Monthly Archives: September 2013

The Vinton House

If you’re looking for something to do this weekend and want to get out of town for the day, I have a suggestion for you. Pack up the spouse, the kids, friend or significant other and head out to Cambridge City, 45 minutes east of Indy, for Canal Days festivities … Read More

Back to the Future

They can be kitschy cool and flamboyant or sleek and sophisticated. They can exude simplicity or wild abandon. They can take you back to your days as a teen buzzing the local drive-in, or indulge your sentimental side with thoughts of your grandma’s homemade cookies. “THEY” are Retro-Mod kitchens of … Read More

Will the Colts Be Lucky in 2013?

his coming Sunday, the Indianapolis Colts will kick off season number 29 here in the Circle City, hosting the Oakland Raiders. After last year’s surprising 11-5 season and a 1 and out in the playoffs, the Horseshoe can’t count on that element of surprise to help them over the hump … Read More

Matters of the Heart, Continued

During several stays over the past fifty years at an eastside hospital near our home, Bill and I have received excellent care from competent, kind physicians, nurses and aides, and the menu has been upgraded. However, it’s impossible to get much sleep in health care facilities. They need to check … Read More

100 Years Ago This Week: Sept. 6-13

From The Indianapolis News, Friday, September 12, 1913:  At a luncheon today, a plan was announced to create a $250,000 (2013:  $5,871,994.95) building fund for Methodist Hospital.  Although the hospital bears a denominational name, it recognizes no creeds in its operations or patient treatment, and from the beginning it has … Read More