Author Archives: Ray Boomhower

Traces and Me

| March 19, 2018

In the spring of 1938 a reporter for the Indianapolis Times newspaper, John Bartlow Martin, seeking to break away from the daily grind of journalism, used his experiences visiting the Dominican Republic to produce a freelance article on the brutal dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo for Ken, a national magazine edited by Arnold Gingrich. After a […]

Hot Off the Press: Rebel Bulldog

| January 12, 2018

Rebel Bulldog: The Story of One Family, Two States, and the Civil War tells the story of Preston Davidson, a Northerner who fought for the Confederacy, and his family who lived in Indiana and Virginia. It is a tale that examines antebellum religion, education, reform and politics, and how they affected the identity of not […]