By CONNIE ZEIGLER Contributing editor Indianapolis movie and theater actress, television host, interior decorator and shopkeeper, Frances Farmer, is known today – if she is remembered at all – for …
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By Connie Zeigler Contributing editor Did you know that Bruce Rogers, considered the modern world’s most important book designer – whose most-admired work, the Oxford Lectern Bible, is protected behind …
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By CONNIE ZEIGLER Contributing editor In 1969 one of the once-most-respected architects of European modernism moved to Indianapolis to take a job at a local development/architecture firm. The architect was …
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By CONNIE ZEIGLER Contributing editor Helen McKay Steele and her husband, Rembrandt “Brandt” Steele, were the artsy “It” couple of Indianapolis in the early years of the 20th century. They …
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this is an updated version of a feature which appeared in the May 2010 edition of Urban Times. By Connie Zeigler Contributing editor In July 2020, Purdue Polytechnic High School …
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August’s installment of History 301 about the city’s first Black pharmacist, Wirt Smith, ended with the surprising news that his daughter, Alpha, married the famous jazz trumpeter, Louis Armstrong. This …
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For historical accuracy, this report contains terminology which newspapers of the time period used to describe African Americans. By CONNIE ZEIGLER, Contributing editor This is the story of Wirt Smith. …
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By CONNIE ZEIGLER Contributing editor For six years in the 1950s the name of former Shortridge High School student Madelyn Pugh was in 11 million homes every week, thanks to …
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The April 2020 installment of History 301 focused on the devastating influenza pandemic of 1918-20. By CONNIE ZEIGLER Contributing editor When spring arrived in 1921, it must have, even more …
Read More By connie zeigler Contributing editor This report was originally published in the April 2013 edition of Urban Times. This reprint was prompted by the global coronavirus outbreak. This year’s (2013) …
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