History

By CONNIE ZEIGLER, Contributing editor It’s almost time for Thanksgiving. As we celebrate the holiday we become part of an ancient tradition. Long before Abraham Lincoln declared Thanksgiving a national …

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The following story was published in the August 2021 print issue of Urban Times By CONNIE ZEIGLER Contributing editor Over the years, Indianapolis has been infatuated with Oscar Wilde. For …

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By CONNIE ZEIGLER Contributing editor It really did happen one certain day. Seventy thousand people came to Downtown Indianapolis to be part of an event that wasn’t sports-related. No movie …

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By CONNIE ZEIGLER Contributing editor In July 1922, Indianapolis reached a new high-water mark in its display of residents’ refinement and breeding. The event that demonstrated this watershed moment was …

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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 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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