Article Archives: Bumps in the Night

Charlotte Corday

This 24-hour news cycle world can be exhausting. As I write this article, we stand at 120 days and counting until our next Presidential election. We are constantly reminded that this will be the most important election in the history of our country and that the end of Democracy is … Read More

Teddy Roosevelt & St. Vincent’s Hospital

Teddy Roosevelt was in a tight spot in 1902. Barely a year after being catapulted into the presidency by the assassination of William McKinley at the Buffalo, New York Pan-American Expo on September 6, 1901, T.R. was facing a revolt in his own party. Midwest Republicans were challenging the GOP … Read More

The Liberty Bell In Indianapolis

The Liberty Bell is believed to have been brought to Pennsylvania by William Penn, arriving in Philadelphia on September 1, 1752. Its original use was to announce the opening of the Courts of Justice and to call members of the Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly together. Surprisingly, the main purpose of the … Read More

Graceland Gentrification? Part 2

In part I of this article, I detailed our visit to Elvis Presley’s Graceland in Memphis Tennessee on May 22, 2024, the date that the story broke claiming Graceland was being foreclosed on! The lawsuit claimed that Lisa Marie Presley had defaulted on a $3.8 million loan back in 2018 … Read More

Graceland Gentrification?

Last month, Rhonda and I took a good old-fashioned road trip down to Dixieland. We headed west out of Indianapolis with plans in hand to stop at as many tourist trap destinations as we could handle. Our goal for the first leg of the trip was Elvis Presley’s Graceland, reportedly … Read More