The woman behind the boxes
It was a quiet afternoon at the fire station in Seymour, Indiana. There were no active calls. A load of laundry tumbled in the dryer. The firefighters on duty that Thursday in January waited for something to happen.
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It was a quiet afternoon at the fire station in Seymour, Indiana. There were no active calls. A load of laundry tumbled in the dryer. The firefighters on duty that Thursday in January waited for something to happen.
The inside wall of the Seymour Fire Department holds an empty Safe Haven Baby Box on Jan. 24. The baby who was surrendered the day before was about an hour old and wrapped in a damp blanket when three firefighters received the baby box signal and found her in the box.
Monica Kelsey, founder of the Safe Haven Baby Boxes, stands in front of news cameras at a press conference Jan. 24 at the Seymour Fire Department. The day before, a baby girl was surrendered in the Safe Haven Baby Box outside the station.
Monica Kelsey looks out a window Nov. 11, 2019 at a Starbucks in Indianapolis. She recounts her limited moments with her birth mother before she died.
Monica Kelsey and Hunter Wart listen from the side as Fire Chief Brad Lucas speaks to journalists at a press conference Jan. 24 at the Seymour Fire Department. The day before, a baby girl was left in the Safe Haven Baby Box outside the station.
ELLETTSVILLE – Outside Jeff Deck’s window, down the long gravel driveway, a road leads to one of Deck Family Farms’ many fields.
Daniel Deck monitors the transfer of soybeans into a semitrailer. He was adopted into the Deck family when he was just a day old.
Jeff Deck combines his first soybean field of the year Oct. 3 in Ellettsville, Indiana. Deck is a corn and soybean farmer and is the fifth generation of farmers in his family.
A sign is seen on a road near the Deck farm. Several signs leading up to the Deck’s property warn for floods.
Soybeans lay in a container on the Deck farm near Ellettsville, Indiana. Jeff Deck has been growing soybeans in multiple fields for his entire life.
Jeff and Daniel Deck communicate over the phone while working in their fields. Jeff says a lot has changed in the farming industry since he began.
June, Jeff and Daniel Deck discuss transporting soybeans to their distributor. The process requires getting up before the sun rises and driving their semitruck 45 minutes to the drop-off location.
Daniel Deck puts a cover on farming equipment on the Deck family farm near Ellettsville, Indiana. Deck said he hopes to take over the farm for his father.
Daniel Deck holds his daughter at the Deck farm near Ellettsville, Indiana. Jeff Deck has relied on the farm to support himself and his family for most of his life.
Jeff Deck drives his tractor at his farm near Ellettsville, Indiana. Deck said he wants to know what his father would think about the technology present in modern farming.
Memories
These tables and chairs were found at a Goodwill and refurnished at a cheap price.
Freshman Lukas Cavar was padlocked behind a gate in Sullivan Cave in southern Indiana for three days before being rescued. He was left behind during a Caving Club excursion with nothing but a plastic Kroger bag, two chocolate chip Clif bar wrappers, two empty water bottles, his phone, wallet and headphones.