banjo
and lead vocal, Lucas on guitar and vocals, Doyle on mandolin, tenor and lead
vocal and Yates, on bass and singing the
bass parts. The record featured 10 songs,
of which three were original.
The group first played informally at
one of the Beanblossom festivals, hosted
by the legendary Bill Monroe, known as
the Father of Bluegrass.
LeDune said the four traveled to the
festival together and parked underneath
an ugly old pine tree thats still there.
The men would play at night, and
drew a crowd to their jam sessions.
Finally, somebody said
ABOUT THE HALL

Located in Terre Haute, the
Wabash Valley Musicians Hall of
Fame covers Vigo, Clay, Sullivan,
Vermillion, Parke, Greene, Putnam
and Owen counties in Indiana
and the Illinois counties of Clark,
Edgar and Crawford.
Formed
in
1994,
the
organization says its mission is to
promote fellowship and friendship
among all musicians of the Wabash
Valley, recognize and award
outstanding area musicians, and
foster and maintain a meaningful
relationship with the community.
Induction ceremonies were
held through 2002, with the
exception of 2001, when no
program was held. The induction
ceremonies started again in
2006, and have been held each
year since.
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LEDUNES INFLUENCES
Dave LeDune says he cant begin
to list everyone whos made a mark
on his musical life.
However, here are a few people
who have influenced him the most.
Five-string banjo
Tom Bastain: Hes a friend of
mine from Pennsylvania who had
moved to Terre Haute and was a
great banjo player and a very patient
teacher.
Guitar
Don Rogers and Tim Ridgeway:
Both had the style and timing that
I loved to hear for bluegrass and
country.
Electric bass
Steve Harper, Richard Yates:
Steve had a style that is so tasteful,
timing and sustain was great. Richard
was originally a electric bass player
that converted to upright acoustic
bass and was the bass player for the
Scrubby Pine Boys and to this day, I
have never heard anyone on upright
match what he did.
Country music
Gary Ready, Roy Chapman
Classic rock
Bill Cooper: He has an
unbelievable understanding of that
music and is a killer electric guitar
player, one of the best. I played
electric bass with him in a band
called Old School. Great fun!
Gary Ready and Dave LeDune are the Fabulous Antiquities, playing still today.
Whats the name of your band?, LeDune
said. We said Were not a band, just four
friends who get together and play. But
wed talked about how ugly that pine tree
was, and finally Richard Yates looked up
and said Were the Scrubby Pine Boys.'
It wasnt long after that the group
came across a young singer named
Allison Krauss, who has risen to stardom
in the world of bluegrass and country
music. Krauss entered the music industry
at an early age, and recorded for the first
time at age 14.
She was classically trained as a
child, but she really liked bluegrass,

LeDune said. That, and Led Zeppelin.
One thing led to another, and the
Krauss camp approached the Scrubby
Pine Boys about going on the road with
Krauss.
Her dad asked if we were interested in
becoming Union Station, LeDune said.
It was hard to turn down the offer,
but the Indiana band did.
At the time we all had jobs, wives,
kids and insurance plans, said LeDune,
who emphasizes that none of the band
members have any regrets. It would
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have been a pretty chancy thing for us to

do, just give up everything wed worked
for to that point in our lives.
LeDune is currently performing
with his old friend, Gary Ready, as a duo
The Fabulous Antiquities. They play
mostly what would be described as soft
rock with Ready working the guitar and
LeDune playing the bass and the fiddle.
Both sing, but Ready has vocals on the
better part of the numbers.
We play small roadhouses, or wherever we can, LeDune said. Weve got
some things were trying to get lined up.
We both really enjoy it.
The Fabulous Antiquities hope to
get something worked out with another
friend, narrator Ricky Lamb, a native
Hoosier who now lives in Lincoln, Ill.
Lamb is an expert on music history.
The idea is to have Lamb talk about a
particular song, then have the duo play
it. Ideally, LeDune says, it would lead to
a two-hour show. Performing it at the
Red Skelton Center on the Vincennes
University campus would be a dream,
according to LeDune.
LeDune says the stars have lined up
just right for him to be inducted into
the Wabash Valley Musicians Hall of
Fame.
While hes a good musician, he
Among the instruments Dave LeDune can play are, from left, a five-string
banjo, two acoustic-electric guitars, a fiddle, a 1972 custom Telecaster, a
fender Stratocaster and a Fender Precision.
stresses that there are a lot who are better,
and those are the ones he likes to play
with.
If there was a secret or a reason for
a person to get to where I am right now,
its that Ive always been fortunate to be
around good musicians, he said. You
always want to pay attention to what
theyre doing. If you surround yourself
with people who are better than you, then
you have a goal, a goal to be that good.

The road from Indian Prairie to the
Wabash Valley Musicians Hall of Fame
has been long and interesting. But its not
nearly over. Most musicians play until
the day they die, and LeDune figures
thats the way it will be with him.
I cant imagine it any other way,
he said. Id hate to think of what life
would be like if I wasnt playing.
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THE SONIC BOOMER
The plight of aging rock stars

By Todd Lancaster
f the obituary page is the

first thing you open up to
in Rolling Stone magazine
now, then
you are
officially
a Baby
Boomer.
It
seems like
every day
another
iconic rock star from the
late 60s or early 70s,who
are nowin their late 60s
and early 70s,have left the
building permanently.
When I was young, rock
stars only died in their 20s,
leaving us with unfinished
symphonies, empty Jack
Daniels bottles and corpses
with needles stuck in their
arms.
For years we waxed
poetic about the tragic loss
of artists like Jim Morrison,
Jimi Hendrix and Janis
Joplin, Keith Moon or John
Bonham back in the 1970s.
And again, in more modern
times, tragic troubadours
like Kurt Cobain, Shannon
Hoon and Amy Winehouse
followed them down the
same path of destruction.
Truthfully, most of these artists lived lives of excess and
self-indulgence and paid the
ultimate price. Their deaths
were not so much unexpected as they were war stories
for a generation.
Maybe it was actor
James Dean, who at the very
dawn of the rock-and-roll
era planted the first warning sign along the road to
excess. It said, Too fast to
live, too young to die. That
was a warning ignored by some, but was

essentially well-heeded by the majority
of rockers who ended up with AARP
memberships.
Over the last 50 years, some rock
stars became musicians as they got
older. Those who didnt became mailmen, withreallygood stories. Those who
stayed in the music business, learned
about marketing, production and how to
turn fleeting stardom into a vocation that
paid bills and fattened up IRAs, as tastes
in music changed.
For them, the mantra of Never trust
anyone over 30 has long been replaced
by ... Will be performing two shows a
night in Branson.
In all honesty, the recent loss of David Bowie, Paul Kantner or Glenn Frey
should not have been a great surprise, the
fact that they were still relevant (and in
some cases thriving) is what should have
been surprising.
We never really knew what an old
rock star was supposed to look or act
like because they didnt have a road map.
Were they supposed to be like old athletes whose careers are over at 35? Were
they more like actors who tried to play
the same character way too long (the
very thought of a 55-year old Tom
Cruise with a 21-year-old love interest
in a movie becomes just flat-out creepy).
Were they supposed to just adapt and
keep producing new material that no one
really wanted to hear? Its hard to say.
Ultimately, ones music is part of the
zeitgeist of their time. If one hears Take
it Easy or Hotel California they are
rarely transported back to last Tuesday
when they heard it while sitting in traffic.
However, there is a pretty good chance
the memory of a drive on a country road
on a summer evening, with a six pack of
Pabst in a 73 Charger is what was really
coming out of the radio.
Recently, Gary Richrath, the longtime guitarist with the original REO
Speedwagon passed away at around 65.
Im sure he was an older man who lived
a great, full life. However in my minds
eye, he was the guy our local Huntington, Indiana, music store owner paid
$500 to play in the store for two hours

back in 1978 I was 14 and he was 29.
We really are going to have to come
to terms with the death of these generational icons. Most of them long ago
stopped seeing themselves as rock stars
and began seeing themselves as gardeners, grandfathers or neighbors. If they
stop looking at themselves as The Prince
of Darkness, maybe so should we.
A lot of those older bands have now
joined the nostalgia circuit where one or
two original members get together with
people half their age to stage a comeback tour.
Rick Nelson figured that out in 1971
when he wrote the song Garden Party
after being booed off the stage in a rockand-roll revival show at Madison Square
Garden. People only wanted him to play
his hits from the 1950s and when he
tried to play his newer stuff, things got
ugly. He knew at 31 that he was a has
been, just a symbol for a different time
and place. He didnt belong to himself;
he belonged to other peoples memories.
Most of them long ago

stopped seeing themselves
as rock stars and began
seeing
themselves
as
gardeners, grandfathers
or neighbors. If they stop
looking at themselves as
The Prince of Darkness,
maybe so should we.
So the bad news is the sound you
heard of the casket lid closing on the
former bass player from Gerry and the
Pacemakers or drummer from Vanilla
Fudge, isnt really closing on them, its
closing on all hopes and dreams of your
youth.
The good news is at 74, Keith Richards is still going strong I guess he is
just a testament to good clean living.
Todd has recently began investing money
in his own upcoming musical career. He
bought a Maserati and started to date
supermodels. You can see him doing two
shows a night in Branson or email him at
wthlancaster@gmail.com.

