Butch Dale

   One of my former students called me last week, and we caught up on the past few years. During our conversation, she mentioned that traveling is in her plans…

  Last week I drove a friend to a doctor’s appointment in Fishers…SR 32 to I-65 to 465 East, and then into the maize of exits, side roads, one-ways and…

    If you watch the news on an Indy channel, you know that murders occur almost daily in Marion County. Our county has much less crime, including violent crime, compared…

   My folks made several trips to Crawfordsville through the years when I was a youngster . . . to shop, picnic at Milligan Park or visit Mom’s family. Our…

Did you ever have one of those days when everything goes wrong? I guess just about everyone has experienced days like that. But even if you make it through with…

  From the early 1900s to the 1970s, our country was involved in four military conflicts . . . World War I, World War II, the Korean War and the…

  On a few occasions when I was a youngster, I accompanied my Dad when he visited Wesley “Wes” Tribbett, who lived in a little house on Madison street in…

  When I wrote a book about Darlington School in 1988, I interviewed hundreds of former students, including two of my cousins . . . Dale Cohee and Donnie Dale,…

   As you all know, Montgomery County has always been a hot spot for basketball. After all, the first basketball game in Indiana was played right here in 1894, and…

   I think you fellow “baby-boomers” would agree that the present generation of whipper-snappers might be a tad spoiled by the amenities and technology of today. Of course, we always…