Tradition and craftsmanship have always been present in Ripley County’s furniture, casket, and cabinet making industries. The arches, columns and spire of Tyson United Methodist Church add architectural variety to the county’s buildings. When the tiny community school of Milan won the 1954 Indiana State High School Basketball Championship, Hoosier pride soared.

This piece features a domed church–the dome marked like a basketball–as the base for a bronze figure dressed as a basketball player and posed as if he is shooting to score a basket.

Designers Jeff Laramore and David Jemerson Young of 2nd Globe, an Indianapolis–based artistic company, designed all 92 of the county sculptures featured on the outside of the Indiana State Museum. Their designs narrate the counties’ famous natives, historically significant events, or their cultural characteristics, and were fabricated and installed by various Indiana sculptors, carvers, glassworkers, metalworkers, and other artisans.