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Cindy Spillman, regional director for

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By Joy Neighbors
indy Spillman is
a dynamo in the
National Wild Turkey Federations Women in
the Outdoors program. She
manages 32 counties in Illinois, coordinates numerous
classes, sets up special events,
and conducts fundraising
banquets around the state.
Spillman began working
with the Women in the Outdoor organization back in
2002 as a regional coordinator for a part of Illinois and
half of southern Indiana. In
2008, she became a regional
director for the NWTF with
a turf that now encompasses counties

from Kankakee to the north, Greenville
to the west, Carmi to the south, and
wending up along the Wabash River to
the east.
A typical week can find Spillman
traveling throughout the state planning
events with different county chapters,
putting the final touches on banquets,
and overseeing daylong classes for
WITO.
But Spillman wasnt always such an
outdoorsy kind of girl. She went on her
first turkey hunt in 1998 after realizing
that if she wanted to see her husband
during hunting season, shed have to be
in the woods.
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Outdoor cooking is a class for Women in the Outdoors.

not intimidating or difficult. Everyone
was taught at an easy-going pace, and
she found it fun to learn about sports
hunting with other women who offered
support and camaraderie.
Spillman has become an advocate
of responsible wildlife management and
finding ways to preserve our nations
hunting heritage. She is well versed on
environmental conservation issues and
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what is needed to save and enhance over

112,000 acres of Illinois natural habitat.
We are losing our places to hunt
due to development and fewer private
land owners. Our local forests are changing and were loosing hardwood trees
like never before. Its scary to wonder
what these woods will look like to future
generations, Spillman said.
The NWTF has launched a cam-
paign called Save the Habitat. Save the

Hunt as a way to help improve public
hunting access throughout the state
while increasing educational opportunities for hunters.
People dont necessarily understand
the role hunters play in conservation,
Spillman said. The NWTF educates
people about conservation and how they
can assist in the preservation of our hunting heritage.
One of her goals is to get more
women involved in the WITO hands-on
classes. The hunting-related programs
include archery, game calling, bow hunting, fishing, target shooting, and wild
game tracking, along with learning how
to hunt deer, elk and turkey. No experience is necessary, and ammo, equipment
and training are provided.
But one can learn more than hunting skills. Spillman is quick to point out
that the basket-making class is a big hit
with women. So are the classes about
aromatherapy, pioneer/heritage skills,
woodworking, outdoor cooking, canoeing and kayaking, photography, pet first
aid, scrapbooking, and trailer backing.
And who would expect sessions on
interior design (bringing the outdoors
inside), green living, herbal sauces and
vinegars, Tai Chi and yoga; even wine
making? This is definitely not your
mothers foray into the woods!
We offer almost 200 different
classes for women, its not just about the
hunt, its about getting outdoors, and
learning a new skill; something youll
enjoy learning and doing, Spillman said.
Besides WITO, the NWTF also offers programs for children and teenagers.
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children to explore clay target shooting
and shotgunning in a safe environment
while teaching wild life conservation and
stewardship of the land.
Xtreme JAKES is aimed at teens 13
to 17, providing more advanced hunting
opportunities in line with their abilities.
and includes fishing, plant and animal
identification classes, and camping opportunities.
JAKES Take Aim is a spin off of
JAKES and offers youth 17 and younger
a chance to bone up on target shooting
at a fully equipped indoor or outdoor air
gun range.
Spillman smiled and said her favorite
part of being involved with WITO is,
seeing the ladies succeed.
Theyve had an exciting experience
when they leave a class; theyve learned
to do something they didnt think they
could do. Theyre happy. Theyre confident. Its so revitalizing!
Shes working to form a WITO
chapter for ladies in the Mt. Carmel
(Wabash County), Illinois area, along
with seeking volunteers and committee
members throughout the state to help
Woodworking is a skill taught by Women in the Outdoors. Cindy Spillman is

working to form a WITO chapter for ladies in Wabash County.
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with the organization of classes and

special events.
Upcoming events include the Illinois
Statewide WITO event on April 29 at
Camp Ondessonk in Ozark, Illinois.
And the Lawrence County Longbeards
chapter of WITO will host a daylong

event on June 4 at Red Hill State Park in
Sumner. All women are invited to attend.
For information on either event, contact
Cindy Spillman at (618) 586-5191 or
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DAY TRIPPER
Strike black gold at the Oblong Oil Field Museum

By Joy Neighbors
blong, Illinois was a

sleepy little hamlet
until one day in
March 1906 when DeWitte T.
Finley, Alexander McCandless
and another friend discovered
oil in Crawford County.
The legend goes that the
three Pennsylvania men were
riding
through the
county in a
buckboard,
drinking
whiskey.
They agreed
that when
the bottle was empty, someone
would throw it over his shoulder and they would drill for oil
wherever it landed.
The men were crossing
the John Shire farm, about 2
miles south of Stoy, Illinois,
when the bottle was hurled and
landed in a field. The results of
that pitch were thrilling. They
had struck black gold!
The Shire No. 1 well was
drilled to a depth of about
1,000 feet that spring, producing about 2,500 barrels of
oil per day. Once word of the
Shire pool spread, hundreds of
rigs went up throughout the
area. Some were gushers just
like Shire No. 1.

Individuals and companies rapidly
began leasing ground throughout Crawford County, paying premiums to local
landowners to drill on their property. The
towns of Oblong and Robinson, along
with Martin and Prairie townships were
the best locations for a strike with the
main gushers located in the Shire District
near the original well.
The oil boom put Crawford County
on the map and made wealthy oilmen
of many residents. Its little wonder that
the county was happy to have a place to
honor its liquid roots.
Local resident Enos Bloom helped
set up the first oil museum at the Oblong
park in 1961. Turnout was good and the
museum was active for about five years
before people seemed to lose interest.
In 1989, the idea was revived. A group
got together and decided that the museum was a viable idea; it just needed more
funding, and a different location. The state
awarded a $100,000 grant to the Illinois
Oil Field Museum Foundation making
construction of the new building possible.
The Oblong Oil Field Museum
opened its doors in 2003 on the western
edge of the Only Oblong a fitting
choice since the first well was struck just a
few miles to the southeast of the town.
Museum vice president, John Larrabee, an active oilman in the area, gave a
tour of the museum. According to Larrabee, Crawford County is still a functioning producer in the Illinois oil industry
with more than 3,000 wells currently in

operation. (Most local wells run about
850 to 900 feet deep.) The entire state
produces more than 26,000 barrels of oil
Shire No. 1 was a gusher, and soon

many neighboring rigs followed.
Photo courtesy of Oblong Oil Field Museum

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Museum vice president and active oilman John Larrabee next to a mural.
each day.
The Illinois Basins rich oil heritage is
on display at the museum with artifacts
and exhibits that showcase Crawford
Countys, and Illinois role in oil speculation, drilling and production. Many of
the artifacts go back to the first oil well
discovery in 1906, including the original
Mahutsak Oil Companys sign. Mahutsak,
according to legend, was an Indian word
that meant more money.
Larrabee makes for an interesting
guide with stories of what life was like
at the turn of the 20th Century, along
with vivid descriptions of the well drilling
process. One story told how oil wells were
originally sunk using a torpedo filled with
nitrogen oxide dropped in a small hole
and hit with a Joe dog a rod of sorts
resulting in a huge crater.
Larrabee explained that work in the
oil fields was hard and dirty, but extremely desired. Men would stand in a group
Oblong Oil Field Museum
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(Route 33)
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be made by calling (618) 562-4664.
behind the working crew waiting for

someone to have to take a rest. Once a
man left his post, the waiting men would
jostle forward and another man would
step out and take over the abandoned
position for pay.
Several scale models of oil production
sites and treatment stations can be found
in the museum including a scale model of
the local Marathon Refinery in Robinson.
Other buildings located on the 6-acre
museum site include a replica of the
Bradford Supply Store where visitors can
get a closer look at oil artifacts. Larrabee
said item descriptions are being written so
that visitors can better understand what
the item is and how it was used in the oil
producing process.
The museum welcomes school tours
from around the tri-state area. Larrabee
said he enjoys watching the kids take it
all in while giving demos and answering
their questions.
The museum also has a research room
filled with oil history and oil production
books along with a theatre where oil-related movies are shown.
The not-for-profit museum holds
two annual fundraising events each year.
In April there will be the museums Soup
Supper, and the last Saturday in September is their long-anticipated BBQ.
According to Larrabee, The museum
gives us a chance to preserve the county,
and the states oil history, and to honor
those men and women who have worked
in the industry.

