We drive up I-65 between Indy and Chicago a few times a year, and have always wondered about the Albanese Candy Factory in Merrillville. It seems that we’re always in a hurry to get to Chicago or come home…
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It’s one thing to make your house feel Christmasy with a tree, stockings, lights and mistletoe, a fire roaring, cookies baking in the oven. It’s quite another for a city to evoke a holiday feeling. However, Indy has always…
Instead of shopping on Black Friday, we decided to opt outdoors, and went hiking around a cool, old remnant of the roaring 20’s just outside of Louisville, Ky. – Rose Island at Charlestown State Park in Charlestown, Indiana. About…
Even Willy Wonka would be impressed with the sweet delights from Schimpff’s Confectionery in downtown Jeffersoville, Indiana (just north of Louisville across the Ohio River and my hometown). This charming candy store has been making their signature red hots…
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Finding fossils at Falls of the Ohio State Park – the largest beds in the world – in Indiana
Finding fossils at the Falls of the Ohio State Park, in Clarksville, Indiana, home of one of the largest fossil beds in the world, is a great way to get outside and touch pre-history. It’s also the launching site for the…
Our nation’s capital is definitely one of those cities where there’s more to do than you could ever hope to get to in one, or even two, trips. You could spend a month between Washington D.C. and Baltimore and…
With respect to Brewster Higley who wrote the lyrics to “Home on the Range”, buffalo don’t and haven’t ever roamed in North America. But, bison have for thousands of years (buffalo are the mammals in Asia and Africa), and…
Taking the kids to Colonial Williamsburg was a dream come true for my husband. Despite his travels all over the world, his most requested destination over the last twenty years has been Colonial Williamsburg, and somehow we haven’t made…