shows Archive

August 31, 2009

From Peace to Rage

In the fall of 1969, the leader of the Weather Underground came through Bloomington to recruit students for a street protest in Chicago--and failed to do so.

August 24, 2009

National Black Political Convention

In 1972, thousands of members of the African-American community were “Goin’ Back to Indiana” for a groundbreaking political event.

August 17, 2009

Beyond Steel, in the Magic City

As the Jacksons’ musical star rose in the late 1960s, their hardscrabble hometown was in decline.

August 10, 2009

Goin’ Back to Indiana

“Goin’ Back to Indiana” was a multi-media phenomenon capitalizing on the legend of the Jacksons’ small-town Hoosier identity.

August 3, 2009

Astronauts’ Cradle

Neil Armstrong’s history-making voyage 250,000 miles from home began two decades earlier with the 220-mile trip from Wapakoneta, Ohio to West Lafayette.

July 27, 2009

Putting Stock in Summer

In 1967, John Belushi had just graduated from a high school outside of Chicago when he went to spend the summer at Bloomfield’s Shawnee Theatre.

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.

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.

July 6, 2009

Circus City Parade

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

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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