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October 16, 2006

 

Lyles Station

The names of most of the places settled by African-American pioneers in the nineteenth century have disappeared, but one remains.

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October 9, 2006

 

Orville Redenbacher

"Do One Thing, And Do it Better than Anyone." Orville Redenbacher's slogan from a 1987 commercial for Gourmet Popping Corn summed up his life's work.

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October 2, 2006

 

The Hulman Legacy

By 1899, Herman Hulman had introduced Clabber Girl Baking Powder, which became a regional bakers' favorite.

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September 25, 2006

 

Black Pioneer Settlements

Only a few buildings and annual gatherings remain of the thirty to sixty Indiana farming settlements established before the Civil War by African-Americans.

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September 18, 2006

 

The Kinsey Institute

When people talk about sex these days, their discussions are most likely informed by research conducted at Indiana University from the 1930s through the 60s.

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September 11, 2006

 

1963 Coliseum Explosion

At the Fairgrounds Coliseum on Halloween night 1963, more than 4,000 spectators watched Holiday on Ice when, during the finale, there was a massive explosion.

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September 4, 2006

 

Elwood Haynes

Charles and Frank Duryea claimed to have made the first automobile. Elwood Haynes of Kokomo, Indiana challenged the Duryea Brothers' claim.

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August 28, 2006

 

Howard Hawks

Howard Winchester Hawks directed The Twentieth Century --a 1934 movie starring his second cousin and Fort Wayne native Carole Lombard.

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August 21, 2006

 

Go West, Young Man!

"Go West, young man!" sums up the pioneering spirit of the nineteenth century. The origin of this slogan for Manifest Destiny, however, is not as clear.

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August 14, 2006

 

Middletown

Muncie, Indiana was the heart of an ethnological study to chart everyday life in middle America in the 1920s.

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