IT'S AMAZING WHAT YOU FORGET ABOUT HOME — UNTIL YOU
GO BACK.
Last issue, I explored New Albany, where I co-own a business with
my sister and fiancé. This time, I headed to Lanesville, where I grew up. There,
I climbed the slide in a park I used to love as a child and was flooded with
memories more than 30 years old. I also realized getting up and down the
chain ladder used to be a lot easier way back then. The park behind my
childhood home hasn't changed much, though it could use a bit of TLC and
seems to have been neglected over the years. Long ago, the creek was the
site of many imaginary battles, hikes, crawdad and minnow catching, and fall
was welcomed with the Heritage Weekend, which always took forever to get
here and went by so quickly. I visited my mom in the same house I grew up in,
and stopped by the cemetery where my father is buried. I climbed the jungle
gym at the church playground, the same one from my childhood, and took in
the quiet on top of the big hill.
Lanesville still has no stoplight, looks very much the same, has remained
quiet and sleepy but has a pretty great winery, a library and a really good
school. It was a great little town to grow up in. I appreciate it so much more
now, in retrospect and through the eye of my camera. Suddenly, everything
I'd forgotten has become a memory I won't let disappear again.
EXPLORE
SCENE AROUND TOWN:
LANESVILLE
By JD Dotson
SPOT THE SCENE:
(Clockwise from top left)
n 1. Heritage Park farm machinery. n 2. St Mary's playground. n 3. Bouncy rabbit at Gresham
Memorial Park. n 4. Grove of trees off Hwy 62. n 5. View from walking covered bridge of
the creek. n 6. Tunneled bumpy slide at Gresham Memorial Park. n 7. Turtle Run Winery.
n 8. Rainsplitter house. n 9. Old barn and tractor at Turtle Run Winery. n 10. Mail pouch barn.
n 11. Lanesville water tower.
SHOW US YOUR SCENE AROUND TOWN
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