Monthly Archives: August 2022

100 Years Ago: Aug. 5-11

August 4, 2022 | by Steven R. Barnett

From The Indianapolis Star, Friday, August 11, 1922: One of the greatest gatherings of swimming stars to assemble in the United States opened the three-day national swimming meet at the Broad Ripple Park pool yesterday with a crowd of spectators filling the grand stand and encircling the west end of … Read More

Fenton Glass

August 4, 2022 | by Linda Hamer Kennett

This column originally appeared in August 2012. In 1905  Frank and John Fenton opened up shop in an abandoned glass factory with the intent of hand painting glassware from other factories. Discouraged by the quality of glass available, they moved to Williamstown, West Virginia in 1907. Led by the talents … Read More

The 1963 State Fairground Explosion

August 4, 2022 | by Al Hunter

This column appeared in July 2011. It was another rainy Halloween in Indianapolis, Oct. 31, 1963. Some 4,400 people decided the “Holiday on Ice” show scheduled that night at the Indiana State Fair Coliseum was the better alternative to the prospect of cold, wet children toting bags of soggy candy … Read More

Family Card Games

August 4, 2022 | by CJ Woods III

My grandson graduated from high school in June, and his sister graduated from eighth grade the following week. Xavion’s graduating class traveled to the Bahamas and his grandmother arranged to take Imani on the same trip. I went to New Jersey to see the two of them the first week … Read More