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I ND I A N A BICE NT E NNIAL 1 8 1 6 - 2 0 1 6
Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy with Gus Stevens of Vincennes near
the Francis Vigo statue along the Wabash River. Stevens was asked to give Kennedy a tour of
Vincennes historic sites when the candidate visited the city in late April 1968.
AN IDEALISTIC VISION
Photo courtesy of Gus Stevens
RFK brings campaign to Vincennes in 1968

By Bernie Schmitt
ifty years ago Robert F. Kennedy, the

idealistic Democratic presidential
candidate of the late 1960s, arrived
in Vincennes to tour local historic sites
and to speak to local businessmen. The
Indiana primary election was in May and
Kennedy visited in late April.
Kennedy was the younger brother of
slain President John F. Kennedy, though
his politics and demeanor were much different than his brothers. Yet he, too, was
the victim of an assassins bullet less than
two months after his Vincennes visit.
Though the speech at the Vincennes
Ramada Inn fell flat (it wasnt what Kennedy really wanted to discuss), the rest of
the visit turned out hundreds of people
(many of them young people), and it
included prominent local Democrats who
were not Kennedy supporters.
We called the local Democratic

bigwigs and invited them to meet the
senator, said Jim Osborne of Vincennes,
who along with Tom Ernst, were in charge
of the local Kennedy campaign. The best
I can recall, we got a flat turn down from
all of them. But about 30 to 40 minutes
before he was to arrive, all of them lined
up to shake his hand.
Osborne and Ernst were young teachers at Vincennes Lincoln High School
that spring of 1968. Their names were
suggested to the Kennedy campaign by
Gerald Minderman, who as Postmaster

was a Democratic presidential appointee.
Neither had experience with a local presidential campaign, but Kennedys message
resonated with them.
He was very much into civil rights,
trying to eliminate poverty, getting out
of Vietnam, and he wanted to get young
people involved, Ernst said. That was
very appealing to me.
Ernst was a liberal Democrat in 1968.
His father had served on the Vincennes
City Council as a Democrat and he
followed.
JFK was an icon, a hero to me,
Ernst said. I believe in what Robert was
saying when he was running for president.
His people came to town to talk to Jim
Osborne and me about setting up his campaign headquarters for Knox County, and
without hesitation we said we would do it.
Kennedys visit to Vincennes was
an effort to court voters in small towns
and rural counties in Indiana, rather
than visits to college campuses and inner

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city neighborhoods. Campaign aid John

Bartlow Martin wanted Kennedy to
change the tone of the campaign to reach
more conservative Democrats, according
to Thurston Clarkes 2008 book The Last
Campaign: Robert Kennedy and 82 Days
That Inspired America.
Kennedy didnt like what his campaign handlers recommended, but he
complied.
Upon landing at the airport near
Lawrenceville he said, I have come
because I believe that the seeds of national
greatness lie in the greatness of the past.
To meet our responsibilities we will need
the courage of George Rogers Clark, the
resourcefulness of William Henry Harrison, and the humility and wisdom and
sheer humanity of Abraham Lincoln.
Gus Stevens, who then worked at
WAOV, was asked to escort Kennedy
and his entourage to some of Vincennes
historic sites.
We met him at George Field (now
the Mid-American Air Center) and there
were a lot of people there, Stevens said.
His wife (Ethel), three of his kids (David,
Courtney, and Michael), and their dog
Freckles were with them.
There were several people with the
Kennedy entourage, among
Kennedy was not scheduled to speak at Vincennes University, but when besieged by hundreds of students outside of Grouseland in 1968, he stopped and
answered all of their questions, according to Gus Stevens of Vincennes, who
led Kennedy on a tour of local historic sites. In the background are VUs Welsh
Administration Building (right) and what was then Beckes Union (at left), now
Governors Hall.
Bill Epperidge/ Time & LIFE Pictures/Getty Images

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Robert F. Kennedy speaks to a crowd in front of his Vincennes campaign

headquarters in April of 1968. Kennedy visited to attend a ribbon cutting at his
headquarters and to tour local historic sites.
Photo courtesy of Jim Osborne
them Richard Goodwin, who had been

a speechwriter for President Lyndon B.
Johnson and then was helping to write
speeches for Kennedy. (Goodwin is married to noted author and historian Doris
Kearns Goodwin.)
Osborne enlisted his cousin, Frank
Meyer, who had a convertible, to drive
Kennedy. Stevens was given the okay (by
Kennedys bodyguard) to sit in the front
passenger seat, while the senator and his
wife sat in the back. Meyer drove.
The conversation from the airport to
Vincennes was about the upcoming election, Stevens said. He kept asking How
does it look for us? and I cant remember
how I got out of not answering, because I
wasnt in a position to say.
Meyers brother, D.D. Meyer, was
asked to drive another car, but initially
refused because he didnt support the New

York senator. Caught up in the excitement
of Kennedys visit, he soon changed his
mind, and drove another car the Meyers
owned.
Upon seeing the St. Francis Xavier Old
Cathedral, Kennedy, who was Catholic, was
said to have exclaimed, Beautiful! He saw
the bishops graves, and even had knowledge
of who the Rev. Simon Brute was.
What struck Stevens, though, were the
ecstatic screams of young people, many of
them young women and girls, who surrounded Kennedy and tried to touch him
outside the church, during the walk to the
George Rogers Clark National Memorial.
I think he had lost a cuff link in between the Old Cathedral and the Memorial, Stevens said. When he got there his
hair was tousled and his shirt tail out.
Kennedy was impressed with the

Memorial, Stevens said, and took time to
study the monument and the paintings inside that describes Clarks Conquest of the
West. He and Ethel also visited Grouseland. They were listening to guides discuss
history in the basement of the Harrison
mansion when Stevens was asked to find
them so they could stay on schedule.
I went down there and opened a door
and it frightened him, Stevens said. Ill never forget the look on his face. He was startled.
He had a deer-in-the-headlights look.
Outside of Grouseland, Kennedy was
swarmed again, this time by hundreds of
Vincennes University students. Climbing onto the back of a truck, Kennedy
answered every question the students
had for him. The moment is preserved in
a photograph taken by LIFE Magazine
photographer Bill Epperidge, who covered
the entire RFK campaign in 1968.
When Kennedy arrived for a ribbon-cutting ceremony at his local campaign
headquarters on South Fourth Street (just
off of Main), he was greeted by hundreds,
many of whom were Lincoln High School
students on their lunch break. (A number of
them were suspended, too, for having stayed
too long at the campaign rally.)
In conservative Knox County, established Democrats had not embraced Kennedys candidacy. Some were supporting
Indiana Gov. Roger Branigan, but Hubert
Humphrey and Eugene McCarthy were
the established favorites. So Osborne was
stunned when many of them showed up
right before RFK arrived.
They all lined up to shake hands
with him, Osborne said.

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Kennedys speech to a combined

meeting of Vincennes Kiwanis, Rotary,
and Civitan clubs was designed by his
speechwriters to highlight private enterprise
and business issues. But it wasnt the kind
of speech Kennedy typically gave. When
someone in the audience questioned federal
funding for rat control efforts in Americas
urban areas, Kennedy became unnerved.
Do you know there are more rats in
New York than people? Kennedy asked.
The response was met with nervous
chuckles, which seemed to anger the
presidential candidate. Dont laugh,
he admonished his audience, and then
launched into a lecture on the problems of
poverty in Americas inner cities.
That really struck a nerve in him,
Osborne said. He was very serious.
Osborne, Stevens, and Meyer went
on to accompany the Kennedy entourage
to other southern Indiana towns along the
Lincoln Trail, ending at an Evansville rally.
At one point along the way, the car RFK
was in was hit by eggs, causing intense
concern. However, that was the only incident in an otherwise positive trip.
Kennedy invited one of his Vincennes
guests to fly with them to Indianapolis that
day, but all refused. Osborne wishes now
that he would have accepted the offer.
Tom Ernst and Jim Osborne, left, in 1968 when they helped open a campaign
headquarters for Robert F. Kennedy on South Fourth Street, just behind todays
Old Thyme Diner. The two posed for a photo at the same location in 2009.
Photo at left courtesy of Jim Osborne; photo at right by Bernie Schmitt
I thought, Oh, gee, Im supposed to

teach the next morning, and decided not
to go, he said. I had the opportunity of
a lifetime and I let it drift away.
Kennedy went on to win the Indiana
primary that year, and steadily worked his
way through a number of other primary
victories. Kennedy would have gained the
Democratic nomination, and he likely
would have won the presidency had he
not been assassinated.

