The Village Sampler
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The Village Sampler was a monthly newspaper that served the Broad Ripple Village community,[1] a neighborhood located at the bend of the White River on the north side of Indianapolis, Indiana. The community was named after a poem by Hoosier poet James Whitcomb Riley titled "Broad Ripple".[2] Publisher and journalist Lillian Rose Barcio[3] founded The Village Sampler, served as the newspaper's editor-in-chief, and along with her husband, Bernard F. Barcio, was a founding partner of its publishing company, BLB Enterprises, Inc.[4]
