Article Archives: Bumps in the Night

Teach Your Children Well

April 17, 2014 | by Al Hunter

Recently I took my wife and daughter out antiquing on a sunny Saturday morning. Coming off the coldest, bitterest winter I can remember, we really were just itching for a reason to get out of the house. We piled in the car and drove over to Dayton, Ohio to a … Read More

The Plots to Kill Richard Nixon from the Sky, Part 2

April 10, 2014 | by Al Hunter

Where were you 40 years ago? February 1974 was a busy month in pop history. “Good Times” (a spin-off from “Maude”) premiered on CBS TV, Barbra Streisand’s “The Way We Were” became her first Number 1 hit, Patty Hearst was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army, and the U.S. House … Read More

The Plots to Kill Richard Nixon from the Sky, Part 1

April 3, 2014 | by Al Hunter

Just for a moment, let’s revisit those dark days of Watergate in the Nixon White House 40 years ago. Julie Nixon Eisenhower was recovering from emergency surgery in her penthouse suite high atop the IU Med Center in the Circle City and her daddy, the President, was on his way … Read More

The Gettysburg Wax Museum Auction

March 27, 2014 | by Al Hunter

Seeking escape from the coldest, harshest winter in recent memory, wife Rhonda suggested attending the liquidation auction at an iconic baby boomer tourist landmark on the site of America’s greatest battlefield; The Gettysburg Wax Museum in Pennsylvania. Aware of my penchant for tourist traps and knowing that the museum was … Read More

An American Princess in Indianapolis

March 20, 2014 | by Al Hunter

Forty years ago, Indianapolis passed an anniversary that qualifies as a footnote in our city’s history that kick-started a painful memory in my own life. On February 15, 1974 President Richard M. Nixon’s daughter, Julie Nixon Eisenhower, entered an Indianapolis hospital operating room to undergo emergency surgery to halt internal … Read More