Monthly Archives: March 2017

Galvanized Metal

March 2, 2017 | by Linda Hamer Kennett

Once used as roofing for farm buildings, watering troughs and feed buckets, galvanized metal has risen from its humble beginnings on the farm to become one of today’s top decorating materials. Transforming low-end materials into high-end pieces for the home is nothing new. Over the past decade we have seen … Read More

World War I 100 Years Ago: March 3-9

March 2, 2017 | by Steven R. Barnett

From The Indianapolis News, Tuesday, March 6: James A. Allison, Indianapolis Motor Speedway secretary-treasurer, announced yesterday that if the United States declared war on Germany, the May 30 annual racing classic would be cancelled. Allison believed everybody should stand ready to back the United States, and that everything possible should … Read More

Chicago Cubs: The Curse of Billy Goat Sianis

March 2, 2017 | by Al Hunter

Al Hunter is on vacation. This story was originally published in 2013 It isn’t often these days that goats make the news. However, in 2013, a severed goat’s head mysteriously appeared outside of Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs baseball team. To the uninitiated observer, the news of a … Read More

Kurt Busch Wins the Daytona 500

March 2, 2017 | by Steve Nicewanger

“I’m a Daytona 500 pound woman. I’m Daytona 500 pound gal” Haywood Banks!” ……Kurt Busch won his first Daytona 500 last Sunday driving a Ford powered car that was held together by duct tape and chewing gun in a race that was described as a 500 mile demolition derby. This … Read More

The Skinny on Swimming

March 2, 2017 | by CJ Woods III

On June 17th, 1994, television viewers in this country were glued to their sets, watching a slow-motion drama: In Los Angeles, California, OJ Simpson, in the back seat of his friend’s white Bronco, was slow-rolling his way into history. On that same night, in a bar in the South Beach … Read More