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Park Superintendant talks out of both sides of Mouth at Open Forum
The Porter County Commissioner’s voted unanimously not to allow the closure of Furnessville Road and other important arteries now bordered by the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. That drew a happy but perhaps naïve response from the locals in the dunes … Continue reading
Posted in Congressman PEter Visclosky, Conrail, Furnessville, Indiana Dunes, Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, Noise pollution, Porter County, Schoolhouse Shop, Valparaiso
Tagged Amtrack rail herbicides, Constantine J. Dillon, Furnessville Road, Kemil Road, Lycokiwe Trail, Porter County Commissioners
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Two bushes for Two Cousins, forever recalling their Two Children in the book No Words
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
Mr. Park Superintendant, Its either “We the People” or “Hit the Road Jack!”
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
Rally to Save Furnessville Road This Tuesday, April 3!
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
Every Dig is a Discovery
Last week I wrote that every dig is a discovery here in the dunes. Whenever I shovel around my home it becomes a mini excavation. I’ve uncovered brick paths, and also a concrete sidewalk from a previous house that once … Continue reading
Irma, A Chicagoan who helped Save the Indiana Dunes
Several Years ago I came across the pamphlet size publication of “The Chronicle of the Befogged Dune Bugs” by Irma Rosenthal Frankenstein and with illustrations by Earl H. Reed Sr. This is a twenty-eight page story of a 1917 journey … Continue reading
Posted in Indiana Dunes, Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, Michigan City, Porter County, Texting, Valparaiso
Tagged Captain Charles H. Robinson, Ellen FitzSimmons Steinberg, Irma Rosenthal Frankenstein, J. Roland Engel, Jack H. Prost, Lowenstine family, Prairie Club, Save the Dunes Council, Tremont
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Nonagenarian gives copy of his WWII Autobiography to Porter County Museum
Kevin Matthew Pazour the executive director of the Porter County Museum and also nonagenarian Gene Engel, author of seven books, a WWII veteran, and this writer met at the retired businessman’s home in rural Valparaiso recently. We visited in Gene … Continue reading
Posted in Indiana Jewish History, Mastadon remains, Porter County, Utah Beach, Valparaiso, WW II
Tagged An Un-Anticipated Adventure, Battle of the Bulge, Ernie Pyle, Gene Engel, Kevin Matthew Pazour, Learning From Life's Lessons, Mastadon, Pleasant Valley to the Pottawatomies, Porter County, Porter County Museum of History, Utah Beach, WW II, WWII Veteran
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