Category Archives: Indiana

Right outside the small town of Kendallville, Indiana there’s a field full of windmills. Not the huge ones like they have in Holland but small ones, like you see on farms. It so happens that windmills were manufactured in Kendallville … Continue reading →

Hoosier Hill, in east-central Indiana, is the state’s highest natural point. It’s important to include the “natural” qualifier because a landfill in the next county is, or soon will be, higher. Coming from the north, there is no sense of … Continue reading →

On January 1, 1977, Michael Carmichael and his three-year-old son painted a baseball light blue. And then they painted it again. And again. And again. That baseball now has 24,505 coats of paint on it. It weighs over 4,000 pounds. … Continue reading →

The Dog n Suds in Kokomo, Indiana, opened after I made it my goal to visit all the remaining Dog n Suds. It lacks that retro ambiance and the cool sign, but we stopped by for lunch anyway. I ordered … Continue reading →

The most interesting thing to see at the Indiana Welcome Center in Hammond is the building itself. It is supposed to represent the area — waves for Lake Michigan, a sand dune, industry, farming and the Kankakee River. That’s a … Continue reading →