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July 20, 2009

 

A Stone of One’s Own

The building block of the nation’s public landscape is equally renowned for its role in private life.

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July 13, 2009

 

Making Tracks Out of the Stone Age

Mechanization of the removal and transport of Indiana limestone ultimately transformed the skylines of New York, Chicago and Washington.

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July 6, 2009

 

Circus City Parade

Peru, Indiana bills itself as the Circus Capital of the World, and rightly so.

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June 29, 2009

 

The Archdukes of Atterbury

Camp Atterbury was built just after the US entry in World War 2, soon training countless battalions--one of which left barely a trace.

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June 22, 2009

 

20th-Century Archaeology

One tends to think of archaeological excavation in the context of ancient Roman ruins, but there’s plenty to be learned from a dig in the backyard.

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June 15, 2009

 

See you in September

Every spring a new generation of students around the county gets exposed to an Indianapolis-based brand name.

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June 8, 2009

 

Little Detroit

In its heyday, the automotive industry was so concentrated in Connersville that the city qualified as the manufacturing capital of the world.

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June 1, 2009

 

Is the Bloom off the Peony?

While paying respects in Hoosier cemeteries over Memorial Day weekend, one encounters a recurring floral motif.

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May 25, 2009

 

The car that made good in a day

The car that made good in a day...the Stutz Bearcat.

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May 18, 2009

 

Spinning dreams out of two wheels

Two staples of twentieth-century American culture share a common progenitor. Ironically, the father of the Indy 500--and Miami Beach--rolled in on two wheels.

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