By CONNIE ZEIGLER / Contributing editor The Indianapolis News gave 20-year-old J. Franklin Booth his first break in November 1899 when it published his Thanksgiving poem illustrated by his own …
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By CONNIE ZEIGLER, Contributing editor In November 1878 – 146 years before the United States will hold a second election in which one of the presidential candidates is a woman …
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By CONNIE ZEIGLER, Contributing editor In May 1932, The Indianapolis Star published an Extra edition when the kidnapped child of Ann and Charles Lindbergh was found dead less than five …
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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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By CONNIE ZEIGLER Contributing editor, Urban Times Oliver Johnson, whose family pioneered in the early settlement of Indianapolis, left a green legacy in that village that became this city. His …
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By CONNIE ZEIGLER Contributing editor, Urban Times In 1904, the Highland Golf Club opened on land west of the White River in Riverside Park. The clubhouse that members built for …
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By CONNIE ZEIGLER If a friend invited you to “the Nash,” would you know where to go? You would if you grew up in the Haughville area west of White …
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This feature originally appeared in the March 2008 issue of Urban Times. By CONNIE ZEIGLER The Cadle Tabernacle, an old-time-religion revival hall that looked like a Spanish Mission, once occupied …
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