Monthly Archives: July 2015

The 2015 Brickyard 400 Eulogy

July 30, 2015 | by Steve Nicewanger

Last Sunday’s Brickyard was, to be perfectly honest, one of the most boring races I have ever watched. In the end, the winner was determined by caution lights and pit stops. Some new rules NASCAR came up with in spoiler and rear end design, intended to tweak competition, simply did … Read More

100 Years Ago This Week: July 31-Aug. 7

July 30, 2015 | by Steven R. Barnett

From The Indianapolis Star, Saturday, August 7, 1915: The large lot at Layman Av. and Washington St. assumed the appearance of an immense Japanese garden last night with gayly decorated booths, stands and tents lighted by innumerable Japanese lanterns. The Star Summer Mission Fund officers shivered yesterday as they watched … Read More

Memories For Sale

July 30, 2015 | by Rose Mary Clarke

“Our life is frittered away by detail . . . Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand . . . Simplify, simplify, simplify!” — Henry David Thoreau, Walden Bill and I are packrats who follow our mothers’ … Read More

World War I 100 Years Ago This Week: July 31-Aug. 7

July 30, 2015 | by Steven R. Barnett

From The Indianapolis Times, Thursday, August 12, 1915: With the Mexican troubles boiling and bubbling again, officers and enlisted men of the Provisional Regiment, Indiana National Guard, at Ft. Benjamin Harrison when not discussing military tactics, talk of the one thing that seems uppermost in the minds of these citizen … Read More

Pet Photo Contest — Last Chance to Enter!

July 23, 2015 | by Weekly View

Print out this entry form and bring it in before July 27 with photo and $5 entry fee! … Read More