Monthly Archives: January 2015

It’s Back to the Blue for You-Know-Who

January 15, 2015 | by Steve Nicewanger

I hate myself for writing about the Colts seemingly every week, but they have been the top sports story in Indy for much of the last for several months. We are down to the last four teams still alive for the big show in Arizona on February 1, and one … Read More

100 Years Ago This Week: Jan. 16-23

January 15, 2015 | by Steven R. Barnett

From The Indianapolis News, Monday, January 18, 1915: More  than half of the women and girls employed in retail stores and in the garment factories in Indiana receive an average wage of less than $7.00 (2013: $158.88) a week, according to a Census Bureau bulletin. In stores, women and girls … Read More

Applause!: Jan. 16-23

January 15, 2015 | by Weekly View

• All Indianapolis Public Library locations will be closed on Monday, January 19 in observance of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, except the InfoZone, located in The Children’s Museum at 3000 N. Meridian Street, which is open from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. • The 500 Festival, a nonprofit … Read More

World War I 100 Years Ago: Jan. 16-23

January 15, 2015 | by Steven R. Barnett

From The Indianapolis News, Monday, January 18, 1915: The Charles C. Carr Co, 146 N. Pennsylvania, has received a contract for a big supply of wool socks for one of the armies engaged in the European war. The socks are of heavy dark oxford gray material and considerably longer than … Read More

Snowfall On The Cedar

January 15, 2015 | by CJ Woods III

In October 2013 a woman walked up the drive that leads to my apartment building. She was being neighborly, introduced herself and told me that streets were to be blocked off by the Irvington Halloween Festival. She said that she lived in the house behind “the big cedar.” I didn’t … Read More