After a victory speech at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on June 5, 1968,
Kennedy was shot by Sirhan Sirhan, a
Palestinian radical who was again turned
down for parole in February and remains
in a California prison.
The idealistic Robert F. Kennedy died
the next day. He is buried adjacent his
brother in Arlington National Cemetery.

2/23/16 4:07 PM
Mark Roche, at far right, with members of the Kumana family in the Solomon
Islands in 2008. Eroni Kumana is in the middle, holding a bust of JFK. Roche is
standing next to Kumanas wife. Both Kumana and his wife have since died. At
left is Kumanas son, John Fitzgerald Kennedy Kumana.
Photos provided
Kennedy connection
helps in fulfilling
islanders wish
By Bernie Schmitt
im Osbornes connection with the
Robert Kennedy campaign in 1968
led to him helping Knox County
native and avid military historian, Mark
Roche, make contact with the Kennedy
Library Foundation.
Osbornes phone calls to then Sen.

Evan Bayh, and others, led to Roche
finally fulfilling the request of an elderly
South Pacific islander. He and Osborne
were the guests of the Kennedy family
in November of 2008, and took part in
a special tribute to John F. Kennedy at
Arlington National Cemetery.
Roche, who is an investment banker
in Houston, Texas, had the opportunity to
visit the Solomon Islands earlier that year,
where he met Eroni Kumana, the island
villager who helped rescue a young Lt. John
F. Kennedy and his PT-109 crew during
World War II. Kumana died in 2014.
Im a World War II nut and Id
always wanted to go out there, Roche
said. My uncle was killed during the
war in the Gilbert Islands. I read PT-109
when I was 12 years old.
He was surprised when he learned that
Kumana was still living. A man named
Danny Kennedy (no relation to JFK) was
from the same island and learned that
Kumana would talk with Roche.
It was like a scene out of South
Pacific, Roche said. We had to get
there in an old, wooden boat, kids were
in the water swimming naked and it was
absolutely beautiful. We walked up a
jungle trail to near the top of a moun-
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tain, where the old man came out of a leaf-covered hut with a towel
wrapped around him.
Roches spent a couple of hours talking with Kumana, as Kumanas son translated. Roche said the old man broke down crying at
one point, when discussing Kennedy and the story of how Kumana
and Biuku Gasa helped in saving the PT-109 crew.
Kumana and Gasa risked their lives getting the message to American rescuers in waters heavily patrolled by the enemy, after the Japanese
destroyer Amagiri collided with Kennedys PT boat on June 2, 1942.
He talked about how it was his idea for Kennedy to write a note
on the coconut shell, Roche said. He talked about the whole episode.
Kumana surprised Roche when he asked him place a special gift
on Kennedys grave at Arlington National Cemetery. The gift was indeed special. Kumanas own family members were shocked when he
gave the gift to Roche, as it had been in the family for generations.
Known as custom money or shell money, a doughnut-shaped
object that was sometimes used by island people to lay on a chief s
grave. Kumana adored JFK and considered him his chief.
This was a family heirloom, and had probably been in the family 200 years, Roche said. It is smooth, made of an ancient clam
shell, an antiquity.
Roches tried for three or four months, trying to contact Sen.
Edward Kennedys office, Arlington Cemetery officials, and the Kennedy Library in Boston, all to no avail. He told the story to Osborne
who offered to help.
Not long after that I got a call from the Kennedy Library,
Roche said. They wanted to have a ceremony, and Caroline (Kennedy-Schlossberg) wanted to be part of it. We went to Washington
and were guests of the Kennedy family for three days.
On Nov. 1, 2008, members of the Kennedy family, Roche and
his children, Caleb and Frank, Osborne, and others gathered at
JFKs gravesite in Arlington National Cemetery, where Roche was
able to make good on his promise to place Kumanas tribute there.
The custom money is now on display at the Kennedy Library
with the coconut shell Kennedy used to etch the message Kumana
carried, photographs, and a PT-109 pennant. Roche saw the display
last year when he visited the Library.
It was a great opportunity, Roche said.
Mark Roche (dark suit and blue tie) prepares to place a
tribute from Eroni Kumana at the grave site of John F. Kennedy in 2008. Kumana gave Roche an heirloom earlier that
year, as he and another Solomon Islander helped rescue a
young JFK and his PT-109 crew during World War II. Kumana died in 2014. Members of the Kennedy family, including
JFKs sister, Eunice (in wheelchair) attended the ceremony at
Arlington National Cemetery.

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YEAH, IM A BOOMER, BUT...
By Bernie Schmitt
could almost see my reflection

in Jackson Brownes tears.
Watching the iconic
1970s band
Eagles pay
tribute to
fallen band
member
Glenn Frey
during the
Grammy
Awards last
month brought on a mix of nostalgia and bittersweet awareness
that time is fleeting.
Some of you 70s people out
there will understand where Im
coming from.
Throughout that crazy
decade, when we listened to songs
on the radio (unless one had an
eight-track tape deck), the comforting, country-rock harmonies
of The Eagles soothed our frayed
edges and warmed our young
hearts.
The Eagles was the quintessential 70s band. The Eagles
headlined the first rock concert
(July, 1974) I ever attended. It
happened to be the only time
I would see the Eagles live. Ive
worn out vinyl albums and
burned up several cassette tapes
listening to their music. My
greatest hits CD has been played
thousands of times.
News of Glenn Freys death
earlier this year, coming a week
after the death of glam-rock icon
David Bowie, was devastating. Frey was a

founding member and driving force behind
the most-American of American bands.
The remaining Eagles paid tribute to
Frey with the groups first hit, the iconic
Take It Easy, a tune written by Jackson
Browne, and modified by Frey. Browne could
well be an honorary Eagle, having come from
the same laid-back pool of southern California songwriters and musicians that also gave
us J.D. Souther, the Flying Burrito Brothers,
and Linda Ronstadt.
It was certainly a fitting tribute. But there
was a tinge of sadness that permeated the performance, even though the familiar guitar licks
and soaring harmonies reminded us of why we
have loved the Eagles all these years.
Ive never heard such an upbeat song
turn out to be so melancholy. We could see
that Eagles members were missing their band
mate, and while Browne gave a valiant effort
(his tears were evident), it just wasnt the
same. Missing was the spirited buoyancy that
gave those lyrics life. Missing was Glenn Frey.
For me, seeing the now-older faces singing an old, familiar tune brought a tinge of
bittersweet sadness to my soul. I realized that
my music idols had aged considerably, and
knowing that I, too, have aged brought on a
wave of nostalgia.
Where has the time gone?
Eagles were with us throughout the
duration of high school, those times when
we didnt know what to do or where to go,
and times when things seemed out of control.
Eagles were there, like an old friend, and we
enjoyed the soothing smooth vocal renditions
of Tequila Sunrise, Desperado, Best of
My Love, and Peaceful, Easy Feeling.
As we grew into our young, but bigger
selves, the bands One of These Nights album
arrived. It was the mid-1970s and there
were so many questions. I played that vinyl

