Article Archives: Bumps in the Night

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

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