Monthly Archives: March 2016

Fences at the IRT

March 17, 2016 | by Ethel Winslow

August Wilson’s play Fences was first presented in 1983, and went on to win a Pulitzer Prize. Set in the 1950s “Hill District” section of Pittsburgh, the play tells the story of sanitation worker Troy Maxson (David Alan Anderson), a former Negro league all-star baseball player whose opportunity to play … Read More

Beautiful But Stinky

March 17, 2016 | by Ed Myers

Although I have known of their existence and have grown them at the Benton House (1873) Historic Garden in the past, I recently re-ordered six bulbs of Pineapple Lily (Eucomis bicolor) for planting in that garden this spring. Eucomis is an amazing, semi-tropical bulb which produces magnificent, late summer inflorescences … Read More

IPS Music Teacher Wins $10K in Donors Choose Competition

March 17, 2016 | by Weekly View

INDIANAPOLIS — When you integrate Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) studies with the arts, you get STEAM; one Indianapolis Public Schools music teacher is going full STEAM ahead on an exciting and educational project, thanks to a $10,000 grant from Donors Choose. Laura Bartolomeo, music teacher at Center for … Read More

The Great One, Part 2

March 17, 2016 | by Al Hunter

Jackie Gleason, alongside Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, and Hoosier Red Skelton, dominated, and to some degree invented, early television. An accomplished actor, writer, composer, orchestra leader and comedian, Gleason was truly the last of the big spenders. Always meticulously dressed with a flower in his lapel, Gleason was a consummate … Read More

Vadel’s Back In Town, Part 3

March 17, 2016 | by Rose Mary Clarke

I  finally had to promise Vadel that we’ll call him if we need help even though one of my dear nephews lives ten minutes away and another one lives just across the county line. This tremendous concern about old people is just one example of the vast cultural differences between … Read More