Crown Hill Cemetery Celebrates 150 Years
New Crown Hill Book This Sunday, June 1st Crown Hill Cemetery will celebrate 150 years! In celebration of the sesquicentennial, the Crown Hill Heritage Foundation and Indiana Historical Society Press…
The 169th Anniversary of the First Woman Executed by Hanging
It was 169 years ago today that Elizabeth Reed was taken from the Lawrence County jail, riding on top of her coffin, to be hanged for the murder of her…
Untouchable Eliot Ness: The Man, The Myth, The Legacy
Eliot Ness He was America’s Number One Prohibition Agent, famous for nabbing gangster Al Capone on tax evasion and enforcing the anti-alcohol laws of Prohibition. But was he really responsible…
The Tombstone Trail: An Innovative Idea
There are wine trails, bike trails, bourbon trails, food trails, art and culture trails – but have you ever been on a Tombstone Trail? The nation’s only historic cemetery trail…
Faces of the Dead: A Look at Post Mortem Photography
May is National Photography Month; a perfect time to consider post mortem photography and why our ancestors had photos taken of loved ones after they had died. (But be warned:…