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Episode 1415

Original air date: 5/11/2004

Follow the North Star

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Description:Take on the role of a runaway slave from 1836 trying to make it to Canada through Conner Prairie's "Follow the North Star" program.
Credits:Tiffany Eggers/same/Chris Elberfeld
Location:Fishers
Contact:www.connerprairie.com


Mr. Stadler's Steel Drum Band

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Description:The state's only high school steel drum band from Mount Vernon High School in Fortville. Band director Tom Stadler is retiring after 36 years.
Credits:Jim Simmons
Location:Fortville
Contact:Mt. Vernon HS (317)485-3131


Paving Noah's Ark

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Description:Private zoo of animals collected from Ted Philpott's globetrekking, closed in the 1960s, was demolished in Feb. 2004 to make way for a parking lot near the Speedway. Interviews with Bond Sandhoe, Amer. Art Clay Co., Valri Sandhoe, Ted's daughter.
Credits:Jim Simmons/Lisa DeHayes/Jim Simmons and Keith Toombs
Location:Indianapolis
Contact:Bond Dandoe, Amer. Art Clay Co., (317)244-6871 x308
Music:FC-U36 Simple Pleasures, c1 Tennessee Sunset


F - I - N - C - K - E - N!

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Description:Actor Hank Fincken and his National Theatre Company of One, performs as Francisco Pizarro, Christopher Columbus, Johnny Appleseed and Thomas Edison.
Credits:Gary Harrison/same/Keith Toombs
Location:Indianapolis
Contact:www.hankfincken.com


History Matters: Olsen and Johnson: Hoosier Vaudevillians

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