Monthly Archives: April 2012

Two bushes for Two Cousins, forever recalling their Two Children in the book No Words

Posted on April 24, 2012 by Trent D. Pendley

Here at Musette Lewry in Furnessville there are a couple of Purple Sand Cherry bushes that were gifts from my father’s cousins and planted in March of 2005.  Tommy Rosko had come into the store where I work, on the Valparaiso … Continue reading →

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The week of the Titanic

Posted on April 13, 2012 by Trent D. Pendley

  This week marks the centennial of the RMS Titanic disaster on the North Atlantic in April 1912.  When a young boy, circa 1969, my paternal great grandfather told me of his cousin being on that epoch maiden voyage, hence … Continue reading →

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Mr. Park Superintendant, Its either “We the People” or “Hit the Road Jack!”

Posted on April 5, 2012 by Trent D. Pendley

In the motion picture “Four Friends” the students of an East Chicago high school broke out into a riveting dance chant to the song “Hit the Road Jack,” which may become the theme song for the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore … Continue reading →

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Rally to Save Furnessville Road This Tuesday, April 3!

Posted on April 1, 2012 by Trent D. Pendley

 If the assault on the Schoolhouse Shop’s signage along Highway 20 at Brummitt Road recently, and also earlier last year at Dunes Highway and 1500 (Furnessville Road), wasn’t enough now the National Park Service is attempting to usurp Furnessville Road in … Continue reading →

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