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| Description: | Last May, “Across Indiana” introduced you to “Casting for Recovery,” a group which teaches women who are breast cancer survivors how to fly-fish – because the casting motions are good to rebuild the strength in muscles damaged by surgery. But there’s more to the story – for each member of the group shares a personal bond with the others. Many of them have never let down their emotions in front of husbands, friends or children who count on them for care and support. But for producer Kim Jacobs, at the annual retreat in Henryville, they do. “I’m six weeks out of chemo and this is the first weekend I’ve taken off and it’s just been incredible,” says survivor Rachel Tucker. “Here, you get the cookies and milk,” jokes survivor Candi Rutledge. |
| Credits: | Kim Jacobs with Twila Snyder |
| Location: | Henryville |
| Contact: | www.castingforrecovery.org |
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| Description: | During the 1830s, a British traveler through the Midwestern canal system praised the gentile nature of what he saw of Kentuckians—but lambasted the “Indianaians” for laziness, sloth and a general rudeness of character. We think that’s a pretty bum wrap—until we found out that a certain tradition of avoidance carries on in our state to this very day. We’ve been singled-out as the second most-procrastinating state in the country when it comes to job performance (behind Missouri)—and that’s something our staff will want to check out . . . when they get around to it. |
| Credits: | Jim Simmons and Aric Hartvig |
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| Description: | Each summer, hundreds of migrant families head up from Texas to work in the tomato fields near Orestes. This mobile army of mothers and daughters, fathers and sons has the same concerns as any family unit—and that includes health care. But how to reach people that move from town to town and farm after farm? You need some doctors on wheels. |
| Credits: | Diane Willis |
| Location: | Orestes |
| Contact: | Indiana Health Centers |
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| Description: | We’re headed to South Bend to take on the urban whitewater of the East Race Waterway, the first man-made rapids course in the country. Its washes and eddies are nothing to sneeze at. The East Race Waterway has been the training ground of several U.S. Olympic teams. |
| Credits: | Sarah Scranton |
| Location: | South Bend |
| Contact: | www.sbpark.org/parks/erace.htm |
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| Description: | With his flowing white hair and long beard, 85 year-old Bill Taylor’s a dead-ringer for a certain jolly elf. And why not? Life’s given Bill a lot to be jolly about—a wife of 58 years, 8 children, 18 grandchildren and 7 more of the great-great category. Time to give a little something back to society and Bill’s found something he can give is his all to—spending his retirement years as a nude model for freshman artists at Indianapolis’ Herron School of Art and Design. |
| Credits: | Jim Simmons |
| Location: | Indianapolis |
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| Description: | We leave you with a bang—and this one comes from the ol’ “Across Indiana” mailbag itself. When viewers saw Bloomington resident Craig Brenner’s “Boogie Festival” last summer, they demanded that he and his piano be on the show. As ever, our little show aims to please . . . . |
| Credits: | Jim Simmons with Twila Snyder |
| Location: | Bloomington |
| Contact: | www.craigbrenner.com |
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