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WFIU: Moment of Indiana History

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Brief explorations of Indiana History, historic places and people. Produced by WFIU and the Indiana Public Broadcasting Stations.


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Goin' Back to Indiana
"Goin' Back to Indiana", was not only a hit song for the Jackson 5, but a TV special featuring special guests Bill Cosby, Rosey Grier, and several NBA stars. Allegedly taped in the Jackson's hometown of Gary in May 1971, records indicate that the boys may have only made it as far as Indianapolis....

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[ Mon, 24 Aug 2009 11:14:41 -0400 ]


Beyond Steel, in the Magic City
In 2003, Michael Jackson made a public appearance at Gary's U.S. Steel Yard, where he discussed the possibility of helping the city raise funds for an art center. Although the project never came to fruition, at the time of the star's passing, Gary Mayor Rudy Clay speculated that a Jackson museum could be the very thing to resuscitate the city....

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[ Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:03:34 -0400 ]


Goin' Back to Indiana
"Goin' Back to Indiana", was not only a hit song for the Jackson 5, but a TV special featuring special guests Bill Cosby, Rosey Grier, and several NBA stars. Allegedly taped in the Jackson's hometown of Gary in May 1971, records indicate that the boys may have only made it as far as Indianapolis....

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[ Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:03:30 -0400 ]


Beyond Steel, in the Magic City
In 2003, Michael Jackson made a public appearance at Gary's U.S. Steel Yard, where he discussed the possibility of helping the city raise funds for an art center. Although the project never came to fruition, at the time of the star's passing, Gary Mayor Rudy Clay speculated that a Jackson museum could be the very thing to resuscitate the city....

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[ Sun, 23 Aug 2009 10:55:22 -0400 ]


Goin' Back to Indiana
"Goin' Back to Indiana", was not only a hit song for the Jackson 5, but a TV special featuring special guests Bill Cosby, Rosey Grier, and several NBA stars. Allegedly taped in the Jackson's hometown of Gary in May 1971, records indicate that the boys may have only made it as far as Indianapolis....

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[ Sun, 23 Aug 2009 10:55:14 -0400 ]


Beyond Steel, in the Magic City
In 2003, Michael Jackson made a public appearance at Gary's U.S. Steel Yard, where he discussed the possibility of helping the city raise funds for an art center. Although the project never came to fruition, at the time of the star's passing, Gary Mayor Rudy Clay speculated that a Jackson museum could be the very thing to resuscitate the city....

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[ Sat, 22 Aug 2009 10:35:19 -0400 ]


Goin' Back to Indiana
"Goin' Back to Indiana", was not only a hit song for the Jackson 5, but a TV special featuring special guests Bill Cosby, Rosey Grier, and several NBA stars. Allegedly taped in the Jackson's hometown of Gary in May 1971, records indicate that the boys may have only made it as far as Indianapolis....

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[ Sat, 22 Aug 2009 10:35:15 -0400 ]


Beyond Steel, in the Magic City
In 2003, Michael Jackson made a public appearance at Gary's U.S. Steel Yard, where he discussed the possibility of helping the city raise funds for an art center. Although the project never came to fruition, at the time of the star's passing, Gary Mayor Rudy Clay speculated that a Jackson museum could be the very thing to resuscitate the city....

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[ Fri, 21 Aug 2009 22:24:00 -0400 ]


Goin' Back to Indiana
"Goin' Back to Indiana", was not only a hit song for the Jackson 5, but a TV special featuring special guests Bill Cosby, Rosey Grier, and several NBA stars. Allegedly taped in the Jackson's hometown of Gary in May 1971, records indicate that the boys may have only made it as far as Indianapolis....

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[ Fri, 21 Aug 2009 22:23:55 -0400 ]


Putting Stock in Summer
In 1967, John Belushi had just graduated from a high school outside of Chicago when he went to spend the summer at the Shawnee Theatre, a converted barn in the Greene County town of Bloomfield, Indiana, population, 2500....

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[ Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:04:53 -0400 ]


Making Tracks Out of the Stone Age
Limestone's suitability as a building block, however, is exactly what initially restricted its use to the immediate locale. Weighing in at about 170 pounds per cubic foot, limestone's removal and transport was arduous. It was the mechanization of those processes that ultimately transformed the skylines of New York, Chicago and Washington....

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[ Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:04:51 -0400 ]


Circus City Parade
Peru's Circus City Festival includes a parade that's not only the second largest in Indiana, but one of the only remaining circus parades in the United States, highlighting vintage painted wagons, costumed acrobats, clowns and exotic animals....

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[ Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:04:49 -0400 ]


The Archdukes of Atterbury
Since 2003, an Indiana national guard training facility has been the last stop for many troops deploying to Iraq and Afghanistan. The Edinburgh facility was built just after the US entry in World War 2, soon training countless battalions, one of which left barely a trace....

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[ Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:04:47 -0400 ]


20th-Century Archaeology
Indiana Avenue was the main drag of Indianapolis' African-American community at the turn of the century. Although the Madam Walker Theatre Center is the only remaining structure from that era in the avenue's 600 block, an archaeological dig in an adjacent lot may reveal what demolished buildings can not....

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[ Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:04:45 -0400 ]


See you in September
Every spring a new generation of students around the county gets exposed to an Indianapolis-based brand name. In the midst of the excitement of signing yearbooks and trying on class rings, however, the name Herff Jones might register only subliminally....

