Article Archives: Boomerang

Peewinkle’s Puppets are Magic

December 21, 2017 | by Steve Nicewanger

Hey, all you Boomer parents and grandparents! Do you want to know a really enchanting place to take your kids and grandkids for a really wonderful time? Well, take them to a show at Peewinkle’s Puppet Studio, located in the Indiana State Museum (650 W. Washington St.). Try attending one … Read More

A Role I Was Born to Play

November 23, 2017 | by Steve Nicewanger

I have a Facebook buddy named Gay Lyons. Gay and I go way back. We went to kindergarten together and continued through grade school, junior high and high school at Arlington. After graduation I lost track of Gay for a very long time, but through social media we renewed our … Read More

Samhain or Halloween

October 26, 2017 | by Steve Nicewanger

October 31 is All Hallow’s Eve, the day before November 1 which is All Saints Day, a very sacred day in the tradition of the Catholic Church. So where did Halloween come from? About 3,500 B.C., the Celts, Gauls and other Germanic tribes of Northern and Western Europe developed into … Read More

Going to The Masquerade Ball

September 21, 2017 | by Paula Nicewanger

My favorite time of the year is here – FALL!! I love everything about it, the weather, the color of the leaves as they change and of course Halloween. My husband and I have always celebrated Halloween in a big way. For 20 years in a row we had a … Read More

The Day They Took the Sun Away

August 24, 2017 | by Steve Nicewanger

2017 has been a turbulent year to say the least. Little to get excited about and less to rally around. The solar eclipse, therefore, had been something that we as a nation could all jump on. It was exclusively an event that was affecting the United States. It was going … Read More