As Indiana’s bicentennial celebration reaches the crescendo, Willie and friends take a final curtain call on our magical Hoosier history tour.
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President James Madison took his pen in hand, and with the stroke of his signature on Dec. 11, 1816, Indiana became the 19th state — as he signed an act of Congress admitting Indiana to the Union.
And the rest, as they say, … is history … and that past is prologue for the present and the future.
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Electric co-op mascot Willie Wiredhand says Indiana’s 200 years of history and its future are sooooo bright, he has to wear shades … or “bicentennial bifocals,” as he calls them!