Monthly Archives: August 2015

Living Unsimply

August 13, 2015 | by Rose Mary Clarke

My chum, John Board, wrote, “I have found that the easiest way to get rid of stuff is to move, not a garage sale.  When we moved two years ago, thinking stopped; emotions were quenched; and loads and loads of stuff went either to our sons, The Good Samaritan, or … Read More

Paper Weights

August 13, 2015 | by Linda Hamer Kennett

In the business offices of the early 1800′s, the breeze from an open window was always welcome . . . well almost always. Cramped and stale, a fresh breeze cooled the weary workers, but it also made a terrible mess of the paperwork on their desks. As the Industrial Revolution … Read More

The Angel of Oak Ridge Cemetery, Part 3

August 13, 2015 | by Al Hunter

By the late 1920s, the Lincoln Tomb in Springfield, Illinois was literally crumbling away, threatening the largest collection of Lincolniana in the world contained within. As the reconstruction was getting underway in May 1930, the body of the President’s grandson Abraham “Jack” Lincoln II was removed from the tomb and … Read More

The Passing of Some Memorable Athletes

August 13, 2015 | by Steve Nicewanger

Frank Gifford and Buddy Baker passed this last week. Both made their mark in professional sports. Gifford was known to just about every American as the play-by-play man on Monday Night Football with Howard Cosell, and “Dandy” Don Meredith. Frank Gifford was born on August 16, 1930 in Santa Monica. … Read More

100 Years Ago this Week: Aug. 14-21

August 13, 2015 | by Steven R. Barnett

From The Indianapolis Star, Saturday, August 14, 1915: The fifty-five children, formerly housed in the Board of Children’s Guardians Home, 5751 University Av, which was destroyed in a blaze last week, were taken to Marion yesterday afternoon by a special rail car, where they will be placed in the orphan’s … Read More