by Amanda E. West | Jan 11, 2025 | Feature, Shelbyville
At Creekside Farm on the outskirts of the Flat Creek community, the aroma of freshly mowed hay mixes with the salty sweat of the horses. They stamp their hooves on the dirt floor, begging Angela Wojtkowski to lead them out of their stalls and into the sunlight. As the...
by Amanda E. West | Dec 13, 2024 | Shelbyville, Stories
After fastening the gold buttons of his dress blues in October 2020, Col. Mike Corrado plunged his fingers into the snow-white gloves that he and other United States Marines reserved for formal occasions. After nearly three decades of active military service — which...
by Amanda E. West | Dec 13, 2024 | Shelbyville, Stories
Henry Ford, who started the Ford Motor Company in 1903, was a firm believer that history should be absorbed — not through textbooks but by seeing and experiencing it firsthand. Ford believed that we create better futures when we learn from our past. So, in 1929, he...
by Amanda E. West | Dec 13, 2024 | Feature, Shelbyville
The measure of a man’s life is not in the riches he accumulates, but in the friends he gathers along the way. Manuel Rodriguez scratched out a living alongside his parents in Dolores Hidalgo in Guanajuato, Mexico. The second eldest son of nine children, Manuel carried...
by Amanda E. West | Dec 13, 2024 | Feature, Shelbyville
During his first mission trip with Appalachian Outreach in 2000, Steven Flippo surveyed the condition of the property assigned to his team, and his heart ached. “We were tasked with doing repairs for an elderly gentleman. He did not have a functioning bathroom. The...
