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Front Yard of Bricks: Fans embrace Indy 500 traditions By JENNA FRYER Associated Press May 27, 2021 — 9:00pm Text size Copy shortlink: INDIANAPOLIS — The navigation system advises taking a right on Meridien at Monument Circle in downtown Indianapolis. But there is no Meridien Street and so round and round you ...
Jenna Fryer The home of Charlotte Fisher and Mark Tennell, decorated as part of the Spectacle of Homes contest to be featured ahead of the Indianapolis 500 auto race, is shown Thursday, May 27, 2021, in Indianapolis. Because the traditional parade has been canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic, drivers will instead cruise by homes that have been decorated to celebrate the 105th running of the race. (AP Photo/Jenna Fryer) May 27, 2021 - 7:50 PM INDIANAPOLIS (AP) â The navigation system advises taking a right on Meridian at Monument Circle in downtown Ind...
Austria's newest citizens reclaim birthright stolen by the Nazis AFP 1 hr ago AFP © OLIVIER DOULIERY A law which took effect in September has made it possible for Holocaust victims' descendants to gain Austrian citizenship Even if they rarely speak German and some have never set foot on Austrian soil, nearly 76 years after the Holocaust, descendants of those forced out of Austria by the Nazis are reclaiming the nationality stolen from their ancestors. "It was very important for me," says 17-year-old American high school student Maya Hofstetter, who wants to piece togeth...
Their stories begin with snippets of history passed down through their family trees. The forced exile of Maya Hofstetter’s great-grandmother Stella Rinde Coburn began in August 1939, the year after Austria’s annexation by Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich. Gershon’s grandfather Eric Otto also left. “He didn’t want to leave Austria. It wasn’t his decision,” says the 46-year-old sales director for Israel’s national carrier, El Al. “When he was 13 years old in 1938, his parents put him on a ship to Palestine,” he says. Only after World War II did Otto learn that his family had die...
Trees that once fed Duluth paper mill could become tinder for wildfires A pest that's killing spruce and balsam firs is making the problem worse. December 14, 2020 — 5:57pm Text size Copy shortlink: The closure of the Verso Corp. paper mill in Duluth this summer came with an economic hit to northern Minnesota — and foresters are now worried it also puts thousands of acres of trees at risk of wildfire. The mill was one of the area's biggest buyers of spruce and balsam fir trees. Loggers who planned on harvesting the trees sudde...