Monthly Archives: June 2020

Make Music

June 4, 2020 | by CJ Woods III

“Heard on the news musical instrument sales are really up – guitars, flutes, horns.” This text message came to me from the Creative Director of this paper. We had rendezvoused when I went to a nursery to get some flowers to put in the stone planter on my front porch. … Read More

100 Years Ago: June 5-11

June 4, 2020 | by Steven R. Barnett

From The Indianapolis Star, Sunday, June 6, 1920: Indianapolis centennial celebrations began last night in Tomlinson Hall with hundreds of citizens from all over Hoosierdom assembled in an auditorium bedecked in flags and centennial colors. As the crowd gathered at the first big event of the five-day birthday party, the … Read More

General Ulysses S. Grant earned his stripes here!

June 4, 2020 | by Al Hunter

This column first appeared in July, 2009. So you think you’re a Civil War buff? Well, so did I. I’ve read, researched and written about the American Civil War most of my life. Yet, I recently discovered an interesting little factoid from my beloved home state and city of my … Read More

Shopping in the New Normal

June 4, 2020 | by Linda Hamer Kennett

After weeks in quarantine many of us are starting to venture back out into the world where we can once again shop our favorite antique malls and vintage shops. In what many are calling “the new normal” there will be precautions to keep us safe from the deadly virus that … Read More