by Hank Nuwer | Apr 11, 2024 | Sports, Uncategorized
by Hank Nuwer My column today profiles a Winchester member of the Cup of Coffee Club. That club consists of baseball players who participated in a single major league game. Troy Levi Puckett was a descendent of close-knit kin who held a family reunion each year in...
by Hank Nuwer | Apr 6, 2024 | Hank Nuwer Indiana & Ohio Stories, True Crime
On February 21, 1998, a 19-year-old gentle soul named Lynn Topp from North Star, Ohio, walked for exercise on a less-traveled road off Ohio 49. A student at Wright State University’s Lake Campus in Celina, she had thick, abundant hair and a cheerful smile always on...
by Hank Nuwer | Apr 6, 2024 | Hank Nuwer Indiana & Ohio Stories, True Crime
Philip Kabel of Randolph County penned occasional pieces on Randolph County history for the Union City paper. One such story, addressed the hideous March 22, 1824, murders of peaceful Native Americans by white settlers on Fall Creek hunting grounds in Madison County....
by Hank Nuwer | Apr 5, 2024 | Uncategorized
Hank Nuwer plays the villain who (spoiler) dies in the end in the University of Alaska’s black-humor comedy titled Something in the Living Room. Photo: Nuwer as the assassin called The Professor. Link: https://www.facebook.com/reel/881023883711532...
by Hank Nuwer | Apr 5, 2024 | Uncategorized
Edith Mae Grinstead was born Dec. 21, 1896, in Tipton to high school custodian John Franklin Grinstead and his wife Mary. At 17, she married farmer Walter W. Kritsch in 1914. One of Walter’s best friends was William Ray Dawson. Dawson was born July 21, 1893. William...
