On the town square
Announcing the eclipse
Downtown store front decorations
Statewide excitement about the eclipse
Shelbyville is directly in the perfect viewing path of the eclipse. Hopefully the skies will be clear on April 8th. If not, you will have to wait until 2044 for the next eclipse viewing!
St. Louis Catholic Church Cemetery, located in Batesville, Indiana. Awesome memorial stones can be found here.
A wonderful way to remember.
Indiana’s Bicentennial was celebrated in 2016. As part of the celebration, fiberglass statues of bison were made available to each of Indiana’s counties. Local artists decorated them with themes and scenes of the local area and features. We have seen several of these during our travels around the state, and our trip to Batesville today was no different.
We found the familiar shape of one of 92 Indiana county’s bison statues in front of the Batesville City Admin and Police Department Building. “Braun” sure makes a striking appearance on this admin office lawn!
Pioneers who were first buried in the Presbyterian and Baptist Cemeteries were reburied in this plot. This info is from the plaque, photo below, that is onsite at the Greenwood Cemetery in Greenwood, Indiana.
We found this as we were in the cemetery looking at interesting grave markers.
Very interesting and it is so nice knowing the graves were moved and not forgotten.
Rushville, Indiana is a typical Midwestern small town. It became home for one of the Hoosier state’s accomplished politician, Wendall Willkie. Willkie, born in 1892, was a successful lawyer, businessman and ran for President of the United States against Franklin Roosevelt in 1940.
Willkie changed his party registration to Republican in 1939, however he did lose to FDR in the election. After the election, as Roosevelt’s informal envoy, he made two foreign trips during the height of WWII. Willkie died in 1944 while he was considering forming a new political party with Roosevelt.
Willkie Family Plot
A nice remembrance plaque
Rush County Courthouse
Wendell Willkie was loved by many, and his Presidential run in 1940 was organized and executed in Rushville in what was then the Durbin Hotel and Restaurant. He and his family are buried in the large Rushville cemetery.
This Black and white postcard of Cimarosa Street in Naples, Italy was sent (postmarked) from the U.S.S. Bearss, a United States Navy destroyer on deployment to the Mediterranean in 1953. We have it listed for sale on our ebay store where we enjoy selling postcards, jewelry, antiques and other fun items.
Our choice pizza of kitchens this time was Pizza Hut. One sausage, one onion, and one order of bacon cheese breadsticks. My was it a yummy meal that really hit the spot on a cold night. And leftover pizza on day two always seems to taste just as good if not better than fresh…
Feels like -7, this pair of backyard Cardinals was enjoying the sunlight.
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