Nolesrock's Blog

Just look at this picture. You can smell it, can't you? There's nothing quite like the smell of bacon. That salty, sizzly goodness, ...

...the world lost a great woman, my maternal grandmother, Kathryn "Kate" Dunning/Larson/Wright... One of my most favorite blog pos...

You can read part of the story in the news article, below, published on page 4 of the 1 Sep 1911 Evansville Journal newspaper. It tells of t...

 FRANCISCO MAN GOES MISSING FOR 20 YEARS ------------- Just walks away from shop, farm and family - DISAPPEARS! ------------- DISCOVERED DEA...

This morning, I came to the Thurston branch of my family tree, which shoots off from the Greeks and McCormicks of Gibson County, Indiana. Fo...

The Great Flood of 1937 hit the Ohio River Valley hard in mid-late January after 12 days of rain caused every tributary to over top their ba...

Today's pioneer history lesson takes us back to 1799 and Gibson County's oldest known settler, Keen Field. I was transported back in...

Prince Town the DVD is now available! My very first documentary project is in the bag and I couldn't be happier. With over 80-minutes o...

Here is a sample of the documentary film that I am helping my uncle to produce. It features historical images from his book, Prince Town , r...

An English gentleman set out from the British Isles to begin his “voluntary exile” in the first half of the year 1817. Journaling along the...

Next weekend would've been my great-grandfather's 126th birthday, so to celebrate we'll make our annual excursion to the tiny ha...

The excerpt above is from The History of Knox and Daviess counties, Indiana (The Goodspeed Publishing Co, 1886) . I found it while researchi...

I am opposed to the whole system of slavery, in all its heinous forms, and conscientiously believe it to be a sin against God and a crime ag...

***UPDATED*** Great News for Michael!!! I just received a call from ICHIA- the high risk insurance that has been expedited due to the overwh...

Back when the football stadium in Indy was known as the Hoosier Dome, the Bishop Chatard Trojans won the inaugural high school championship....

With the onset of fall-like weather, I am reminded afresh of why I missed Indiana so. It is more than just the colors that come with the fal...

You might think that a kid who spent the first 17 years of his life here would know this already...but IT'S FREAKIN' COLD UP HERE!!!...