Article Archives: Boomerang

Baby Boomers

May 18, 2023 | by Steve Nicewanger

First published in November 2013. Baby Boomers are defined as anyone born in the United States between the years 1946 and 1964. They tended to be the sons and daughters of the service men and women who came out of the war and settled into domestic life. The Greatest Generation … Read More

A Half a Century and Counting

August 22, 2019 | by Steve Nicewanger

This month, August 2019, I celebrated a ritual that has become very common with Boomers. As a member of the Arlington High School Class of 1969, I attended my 50th high school graduation reunion. I might have called this the survival reunion because about as many members of that classic … Read More

The Confluence of Joyful Things

July 25, 2019 | by CJ Woods III

“You’re not very ‘CJ’ today,” Chelsea said as she served me my cider. I was sitting at the counter of the tasting room of my favorite cidery, nursing a “Dry” and a water. The noise was dying down as the attendants and presenters of the art event that I had … Read More

Goin’ Fishin’

June 27, 2019 | by Ethel Winslow

As a “baby” Baby Boomer (or elder GenXer), I’ve come to realize we had it pretty good as kids in the 60s and 70s. My mom was a teacher, and my dad always seemed to have jobs that allowed him to take off a couple of weeks every summer. He … Read More

Herron High School was Originally Indianapolis Museum of Art

May 23, 2019 | by Paula Nicewanger

I didn’t realize until recently that most Hoosiers under the age of 60 didn’t know that the original Indianapolis Museum of Art was built in 1902 at 16th and Penn — known as Herron High School now, formerly John Herron School of Art. I graduated from Herron School of Art … Read More