Monthly Archives: May 2019

Paul is Dead — The Rumor Revisited, Part 3

May 2, 2019 | by Al Hunter

Last week, we once again visited the famous “Paul is Dead” rumor that haunted the Beatles rock band for many years. Obviously, the rumor that Paul McCartney died in a November 1966 car accident was just a rumor, but to many Beatlemaniacs during the final years of the turbulent Sixties, … Read More

World War I 100 Years Ago: May 3-9

May 2, 2019 | by Steven R. Barnett

From The Indianapolis News, Wednesday, May 7, 1919: Glorious Welcome Home Day! A chorus of factory whistles greeted the troop trains bringing soldiers of the 150th Field Artillery and members of Base Hospital No. 32 into Union Station for the long-awaited day celebrating our returning Hoosier heroes. A parade of … Read More

I Promise You

May 2, 2019 | by CJ Woods III

In an episode of one of the many cops and robbers TV shows I watch, one of the main characters told someone she was interviewing that she was going to find the person who had committed a crime. She said, with theatrical emphasis, “I promise you.” When I hear that … Read More

Frankoma Pottery

May 2, 2019 | by Linda Hamer Kennett

In the fall of 1927 John Frank left his home town of Chicago to accept a position at the University of Oklahoma as a professor of art and pottery. It had been his lifelong dream to be a college professor, but fate was about to step in. Soon after his … Read More

100 Years Ago: May 3-9

May 2, 2019 | by Steven R. Barnett

From The Indianapolis Star, Sunday, May 4, 1919: High school art students, directed by artist Otto Stark, designed wall decorations at five Indianapolis public schools. Each school paid for its painting, and five characters – Mother Goose, Little Boy Blue, Little Miss Muffet, Mary, Mary Quite Contrary and Little Bo … Read More