Monthly Archives: January 2017

Collectible Ashtrays

January 26, 2017 | by Linda Hamer Kennett

NO SMOKING! We see the signs everywhere prohibiting the once acceptable, but now taboo, habit of lighting up. In 1965 Congress passed a bill requiring all cigarettes to carry a health warning issued by the Surgeon General. America took the warning seriously, as did our legislators, and by 1995 we … Read More

The Ghost of I.U.’s Lambda Chi Alpha

January 26, 2017 | by Al Hunter

This story originally appeared in March, 2010 At the dawn of the Roaring Twenties, Hence Orme lived on a large estate farm in Glenn’s Valley, an area on Indianapolis’ south side near Morgantown & Bluff Roads, which he intended to use as a model for modern scientific farming. Hence Orme’s … Read More

Ms. Kitty Pusscatkin and Lilydog — Conclusion

January 26, 2017 | by Rose Mary Clarke

“Dogs have masters. Cats have staff.” Kitty eats only frequent snacks of her cat chow. Lily gobbles her kibbles with a couple of slurps. She lies at the entrance to the kitchen, hoping for a crumb to fall. I say that she vacuums the kitchen, then mops it. One day … Read More

The Other Einstein by Marie Benedict

January 20, 2017 | by Kathleen Angelone

Mileva Maric enters her first physics class at the Zurich Swiss Federal Polytechnic University in the first paragraph of The Other Einstein by Marie Benedict. This action doesn’t seem particularly interesting until you realize that it takes place on October 20, 1896 and she is the first woman to ever … Read More

This Week’s Issue: Jan. 20-26

January 19, 2017 | by Weekly View

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