Backtrack

Jungleland, the winter quarters of the Terrell Jacobs Wild Animal Circus, was a fierce example of Indiana’s circus history.

Long before Keep Indianapolis Beautiful had us planting trees and adopting medians, Mattie Coney campaigned for cleaner streets.

The aviator spent some of her last days as a career counselor in Lafayette, breaking the university’s stodgy norms.

It’s not the Hoosier’s most famous work by a long shot, but “Within the Quota” is newly resonant today.

Rick Kupke’s quick action during the Carter-era disaster helped lead to the hostages’ release.

The late Bryan Fonseca’s playhouse once staged a show so controversial, police were stationed outside and a lawyer waited in the wings.

Zerna Sharp never had kids of her own, but her children, as she called them—Dick, Jane, and Baby Sally—became American icons as the main characters of schoolbooks used across the nation. If you were in first grade in America between 1930 and 1970, you probably learned to read with Dick and Jane—who reached the height […]

The Indiana Pacers finished dead last in 1983, but achieved an NBA first: male cheerleaders.

After a 1964 gig, the ISP gave the Beatles drummer a very special tour of the city.

Andy Brown, now of Trafalgar, shrugged off flying pucks as hockey’s last mask-less goalie.

Forever young.

Gold-Medal Effort

Out of the gate.

From that first weekend to the 11-day extravaganza it is today, Black Expo has blossomed.

The details of Jim Jones’s wedding to Marceline Baldwin belied the bizarre twists their life together would take.