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Episode 1811Original air date: 4/5/2008
Sirens on Skates
| Watch This Segment Online. | | Description: | Is life moving too fast for you nowadays? Join “Across Indiana,” then, in a bit of respite. We’re headed to a genteel place of the sincerest refinement, with peaceful images of shady lanes and strawberry jam, to be entertained by polite ladies demonstrating an enchanting degree of etiquette . . . well sort of, for these are the “Tornado Sirens” of the Naptown (Indianapolis) Rollergirls Roller Derby squad, and they’ll treat you right -- just as long as you don’t get in their way. | | Credits: | Vincent Manganello, Narrated by: FM 90.1’s Melissa Davis | | Location: | Indianapolis |
History Matters: Abducted Academy?
| Watch This Segment Online. | | Description: | Picture an owner and a successful business enterprise. So successful, in fact, that it’s outgrown its present home and the owner is threatening to relocate if the townspeople don’t cough up some new digs. Imagine the owner’s mounting alarm when he hears that the good townsfolk are filing for an injunction to keep the business right where it is – and, throwing all caution to the wind, he moves the enterprise in the dead of night to a new town that’s been making willing overtures to receive it. But, you say, you know the story of how the Colts moved to Indianapolis in 1984. Nope. The year was 1878. The towns were Ladoga and Danville. But there was plenty of bad blood on all sides over the controversy of Indiana’s “stolen college.” | | Credits: | Jim Simmons, Kyle Travers, Narrated by: Carrie Wood-Hoppenjans, Indiana Historical Society |
Travels with Darby: The Devil's Backbone
| Watch This Segment Online. | | Description: | Ever willing to answer viewer e-mails – especially when it encourages our faithful to visit the state’s fabulous parks – producer Jim Simmons and his trusty dog, Darby, head to Montgomery County to get the “skinny” on answering the question: “Just where is the ‘Devil’s Backbone?’” “Skinny” is right, for the backbone is a 200-foot-plus long rock formation, 85 feet in the air . . . and just 6 feet wide at it’s narrowest, and nerve-wracking, point, with a sheer drop-off on both sides. It was carved by the intersection of two rivers centuries ago. Jim and Darby also visit the “Portland Arch,” near Attica, a “backbone” that might have been, but took on a whole new geological look when the river zigged instead of zagged. | | Credits: | Jim Simmons | | Location: | Montgomery County and Attica |
A Camp for Caring
| Watch This Segment Online. | | Description: | This junket “Across Indiana” has been fun, but it’s time for a little serious reflection. If there’s been a common theme this trip, it’s been how resilient people are and how they can roll with whatever haymaker life sends our way. Usually. But not always. Sometimes, the punch fate delivers sends us down for the count and even we don’t give ourselves much of a chance of pulling through. In our next story, we travel to Bloomington to tell the tale of some people working hard to get back on their feet after serious addiction to drugs and alcohol -- and about a place where’s there’s hope and help and health. | | Credits: | Jim Simmons and Jeremy Sudler | | Location: | Bloomington |
Light Fantastic
| Watch This Segment Online. | | Description: | We close with a story in Indianapolis that’s music to the eyes. It took him nearly two decades, but professional photographer (and hobbyist electrical engineer) Stephen J. Hobley’s built a harp out of laser beams . . . and producer Aric Hartvig is ready to try his hand at playing it. | | Credits: | Aric Hartvig | | Location: | Indianapolis |
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