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Our June show is all about art in Brown County:
Julia Pearson from the History Center examines how art and artifacts contribute to Brown County culture; Steve Miller talks about his artist grandfather, a founder of Brown County's original art colony; Our featured musical artist is Lewis Ricci, executive director of the Indiana Arts Commission; Gunther Flumm offers rhyming stanzas on the failed Artist Tax; Cheri Platter and Jan Spears preview the annual BC Studio and Garden Tour; Artists Interrupted: Susan Showalter discusses her documentary on artists challenged by illness or injury.
The Brown County Hour comes to you from the legendary Hills o' Brown where the plum purple haze, the one nature herself drapes in the hills and hollers, inspires local characters, artists, and nature lovers. It’s as though the hills themselves conspired to create a beauty and a culture in the heart of Indiana. Sit for a spell and hear the music, the tall tales, the true stories, and the current goin's on brought to you by folks who still know how to sit by a fire in winter and swim buck naked in summer...
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Our June show is all about art in Brown County:
Julia Pearson from the History Center examines how art and artifacts contribute to Brown County culture; Steve Miller talks about his artist grandfather, a founder of Brown County's original art colony; Our featured musical artist is Lewis Ricci, executive director of the Indiana Arts Commission; Gunther Flumm offers rhyming stanzas on the failed Artist Tax; Cheri Platter and Jan Spears preview the annual BC Studio and Garden Tour; Artists Interrupted: Susan Showalter discusses her documentary on artists challenged by illness or injury.
The Brown County Hour comes to you from the legendary Hills o' Brown where the plum purple haze, the one nature herself drapes in the hills and hollers, inspires local characters, artists, and nature lovers. It’s as though the hills themselves conspired to create a beauty and a culture in the heart of Indiana. Sit for a spell and hear the music, the tall tales, the true stories, and the current goin's on brought to you by folks who still know how to sit by a fire in winter and swim buck naked in summer...
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