Twenty-one and lost, I headed south across an imaginary line where churches and conservative opinions saturate the land I now call home. I had never experienced a culture shock as great as the transition from the streets of Cincinnati to the farms of Bowling Green.

“Bingo!” yelled Brownsville native Jethrow Hogan. Joe Gibson, pictured, is also a native of Brownsville. They, like many others at the Edmonson Health Care Center, have something in common. They stayed in the area where they grew up, and they are now spending the remainder of their time at home in the health care center, which coincidentally is the town’s largest business.

Tommy Brooks is a ferry boat captain on the Green River in Mammoth Cave National Park. For the past 15 years Brooks has sat in a four-by-seven foot room where he works the five joysticks that control the ferry. “Peaceful down here, ain’t it?” said Brooks as the cool air touched the back of his neck through the open window of the “Good Ship Lollipop,” as Brooks likes to call it.

Argentina native Sylvia Kersenbaum performs Beethoven’s “Sonata N.25 Op.79″ from 1809 in Van Meter Auditorium Sunday afternoon. Kersenbaum has been playing piano since childhood and is currently a piano professor at Western.