Visited the town of Crothersville, Indiana yesterday! It is a town of about 1600 in a farm area. Drove all the streets and went to the library to see what info we could find! There was very little. Could not find anything about the origin other than the date it was started as the town of Retreat (1854) and the date the name was changed to Crothersville (1857). The librarian had 4 large books about the county history, but we found almost nothing about why the name was changed and about who or what was the inspiration for the change. Will have do do more research at home. There does not seem to be any active historical group or interested people in the area.

Went to an art fair in "Butchertown" Louisville - a very old area of the town. The town is full of modest very narrow houses (12 to 18 feet wide) as they were taxed by the frontage on the street in the early days. The lots are also small. There are very few "multiple" dwellings here - virtually all small single family.

Red trucks are popular here. Sort of like white trucks in our area. About 60% are red.

We saw fireflys in our campground at Charleston State Park!

Barge traffic on the Ohio river is fun to watch. There are locks and turns!