Article Archives: Bumps in the Night

Feast & Famine — Henry Flagler and the Last Indianapolis Street Car, Part 2

July 26, 2018 | by Al Hunter

At 11:59 p.m. on Thursday July 12, 2018, the Indiana Transportation Museum (ITM) in Noblesville, Indiana ceased to exist when the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office swarmed the grounds at Forest Park and sealed the property. The closing, although known by all parties involved, still came as a shock to the … Read More

Feast & Famine — Henry Flagler & the Last Indianapolis Street Car

July 19, 2018 | by Al Hunter

By the time you read this, the Indiana Transportation Museum (ITM) in Noblesville will be gone. If you are a fan of trains, or a lover of history in general, no doubt you’ve been keeping tabs on the sad demise of this central Indiana institution. Reports of problems at the … Read More

The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death

July 12, 2018 | by Al Hunter

Recently I was fortunate enough to take a tour of an American treasure in the Maryland Medical Examiner’s Office in Baltimore, Maryland. An American treasure in a medical examiner’s office? Yes dear reader, let me share with you a story about the coolest display you’re ever likely to find in … Read More

The Emperor Jones

July 4, 2018 | by Al Hunter

This article first appeared in the September 9, 2011 issue. It was Wednesday night March 16, 1921, St. Patrick’s Day Eve, and Indianapolis was stretching the boundaries of the cultural heartland. That is, with the help of recent Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Eugene O’Neill. The state and nation were in … Read More

General James Longstreet at Gettysburg, Part 3

June 21, 2018 | by Al Hunter

Any student of history knows that Gettysburg was the turning point of the Civil War. Up until 2:00 p.m. on July 3rd 1863, when General James Longstreet ordered General George Pickett out of the woods along Seminary Ridge, the South still had a chance. Pickett’s charge would fail miserably and … Read More