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Colorful mural in Newton County, Indiana of writer George Ade and baseball player Edgar "Sam" Rice, painted alongside a South Newton High School logo and a canoe scene at Willow Slough

What’s it like in Kentland, Indiana?

Cheyne Reiter

Amelia Earhart standing with two men beside a plane lettered Learn to Fly, Purdue University Airport, outside a brick hangar

Purdue Paid for Amelia Earhart's Plane. Now It's Hunting It.

Jarred Porter

IN the Parks podcast cover art for Harmonie State Park, showing a large painted Say's Firefly sculpture hanging on a blue brick wall next to a placard about Indiana's state insect

Harmonie State Park: The Magic of Fireflies

Allison Martin

The Dixie, a red-and-white sternwheel paddleboat, cruising across Webster Lake in North Webster, Indiana, with passengers on its decks under a clear blue sky.

Take a Relaxing Cruise on the Dixie Sternwheeler in North Webster, Indiana

Taylor Huff

A packed dining room at the Carriage Inn in Haubstadt, Indiana, with families gathered around tables set with fresh bread, drinks and homestyle comfort food.

A Hidden Gem in Southern Indiana: The Carriage Inn

Taylor Huff

The green storefront and corner entrance of St. Elmo Steak House in downtown Indianapolis, with its Famous Since 1902 sign and a World Famous Shrimp Cocktail window above the door at 127

123 Years of Heat: The Story of St. Elmo Steak House

Jarred Porter

A visitor stands atop the sandstone Prophet's Rock overlook in a sunlit spring forest near Battle Ground, Indiana, with a large tree rising in the foreground.

Prophet's Rock: One of Indiana's Most Historic Overlooks

Taylor Huff

A painting of frontiersman Daniel Boone in fringed buckskin pointing westward, with his dog and a settler family and livestock beside him.

The Boone Brothers and Their Indiana Legacy

Taylor Huff

Nighttime crowd gathered on the lawn at 950 Speakeasy Bistro in Lagro, Indiana, watching a live band play under string lights beside the two-story timber patio

What's it like in Lagro, Indiana?

Cheyne Reiter

Fans fill the grandstands and grass berm at Ball State's Scheumann Stadium during a Cardinals football game under a blue sky

Monon Bell Classic to be Played at Ball State's Scheumann Stadium

Cheyne Reiter

Aerial view of Victory Field packed with fans for its first Indianapolis Indians game on July 11, 1996, with parking lots, rail lines and the RCA Dome in downtown Indianapolis behind it

Indianapolis Indians to Celebrate Victory Field’s 30th Anniversary on July 11

Cheyne Reiter

The Victorian brick exterior of the Rotary Jail Museum in Crawfordsville, Indiana, with steep gabled roofs and a tall chimney on a corner lot.

The Rotary Jail Museum in Crawfordsville: A One-of-a-Kind Piece of History

Taylor Huff

Aerial view of downtown Wabash, Indiana, centered on the domed Wabash County Courthouse and surrounded by brick storefronts and tree-lined streets.

What's it like in Wabash, Indiana?

Cheyne Reiter

IN the Parks podcast cover graphic for Whitewater Memorial State Park, showing the park's carved wooden veterans memorial of a bald eagle above a kneeling soldier with the words All Gave Some, Some Gave All

Whitewater Memorial State Park: Honoring Our Veterans

Allison Martin

The bell tower on the Manchester University mall, surrounded by striped green lawns and campus buildings under a clear blue sky in North Manchester, Indiana

What's it like in North Manchester, Indiana?

Cheyne Reiter

The abandoned Zoom Flume concrete waterslide near Bloomington, Indiana, its curved channel covered in vibrant multicolored graffiti with green forest behind it.

The Zoom Flume: Bloomington's Hidden Waterslide Relic

Taylor Huff

A modified pull tractor lifts its front wheels and throws diesel smoke as it drags a weight-transfer sled down a dirt track before a packed grandstand at an Indiana county fair.

The History of Tractor Pulls in Indiana

Taylor Huff

A lone person stands on a cracked, exposed roadbed in the drained basin of Mississinewa Lake near Somerset, Indiana, under an overcast winter sky.

How Somerset, Indiana was Erased by a Federal Project

Sid Shroyer

Reenactors in tricorn hats and colonial dress browse a table of handwoven sashes and yarn under shade tents at the Colonial Fair in Middletown, Indiana

3rd Annual Colonial Fair on Friday–Saturday, June 12–13 in Indianapolis

Cheyne Reiter

The stone grave marker of Johnny Appleseed (John Chapman) in Fort Wayne, Indiana, topped with a green apple and ringed by a black iron fence.

Discovering Johnny Appleseed’s Grave: A Quiet Gem in Fort Wayne

Taylor Huff

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