Creepy and Crawly

The museum hosted its annual Reptile Days event this weekend, offering visitors plenty of opportunities to get up close and personal with a wide variety of lizards, turtles, snakes, frogs, and the like. There was actually a lady who walked halfway into gallery and turned back around, saying, “I just can’t do it”.  [...]

Fam Tour

That’s marketing-speak for “familiarization tour,” which is something you do to introduce someone to your market. Various cultural entities of the White River State Park district of Indianapolis hosted a group of Midwestern travel writers this week. There should be an article soon on the United Airlines website, talking about “Indianapolis for Families,” [...]

Flying into the Cultural Crossroads

Indiana’s official motto (as of 1937) is “The Crossroads of America.” Knowing that, it makes sense that the state’s largest airport is nearing completion on a bright new multi-million dollar expansion, due to officially open this October. According to the airport website , Indianapolis International Airport (IND) currently serves about 8.5 million passengers annually and [...]

Diggin’ Up Bones

Factoid for the day:  There have apparently been more mastodonts found in Indiana than in any other state – over 300 “spot finds”  (according to an Indiana State Museum curator).
That said, it should come as no surprise that museum curators are busy digging up mastodont bones from a pond bank near Culver, IN.  In fact, [...]

On My Honor

…I will try, to do my duty to God and my country, to help other people at all times and to obey the Girl Scout Laws….well, that’s how I remembered the pledge from my own scouting days!  Now, a more p.c. version states,
On my honor, I will try:
     To serve God* and my country,
     To help people [...]

Unusual Deliveries

This is a museum, remember. All sorts of interesting things are stored here, displayed here, and delivered here. Check out this guy; a woolly mammoth! He is NOT to be confused with a mastodon (or mastodont), as a mammoth only has four teeth and the other has rows of sharp ones. Either way, I wouldn’t [...]