album over and over, and one could hear
it echo from car speakers in the parking lot
at school. Take It to the Limit and Lyin
Eyes seemed to be played after every other
song on the radio.
But then Hotel California came out in
the fall of 1976, and it, too, was added to the
soundtrack of our lives. I remember walking
uptown on a crisp autumn evening, hanging
out on the square until someone picked me
up to cruise, the tape deck blaring Life In
the Fast Lane. By the time I got to college
at Indiana University, we were dancing to
Heartache Tonight and The Greeks Dont
Want No Freaks during parties at Wright
Quadrangle.
Eagles members flew their separate ways
in 1980, though their music stayed with me,
and others, for years to come. By the mid1990s, Frey joked on the bands Hell Freezes
Over come-back album that they hadnt
broken up, theyd had a 14-year vacation.
Ive almost worn out that CD, too.
Somehow things always appear better
in the rear-view mirror. The reality of those
growing up years was not nearly as wonderful as nostalgic memories purport them
to be. Its the music that brightens these
recollections, and likewise brings on that
bittersweet melancholy of reality. Like our
buddy Glenn Frey, those days are gone.
One of these days I want to stand on
that corner in Winslow, Arizona, and hope
I get that peaceful, easy feeling, the one I
always get when I listen to Glenn Frey and
crew play those old Eagles songs.
Take it easy, indeed.
A freelance writer and photographer, Bernie
Schmitt also is an assistant professor of English
at Vincennes University. He lives with his wife,
Nancy, and family in Vincennes.
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a r c h 1 2 3 4 5
MARCH 10
Ag Day, 5 p.m.
7:30 p.m., Vincennes
University P.E.
Complex. Tickets
available at area banks.
6 7 8 9 10 11 12
MARCH 18
Richard Glazier, Alumni
Community Series, 7:30
p.m., Red Skelton Performing
Arts Center. Call the Alumni
Office for ticket information,
812-888-4354.
MARCH 16
River Brass Band, 8
p.m., Red Skelton
Performing Arts Center.
No tickets required.
Free and open to the
public.
13 14 15 16 17 18 19
MARCH 19-20
Salute to World War I,
Indiana Military
Museum, Vincennes
MARCH 22
VU Debate, 11
p.m., Red Skelton
Performing Arts
Center. No tickets
required. Free and
open to the public.
MARCH 22
VU Music Faculty
Recital, 7:30 p.m., Red
Skelton Performing Arts
Center. Justin Bird, piano.
No tickets required. Free
and open to the public.
MARCH 23
Knox County Chamber
Bandwagon, noon. Fort
Sackville Room, Vincennes
University. Sponsored by
Boomer Magazine and
Grundman Shoes.
20 21 22 23 24 25 26
MARCH 31
VU Music Department
Drum Enchanted Evening,
7:30 p.m., Red Skelton
27 28 29 30 31
APRIL 2-17
Vincennes USBC
Association State
Seniors Tournament,
Creole Lanes,
Vincennes.
APRIL 2
Kite Day, George
Rogers Clark Memorial.
1
2
April
APRIL 3
Parade, 4 p.m., Red
Skelton Performing
Arts Center. No tickets
required. Free and open
to the public.
APRIL 3
VUs Got Talent, 4 p.m.,
Red Skelton Performing
to the public.
APRIL 5
VUs Got Talent, 7 p.m.,
to the public.
3 4 5 6 7 8 9
APRIL 10
Helping His Hands
Concert, 3 p.m., Red
Skelton Performing Arts
Center. Featuring Ivan
Parker. Call the box office
for tickets at 812-888-4039.
APRIL 12
VU Debates, 11 a.m.,
to the public.
APRIL 14-16,
APRIL 21-23
Farce of Nature, Old
Town Players Theatre,
Vincennes. Comedy,
rated PG-13. Tickets
needed.
APRIL 15
Linda Eder, Alumni
Community Series, 7:30
p.m., Red Skelton Performing
Arts Center. Call the Alumni
Office for ticket information
at 812-888-4354.
10 11 12 13 14 15 16
APRIL 20
An Evening of Winds
and Percussion, 7:30
p.m., Red Skelton
17 18 19 20 21 22 23
APRIL 26
Guitar Fest, 7:30
p.m., Red Skelton
No tickets required.
Free and open to the
public.
APRIL 27
Knox County Chamber
Bandwagon, 7 a.m.,
Student Union food
court, Vincennes
University. Sponsored
by Burkhart Insurance.
APRIL 27
Grouseland Annual
Dinner, Green Activities
Center, VU Campus.
Call 812-882-2096 for
tickets.
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2/22/16 3:20 PM
Doug Crook gives coach Gunner Wyman a hug after the Alices defeated Anderson in 1981.
Photo by Vincennes Sun Commercial archives courtesy of Adams Coliseum Museum
There was no way we could lose
1981 Alices state championship felt like a

sure thing 35 years ago
By Bill Richardson
ad em all the way.

Thirty-five years later,
thats what members of
the Vincennes Lincoln basketball
team will tell you, and for the
most part its the truth.
When it was all said and done on the
night of March 21, 1981, the scoreboard
hanging above Market Square Arena
in Indianapolis read: Vincennes 54,
Anderson 52.
In winning Lincolns second Indiana
High School Athletic Association state
championship and first since 1923
the Alices never trailed. They were ahead
by a dozen at halftime, and although the

fabled Indians cut the lead to a single
digit midway through the final quarter,
Lincoln was not to be overtaken on the
way to finishing with a record of 26-2.
The championship ring that belongs
to Dave Hill, who was manager for
the 81 team. His dad, Robert Hill,
was the athletic director at the time.
Those Alices of 81 are old enough to

be grandfathers now, and the building in
which they achieved their crowning glory
was long ago demolished. But the memories from that night, and that season, will
live on forever.
The best feeling came when there
were only two or three seconds left in the
game and we were ahead, said Roger Benson, an assistant coach on that team. And
I knew there was no way we could lose.
Storylines abound when it comes
to the 1981 champions, but most lead
back to their coach, an all-time legend
named Orlando Wyman, better known
as Gunner.
A Marine Corps veteran whod
served during World War II before playing basketball at Florida State, Wyman
had on three previous occasions taken
teams to Indianapolis for the finals, only
to fail to reach the championship game
each time.

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The 55-year-old Gunner went out on top, though. Although

hed continue to teach at the high school for nearly a decade, the
1981 championship game was his last on the sidelines. His career
record was 526 wins and 216 losses.
Its hard to believe now, but Wyman, whod come to Vincennes
in the fall of 1967, almost didnt get the chance to guide the Alices
of 81. Lincoln had failed to win sectional championships in 1976
and 1977, then finished 7-17 in 1978 and 14-9 in 1979.
Some said the coach had lost his edge. The situation became
so serious that a petition was circulated, seeking his dismissal.
One day in late March 1979, Wyman addressed the issue with
a group of players whod just finished their sophomore season.
In an intense, emotional meeting in his office, Wyman cut
right to the chase.
He pretty much laid it on the line, says Doug Crook, star
of the 81 bunch who now owns a couple of Italian restaurants
in Indianapolis. He said hed like to stay and see us through and
do his best job to help us achieve the ultimate goal. But if we
wanted him to, hed step down and go his own way.
It was a lot to process for young men who were 15 and 16
years old, but the players had a quick answer.
To a man, we told him we wanted him to stay, said Randy
Combs, a senior with the 81 champs who would later spend 14
years as head coach at Milan.
Once Gunner had his answer, he shooed the players out the
door, because he didnt want them to see him cry. He fought for
his job, and the rest is history.
That was a big moment, Combs said. I think that was the
moment that he became fully committed, as did we.
The Alices finished 16-7 in 1980, and lost by a point to
Evansville North in the afternoon game at the regional.
WHAT THEYRE SAYING ABOUT GUNNER

Roger Benson, assistant coach: He had a good
basketball mind, fundamentally sound. Hed had a lot of
success elsewhere and it just carried over at Vincennes.
Randy Combs, senior player: Gunner was hard.
But once he knew you were loyal, once he knew you had
his back, he had yours.
Doug Crook, senior player: He was incredible. He
was a great influence as a coach and somebody who had
a lot to do with my personal development on the basketball court. He was single-handedly the reason I became
the player I did.
Dave Hill, manager: Next to my father, he was
probably the most influential adult male person in my life.
I became, I believe, an effective administrator from my
dealings with him. He taught me the importance of being
organized and doing your due diligence, every day.
Karl Donovan: Hed coached for a long time, and
he really knew basketball. He taught us what we needed
to do, and we did it. You couldnt have written a better
story.
Courtney Witte: He was a one-of-a-kind, once
in a lifetime, larger than life type of person that I was
privileged to play for. More importantly he was a father
figure, a life mentor and a friend over the course of more
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Head coach: Orlando Gunner Wyman

Assistant coaches: Roger Benson, Kim
Prout, Dennis Query
By then everyone knew that 1981

would be the year.
Lincoln started the season by winning its first 15 games, and ascended to
No. 2 in the state rankings.
The eighth of those 15 straight victories came on Jan. 3, 1981, a Saturday
night, in front of a packed house at Adams Coliseum. The opposition was No. 6
Indianapolis Washington, which scored
This is the picture that hangs in the school trophy case.

on a dunk off the opening tip.
The Alices recovered, and went on to
win, 66-59.
I think thats probably the game
that sold us in our minds, said Crook,
who scored 30 points that night. I think
thats when we realized that maybe we
could do something special.
Photos provided
There were two hiccups along the

way. They came back-to-back in losses to
Terre Haute South and Barr-Reeve.
With the regular season winding
down, Wyman inserted junior Tim Vieke
into the starting lineup, in place of Jeff
Agee. Robin Talbott, a sophomore, also
started to play more.

