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When is Indy's real birthday? Our city's 200-year "birther" controversy.

Libby Cierzniak

Jan 6
6 min

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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1920: Indy prepares for a flood of first-time female voters

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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From Vice President to Vice Squad: The Story of a City Lot

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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Out of the darkness & into the Circle of Lights

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 13, 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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