Monthly Archives: March 2013

The Crocus — A Spring Time Beauty

March 14, 2013 | by Ed Myers

A sure sign of spring, crocuses have low-growing, cup-like flowers and grass-like foliage. They are native to woodland, scrub and meadows from sea level to alpine tundra in central to southern Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, on islands in the Aegean Sea, and across Central Asia and western … Read More

The Civil War 150th Anniversary: March 1863

March 14, 2013 | by Steven R. Barnett

The month began with talk of the House minority Unionists withdrawing from the Indiana General Assembly to deny a quorum in order to defeat “the military bill” that would have taken the control of the state’s militia out of Gov. Morton’s hands by enabling the militia to be “…called out … Read More

A Celebration of Ray Bradbury

March 14, 2013 | by Local News Release

INDIANAPOLIS — Two IUPUI professors of English, William F. Touponce and Jonathan R. Eller, have compiled the early works of American author Ray Bradbury in the recently published The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury — A Critical Edition: Volume I, 1938-1943 (Kent State University Press). The collection includes some familiar … Read More

Nate Moreland — A Footnote of History

March 14, 2013 | by Al Hunter

This Monday will be the 71st anniversary of two events — disparate in nature, but eerily connected in the tapestry of our nation’s history. If you’re a baseball fan you should enjoy this. That is, unless you follow the White Sox. On March 18th, 1942, two handsome, well-muscled black men … Read More

Book Review: Dragging Wyatt Earp

March 14, 2013 | by Kathleen Angelone

by Carolyn Everett, Bookmamas Understandably, the mention of Dodge City conjures up visions of cowboys and tales of the Wild West but in Robert Rebein’s memoir, Dragging Wyatt Earp: A Personal History of Dodge City, you learn much more about Dodge City, Kansas, and the author himself. Rebein skillfully pairs amusing … Read More