Mitchell’s Persimmon Festival is right up there with the Potato Festival on the old Andy Griffith Show on the list of great fall harvest festivals. In...

Back in the day, there were a lot of brain eaters in southern Indiana -- pork brain eaters, that is -- because they were a bargain at 15 cents a pound...

Smoking at age 9 and drinking coffee at age 3 were not uncommon sights in Southern Indiana when I grew up. Hear about the unhealthy effects of cigaret...

All about the strange phenomenon of tv when it first arrived in Southern Indiana in 1930, the Indiana farm boy genius who made a million bucks with hi...

In the days before embalming, being buried alive was apparently an irksome event - here are some accounts of Hoosiers narrowly avoiding premature ento...

Problems with panthers back in the day, what to do if you encounter a panther, and a few mentions of other varmints. --- Send in a voice message: http...

Restaurant dining options in Mitchell Indiana in the '60's - the combination salad, Persimmon pudding, and important safety tips on toaster repair. --...

More details of the Oolitic mob of 1906 that avenged the honor of a dead man through immediate civic action, plus tales of the "toy gunman" of Mitchel...

Catching up on local news of the day back in the early 1900's in and around Lawrence County, shedding new light on the dangers of mixing love with dyn...

My big brother is the source of many of the stories in this podcast, so following his recent passing it seems only fitting to share a few of his stori...