Local Success Profiles

Two-person syrup-making business

Gordon Jones hustled through 17 different careers before settling down in Brown County and using his ingenuity to build a business. For the past 20 years, Jones and Sherrie Yarling have lived on Yarling’s family property and converted shagbark hickory trees into syrup and built a thriving two-person business — Hickoryworks — that caters to […]

Couple focuses on local grains for legal moonshine

After nearly 50 years in its current location at 1 Artist Drive, the Brown County Art Gallery has doubled its size and offers new features to promote tourism and to benefit the community.

Gallery expands to support, encourage artists

After nearly 50 years in its current location at 1 Artist Drive, the Brown County Art Gallery has doubled its size and offers new features to promote tourism and to benefit the community.

Woman pursues antique dreams

Cheri Clevenger dreamed of the day she would have her own business in a small tourist town. Growing up in Indianapolis, she worked 30 years in communications and raised two children.

Family buys, renovates Brown County Inn

Barry and Deborah Herring started visiting Brown County 18 years ago and fell in love with the remote and peaceful setting of their part-time home away from Chicago.