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Category Archives: Tales from the Road
GJ in LA, or a Midwest Girl in LaLaLand
Last fall I embarked on a plane to Los Angeles. We won’t go into my fear of flying. I had not been in a plane in 30 years. The experience has changed, to put it mildly. What passes for first … Continue reading
Posted in Country Girl in the City, Tales from the Road
Tagged architecture, hollywood, los angeles, nostalgia
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Preservation Tales: “Progress” Goes Before a Fall
“It’s a historical building, but I guess it’s progress,” said Marv Blessing, an alumnus of Pine Village High School, in a recent interview with IndyStar. After decades of work in historic preservation, little pains me more than this continuing assertion … Continue reading
Posted in On the Road Less Taken..., Preservation Tales, Tales from the Road, The Past is Ever Present...
Tagged historic architecture, Hoosier basketball, New Deal, Pine Village IN, WPA
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Running North to Save My Soul
So last week I ran away for a day. To Michigan. Just because I needed to visit my heart’s home, the Lake. If it is only for a day I usually end up in the vicinity of South Haven and … Continue reading
Posted in On the Road Less Taken..., Tales from the Road, The Wonder of It All, Uncategorized
Tagged Lake Michigan, Michigan
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Tales from the Road: Seeking the WPA in Historic Harrison County, Indiana
Some 34 years ago I traveled to the National Archives in Washington D.C. to go through Indiana’s WPA records. Perhaps the last WPA project was to compile the project records, each of which had an identifying index card, onto microfilm. … Continue reading
Preservation Tales: I Thought This Was Saved!
Collier Lodge I first learned of Collier Lodge, originally built deep in the Kankakee Marsh along the river of that name, back in the 1990s at a historic preservation conference in South Bend. A fellow from Porter County gave a … Continue reading
Posted in On the Road Less Taken..., Preservation Tales, Tales from the Road, The Past is Ever Present...
Tagged historic preservation, history, nostalgia, Porter County
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