New Harmony News

Wil Maring, a Merlefest Chris Austin Songwriting Contest winner who has toured Europe and Japan and performed on the Grand Ole Opry stage, will perform with Robert Bowlin, a two-time National Fingerpicking and Flatpicking Guitar contest winner who has played with Bill Monroe , Maura O'Connell, Kathy Mattea, the Osborne Brothers and others.

"My paintings are more about color and design than representing a subject as I see it.

The goal is to do away with the three-member White County Bridge Commission, the private entity that has run the bridge for decades, and replace it with a public commission with its members appointed by local officials.

It has not been a good week for the folks in New Harmony. There was the closing of their independent New Harmony Town and Township School, and the realization that their children will be attending the North Posey schools next term.

A night-shift janitor obsesses over the meaning of a store window display she believes depicts a scene from her life.

MOLLY BARTELS / COURIER & PRESS The Harmony Way Bridge, which connects New Harmony, Ind., to southeastern Illinois over the Wabash River, is on the top ten list of Indiana's most endangered landmarks.

Unfortunately, the old Harmony Way Bridge over the Wabash River at New Harmony is where it belongs today, on the Indiana Landmarks updated top-10 list of most endangered landmarks.

If the Harmony Way Bridge closed for a lack of funding for repairs, farmers would be forced to drive their equipment over bridges farther away.

In the forward to an autobiography by Jane Owen, due out later this year, John Philip Newell writes: "The primary context of religion and indeed of life itself must be the great living cathedral of earth, sea and sky.

Small enclosed spaces seem to offer a respite, a quiet chapel-like space that wide-open fields and forests do not.

The event, which has drawn from 600 to 800 people in years past, will run from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Sunday in and around the Ribeyre Gym and at Church Park in New Harmony, Ind.