Monthly Archives: September 2017

“Blazing Barriers” at Garfield Park, Special Discussion on CCC

September 21, 2017 | by Weekly View

INDIANAPOLIS — Film historian Eric Grayson will screen Blazing Barriers on Sept. 23 at 8 p.m. at the Garfield Park Arts Center. The 1937 film is about two young boys who are in trouble with the law and decide to hide out by joining the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). The … Read More

Indiana State Museum to Honor Veterans with Display

September 21, 2017 | by Weekly View

INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites is seeking photo submissions of current and former service members for the annual Heroes from the Heartland display. The project recognizes Indiana’s faces of valor by showcasing the images in a large photo display and Facebook gallery. The submission period for … Read More

Abraham Lincoln Grave Robbers, Part 1

September 21, 2017 | by Al Hunter

    The details of Lincoln’s death by assassination are well known by Americans young and old and need not be recounted here. I have done my level best over the years to inform Hoosiers of the mournful Lincoln funeral train that brought Mr. Lincoln through Indiana and Irvington, so … Read More

Doorways

September 21, 2017 | by CJ Woods III

An article in Scientific American, published in December, 2011 by two grad students from Washington University in St. Louis, discusses a study by researchers from Notre Dame. The paper the researchers published was titled, “Walking through doorways causes forgetting.” I remember hearing an NPR report on the “doorway effect,” and … Read More

Newgarden is the 2017 Champ

September 21, 2017 | by Steve Nicewanger

Simon Pagenand won the last IndyCar race of the 2017 season at the Sonoma CA road course, but it was his teammate Josef Newgarden who came away with the series championship. The GoPro Grand Prix of Sonoma, the last race of 2017, had been promoted as a possible battle between … Read More