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Easter Eggs à la Ukraine

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Posted on Mar 29, 2018 in Archives, General

(This story appeared in the March 1997 issue of Electric Consumer. Maria Fedyniak passed away in October 2005 at the age of 83.) When Maria Fedyniak was a little girl growing up on a little farm in Ukraine, the egg was always something special. Sometimes, she said, eggs were like money. Her family used them… Continue reading.

Happier Trails

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Posted on Mar 22, 2018 in General

For 17 seasons, Christy Menke’s Hope Haven Horse Farm helped kids and adults with special needs and injuries find relief from their challenges. When clients begin returning this month for the 2018 season, they will find a new name out front and a new emphasis on trail-blazing technology to help them even more when they get… Continue reading.

Fast Break!

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Posted on Feb 21, 2018 in General

Romeo Langford is chasing Indiana scoring records as he and the rest of the New Albany High School basketball team pursue another state championship. But what Indiana’s top high school player does after he graduates this spring is garnering even more attention from fans and sports writers. Langford, the number five player in the country,… Continue reading.

New Life for Old Bones

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Posted on Feb 21, 2018 in General

How do you breathe new life into 13,000-year-old fossilized bones? How do you retell stories almost as old as time itself? Visitors to the Indiana State Museum in Indianapolis will have a chance to find out later this month — just in time for spring break trips to the state capital. The state museum will unveil… Continue reading.

Traces of Lincoln

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Posted on Feb 12, 2018 in General

(This article originally appeared in the February 1999 issue of Electric Consumer.) Much is known and recorded, in words and pictures, of Abraham Lincoln as the Illinois prairie lawyer, orator and politician. Even more is revealed and preserved of Lincoln as the revered president who steered the nation through Civil War and saved the Union;… Continue reading.

In the Footsteps of Lincoln

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Posted on Feb 12, 2018 in General

“My childhood’s home I see again, And sadden with the view; And still, as memory crowds my brain, There’s pleasure in it too Near twenty years have passed away Since here I bid farewell To woods and fields, and scenes of play And playmates loved so well …” — from “My Childhood’s Home” Abraham Lincoln,… Continue reading.

Olympic Dreams

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Posted on Jan 30, 2018 in General

Athletes from around the world will compete for gold at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea, this month. Two Indianapolis youngsters are also training for Olympic gold — even though their quest for their goal is not in the immediate future. Brooke Derheimer, 10, recently qualified for the 2018 Short Track Age… Continue reading.

Raised in a barn

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Posted on Jan 26, 2018 in General, Outdoors

by Jack Spaulding They are at it again … more baby owls! The Indiana barn owl pair — “reality TV” YouTube stars viewed on a live nest cam — are putting on a second act of parenthood. They are raising a second brood of chicks unusually late into the nesting season. The existence of a… Continue reading.

Fireflies in space

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Posted on Jan 24, 2018 in General

‘Would fireflies light up in space?” is a reasonable kind of question only second graders studying the wondrous little bioluminescent beetles might be curious enough to ask. To find out, students in Maggie Samudio’s class at Cumberland Elementary in West Lafayette posed the question to Purdue University’s astronautics professor Steven Collicott. To answer it as… Continue reading.

Point of no sale

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Posted on Jan 04, 2018 in General

U.S. electric vehicle sales set another annual record in 2017, with nearly 174,000 plug-in cars sold just through November. But how much stronger would sales be if dealerships aggressively pushed EVs? Last fall, a market research firm sent mystery shoppers to 141 dealerships in America’s 10 largest EV markets to document the EV sales experience…. Continue reading.

Must be SANTA!

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Posted on Nov 20, 2017 in Features, General

“Who’s got a beard that’s long and white?” Larry Schuler’s got a beard that’s long and white. “Who comes around on a special night?” Schuler comes around on a special night … (not to mention nights, days and weeks before then, too). “Who’s got boots and a suit of red?” Schuler’s got boots and a… Continue reading.

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