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May 21 - May 27 This Week in Indiana History May 1972 at the Beginning of the 56th running of the Indy 500, Jim Nabors sang the song "Indiana" which is known as "Back Home Again in Indiana." He sang "Indiana" before the race from 1972-1978 as well
That corny country TV variety show “Hee-Haw” had a gag called, “Gloom, Despair and Agony on Me.” Hillbilly sad sacks laid around a
That corny country TV variety show “Hee-Haw” had a gag called, “Gloom, Despair, and...
SUMMARY Ambrose E. Burnside was a major general in the Union army during the American Civil War (1861–1865). Instantly recognizable for his bushy sideburns (the term itself is derived from reversing his last name), Burnside was one of four men to command the Army of the Potomac in Virginia. Offered the job twice previously—following George B. McClellan‘s failed Peninsula Campaign in 1862 and following the Second Battle of Manassas later that summer—he turned it down, citing his own lack of experience and encouraging his peers and, subsequently, historians to question his self-confiden...
Coastal Review Online is featuring the research, findings and commentary of author Kevin Duffus . First of three parts It was not Shakespeare but Pythagoras who likely first imagined the world as a stage “whereon many play their parts.” No more often am I reminded of this proverb than when I am traveling across the inlet between Hatteras and Ocracoke islands — one of many grand stages of North Carolina’s maritime history. The North Carolina Department of Transportation ferry Croatoan gets underway from Hatteras Island to Ocracoke. Photo: Mark Hibbs The ferry I am on meanders its way a...