John Bahler is the senior English teacher at Eastern High School and the editor of the Greentown Grapevine, a monthly newspaper in Greentown, Indiana.  He is the son of a private music teacher, and also an avid songwriter and musician.  He has played over 60 shows throughout Indiana in the last year with two different bands—everything from seedy bars to the Vogue Theatre in Broad Ripple, and from backyard parties to the Battleground Indiana Fiddler’s Gathering.

When not indoors, John loves being outdoors.  He has hiked most of Indiana’s State Parks, and dozens of state and national parks in more distant lands.  He has climbed mountains in the Dominican Republic and canoed in the remote regions of Northern Ontario.  He has also hewed logs with an axe, built a cabin out of those logs, made maple syrup in that cabin, and cooked pancakes over which he poured that syrup. More…