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Styrofoam Liberty Can’t Handle Indiana Weather

Friday, November 21st, 2008

It sounded great and a number of towns wanted it — a nearly-life-size Statue of Liberty, built for an online travel company’s sales convention, donated free of charge by its creators. Hammond, Indiana, won the battle for the Lady, and plans were laid to erect the 130-foot-tall styrofoam sculpture on an island in a local […]

Indiana Gets Second Sleepy Museum

Friday, November 14th, 2008

The Henager Memories and Nostalgia Museum in Buckskin, Indiana, was the loneliest museum in America when we reported on it last year. At the time it was averaging less than one visitor a day. Now a new champion may have emerged in Hoosier-land. The Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum opened on November 11 in Fort Wayne. […]

Vote For The Candidate Of Our Choice

Monday, October 13th, 2008

This is an important election year, as we all know. And the time has come for us to put aside our hilarity for a moment and endorse a candidate. In our opinion, the clear best choice for America’s future is — Whiting, Indiana. We speak, of course, of the annual Capital of the Pierogy Pocket […]

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