The Posey County News

By Dennis Marshall NEW HARMONY, Ind. — Nobody was in a hurry to leave the Working Men’s Institute on Thursday, Sept. 3, following Rick Johnson’s program on the Erie Canal Soda Pop Festival — the Labor Day weekend 1972 rock show better known as Bull Island. Johnson grew up in New Harmony and was 17 that September. After the program, people stayed to tell him what they remembered of that weekend. Some of those accounts were their own. Some had been passed down by a parent or an

Cody Pate shares goat information with the crowd of local Posey County fifth-graders attending the Farm Fair on Tuesday, August 25. Photo by Dennis Marshall By Dennis Marshall Amber Allyn was a fifth-grader at Farm Fair once. This year she ran it. Now 23 and a little more than a year into the Posey County Farm Bureau education and outreach job, Allyn led about 320 fifth-graders from every school in the county through livestock, a fertilizer rig, crop and timber talks, 4-H and