Libby Cierzniak
When is Indy's real birthday? Our city's 200-year "birther" controversy.
Was Indy born in 1820, 1821 or 1836? A brewing "birther" controversy surrounds our city's official birthday.
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Libby Cierzniak
- Nov 1, 2020
- 6 min
1920: Indy prepares for a flood of first-time female voters
111 years ago, a 70-year-old woman from Indianapolis named Mary E. Nicholson made history as one of the first females – if not the...
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Libby Cierzniak
- Oct 11, 2020
- 7 min
From Vice President to Vice Squad: The Story of a City Lot
Spring break 1968. Girl Scouts Gone Wild. Or at least that's how I recall one memorable day when I was 11 years old and our Girl Scout...
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Libby Cierzniak
- Dec 17, 2019
- 6 min
The Things We Leave Behind
There are a lot of great reasons to buy a house in the historic Old Northside. But "the ghost dog made me do it" is not one of the them.
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Libby Cierzniak
- Nov 30, 2019
- 5 min
Out of the darkness & into the Circle of Lights
High atop the Monument, Victory was veiled in darkness until 1916, when two rival power companies staged a spectacular light show.
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Libby Cierzniak
- Nov 12, 2019
- 7 min
The day the H-Bomb hit downtown Indy
On April Fool's Day 1959, the city approved a plan to demolish 200 buildings in the heart of downtown Indy. It was the Project H bomb.
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