Posted in: Historic Miscellania Rufus Cantrell, Intruder in the Dust

In 1935, the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges weighed in on what mathematicians later called chaos theory: the results of some phenomena are simply impossible to predict, control, or even explain.  Take the freak reasoning of...

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Posted in: Misc Mondays Misc Monday: The Rapid Rise and Tragic Fall of Frank W. Flanner

Flanner & Buchanan isn’t a street intersection — it’s a funeral business — but the great Indianapolis undertaking firm is a veritable crossroads of the capitol city’s history. “Dig Indy?” (Pun intended.) How about the story of the company’s founder, pioneering...

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Posted in: Family Tree Family Tree: The Irish Beyond Indy

We talked about the Irish in Indianapolis in a previous post, where we learned that any of you with deep roots in the city are also fairly likely to have roots in Ireland. But discovering that...

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