Monthly Archives: April 2018

April (Snow) Showers Bring May Flowers?

April 5, 2018 | by Ethel Winslow

Are you ready to put away the snow shovels for the garden spade? Yeah, we are, too. “Snow is the poor man’s fertilizer” isn’t just an old gardening trope — there is actually science behind it! My grandfather the orchardsman loved to see snow on his cornfields all winter long, … Read More

Reflections & Reminscences

April 5, 2018 | by CJ Woods III

When I was a young teen, I had an after-school job at the University of Pittsburgh’s library. Few of my schoolmates had jobs, and though I was not earning much by today’s standards, $1 per hour was good money for a teen in the early 60s. I established credit at … Read More

Smart, Sophisticated, and Still Going Strong — Fiesta

April 5, 2018 | by Linda Hamer Kennett

The Homer Laughlin China Company of Newell, West Virginia reigns as one of the most prolific of all the American dinnerware manufacturers of the 20th century. Turning out tableware, kitchen wares and serving pieces since 1871, their name is synonymous with affordable quality. Many of their patterns became collectable, but … Read More

100 Years Ago: April 6-12

April 5, 2018 | by Steven R. Barnett

From The Indianapolis News, Saturday, April 6: Based on a report that White River is being polluted by sewage from Indianapolis, the city’s board of sanitary commissioners yesterday adopted resolutions providing for the building of a sewage disposal plant southwest of the city on the 184 acre Sellers farm at … Read More

World War I 100 Years Ago: April 6-12

April 5, 2018 | by Steven R. Barnett

From The Indianapolis Star, Sunday, April 7: The largest parade in Indianapolis history wound through eighteen blocks of the city’s downtown yesterday unleashing a patriotic fervor the likes of which has never before been seen. A pageant of 40,000 men, women and children on foot, in automobiles, and on scores … Read More