Monthly Archives: August 2022

Indiana Authors Award Shortlists Announced

August 18, 2022 | by Weekly View

INDIANAPOLIS — The 2022 Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Awards recently announced the shortlist of books eligible for top honors in its eight literary categories. Forty books written by Indiana authors and published in 2020 and 2021 have been shortlisted. Winners will be announced on Aug. 24. Shortlisted books … Read More

100 Years Ago: Aug. 19-25

August 18, 2022 | by Steven R. Barnett

From The Indianapolis News, Monday, August 21, 1922: Charles Lee, Flanner House superintendent, in his report to the directors said housing is one of the most acute problems confronting colored people in Indianapolis. A survey of housing conditions among white and colored poor families, found nothing among the worst homes … Read More

Ebbets Field — 100 Years Ago

August 18, 2022 | by Al Hunter

This column originally appeared in April 2013. Al is finishing writing a book. I’m an anniversary guy. Nothing gets me to daydreaming faster than when I find out that something important happened on this date however many years ago. This month, we passed another anniversary that I really didn’t hear … Read More

Bobbles, Bangles and Bakelite

August 18, 2022 | by Linda Hamer Kennett

We all have them. Those things that have been stored in the back of the closet or the bottom of the cedar chest, that we haven’t wanted to pitch, but we never use. A common denominator among many women is that box of jewelry from childhood that is just taking … Read More

Gardens

August 18, 2022 | by CJ Woods III

In late summer of 2021, I decided to plant tomatoes in an area of the back yard of the house that I rent. In the three years that I have lived in the house, I had not considered vegetable gardening. (I know: Tomatoes are both a fruit and a vegetable.) … Read More