LP contributor Diane Walker, like many people who grew up in Cambridge City, Indiana, in the 1970s, still wonders at the ...

When we old-timers were kids, we often went to our grandparents’ house for Sunday dinner. In fact, I remember a kids’ table, usually a card table or two, squeezed in somewhere. We would pass bowls of ...

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Area residents can learn from leading experts on Indiana history, politics, climate change, and other timely topics in a lecture series offered by retired Indiana University faculty. The series, ...

It starts with a tree. One tall and straight tree, likely upwards of 50 years old. Perhaps this tree has lived in Indiana longer than the owner of the land where it grows. After 50 or more years with ...

Sheri Priddy knew something was seriously wrong. For the three days in November 2023, her symptoms had been getting stranger and stranger. It began with some double vision, something she’d experienced ...

The following essay is a reflection drawn from a paper written by Zilia Balkansky-Sellés for the June 2025 meeting of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF) which she presented at ...

I wanted to be a writer. I was in a community where I had the opportunity to see writers and I was surrounded by a lot of readers. Bloomington native Michael Koryta, an internationally recognized ...

In February 2025, more than one thousand law professors and constitutional scholars, including sixteen from Indiana University, signed a bipartisan letter issued by the American Constitution Society ...

I was a spice loyalist. Take Greek seasoning. For years it had been my go-to flavor enhancer for soups, salads, roasted vegetables, pastas, fish, and rich beef stews. It came in a lovely pre-blended ...

To be inside the music, to hear it, to feel it, from within a group of musicians. To be surrounded by sound, to be one of the people creating that sound. “Incredible,” “amazing,” “extraordinary” are ...

Three months after being appointed superintendent of the Monroe County Community School Corporation, Markay Winston finds plenty of reasons to be optimistic about the district’s future, including ...