When LaVonne Tisdal signed up for art class during her sophomore year at Holland High School, she didn’t imagine it leading to her career. The class sounded fun and offered a way for Tisdal to connect with her family’s history of artists. No big deal. But then she put brush to paper and ignited a…
Dr. Scott Beckman, 62, liked to kid with his patients at Jasper Obstetrics and Gynecology that he was a late bloomer. When you start your medical practice at age 40, the joke works. Scott enrolled in Indiana University’s School of Medicine at age 32. By that point, he’d already found success in Dubois County’s medical…
The pick-up truck’s headlights illuminated the empty road as beekeepers Jerry Apple, 87, and Dan Schroeder, 46, drove to Jerry’s Jasper home after dropping the last of 20 hives at watermelon farms in Washington. “There’s only three things on the road at 2:30 in the morning,” Jerry said. “Turkey trucks, drunks and beekeepers.” The late…
JASPER — Anneliese “Lee” Krauter lived a part of American history few know happened. Born in New York City in 1935, Krauter, 88, and her older brother, Frederick “Freddy” Wiegand— also born in New York City— were U.S. citizens born to German immigrants. Her mother became naturalized. Her father did not. His choice almost cost…
