Photographs and stories by Jim Grey

Tag: State Road 135

Misty morning in Bean Blossom

A beautiful spring morning scene on a lonely state highway in southern Indiana.

11 January 2023
The story of Story, Indiana

A surprising amount is known about the little village of Story, today a tourist destination off Brown County, Indiana’s, beaten path. I tell the village’s history in thumbnail.

1 December 2017
single frame: The Story Inn

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30 November 2017
The Bean Blossom Covered Bridge

A covered bridge spans Bean Blossom Creek in a deep valley. We visited it.

29 November 2017
single frame: Misty morning in Bean Blossom

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28 November 2017
Captured: Misty morning, Bean Blossom

We began our Spring Break adventure heading south toward the Ohio River. We aimed to see historic sites all over Indiana, beginning with the state’s first capital in Corydon. Fog slowed that April morning’s going, at least until we reached Bean Blossom and this hollow, into which the mist had not settled. Astonished by the…

16 January 2015
Captured: Red house

My recent State Road 45 excursion started in the little town of Beanblossom (or Bean Blossom, if you prefer). If you like bluegrass music, you probably recognize it as the home of the Bill Monroe Music Park. There’s not much more to Beanblossom. But this great little red building stands on the northwest corner of…

19 August 2013