After a few years in Tipton County, they wound up south of Bloomington on South Rogers Street, on acreage bordering the Monon track between Indianapolis and Louisville. His parents had come north from Kentucky to work more fruitful land in Indiana. He had two years of military service in Paris and fifteen years as a Veterans Administration payroll accountant in Washington, DC, but lived most of his life in Bloomington and Monroe County.Įlmer Smith had more poetry in his nature than was entirely helpful to a farming family teetering on the edge of poverty. Elmer Guy Smith had been born in Tipton County in 1895, the late baby of four children. An autopsy showed that he had been enduring Alzheimer’s, which explained the bad temper of his last years. Granddaughter meets Grandfather’s writings in a file folder stashed away in a trunk. “Would you please go through this trunk,” she said, “and throw out some of Papaw’s papers?” A classic setup, and a classic payoff. In 2007, I moved back to Bloomington from Seattle to get Mom through knee replacement surgery. Shayne will read “The Last” - based on her great grandfather’s encounter with a mystery on the Kansas prairie - at 1:30 pm, Saturday, August 31, at the 2013 Fourth Street Festival’s Spoken Word Stage. This story from the Papaw Project collection, “The Stronger,” was published in the Spring 2011 Bacopa Literary Review. Taxes, fees not included for deals content.A Family Re-enchantment ◆ by Shayne Laughter If you have any questions or suggestions regarding this matter, you are welcome to contact our customer support team.īusinessYab is not a booking agent, and does not charge any service fees to users of our site.īusinessYab is not responsible for content on external web sites. The brand names, logos, images and texts are the property of these third parties and their respective owners. BusinessYab cannot be held responsible or liable for the accuracy, correctness, usefulness or reliability of the data. The content displayed in the BusinessYab Directory consists of information from third parties, among others from publicly accessible sources, or from customers, who have a presentation page in our directory. © 2023 All Rights reserved.Īt BusinessYab our purpose is to help people find great local businesses like dentists, hair stylists, restaurants, bars, hotels, local businesses. They ALMOST made me not have an eyeball phobia! □ Flag as inappropriate He even showed me the computer image of the back of my eyeball which was actually really cool and not nearly as gross as it sounds! I honestly will never go anywhere else. He was so calm and explained everything in a way that just made sense. I felt so relaxed with her that it really started to feel like it was no big deal and it went really quickly. We talked and laughed while she was doing her thing and it actually wasn't that bad. She even told me about an option they have to use a machine to test your eyes so that you DON'T HAVE TO BE DILATED! The technician (Lilliana) was totally cool and really understanding. I was so nervous that I forgot my insurance info and the lady at the front desk (Denise) was super sweet and patient with me. Although I was a little embarrassed about my sensitivity, I let them know up front about it and they were actually really understanding. A friend referred me to Horizon at Waverly and said that they were really nice. Any time I have told an eye doctor about it before they act like I'm so weird. so I usually despise going to the eye doctor. I HATE having my eyes touched, poked, etc.
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