2/23/16 10:27 PM
seven points or more.

There was only one more game to
go, against Anderson, for the state championship.
With idle time between sessions,
legend has it that Wyman who died
in 2008 encountered some Anderson
fans who were wondering just what an
Alice was.
Wyman almost didnt get the chance to
guide the Alices of 81. Some said the
coach had lost his edge. The situation
became so serious that a petition was
circulated, seeking his dismissal.
The team was welcomed home with a fire truck ride.

The Alices won their final three
games of the regular season to finish
18-2, then embarked on the memorable post-season run. Starting with the
Photo courtesy of Tom Nonte
sectional, and concluding with the 72-53

trouncing of Shenandoah in the afternoon game at the state finals, the team
won seven straight tournament games by
Its anything you want it to be,

said Wyman, born in Tennessee, raised
in Kentucky and a Hoosier legend. But
Ill tell you what its going to be tonight.
An Alice is something thats going to beat
Andersons ass.
Vieke remembers taking the floor
that night, and noticed that Market
Square Arena was jam-packed.
I took a look at the crowd, he said.
But after that I was only concentrating
on the game. Ill give credit to Coach
Wyman for that. He kept us focused,
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Gunner Wymans goal boards for the 1981 season hang in the museum at
Adams Coliseum.
that I didnt even notice the crowd. We

were focused on playing a basketball
game.
Things went the Alices way early.
Anderson made its run late in the third
period, and early in the fourth. But it
could never gain the lead.
I remember getting tired, really,
really tired, said Crook, who led the
team with 25 points that night. We
were playing our second game that day.
Anderson had tremendous quickness and
some great athletes. I was like Lets get
this thing over with so we can enjoy it.
The Alices held on; they celebrated.
And then there was a cherry on top.
Karl Donovan, a senior starter, was
named as the Arthur L. Trester Award
winner for mental attitude and was paraded around the floor on the shoulders
of his jubilant teammates. He was just
following in the footsteps of Reese Jones,
an Alice who won the mental attitude
award in 1922.
Now in maintenance at Good Samaritan Hospital, Donovan says he has a
lot of special memories from the season,
but winning the Trester Award isnt one
of them.
I was lucky enough to play on a team
with a bunch of nice guys, and a bunch of
talented guys, he said. Its always nice to
win. Winning beats losing every time.

The Trester wasnt a big deal.
Winning the state championship,
that was No. 1, he said.
Perhaps more than his teammates,
Donovan has put the season in the past.
He has two daughters, Alli, a
freshman at IUPUI and Jessi, a junior at
Lincoln who swam on a relay team at the
state swimming finals last month.
You get beyond that and life goes
on, he said. That was important then.
Now, the kids are the big deal.
One of the 81 Alices, center Courtney Witte, has made basketball his lifes
work. After playing at Vincennes University and then Indiana University for Bob
Knight, Witte broke into professional
basketball management and worked his
way up. Hes now director of scouting for
the Phoenix Suns.
Nothing hes seen or done compares
with what happened 35 years ago.
During that time frame of three
months starting in March of 1981,
coming back into Vincennes atop of
fire trucks to the coliseum in front of
thousands of cheering people lining Sixth
Street as what seemed like the entire city
and county was there, was a truly a special time.People til this day remember.

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INDIA N A BI CEN TENNIAL 1 8 1 6 - 2 0 1 6
Spangles
Our Times
Brian Spangle, the historical collections administrator at the Knox County
Public Library, has compiled a section of his weekly history columns into one
volume titled Vincennes History You DONT Know.
Photos by Bernie Schmitt
Vignettes of
Vincennes history
in single volume
By Bernie Schmitt
rian Spangle says he had always

thought about compiling his
weekly history columns into a
single volume.
Now, 17 years after he began writing
Our Times for the now defunct Cur-
rents magazine (a supplement to the local

Vincennes Sun-Commercial), his dream
has come true.
The book is titled Vincennes History
You DONT Know, and features selected
pieces of local history focused on 20th
Century events. It has been approved by
the Indiana Bicentennial Commission as a
2016 Bicentennial Legacy Project.
Every year I thought that some of
these might make a good book, Spangle
said. But I was always busy with work
and then another year would pass, and
another 52 columns would be written.
Since he began researching and
writing the column in 1999, Spangle had
more than 800 columns to choose from
when he began compiling them for a
single volume in 2015. First appearing in
Currents, the column was later re-located
to the newspapers editorial page.
Spangle is the Historical Collections
Administrator at the McGrady Brockman House, a regional history and genealogy center which is part of the Knox
County Public Library. He thanks his
supervisor, Emily Bunyan, director of the
library, for allowing him time to do it.
Last spring Emily asked me if I
would like to work on some other projects at the library, and one of them was
compiling my columns for a book, he
said. I immediately said yes.
He also expressed appreciation for
the librarys board of directors who
approved funding to pay for most of the
cost in publishing the book. Profits from
the sales of the book go to the library.
Though the columns were already
neatly filed away per publication date, it
took five months of work to bring the book
to life. Spangle worked closely with author
Nancy Niblack Baxter, a Knox County
native, who owns Hawthorne Publishing in
Carmel, Ind. Baxter has published several
works of historical fiction, and was very
interested in the proposed project.
The challenge was to select which
150 columns to use, Spangle said. I
just chose the subject matter I liked.
The book is organized chronologically, as the 20th Century unfolds. Spangle
had thought to organize it into various
categories, such as people, buildings, or
events. It was the publisher who suggested how it should be organized.
There are stories included that some
people may not be familiar with, Spangle said. I like to write about national
events and how they affected the community. For instance, there was a huge

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The Old Main Street Bridge spanning the Wabash River in downtown Vincennes. It was replaced with the Memorial
Bridge in 1932.
spontaneous celebration here when it was
announced that World War I had ended.
Spangle has also include lots of
firsts in the book, including the first
stop light in Vincennes (1926), the first
talking motion picture (1929), and
the first building to be air conditioned
(Pantheon Theatre, 1935). He writes of
famous people who visited Vincennes,
including presidents and presidential
candidates. He even writes about how
the city streetlights were turned off in
1910 to allow residents to view Halleys
Comet streak across the nighttime sky.
Three of the citys worst tragedies, four
firemen killed in an accident on their way
to a fire, police officer Simon Carie killed
in the line of duty, and citys worst-ever fire
at the Burchfield Department Store, are

documented in the volume.
While he enjoys writing the Sunday
history column, Spangle has toyed with
the idea of writing a more substantial
local history book. He said that hed like
to focus on one particular year in history,
and tell the story of what happened
locally in that year.
Id probably choose 1926 because
so many things happened in that year,
he said. In addition to the citys tragedies,
it also was a year of firsts. It was the year,
for instance, that Adams Coliseum, a
landmark structure in Vincennes, was
built.
I might get to that, he said.
During the summer of 2015 Span-
gle spent considerable time alone in an

upstairs room at the McGrady-Brockman House, pouring over each column
selected for the book, revising some of
them. He proofed the entire collection
four or five times. Bunyan and Baxter
also helped in the selection and proofing
of the work.
Vincennes History You DONT Know
came out last October, just around time
for the librarys annual Writers Festival, where Spangle gave a presentation
and signed copies of the book. He had
another book signing just before Christmas, and he was available to sign books
during the Mardi Gras celebration at the
Fortnightly Club in early February.
It seems to be selling well,

2/23/16 4:47 PM
Lakewood Park, now a subdivision for nice homes, was once an amusement
park, complete with a roller coaster, at top. The Burchfield Department Store
fire in February, 1926, above, is considered the worst fire in Vincennes history.
Three people died in the fire.
Spangle said. Weve sold maybe close to
300 from here at the library.
This month marks Spangles 30th
year working for the library. He has a
masters degree in history from Indiana
State University and for years has overseen the extensive genealogy collection
at the library and has helped patrons in
their research efforts.
Anyone who knows me, knows I
love history, he said.

