From The Hoosier Genealogist: Connections, Spring/Summer 2018. To receive Connections twice a year, join IHS and enjoy this and other member benefits. Back issues of Connections are available through the Basile History Market. “Dear Diary”—These two simple words invite readers, suggesting that the journal will reveal details about a person, perhaps even the person’s innermost thoughts and feelings, as well as details about significant […]
Father Boniface Hardin was born in 1933 and dedicated his life to serving others, especially the disenfranchised. After being ordained a priest at Saint Meinrad Archabbey, Hardin accepted the associate pastor position at Holy Angels Catholic Church in Indianapolis. His arrival in 1965 followed the church’s recent transition from having a predominantly white congregation to […]
IHS is proud to recognize extraordinary Hoosiers each year for their accomplishments both in Indiana and beyond. Join us at the History Center as we honor our 2018 Living Legends – Leonard Hoops, Sallie W. Rowland, Deborah Hearn Smith and Jeffrey H. Smulyan. The July 27, black-tie event includes a reception with the honorees, a gourmet […]
Walter N. Carpenter Family Photographs Walter Nathaniel Carpenter was born in 1865. He was a Federal District Court Reporter and prolific amateur photographer who documented life in Indianapolis from the 1890s until his death in 1937. Carpenter created more than 30 photo albums with carefully captioned and dated photographs of his family and his travels […]
From Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History, Spring 2018. To receive Traces four times a year, join IHS and enjoy this and other member benefits. Back issues of Traces are available through the Basile History Market. The world came to know Reverend Jim Jones as the mad maestro of a real-life horror show that left 918 people, many of them children, dead in a […]
Adah Jane Yeager was born on Oct. 14, 1900, in Somerville, Gibson County, Indiana. She lived most of her life in Indiana, with a couple years’ sojourn to Denver in 1922 and 1923. There she married William George Jackson and gave birth to Mary Jean Jackson. The Jackson family then moved back to Indiana, living […]
From dunking doughnuts on the vaudeville stage to performing Clem Kadiddlehopper and Freddy the Freeloader on living room television sets across the nation, Red Skelton entertained generations of Americans with his physical comedy style. Born Richard Bernard Skelton in Vincennes in 1913, Red used entertainment as a way to escape his impoverished and rough-and-tumble home […]
Four National History Day in Indiana students – Warsaw seventh graders Keller Bailey, Jason Benyousky, Geoffrey Hochstetler and Ryun Hoffert – visited Pearl Harbor to meet and honor men who survived the burning and sinking of the USS Arizona on Dec. 7, 1941. The students researched their History Day project for a year – the […]
Thursdays in June and July | 6 to 8 p.m. Kruse Family Stardust Terrace, History Center Our Concerts on the Canal series is Indy’s favorite Thursday night summer hangout! This year, see your local favorites – from The Cool City Band to My Yellow Rickshaw. The Stardust Terrace Café, outdoor grill and cash bar, operated by […]
From Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History, Winter 2018. To receive Traces four times a year, join IHS and enjoy this and other member benefits. Back issues of Traces are available through the Basile History Market. Photo: first broadcast of basketball game play-by-play, IHS, WOWO Radio Station Photographs Collection, P 524. Radio station WOWO in Fort Wayne first signed on the air on March 31, […]
