Keith Elchert

Nov 16, 2024 | journalgazette.net | Jaclyn Youhana Garver |Keith Elchert

“Then, Again,” the debut novel by Fort Wayne’s Jaclyn Youhana Garver, is a book full of big ideas and small, telling moments, perhaps best encapsulated here:“That’s what it’s like, the days after you graduate from high school. Everything is possible, simultaneously. Every idea is a good idea, even if it’s a terrible one. You don’t even recognize it as ‘hope’ — it’s just the way things are.

Jan 13, 2024 | journalgazette.net | Keith Elchert

“The Lord has given me the tongue of a teacher, that I may know how to sustain the weary with a word.”The Old Testament verse Isaiah 50:4a captures the life and work of Fort Wayne native Dorothy Phinezy Word. The career educator found a second calling in retirement, continuing to teach as a newspaper columnist in Evansville, Kokomo and for Fort Wayne’s Frost Illustrated. A friend of Word, Jacob W.

Dec 9, 2023 | journalgazette.net | Keith Elchert

“No particular place can adequately memorialize John Chapman, anywhere. Precisely defined spots in graveyards are for mere people, not for a man whose memory had become a working principle even before he died.”— Robert Price in the 1954 book “Johnny Appleseed: Man and Myth”Since 1974, Fort Wayne has celebrated the legacy of one of the city’s most legendary early residents. But as is often the case with the life of John Chapman, much remains shrouded in mystery.