Rotary club
The Brown County Rotary Club will meet via Zoom at 8 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 17.
Guest speaker Hannah Estabrook will discuss the joys and travails of becoming executive director of the Brown County Playhouse just in time for COVID, the changes necessitated by the pandemic and the strategy for emerging from it.
Estabrook graduated from Indiana University in May 2019 with a bachelor’s degree in arts management from the School of Public and Environmental Affairs, a minor in financial literacy from the Kelley School of Business, and a certificate in rock music history from the Jacobs School of Music. She was also intern coordinator and executive director of One Pulse Entertainment, a touring company that produces concerts paying homage to the greatest cultural icons of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Estabrook also has experience as a performer, playing cello with Carmel Clay Schools and the Jacobs School of Music, touring in Europe and collaborating with Lynn Harrell at the Midwest Clinic in Chicago. She enjoys traveling, all things Star Wars, going for coffee and taking care of her cat, Rizzo.
Those interested in exploring opportunities to participate in projects and to be of service to the community also are invited to attend the Zoom session. Visit rotaryclubofbrowncounty.org and click “Contact us” to obtain a link.
Literacy club
The Nashville Literary Club met for its last meeting of 2020 via Zoom on Dec. 10. Like many other clubs, it has been following social distancing guidelines and meeting most of this year virtually.
At the last meeting, members elected new officers and celebrated the season by sharing poems and haikus (holiday or otherwise) and offered a holiday toast to friends and books read.
The club annually donates a monetary gift to the Brown County Public Library for the purchase of library materials. This year “Tecumseh” and “The Prophet” by Peter Cozzens were chosen to honor longtime member Carol Routh, who is relocating to Michigan and attended Camp Tecumseh near Lafayette as a child.
For further information about the club, contact Karen Sparks at 812-988-2694 or Judith Stewart at 812-988-6507.
The Nashville Literary Club was founded in 1934 to encourage reading and an appreciation of literature. This is the group’s 86th year of enjoying reading and discussing a variety of books together.
Submit club news to [email protected] by Thursdays at noon before the week on which you’d like your item to run.
