June 6, 2024
There aren’t many National Parks east of the Mississippi River. We don’t have the magnificent land formations born of the Colorado Plateau. But we got the the Great Lakes. Indiana Dunes National Park is right next to the gorgeous Lake Michigan. It would be my day and night destination as Read more…
July 2, 2020
I have only been to Indiana once before in 2014 and was looking forward to reporting on vegan eats. But my best food plans needed to be flexible considering the current pandemic and what it has done to supply and demand of vegan options. Here is what I wanted to Read more…
June 30, 2020
Parts of an old New York City sky scraper are sitting in a field in Holliday Park in Indianapolis. Seems a random enough allure. So I stopped by to see the pained expressions of the men who use to hold up the St. Paul Building in Manhattan, demolished in 1958. Read more…
The tale of the Indiana Hospital for the Insane, later the Central State Hospital, is much like Farm Colony hospitals all across the country. Opening in the mid-1800’s, the sprawling and self sufficient colony covered 160 acres outside of downtown Indianapolis and included male and female wards, a farm worked Read more…
June 29, 2020
The Monroe Allison House, an abandoned pink “gingerbread house,” brought me to Metamora, Indiana… so you can imagine my disappointment to see that it was amidst renovations… 😂 But really, the charming stop in the historic Canal Town was just the magic I needed and all of what I love Read more…
The Knightridge Space Observatory in Bloomington, Indiana is a simple observatory built in simpler times. But since that time the city of Bloomington and telescopic technology have grown. And the two-room structure with a rotating dome ceiling has been left alone in the woods since. Functioning only for 30 years, Read more…
September 26, 2014
Some stops I just can’t resist. A mostly-vegan bakery inside an office building in downtown Fort Wayne, Indiana, a city with a dearth of vegan offerings, was one such stop: Pembroke Bakery & Cafe. Being this was my first bite of food today, I bought a bunch of goodies, including Read more…