In the warm weather, Luke is usually to be found holding forth on the porch at Outback Jack’s, our town’s enchanting and eclectic gallery and antique and artifact store, smack in the middle of Main Street. Luke comes from the New Skete Monks, who live right outside of town. He is a quiet and gentle dog, although he makes a lot of noise when he sees another dog. Otherwise, he is the store greeter.

He and Jack are inseparable, as good spirit dogs and their humans are. Jack’s porch is a gallery in and of itself, sometimes he shows his own unique art, evocative sculptures made out of old and forgotten things.