Friday Photos: Heartfelt Veteran’s Day Ceremony

11 Nov
Charles Frazee, USMC, WW2, Pacific Theater

Charles Frazee, USMC, WW2, Pacific Theater

Over 100 veterans representing all branches of service

Over 100 veterans representing all branches of service

4th graders

4th graders

Kindergarden-3rd graders

Kindergarden-3rd graders

 

 

 

 

 

These beautiful students sang, recognized each veteran by name with a pin and card, and applauded.  A slide show featured larger than life photos of each veteran.  (Charles Frazee had five photos :).  Each grade sang the song for the Army, Navy, AirForce, Marine Corp and Coast Guard.  The first graders sang the Marine Corp Hymn.  The fourth graders finished with “Anchors Away”.  “Taps” was played to honor those who died in service.

 

Very proud day to be an American!  God bless the USA.

 

 

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Indy Star: Indy when the Cubs were last champs

3 Nov

From Indy Star

Indy when the Cubs were last champs

http://indy.st/2ffCtsF

The last time the Chicago Cubs won the World Series was Oct. 14, 1908.The next day The Indianapolis Star reported the victory on Page 1. “Cubs Win Pennant Easily from Tigers,” the headline said. “Wherever they are talking about the world’s baseball championship tonight,” the story began, “they are cussing the wonderful Chicago Cubs.”Here are nine other things people were talking about that day, according to The Star. These are headlines only, except for the “Man Says He Was Robbed” and “Horse Stealing Disease” stories and the one about the man who fell over dead a moment after saying how well he felt and the one about the mugging of the too-trusting man from a small town. Those, due to their brevity, are reprinted in full.

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Delightful Outdoor Art!

1 Nov

Mother Nature impresses us with bold fall colors and textures.  Bonus discovery!  the Indianapolis Art Center’s featured outdoor sculptures.  Check these out:

Crescendo

Crescendo

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Great way to add interest to parking lot with flowers, herbs, vegetables

Great way to add interest to parking lot with flowers, herbs, vegetables

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Canoe launch site

Canoe launch site

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There is more to see of the grounds!

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Indy Star: Indiana-made furniture still provides rustic comfort

29 Oct

From Indy Star

Indiana-made furniture still provides rustic comfort

http://indy.st/2eBlFxg

Few businesses have survived two world wars, the Great Depression and a recession, but the venerable Old Hickory Furniture Co. has persevered by turning out rustic lodge furniture.Legend has it that North Carolina native Billy Richardson and his father made hickory sapling hoop chairs for The Hermitage, the home of President Andrew Jackson, and used Jackson’s nickname, Old Hickory, as the company name. Richardson moved to Indiana and began selling his chairs in Martinsville in the 1890s. The company was founded in an abandoned Martinsville church in 1894, andit incorporated in 1898 when it started producing a full line of hickory sapling furniture.

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Friday Photo: IChing No. 24 Return

28 Oct
My personal experience climbing trees does not involve a ladder. It does for deer hunters. The season is weeks away.

Deer hunting season is weeks away.

My personal experience climbing trees does not involve a ladder.  🙂  It does for deer hunters.

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Fantastic Fall Fun. Indy Star: Check out this photo from Corn mazes around the USA

27 Oct

From Indy Star

Corn mazes around the USA

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Skelly’s Farm in Janesville,
Wisc., has been cutting corn mazes since 1998. They have a 6 acre “Adventure Corn Maze” and a larger 9 acre puzzle called “The Impossible Maze.”

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Friday Photos: IChing No.19 Approach

21 Oct
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Looks like it is easier to go thru!

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Looks like it is easier to go over.

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Indy Star: Haunted house brings H.H. Holmes’ horror to life

21 Oct

From Indy Star

Haunted house brings H.H. Holmes’ horror to life

http://indy.st/2eVPyJM

The crimes of H.H. Holmes are the stuff of horror movies. A handsome young doctor who lures young women to his hotel with promises of work or love, but the hotel is a warren of death, filled with gas chambers, trap doors and chutes that led to subterranean dissection table and crematorium. All set against the dramatic backdrop of the “White City” constructed for the 1895 Chicago World’s Fair.In all, Holmes — born Herman Webster Mudgett — is believed to have murdered as many as 200 people from 1886 until his capture in 1894. The exact number is unknown. And while he is best known for his so-called “Murder Castle” in Chicago, Holmes left his mark on Indianapolis.

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Indy Star: Bison are back on the Indiana prairie

20 Oct

From Indy Star

Bison are back on the Indiana prairie

http://indy.st/2eQPD1x

MOROCCO, Ind. – A bison herd is now roaming a northwestern Indiana prairie that the Nature Conservancy has spent two decades restoring.The conservation group released 23 bison from South Dakota into the Kankakee Sands prairie restoration area on Saturday. The Nature Conservancy has planted nearly 6,500 acres of prairie at that Newton County site since 1996.The bison are confined to a 1,060-acre pasture at Kankakee Sands. Hiking is now prohibited in that area.Land steward Tony Capizzo says the bison should increase the site’s plant and animal diversity by grazing and disturbing the soil.Visitors to the area about 50 miles northwest of Lafayette can watch the bison in action from an elevated viewing area located just off U.S. 41 near the town of Morocco.

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Fall Festival: Covered Bridges

18 Oct

60th Annual Parke County, Indiana Covered Bridge Festival

Two weeks starting the second Friday in October.

We missed the crowds on a rainy afternoon, drove over this bridge named “Rolling Stone” built in 1915 and took these photos.

http://www.coveredbridges.com/events/parke-county-covered-bridge-festival

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