by Krista August | Nov 6, 2025 | Uncategorized
written for the November 2025 Brown County, Indiana Historical Society newsletter September’s pitch-in featured State Park Naturalist Eli Major, and he presented on the topic of Hoosier authors inspired by nature. This was Eli’s second program with us. Both times...
by Krista August | Nov 6, 2025 | Uncategorized
written for the August 2025 Brown County, Indiana Historical Society newsletter After Duncan Campbell’s excellent program (at May’s pitch-in dinner) on the topic of Indiana limestone, some of us are, perhaps, a bit more interested in Brown County stone. The...
by Krista August | Jul 10, 2018 | Uncategorized
The Chicago Tribune reported that a quarter of a million people came out for the unveiling of Lincoln Park’s Ulysses S. Grant statue on October 7th, 1891.* Twenty thousand patriots met first downtown and marched north to Lincoln Park in a parade celebrating...
by Krista August | Jan 1, 2018 | Uncategorized
Tablet presented to historical society Voices from afar off call us...
by Krista August | May 9, 2017 | Uncategorized
The oldest statue in Chicago’s Lincoln Park commands a remote lakefront location, slightly north of Diversey Harbor. This life-sized, naturalistic bronze depicts an Ottawa family of Indians, the mother, the father and the baby with a wolf-like dog.** An old...