Article Archives: Bumps in the Night

Where did you go Ambrose Bierce?

September 26, 2024 | by Al Hunter

110 years ago last week, one of the most famous journalists you’ve never heard of disappeared from the face of the earth. Sometime between September 18- 24 Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was reported missing. And of course, he had Hoosier ties. Less than two weeks after the start of the Civil … Read More

The Blue Gate in Shipshewana

September 19, 2024 | by Al Hunter

Last week my wife and I celebrated our 35th anniversary by returning to where it all started for us: Shipshewana, Indiana. Rhonda and my first “date” was a trip up north on State Road 5 to the fields of Amishland to hunt for treasures at the flea market there. I … Read More

Warren Zevon — Accidently Like a Martyr

September 12, 2024 | by Al Hunter

This column first appeared in August 2013. It’s hard to believe its been a decade since Warren Zevon died. If the name is not familiar to you, his songs might be: “Werewolves of London,” “Poor, Poor Pitiful Me” or “Lawyers, Guns and Money” should ring a bell. Zevon was considered … 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

Johnny and June Carter Cash’s Home: Nashville’s Graceland, Part 2

August 29, 2024 | by Al Hunter

After reading Part 1 of this article, it should come as no surprise that Johnny and June Carter Cash’s beloved Lake House has a mystique all its own. Johnny and June lived happily in the house for some 35 years. When they died (four months apart) in 2003, it sat … Read More