Posted in: Indianapolis Collected Indianapolis Collected: The Bloody Battle of the Catsup Bottle

If you watch a lot of horror movies, you could easily believe that the biggest maintenance problem faced by owners of old houses is cleaning up the blood that drips from the ceiling during every...

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Posted in: Indianapolis Collected Indianapolis Collected: The Day the “Big Bugs” Came to Town

*Libby is on a brief hiatus.  Please enjoy this post deep from deep in the HI archives. In 2012, a bill that would have cleared the way for the teaching of “creation science” in our...

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Posted in: Indianapolis Collected Indianapolis Collected: The Ravages of the Road

“But automobiles have come, and they bring a greater change in our life than most of us suspect. They are here, and almost all things are going to be different because of what they bring.”...

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Posted in: Indianapolis Collected Indianapolis Collected: Local bedmaker T.B.Laycock dreamed of a better workplace

Money was tight on a preacher’s salary, but that didn’t deter my great-grandparents from buying a brand new Mission-style bed when they first set up housekeeping in the early 1900s. Over the next half century, their...

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Posted in: Heritage Steward Heritage Steward: Libby Cierzniak

NAME: Libby Cierzniak TITLE: In my day job, I’m an attorney and a lobbyist. But in my free time, I write the Indianapolis Collected articles for HI and serve on the board of the Old...

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