Wednesday, February 26, 2025 Issue #32 ​

From Dubois County

I can't believe it's almost March, Reader,

Which means the local festivals that define spring are about to kick off this Friday when Ireland's St. Patrick's Day Festival has the Light Up Ireland Kick Off Party.

That reminds me of a moment at the Celestine Street Fest last year.

Bowls of haystacks were wandering around in everyone's hands, and I could see the multistage process that started up by the church. There, four to five people rapidly fed potatoes onto a spinning contraption that cut them into thin sliced piles of pre-haystack material.

A fellow that seemed to be in charge (at least I assumed since he was loading the potato peeling contraption) looked at me quizzically so I said, "I figured I'd come back to see how the sausage was made."

Little did I know he was a very literal minded fellow and my idiom hadn't landed very well. He stopped moving potatoes through the peeler, cocked his head, squinted one eye and looked at me like I was an idiot.

I mean, clearly, there was no sausage in sight.

I quickly said I knew there wasn't actual sausage, I just wanted to see how the haystacks were made. Confirming that I wasn't a deranged sausage seeking lunatic, he commenced the peeling process again.

All that to say that today we had to work through some kinks in the newsletter machine. Many of you signed up but didn't get confirmation emails, so you haven't received our newsletter. Alas, I won't bore you with how the sausage, ahem, newsletter is made.

We think we have it fixed though.

Do us a favor and share it with some friends if you don't mind.

From Dubois County with love.

Matthew and Amy Crane

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