Monthly Archives: September 2024

Come Sing

September 5, 2024 | by CJ Woods III

In January of this year, the Editor-in-Chief and the Creative Director of this publication both alerted me to the possibility of joining a gathering of singers. Ethel Winslow and Paula Nicewanger are “long-suffering earwitnesses to my outbursts of song,” and pointed me toward a more structured singing experience with The … Read More

Al-Al-Alamo (Sussudio)

September 5, 2024 | by Al Hunter

This column first appeared in August 2012. I was born way too late to partake in the coonskin cap craze born of Fess Parker’s Davy Crockett TV show that caused a national sensation for a couple years in the mid-1950s. But I knew who he was and always thought of … Read More

100 Years Ago: Sept. 6-12

September 5, 2024 | by Steven R. Barnett

From The Indianapolis News, Friday, September 12, 1924: National Defense Test Day was successfully celebrated across the country and in Indianapolis today. With flags fluttering and bands playing, 6,000 marchers, including members of the regular army and national guard, the army and navy reserves, veterans of the Rainbow Division, high … Read More