How Jamey Aebersold Finds Harmony in His Life

By Lucy M. Pritchett

In 2014, Jamey was awarded The National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master Award, the nation's highest honor in jazz. He is in the International Association of Jazz Educators Hall of Fame. He was recently honored with a retrospective exhibit at the Carnegie Center for Art & History. 

Jamey Aebersold, 78, is an internationally known jazz musician and educator. In 1967 he founded Jazz Books, a company that offers jazz Play-A-Longs, which are music books and CDs for developing improvisational skills. Fifty years later his company is still going strong, and so is he. He lives in New Albany, Indiana.

What I Know Now: Merrily Orsini

By Lucy M. Pritchett

Merrily Orsini is 70 “and proud of it.” She founded Eldercare Solutions in 1981, sold it in 1996, and in 1998 founded Corecubed, which specializes in marketing for aging care companies. She continues to serve as president and CEO of the company and is a well-known conference speaker on aging care.

What I Know Now: Mervin Aubespin

By Lucy M. Pritchett

Mervin Aubespin is co-author of Two Centuries of Black Louisville, a Photographic History published in 2011.
Photo by Melissa Donald 

Although originally from Opelousas, Louisiana, Mervin Aubespin considers Louisville his hometown. He is retired associate editor of The Courier-Journal, a self-taught artist, author, and traveller of the world. He reported first-hand on the city’s civil rights disturbances in 1968. He is past president of the National Association of Black Journalists and received the Ida B. Wells Award for his efforts to bring minorities into the field of journalism. He is a member of the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame and the National Association of Black Journalists Hall of Fame.

What I Know Now: Barry Bernson

Many of our days have begun in the company of Barry Bernson, 69. He recently retired as news anchor for WDRB’s Fox in the Morning, and before that he was anchor for WHAS’s Good Morning Kentuckiana. Barry is also the author of Bernson’s Corner: A Reporter’s Notebook and has narrated more than 600 audio books for Louisville's American Printing House for the Blind.

What was the first news event that made an impression on you?

Get to know this local fiber artist

Ninety-year-old fiber artist Mary Craik was born on West Market Street, lived in 10 different states and two foreign countries, returned to her hometown, and now lives and has her studio and art gallery on East Market Street.

Interview by Lucy M. Pritchett

How did you come to be a fiber artist?
I was in my 70s before I started doing my own art. I had taken classes in art history and art appreciation. I always visited art museums wherever we lived, but it never occurred to me I could do it myself. At first I tried painting and had a ball but knew enough about art to know I wasn’t a painter. I had been sewing since I was 8, and when I saw a show here in Louisville called “Fantastic Fibers,” I decided to put my sewing skills to work.

What is the best advice you ever received?