Article Archives: Bumps in the Night

Johnny and June Carter Cash’s Home: Nashville’s Graceland, Part 1

August 22, 2024 | by Al Hunter

In July of 2013, my wife and I made the 4 1/2 hour drive down to Nashville Tennessee for my birthday. After a few stops in Music City, we made an 18-mile side trip to the northeast suburb of Hendersonville and Old Hickory Lake. We traveled to Hendersonville to visit … Read More

Reggie Harding & The Supremes

August 15, 2024 | by Al Hunter

Detroit 7’0″ high school phenom Reggie Harding had a brief, but hauntingly promising, stint with our Pacers fifty years ago during the team’s first season in the upstart ABA. He had recently been cut loose by the Chicago Bulls after just 14 games into that milestone season of 1967-68. Harding … Read More

Highway 127: The World’s Longest Yard Sale

August 8, 2024 | by Al Hunter

This column first appeared in August 2016. The sale this year is held Aug. 7-10. Our first day on the 127 Yard Sale (a.k.a. the World’s Longest or 127 sale) was tiring but an adventure nonetheless. This popular annual event that officially begins on the first Thursday in August, spans … Read More

“Louie Louie”

August 1, 2024 | by Al Hunter

This column first appeared in August 2013. Fifty years ago this week, a song was released by an obscure Portland Oregon garage band that would change the face of rock ‘n’ roll history forever and ultimately resonate through the halls of the Indiana Statehouse. “Louie Louie” was written by Richard … Read More

Tricky Dick Nixon and the Hook Up

July 25, 2024 | by Al Hunter

Tricia Nixon’s musical choice for a July 17th, 1970 party in honor of Britain’s Prince Charles and his sister Princess Anne was a Canadian band known as the Guess Who. The band was scheduled to play live on the White House lawn for the royal fete despite the fact that … Read More