Monthly Archives: April 2020

My Favorite Sports Movies

April 23, 2020 | by Steve Nicewanger

I am writing today about my favorite sports movies. Two of them are on this list not just because I was on screen as an extra in them and that they were filmed in Indiana, but because they are great films as well. Making a film about a sports events is … Read More

The New Normal

April 23, 2020 | by CJ Woods III

A few years ago, I was standing in the customer service line at a Kroger grocery store. There were people in front of me and some behind me as I waited to fling my money into the bonfire of chance called “The Hoosier Lottery.” (My investment advisor would tell me … Read More

Keeping It Cool — Vintage Refrigerator Dishes

April 23, 2020 | by Linda Hamer Kennett

The refrigerators of the 1930s were a far cry from their 2020 counterparts. There were no special drawers to keep vegetable crisp and fresh, and no doors with water and ice dispensers; just a simple box with a minimum of shelves. They had one purpose, they kept foods cold. As … Read More

100 Years Ago: April 24-30

April 23, 2020 | by Steven R. Barnett

From The Indianapolis Times, Friday, April 30, 1920: Tomorrow, Saturday, May 1 has been proclaimed “America Day” by Gov. James Goodrich “in order to combat the radical and un-American propaganda which has been cunningly spread in the United States by agitators who receive their inspiration from eastern Europe.” Necessarily, Indianapolis … Read More

Indianapolis Union Station

April 23, 2020 | by Al Hunter

Al is hunkered down with research. This column originally appeared in the April 22, 2011 Twenty-five years ago this week, the single most important icon of our capitol city’s railroad era, Union Station, reopened to much fanfare, high hopes and hoopla as a downtown destination for visitors and citizens alike. … Read More