Monthly Archives: August 2013

Film Historian Discusses Restoration of Film Serial

August 22, 2013 | by Weekly View

INDIANAPOLIS — Eric Grayson, the Indianapolis-based film historian, collector, and preservationist, has been invited to address the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) at its annual convention in November in Richmond, VA. Grayson will speak about his recent preservation and restoration of Chapter 5 of the 1929 film, King of … Read More

The Treasured Wealth of Books

August 22, 2013 | by Rose Mary Clarke

. . . When you held one of those books in your hands, you were leafing through another person’s life. Someone else had once loved that story, too. Someone else had carried that book in a backpack, devoured it over breakfast, mopped up that coffee stain at a Paris café, … Read More

Now I Lay Me Down

August 22, 2013 | by CJ Woods III

“Joni, do you get mad?” I was sitting with my mother as she lay dying, and that question came out as she struggled to find a more comfortable position in the bed that was her prison. She spent most of those dying days in an underwater sleep, waking occasionally when … Read More

100 Years Ago This Week: Aug. 23-30

August 22, 2013 | by Steven R. Barnett

From The Indianapolis Star, Sunday, August 24, 1913:  The Feast of Lanterns given last night by the Brookside Civic League in Spades Park was one of the most beautiful events of its kind seen in Indianapolis for many years. Thousands of lanterns were strung throughout the park, along the street … Read More

Applause!: Aug. 23-30

August 22, 2013 | by Weekly View

• Another exciting weekend coming up for Indianapolis. Dig-IN at White River State Park, the last weekend of IndyFringe, the Feast of Lanterns, and much more. Remember when people used to call it Indiana-No-Place? • Speaking of the Feast of Lanterns, Emerson Heights neighbors are having a cookie sale at … Read More