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.
Tag: history
Posted inArts & Culture
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.
Posted inNeighborhoods
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.
Posted inGovernment
Greenlawn Cemetery: City finishes excavation of more than 1,700 graves
The majority of the graves archaeologists uncovered contained human remains.
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This is what Halloween in Indy looked like 1910s-1980s
Big pumpkins, parades, cigarettes and witches.
Posted inNeighborhoods
Before more is lost, Martindale residents want history preserved
Indiana Landmarks is working on getting the eastside neighborhood listed as a National Historic District
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The lost photographs of Osbert Sumner
Historian Deedee Davis’ research began seven years ago to tell a different story of life in Indianapolis from 1898-1903.
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An art project 150 years in the making
Janet Fry’s great-great-grandmother’s journal from 1875 is the subject of a new exhibition at Storage Space Gallery.
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4 places tell the hidden story of Chinese resilience in Indianapolis
Through chop suey shops and laundries, early Chinese immigrants helped shape our city.
