Monthly Archives: April 2024

Help Getting Feral Cats Fixed in 46219

April 18, 2024 | by Weekly View

The 46219 Initiative started by Amelda Butler and Kathleen Egan will help curb the kitten population in Irvington. Working with FACE Low Cost Animal Clinic on the near eastside, they have been able to set up a fund that will help pay for the spay or neuter of cats in … Read More

The Answers are in the Almanac

April 18, 2024 | by Linda Hamer Kennett

Unique in content and inexplicably accurate, the “Old Farmer’s Almanac” stands as the oldest continuously published periodical in North America. This little book (which is actually no more than a pamphlet) was first published by Robert B. Thomas in 1792 under the name “The Farmer’s Almanac.” Originally intended to be … Read More

The Ghost of I.U.’s Lambda Chi Alpha

April 18, 2024 | by Al Hunter

At the dawn of the Roaring Twenties, Hence Orme lived on a large estate farm in Glenn’s Valley, an area on Indianapolis’ south side near Morgantown and Bluff roads, which he intended to use as a model for modern scientific farming. Hence Orme’s specialty was raising pigs. As a young … Read More

100 Years Ago: April 19-25

April 18, 2024 | by Steven R. Barnett

From The Indianapolis Star, Sunday, April 20, 1924: The Blue Triangle Hall, the new Y.W.C.A. boarding residence for employed girls, will open its doors this week. Located at 725 N. Pennsylvania St., the hall can accommodate as many as 115 young women, giving them pleasant rooms, wholesome meals, and congenial … Read More

Birds On The Lawn

April 18, 2024 | by CJ Woods III

A skirmish line of European Starlings marched across my lawn, heads bobbing and bills stabbing the grass. The sun had yet to convince the dandelions to unfurl from their tightly wrapped night-sleep, but rain had soaked the lawn. I stood in silent witness to the approach of the birds, watching … Read More