Monthly Archives: June 2019

Phoenix Theatre Opens “White City Murder” by Ben Asaykwee

June 13, 2019 | by Weekly View

INDIANAPOLIS — Original music highlights this hilarious and terrifying tale of America’s first serial killer and an infamous murder at the 1893 World’s Fair. It’s Ben Asaykwee. it’s Amanda Hummer, it’s gruesome, it’s thrilling, it’s hysterical, and has an Indianapolis connection! What more could you ask for? Ben Asaykwee’s White … Read More

Robert Todd Lincoln Checks In

June 13, 2019 | by Al Hunter

This column was originally published in February, 2011. Anyone who reads my column regularly knows that I have a love of odd, unusual history relics, ghost stories and collectibles. I spend a lot of time at antique shows, flea markets, libraries and historic buildings and about once a year, I … Read More

The Majesty of Royal Haeger

June 13, 2019 | by Linda Hamer Kennett

After many years of being considered a low-end undesirable that wasn’t worth lifting off the thrift store shelf, Royal Haeger has caught the eye of the Millennials who are carting it home by the bagful! As the Great Depression came to an end in America, the long-established Haeger brickyard turned … Read More

100 Years Ago: June 14-20

June 13, 2019 | by Steven R. Barnett

From The Indianapolis Star, Tuesday, June 17, 1919: Irvington citizens held a mass meeting last night in the School No. 57 auditorium protesting the Indianapolis school board’s wholesale transfer of teachers from the Irvington School. Matters quickly came to fever heat between those supporting the transfers led by Mrs. Harriet … Read More

World War I 100 Years Ago: June 14-20

June 13, 2019 | by Steven R. Barnett

From The Indianapolis Star, Monday, June 16, 1919: The United States Army Indianapolis Recruiting District operates more stations than any state. Twenty-one stations outside Indianapolis draw recruits from an area with a population of 3,000,000. The Indianapolis District is second only to New York, which has a population of 7,000,000 … Read More