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Archive for September 2011

September 5, 2011

 

divorce cake

The Divorce Mill Of The Midwest

Indiana lawmakers in the 1850s were accused of having “practically legalized Free Love and its endless and nameless abominations" through liberal divorce laws.

September 12, 2011

 

The old cabin

Aspiring Towards Utopia: Blue Spring Community

New Harmony was not the only community in the state to be inspired by the utopian visions of 19th-century social reformer Robert Owen.

September 19, 2011

 

White River State Park

Reenvisioning The City Of Streams

Urban planner George Kessler raved about the Circle City's diagonal thoroughfares and plentiful waterways, but bemoaned its hands-off attitude toward growth.

September 26, 2011

 

The Vote Felt ‘Round The World

When a DeKalb County farmhand hurried to Kendallville on election day in 1842, he cast a vote that may have that forever changed the fates of two nations

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