The park updates honor the 58th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination and Robert F. Kennedy’s speech.
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Indiana going all out to celebrate America’s 250th birthday
From singalongs and lanterns, festivities look at Indiana’s role in shaping America
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Chinese royalty, a lost photo and where ‘Hoosier’ comes from
Three women who are historians shared their favorite lesser-known stories of Indianapolis history.
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What defines Indy? New exhibit looks at the good and the bad.
Indiana State Museum’s Indy A to Z exhibit will run until June 28.
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Take a tour of Indy women’s history
Visit 7 historical markers in Marion County to learn about the lives of suffragettes, a top lawyer and a prolific arts writer.
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What were arts and culture like in Indianapolis 40 years ago?
Learn about a foreign film festival in Castleton Square in the 1980s and IndyGo’s Poetry on the Bus in the library’s new digital collection.
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Indiana’s history with ‘practice babies’ comes to life in a play
In “Borrowed Babies,” playwright Jennifer Blackmer illuminates the rise and fall of programs that used real infants in home economics classes.
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Blue Line crews uncover tracks from city’s electric railway
The tracks guided streetcars pulled by mules, and later, electric streetcars and buses throughout Indianapolis.
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The ‘Dead Man’s Wire’ tour of Indy’s west side
Before the Gus Van Sant movie hits theaters, we revisited some of the places involved in the 1977 Tony Kiritsis hostage crisis.
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Greenlawn Cemetery: City finishes excavation of more than 1,700 graves
The majority of the graves archaeologists uncovered contained human remains.
