The Land Trust will contact other stewardship and outdoors groups active in the region and ask for coverage in their newsletters to seek further support and members. Also attending and participating in a follow-up questions and answer period were Lisa Hite of the Jefferson County Environmental Land Trust in Kentucky and Jane Cassady, southern regional director of the Indiana Historic Landmarks Commission. People from four counties, including landowners, the public sector, educators, stewardship groups and others joined the organization. The January meeting will be used to discuss the operations plan, committee structure and the priority of further steps to protect the heritage of Southern Indiana. The exhibit will be displayed from Jan. 8 through March 10.
All activities are free and open to the public.
For the Carnegie Center for Art and History, the exhibit is much more than an exhibition of paintings. The exhibition of approximately 60 paintings represents but a small sampling from the body of works created by this father and son. Following the theme of a sense of place, the paintings capture the light and beauty of familiar southern Indiana scenes of beech groves, creek beds, hills and country roads. James L. Russell was born in New Albany in 1872 and spent his early years as a stonecutter and sculptor with John Vernia and Sons. Some of his work can be seen in the names of writers and philosophers carved into limestone panels on the exterior of the Carnegie Center for Art and History.