The book is available at the Knox
County Public Library, and can be purchased online at Amazon.com, or from
Hawthorne Publishing, www.hawthornepub.com. Barnes and Noble, one of the
nations largest bookstores, will carry the
book, too. He will be at the Evansville
store signing copies of the book on May
7, from 2 to 4 p.m. (CST).

2/23/16 4:47 PM
The Freedom Train, at left, rolled into Vincennes on July 24, 1948, carrying important U.S. historical documents, like an
original copy of the U.S. Constitution. An ad, at right, featuring the first talkie the first motion picture with sound in
Vincennes that was playing at the Pantheon Theatre.

2/23/16 4:47 PM
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great and result in less breakage, professionals and connoisseurs prefer a wine
glass with a stem because it keeps your
hand off the bowl. The heat from your
hand can actually warm up the wine
and alter some aromas. Plus, if you hold
the glass by the stem, youre not getting
finger smudges on the glass, which can
affect the view of the wine.
The base should be as wide as the
bowl for the glass to be balanced and in
proportion.
The Burgundy glass has a wider bowl

than the Bordeaux glass. This lets even
more air enter the wine. The slightly angled sides create a focused bouquet, and
this shape directs the wine onto the tip of
the tongue for a full-flavor effect. This is
the perfect glass for Merlot, Pinot Noir,
Chianti, and of course, Burgundy wines.
Each part of a wine glass serves a
purpose in enhancing the drinks
flavor, aroma and enjoyment.
Photos by Joy Neighbors
Red wine glass basics

Red wines should have a larger bowl
to allow more air on the wines surface;
this is how you let it breathe. When a
wine breathes, it lets those dense aromas
mix with the air and create that interesting bouquet you smell when you swirl it.
Red wines should be served in a 12
to 16 oz. glass and filled about 1/4 full
for optimal swirling and aeration. There
are two main glass shapes for red wines.
Bordeaux glass
The Bordeaux glass is large with a
long bowl to allow for plenty of swirling.
The tapered sides pull the wines aromas
up to the nose, and when you take a sip,
the wine is focused directly to the back of

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White wine glass basics

For white wines, a glass with a
smaller bowl allows less air onto the
wines surface, which helps to contain the
aromas. But it also keeps the wine cooler
for a longer period. The narrow glass also
directs those aromas directly up to your
nose. The average white wine glass usually holds 10 to 12 ounces of wine.
The Chardonnay/Chablis wine glass
has a much smaller bowl than any of the
red wine glasses. This is because white
wines do not need aeration like the reds.
The narrow rim delivers the wine directly
to the front of the tongue for tasting.
The Sauvignon Blanc/Pinto Gris
glass also has a narrow bowl, leading
the aromas straight to the nose. But this
glass directs the wine to the sides of the
tongue where the full crisp flavors of
these wines can be better enjoyed.
Sparkling wine glass basics

For sparkling wines and champagne
use a flute-shaped glass. This tall, narrow
glass doesnt allow the surface of the wine
to be exposed to the air too quickly, so
those bubbles just keep coming. The
narrow shape also helps the wine retain
its coolness, and keeps those fizzy aromas

highly concentrated.
Care of wine glasses

In general, wine glasses are best preserved by hand washing in hot water, especially if they are delicate or expensive.
But more and more glass companies
are offering quality wine glasses that are
dishwasher safe. Read the label, and be
sure your glasses are free of soap residue
after washing.
If you dont want to have a special
glass for reds, a glass for whites, and a
champagne flute, you can always use
the all-purpose wine glass; the water
glass, which has a short stem and a large
bowl. But if you want to accentuate the
wine-tasting experience, then the glass
shape does matter. Just dont overthink it,
because the best wine glass is the one that
makes the wine taste great to you!
Joy Neighbors, from eastern Illinois, knows
the wine industry well. She writes a weekly
wine blog, has judged national wine
competitions, and speaks nationally and
internationally. Follow her blog at http://
joysjoyofwine.blogspot.com.
Red wine benefits from a larger bowl than a white wine glass, to allow its
dense aromas to mix with the air and create an interesting bouquet. A fluted
champagne glass keeps the air out of the bubbling liquid and also allows the
drink to stay cool longer.

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TICKETS NOW ON SALE FOR

ALICE OF OLD VINCENNES
Musical will be May
27-29 and June 3-5
By Bernie Schmitt
ickets are now on sale for the

world premiere of Alice of Old
Vincennes: A Musical, opening
the Memorial Day Weekend in 2016.
The musical is an adaptation of
Maurice Thompsons popular novel
Alice of Old Vincennes, which
captivated readers when it was published
in 1900.
Tickets are $25 each for orchestra
and first balcony seats, and $20 for
mezzanine and second balcony. They
are available by call the Red Skelton
Performing Arts Center box office at
812-888-4039.
Tickets may also be ordered online
at http://vinu.edu/red-skelton-theater.
For group rates (10 or more) contact the
box office at 812-888-4039.
The musical will be presented at the
Red Skelton Performing Arts Center at
7:30 p.m. May 27 and 28, and 2 p.m.
May 29. It will also be presented at 7:30
p.m. June 3 and 4, and at 2 p.m. June 5.
The Center is located along Red Skelton
Boulevard on the campus of Vincennes
University.
The story is set in 1778 and features
Alice, a young woman coming of age
on the American frontier during the
Revolutionary War.She is the frontier
Indiana heroine, a strong-willed,
independent young woman whose love
of country, and for one of George Rogers
Clarks soldiers, is the focal point of this
historical romance.
The original novel was published
at the turn of the 20th Century, when
many Americans were nostalgic for
Americana and glorious visions of
history and heroes. Alice seems to fit
the bill, especially for Indianas first city,
Vincennes.
In addition to Alice, other characters
influence the outcome of their story
from local townspeople to the
Indians and soldiers on both sides of
the American Revolution. It was in
1779 that Clark led a band of loyal
frontiersman, dedicated to the American
cause, through wintry floodwaters to
surround Fort Sackville on the Wabash
River at Vincennes, forcing the British
to surrender, thus winning what was
then the West, for the fledgling United
States.
For updates on Alice, visit www.
aliceofvincennes.com.

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Sieur de Vincennes
Sculptor Bill Wolfe of West Terre Haute works on a preliminary rendition of Francois Marie-Bissot, Sieur de Vincennes, the
man who first established a post along the Wabash River that later became the city of Vincennes. While this rendering has
Vincennes with facial hair, a newer version is without it, as most French military officers were clean-shaven. The model is
made of clay. A fundraising effort is under way to erect a finalized statue in bronze.
Photos by Bernie Schmitt
Heritage group
wants statue to
honor citys founder
By Bernie Schmitt
statue to honor the 18th-Century man who gave Vincennes

its name is not only appropriate,
but long overdue, according to avid genealogist Joy Biggs.
We have monuments to honor
George Rogers Clark and William Henry
Harrison, but nothing to recognize the
founder of Vincennes except one historical marker, Biggs said.
She is the leader of an effort to raise
Vincennes, whose name

will be perpetuated as long as
the Wabash shall flow by the
dwellings of civilized men.
from The History of the United States,
by George Bancroft, father of
American history
the $53,000 needed to erect a bronze
statue of Francois-Marie Bissot, Sieur de
Vincennes, the French military officer
who gave the city along the Wabash
River its name.
A committee called Friends of
Vincennes Heritage was formed at
the suggestion of Mayor Joe Yochum,

whom Biggs approached about the lack
of recognition for Vincennes. The citys
founder isnt even mentioned on the
City of Vincennes website. The history
page on the website focuses primarily
on George Rogers Clark and William
Henry Harrison (www.vincennes.org/
dev/history).
Without (Sieur de) Vincennes,
neither one, Clark or Harrison would
have been here, Biggs said. Our history
is not complete unless we start at the
beginning, and Vincennes had a lot to do
with the start of Indiana.
The history
Sieur de Vincennes established a
fort at Vincennes to expand and protect
the French fur trade, and thus French
influence, in the lower Wabash Valley.

