Article Archives: Bumps in the Night

Irvington’s Disney Prince — Bill Shirley

December 5, 2024 | by Al Hunter

Al Hunter is on vacation. This is a reprint of an article he wrote in 2008. During the World War II years on through the I Like Ike years in America, Irvington had it’s own representative in Tinseltown. Irvingtonian Bill Shirley made fifteen movies starting in 1941 starring with Hollywood … Read More

Citizen’s Arrest, Citizen’s Arrest! Indiana’s Funny laws

November 27, 2024 | by Al Hunter

This column first appeared in December 2009. I was born and raised in Indiana. Growing up in 1960s in Indiana could be a challenge if you ever had to explain where you came from to people unfamiliar with our great state. As Hoosiers, the same questions always seem to surface … Read More

The Bona Thompson Memorial Center

November 21, 2024 | by Al Hunter

This column first appeared in October of 2010. It’s Halloween in Irvington and everyone’s thoughts turn to costumed trick-or-treaters, intricately decorated houses, painted windows lining merchant buildings on Washington Street, and ghosts. For eight years now, the very first stop on the Irvington Ghost tours has been the Bona Thompson … Read More

The Dust Bowl

November 14, 2024 | by Al Hunter

This column first appeared in March 2012. It cannot be denied that Basketball is connected to our state like a child to its mother. Whether you played it, watched it, or avoided it, you cannot deny that basketball is what Indiana is known for. Go ahead and make your argument … Read More

60s-70s Indianapolis kid’s TV in Irvington

November 7, 2024 | by Al Hunter

This column first appeared in November 2010. Children’s television shows of the 1960s and 1970s reflected good, old-fashioned ideas of family values. Households often gathered in front of the TV set as a family to eat frozen dinners out of space age aluminum trays, prime time programming was considered clean … Read More