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Indiana Weekend Lemon Drop The latest in our occasional series on great local places to eat. This is the Lemon Drop in Anderson, where owner Bill Pitts has been on the job – six nights a week – for more than 40 years. We drop by and get to meet two local basketball coaching legends among the crowd of […]
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Indiana Weekend Thanksgiving Dinner If you’ve found yourself in the giving mood lately, you’re not alone. It turns out that charities receive about 40 percent of their total annual contributions in the last few weeks of the year. So it was in that spirit that the Boy Scouts and Muncie firefighters teamed up to […]
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Indiana Weekend Nov. 22 – Creative Class Increasingly, local officials in Indiana who focus on economic development are looking beyond just the efforts to lure the next factory. They’re trying to figure out how to make themselves more hospitable to the managers, knowledge workers and other members of what’s been termed “the creative class.” […]
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Indiana Weekend 11/15 – Blues Student An Anderson guitar player with the a gift for the blues demonstrates the ties between Robert Johnson’s music of 1936 and the Eric Clapton hit “Crossroads,” along with ties to other popular music. Check out his playing on the show – and in a special “encore” sound clip […]
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Indiana Weekend 11/8/13 Immigration March A group of 20 mostly Hispanic people marched from Indianapolis to Anderson this week to ask U.S. Rep. Susan Brooks to support an immigration bill awaiting action in the House. We meet two teen-age leaders of the group, and the country pastor who let them rest on his property […]
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Indiana Weekend 11/1/13 Fall Harvest This has been a good year for Indiana farmers – especially compared with last year’s drought. To see how they’re doing we went out to the fields talking with folks and even climbed aboard a combine to cut beans in Madison County. Listen to this episode online: Back to […]
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Indiana Weekend 10/25 Ghost Hunters In time for Halloween, meet the Indianapolis filmmaker and the Lafayette-area ghost hunter who’ve searched for signs of the spirits in “haunted” sites across Indiana. Listen to this episode online: Back to Indiana Weekend
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Indiana Weekend 10/18 Online Privacy This is National Cyber Security Awareness Month, when we’re reminded about protecting ourselves online. But you might wonder in light of recent headlines, who are we protecting ourselves FROM? Listen to this episode online: Back to Indiana Weekend
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Indiana Weekend Oct. 10, 2013 – Wolf Park We visit one of the state’s most unusual educational attractions – Wolf Park near Lafayette, which features “Howl Nights” on Fridays and Saturdays through November. Our Indiana Weekend microphones – but not our reporter – go behind the safety fence with park workers as they play […]
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Indiana Weekend 10/4/13 – Apple Orchards, Jet Hitchhiker We visit the folks at Tuttle Orchards northwest of Greenfield for a jug of cider and a lesson in Apples 101. And we meet Amber Nolan, headed to an Indiana airfield soon as part of her bid to visit all 50 states – by hitching rides […]
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Indiana Weekend 9/27/13 – Top Teachers Indiana’s Teacher of the Year will be announced next month. The 10 finalists were named recently, and we’ll meet two of them: Kelly Scott of Storer Elementary School in Muncie; and Steve Perkins, a Latin teacher from North Central High School in Indianapolis. They’ll tell us why they […]
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Indiana Weekend 9/20/13 – Indiana SWAT Challenge Seventeen Indiana police departments compete to see who has the best SWAT team, and we learn what it takes to make the grade on one of these elite units. Also, we visit the Emily Kimbrough Historic District on East Washington Street. Listen to this episode online: […]
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Indiana Weekend 9/13 – James Dean James Dean, the ’50s film icon and Indiana native, is the subject of an upcoming new movie about his life. And he’s remembered every year at the end of September when Fairmount celebrates the James Dean Festival and the local kid who became the international symbol of cool. […]
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Indiana Weekend 9/6 – Indiana Pow Wows Native American pow wows have become a regular part of the festival lineup in Indiana. We’ll talk with Mike Pace, an organizer of this weekend’s Andersontown Pow Wow and Indian Market in Anderson, along with James Brown, co-editor of an oral history book about the Delaware Indians. […]
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Indiana Weekend 8/30/13 – Drive-Ins The drive-in movie theater, long a staple of summertime America, faces a new threat on the financial front – the need to upgrade to expensive digital projection systems. We talk about Indiana’s drive-ins and visit with a central Indiana theater owner who says some operators may not make it […]
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Indiana Weekend 8/23 – Knightstown Railroad Tom Allison on one of the last runs of his CKS excursion railroad, which has operated between Knightstown and Carthage for 27 years. Tom says he is closing at the end of August because the line is losing money. The railroad is for sale, and he hopes to […]
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Indiana Weekend 8/2/13 – Model Planes National Model Aviation Day is Aug. 17, and that means something special on the east side of Muncie, home to the Academy of Model Aeronautics. The group just wrapped up four weeks of national competitions and is also in the middle of the debate over the use of drones […]
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Indiana Weekend 7/26/13 – Gov. Ed Whitcomb Former Gov. Ed Whitcomb, an adventurer who attempted a solo trip around the world by sailboat in his 70s, is honored on Monday with a bust of his likeness at the Indiana Statehouse. We travel to his home in a remote town near the Ohio River and talk with […]
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Indiana Weekend 7/19 – Midwest Writers The 40th Midwest Writers Workshop begins next Thursday in Muncie. We talk with workshop director Jama Bigger and Professor Cathy Day of Ball State University about what’s new this year – including sessions on social media to help the writers promote their work. Listen to this episode:
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Indiana Weekend 7/12 – Peru Circus One of the state’s best-known festivals, the Peru Amateur Youth Circus, begins this weekend and we hear from senior ringmaster Bruce Embrey and former circus member Sandy Ploss, who went on to help produce the show and remains one of the festival organizers. Listen to this episode: […]