Monthly Archives: October 2015

World War I 100 Years Ago: Oct. 23-30

October 22, 2015 | by Steven R. Barnett

From The Indianapolis Star, Saturday, October 23, 1915: The price of peroxide has gone up 200 percent in the last two months and in all probability will keep going up. This is another one of the horrors of war. Some of the chemical components of peroxide come from the war … Read More

Butter Churns

October 22, 2015 | by Linda Hamer Kennett

In my household you can’t serve ham without baked potatoes and you can’t serve a baked potato without butter. Realizing I had none of that golden ingredient, off I went to the neighborhood grocery for what I thought would be a simple chore. Standing at the dairy counter I was … Read More

Applause!: Oct. 23-30

October 22, 2015 | by Weekly View

• IRT will present the World Premiere of April 4, 1968: Before We Forgot How to Dream by playwright-in-residence James Still , running Oct. 20-Nov. 15. Following five years of community listening projects with more than 50 Indianapolis residents after the historic events of Martin Luther King’s assassination April 4, … Read More

Pat Quinlan and the Ghost of H.H. Holmes, Part 1

October 22, 2015 | by Al Hunter

As a lover of all things historical, the stories I find myself most drawn to often include the aftermath of a historical event. One such story involves an incident and personality from the pages of Irvington history. In October of 1894, America’s first serial killer, Dr. H.H. Holmes committed one … Read More

Law and Order

October 22, 2015 | by CJ Woods III

In 1981, Steven Bochco introduced a police drama to the country and I was one of millions who adopted it. Bochco trained as a playwright at Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie Mellon University) in Pittsburgh, and it has been said that he got the idea for “Hill Street Blues” from observing … Read More