by Hank Nuwer | Jul 19, 2024 | Uncategorized
I wanted to write a little something about the National Annie Oakley Center housed at Greenville’s Garst Museum. Naturally I walked one whole block from our house to the Union City, Ind., Carnegie Library. Always helpful library director Lawrence Sexton found me a...
by Hank Nuwer | Jul 19, 2024 | Uncategorized
Last Frontier Days By Hank Nuwer President Warren Gamaliel Harding rose from newspaper editor in Marion, Ohio, to a “front porch” president after easily winning the 1920 election. Harding embarked on a tour of Alaska in 1923. His underlying goal was to...
by Hank Nuwer | Jul 19, 2024 | Uncategorized
Hank Nuwer When The Right Rev. Peter Trimble Rowe died in British Columbia at age 85 in 1942, his thousands of friends and admirers in Alaska expressed surprise. His adventurous, rugged outdoorsman adventures, while Episcopal bishop in the North for nearly a half...
by Hank Nuwer | Jul 19, 2024 | Uncategorized
One of the most vicious murderers convicted of killing a victim in Randolph County invoked his constitutional right to an appeal in 2002. The Supreme Court of Indiana tagged the case as Anthony G. Hernandez v. State of Indiana. Here is the...
by Hank Nuwer | Jul 4, 2024 | Uncategorized
Accomplishment 2025 First Place, Best Commentary in Division, Hoosier State Press Association. 2025 Launch of HazingInfo database: https://www.hazinginfo.org/hazing-death-database-about 2025 Podcast by Ian Mandt et al, A Weed in The Garden of Academe,...
by Hank Nuwer | Jun 28, 2024 | Uncategorized
Four bandits sped into Farmland from the northwest at 1 p.m. on April 28, 1937, passing the plows and tractors of farmers who worked for their daily bread. As lookout Clarence Shaffer and another man stood guard by the getaway car with tommy guns locked and loaded,...