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The French were competing with

the British for trade and territory, though the French had more
amiable relationships with the
natives. Vincennes figured prominently in those relationships.
He seemed to be a charismatic man, Biggs, whose ancestors lived and died with Vincennes. He came from Lafayette
(Fort Quietenon) in an attempt to
extend the fur trade.
Sieur de Vincennes was born
in 1700 in Montreal. Francois-Marie Bissot was the third generation
of his family in America. His
grandfather Francois arrived in
Canada from Normandy, France
in the 1630s. In 1672, Francois
was given a grant of land call the
Seigniory of Vincennes along the
St. Lawrence River, near Quebec.
From this the family took on the
title Sieur de Vincennes.
When Francois-Marie Bissot
was 18, he joined his father at
Post Miami (Fort Wayne) as a
cadet in the French military. He
became Sieur de Vincennes upon
his fathers death in 1719, and,
like his father, became somewhat
important with regard to the

diverse cultural landscape of the
North American frontier, especially with the natives.
In 1732, Vincennes convinced friendly Wea natives to
follow him near Piankeshaw
settlements along the lower Wabash, and with 10 or 12 men he
built a fort they called Poste de
Vincennes, on the eastern bank
of the river.
Four years after Vincennes
established the post on the lower
Wabash, during a military expedition against Chickasaw natives
near present-day Tupelo, Miss.,
he and around 20 others were
captured, beaten, and burned
alive on a pyre near present-day
Tupelo, Miss.
According to an account by
captured Frenchman Drouet de
Richardville (who escaped two
years later), Vincennes and the
others who suffered horrible
deaths, including a Jesuit priest,
did so by singing hymns and
reciting canticles in firm voices,
even as the flames consumed
them.
Joy Biggs is leading a fundraising effort with the

Friends of Vincennes Heritage, to get a statue of the
man who founded Vincennes erected somewhere
in the city.
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INDIANA MILITARY MUSEUM

RECOGNIZES THE
100TH ANNIVERSARY
WWI
OF
1916-2016
Join us as we commemorate the 100th

anniversary of the 3rd year of WWI
(the war to end all wars)
See living history re-enactors,
encampments and battle scenarios
along with a recreated WWI trench.
March 19th and 20th

9:00am - 5:00pm EST
at the Indiana Military Museum
715 S. 6th Street
Vincennes, Indiana
Contact us for more info:

800-886-6443
www.visitvincennes.org
Visitors and Tourism Bureau
Prints of a 19th-Century lithograph, donated to the Knox County Public Library,

will be made of this old Wabash River scene and sold to raise money for a
statue of Vincennes.
The statue
A statue of Sieur de Vincennes has
already been modeled, and modifications are ongoing by West Terre Haute
sculptor Bill Wolfe. He is known for his
Larry Bird sculpture on the Indiana State
University campus in Terre Haute, and
a number of sculptures for museums,
courthouse squares, and war memorials.
I was fired up and couldnt wait to
get started, he said.
Enthusiastic about a historical
project, Wolfe created a clay sculpture
of Vincennes that was display for several
months last year, on the main floor of
the Knox County Public Library. He was
provided historical reference materials
by Vincennes historian Richard Day to
get an indication of what Vincennes may
have looked like. No paintings or representations of him exist.
I sat down around 2 oclock in the
morning, grabbed a ball of clay to start
on his head, Wolfe said. I said to myself, What did you look like? and I was
inspired to come up with what I did.
Day, who portrays Sieur de Vincennes
during living history events, also posed
for Wolfes statue. Wolfes clay model gave
the founder a beard, but that was later
changed, as French officers would not
have had facial hair, Biggs said. He was
also carrying a rifle, but speculation about
historical accuracy on that led Wolfe to
change the gun to a sword.

Wolfe isnt sure that Sieur de Vincennes, even as a French military officer,
would have always been clean-shaven or
Without (Sieur de)

Vincennes, neither one,
George Rogers Clark or
William Henry Harrison
would have been here. Our
history is not complete unless
we start at the beginning, and
Vincennes had a lot to do
with the start of Indiana.
Joy Biggs
worn silk stockings on the frontier, and
artistically he believes that the initial clay
sculpture lost some character with the
removal of the facial hair. But he doesnt
want a minor disagreement to interfere
with a project he believes in.
Im still very excited about the project, Wolfe said. Hes holding his tri-cor-

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Joyce Phegley at Shakers Landing Antiques and Frame Shop on Willow Street
looks over a lithograph with Joy Biggs, left, and Emily Bunyan, director of
the Knox County Library. The lithograph will be permanently displayed at the
library. Prints from the lithograph will be sold to raise money for a statue of
Sieur de Vincennes.
nered hat in one hand while his other rests
on his sword. He still looks pretty cool.
information person may call the Knox

County Public Library at 812-886-4380.
Fundraising efforts
French heritage
To raise money, the Friends of

Vincennes Heritage will be selling 11x14
prints of an 19th-Century lithograph,
donated to the library by Vincennes native Bob Dora, who found it on the eBay
auction website and sent it to Norbert
Brown. It is a painting of the Wabash
River at Vincennes, early in its history.
The lithographs age or antique value are
unknown.
Friends of Vincennes Heritage hope
to raise an estimated $15,000 from the
sale of prints made from the lithograph.
The larger prints are $30 and should
be available this month. The original is
being framed for display at the public
library. Postcard-size prints of the lithograph are hoped to be sold for $2 at the
Spirit of Vincennes Rendezvous.
Donations to the statue project are
tax deductible. Persons interested in
pre-ordering a print of the Wabash River
scene for $30, or who wish to make a
more sizeable donation, should make
checks payable to the Vincennes Historical and Antiquarian Society, P.O. Box
487, Vincennes, IN 47591. For more
Joy Biggs interest in Sieur de Vincennes comes from genealogical discoveries which revealed that her own ancestors
in Indiana were French.
That was when I discovered my
ancestors were patriots, she said.
Biggs said the French and the Catholic missionaries wrote letters and kept
good records, and without that information we would not have the knowledge of that early Indiana history. She
believes there should be more emphasis
on Vincennes, its French history, and
more importantly its founder, Sieur de
Vincennes, during the 2016 Indiana
Bicentennial.
We shouldnt forget out French
heritage, Biggs said.
In 1897, Edmond Mallet lamented in
Sieur de Vincennes: Founder of Indianas
Oldest Town, that after a century and a
half Vincennes was lost in neglectful obscurity, but added that he was a valiant
and chivalrous Christian hero.
A statue of Vincennes would ensure
he would be remembered in future
generations, Biggs said.
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BOOMER FITNESS
NOT TOO LATE FOR

RESOLUTIONS
By Kaila Stevens
very year most of us try

and make some type of
New Years resolutions
to positively propel us into
the new
year. New
Years Eve
has always been
a time for
looking
back to
the past,
and more importantly, forward
to the coming year. Its a time
to reflect on the changes we
want or need to make and
resolve to follow through on
those changes. We can chose to
become a new person any calendar day of the year, but most
of us what to start fresh like
the new year. In my opinion,
there is nothing like starting
out fresh Jan. 1.
Since we are halfway
through the first quarter of the
year, I thought I would share
my goals for 2016 with every-
one because this is the time many goals

start to be forgotten. Or if you did not
make any resolutions, feel free to take
some off my list.March is a great month
to make your Jan. 1. Your new habits will
launch you into spring.
Learn something new

Have you vowed to make this year
the year to learn something new? Perhaps
you are considering a career change, want
to learn a new language, or just how to
fix your computer? I love to learn, but
sometimes the extra effort of learning
something new does not take priority. Lets vow to change that this year.
Libraries and community centers have
many programs for all types of learning. I
would love to take a professional cooking
class this year to help with my confidence
in the kitchen.
Keep with the plan

Make a plan and stick with it. Im
so bad at this. I plan vacations and then
at the last minute change my mind. Or
I spend hours researching on a camping
trip, to just forget and move on to the
next fun idea. I would like to see more
just go moments. I want to be free to
just go and enjoy life more instead of
planning it away.
Its easy to get lulled into a life of
routine and ritual, but most of us want
to make sure that were leading a full and
satisfying life. This doesnt necessarily
mean flying by the seat of our pants and
making foolish decisions, but taking calculated risks and adding some excitement
to our lives. I know Im not the only one
that over thinks and contradicts myself,
so this could be a good goal for everyone.
Schedule time for yourself

My number one goal this year is to
do one thing a week by myself for myself.
I am a very independent person, but with
growing older I somehow have stopped
making time for me. Not intentionally,
just with a busy schedule it sometimes
gets hard to plan a me evening. Last
week I went out to eat by myself; it felt
great to eat at my pace and to collect my
thoughts before carrying on with my
day. This is a way for me to recharge and
refuel myself.
I pick three goals, because three is a
stretch without being too overwhelming.
In closing my goals this year are; learning something new, have more just go
moments, and make time for me. What
are yours?
Kaila Stevens is a health and wellness
columnist. A four-time NCCAA All-American, she was team captain for the Bethel
College womens track team.
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