The 56th annual Levi Coffin Days Festival took place over the weekend, organized by the Fountain City Lions Club. The event honors Levi and Catharine Coffin’s work to help enslaved people find freedom. Photographer Joshua Smith was there for the Western Wayne News and shared these photos:
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Photos: 200th birthday bash honors Gov. Morton
Wayne County Convention & Tourism Bureau saluted one of Centerville’s all-time most famous residents Saturday during his 200th birthday bash at Centerville United Methodist Church. Author and history professor Dr. A. James Fuller spoke about Indiana Gov. Oliver P. Morton Sept. 9. Western Wayne News photographer Joshua Smith was there and shared this gallery.
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Photos: Canal Days
Cambridge City’s annual Canal Days festival took place Sept. 9 and 10. Vendors sold handmade items, food and more as crowds circulated past booths to celebrate “a walk through time.” This photo gallery captures some of the experience: Photos by Joshua Smith
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Local artists join global jewelry makeover project
Residents are invited to donate unwanted jewelry for a makeover project through Sept. 12. Earlham College’s Art, Metals and 3D Fabrication Department is collaborating with artists from across the Midwest as part of a growing initiative to transform old jewelry into new, sustainably sourced pieces. Radical Jewelry Makeover is an initiative by the nonprofit Ethical […]
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Event will feature ceramics history
A celebration of all things clay will include an exploration of Cambridge City’s Overbeck sisters and their nationally known pottery creations. Former Western Wayne resident Bob Ammerman will discuss the famous family at 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 9, during Richmond Art Museum’s 11th Potterypalooza. Ammerman has been a collector of Overbeck pottery for more than […]
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Reid Center offers performances
The Reid Center has set its free “Live at Noon” series concerts as well as other performances. “Live at Noon” provides hourlong concerts the first and third Wednesdays from September through November, according to a news release. They are in the former Reid Memorial Presbyterian Church at the corner of North A and North 11th […]
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Photos: ‘A bridge between the past and the future’
Indiana Lt. Governor Suzanne Crouch took part in the unveiling of a historical marker at the dedication and christening of the Dr. Mary F. Thomas ridge in Richmond on Saturday, Aug. 26. Speakers during the program praised Thomas’s “national influence” and accomplishments as a physician, advocate for women and community leader. Here’s a gallery of […]
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Photos: Archway Days festival brings flaming hot fun
The weather wasn’t the only thing hot during Centerville’s annual Archway Days festival Aug. 25 and 26. There were hot rods, hot sounds and more. Here’s a gallery of photos from this year’s event:
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Western Wayne receives 2 grants
Western Wayne School Corporation has been notified that it will receive two funding grants. One, for $150,000, is a Healthy Meals Incentive Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The second, $22,000, is from the Wayne County Foundation to support the local cost of Communities in Schools, which provides student assistance aides for local […]
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Local musician promotes music, community
By Travis Poling Drifting through downtown Richmond, guitar and fiddle harmonies blended with aromas of barbecue. It was Food Truck Wednesday in Elstro Plaza. One man, Joe Augustin, was hard at work behind the scenes making the music happen. Known to many as blues guitarist “Achilles Tenderloin,” Augustin, age 40, was the congenial host of […]