Monthly Archives: May 2013

100 Years Ago This Week: May 10-17

May 9, 2013 | by Steven R. Barnett

From The Indianapolis Sun, Friday, May 16, 1913: Good feeding; two shaves a week; humane treatment; liberal tobacco supply; family Sunday dinners; and mid-week bread pudding festival are just a few of the policies that Sheriff Theodore Portteus has implemented at the jail in an effort to do the right … Read More

Explorations: In Search of an Invisible Woman, Part 2

May 9, 2013 | by Rose Mary Clarke

I had e-mails from people with whom last week’s column about my mother resonated. As I have often written, “I am you, and you are me.” Everyone has a mother! Of course, there have been mothers who were horrible, abusive individuals. In mythology, the dreadful Medea who murdered her children … Read More

Chicago Cubs: The Curse of Billy Goat Sianis

May 9, 2013 | by Al Hunter

It’s not often these days that goats make the news. You may have heard recently that a severed goat’s head mysteriously appeared outside of Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs baseball team. To the uninitiated observer, the news of a blood-soaked box containing the mortal remains of a Capra … Read More

The Squirrels of Orange Street

May 9, 2013 | by CJ Woods III

Squirrels littered the back yard of my house on Orange Street. They laughed at me when I came out there. They chittered in a walnut tree as I hammered another board onto the porch. My lard-butt lab, the yellow Allie, would give me a lifted eyebrow about the noise I … Read More

Home Remedies, Recipes, and the Best Time to Plant Your Garden

May 9, 2013 | by Linda Hamer Kennett

Unique in content and inexplicably accurate, the “Old Farmer’s Almanac” stands as the oldest continuously published periodical in North America. This little book (which is actually no more than a pamphlet) was first published by Robert B. Thomas in 1792 under the name “The Farmer’s Almanac.” Originally intended to be … Read More