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[ Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:04:42 -0400 ]


Little Detroit
Connersville came into the limelight in the early twentieth century, when it was home to a number of luxury automobile brands. Such all-but-forgotten names as Auburn, Cord, Duesenberg, Ansted, Empire, Lexington and McFarlan were associated with the east-central Indiana city that came to be known as "Little Detroit"....

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[ Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:04:40 -0400 ]


Is the Bloom off the Peony?
Indiana's official state flower since 1957, the peony usually blooms in late May and early June, just in time for the high-volume cemetery visitation period. Although that coincidence lends a certain naturalness to the flower's official designation, the peony holds its title amidst great controversy....

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[ Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:04:37 -0400 ]


The car that made good in a day
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway was created to be a proving-ground for the latest models generated by Indiana's flourishing auto industry. The opportunity was not lost on Harry Clayton Stutz, whose hastily assembled prototype performed so well at the inaugural 500, it launched a car company....

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[ Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:04:24 -0400 ]


Putting Stock in Summer
In 1967, John Belushi had just graduated from a high school outside of Chicago when he went to spend the summer at the Shawnee Theatre, a converted barn in the Greene County town of Bloomfield, Indiana, population, 2500....

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[ Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:55:21 -0400 ]


Unwrapping a gift from the past
The practice of placing significant objects within a building's masonry may have origins in the early Christian tradition of secreting a saint's relics within the foundation stone of a church. In the meantime, many edifices have been constructed to contain a sort of secular reliquary. Recently, history buffs and preservationists in Indiana have had opportunities to unwrap a few of these gifts from the past, which have served to provide practical information along with cultural context....

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[ Mon, 04 May 2009 13:04:03 -0400 ]


The Ten O'Clock Line Treaty
While the nation celebrates the Lincoln bicentennial, 2009 also represents the two century-mark of another important event in the state where the President spent his boyhood. In 1809, Governor William Henry Harrison struck a monumental land deal with a consortium of native peoples. The Treaty of Fort Wayne, also known as "The Ten O'clock Line Treaty," conferred three million acres of land to the settlers....

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[ Mon, 04 May 2009 13:03:54 -0400 ]


Radical behavior
Although not associated with any specific school of psychological thought, Indiana University's Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences was once home to the biggest name in behaviorism. Regardless of a lifelong affiliation with Harvard, B.F. Skinner did some of his most notorious work while chair of psychology at IU. An advocate of the [...]...

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[ Mon, 27 Apr 2009 11:33:21 -0400 ]


Racing against racism...Major Taylor
Since 2003, Team Major Taylor has fueled competition at Bloomington's annual Little Five Hundred bicycle race. The namesake of the racially diverse team was a hero from the golden age of cycling at the turn of the twentieth century. The glory was bittersweet, however, when considered in light of the enormous racial discrimination Marshall Walter Taylor had to battle along the way....

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[ Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:43:14 -0400 ]


Littler Fives
In college towns across Indiana, spring colors include the bright jerseys of determined-looking bike riders thronging the streets. An annual spring cycling event on the Indiana University-Bloomington campus that began as a fundraiser for working college students has gained national renown thanks to the beloved 1979 film Breaking Away . Inspired by the Indianapolis [...]...

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[ Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:53:11 -0400 ]


Taking a gamble on contemporary art
The story of modern art in the United States can not be told without acknowledging the role played by "Indiana's wild bunch of gamblers in art." Bound by a common "interest in contemporary art, together with a willingness to take chances" and to pay annual dues of $25, an Indianapolis-based group calling itself the Gamboliers informed [...]...

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[ Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:35:48 -0400 ]


Sorority girl, farm wife, environmental advocate...Rachel Peden
In two long-running newspaper columns and three books, IU graduate Rachel Peden dispensed lessons gleaned from a life lived in tandem with the land. Since 1952, the Children's Farm Festival at the Peden Family Farm outside Bloomington continues to be a long-awaited spring tradition....

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[ Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:35:32 -0400 ]


Restoring Utopia: Jane Blaffer Owen
The third recipient of Indiana's highest honor is neither a legendary coach nor a university president. Jane Blaffer Owen was presented with the 2007 Sachem Award in recognition of her philanthropic efforts in historic preservation and the arts. The Houston native is best known for her work to restore the southwestern Indiana town of New Harmony to the spirit in which it was founded....

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[ Wed, 25 Mar 2009 02:07:46 -0400 ]


Survival and Forgiveness: Eva Kor
The founder of Terre Haute's CANDLES Holocaust museum was once the subject of medical experimentation by Dr. Josef Mengele, the infamous "Angel of Death." Eva Kor, recipient of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Spirit of Justice Award and the Sagamore of the Wabash, among others, espouses a philosophy of forgiveness, a controversial position among survivors of the Holocaust....

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[ Wed, 25 Mar 2009 02:07:44 -0400 ]


The Father of Women's Sports: Senator Birch Bayh
When ERA failed to be ratified, Indiana Senator Birch Bayh turned his energies to a law that would mandate equal opportunities for men and women in federally funded educational programs and activities. Title IX did not explicitly address athletics, but the impact of the 1972 legislation has been most visible in the context of high school and collegiate sports teams and programs....

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[ Wed, 25 Mar 2009 02:07:29 -0400 ]


Taking diversification to a new level....William Mays
Having served the Circle City's African-American community for 95 years, the Indianapolis Recorder was in financial straits in 1990....

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[ Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:24:01 -0500 ]

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