Feb 3, 2017 | Highlights in History
Charles Dempsey – Buffalo Soldier By: David Heighway, Hamilton County Historian February is Black History Month, so I will be focusing my posts on the African American history of Noblesville and Hamilton County. I thought would begin by looking at the life of a...
Jan 31, 2017 | Uncategorized
Just in Time, Abraham Lincoln By: Patricia Polacco Patricia Polacco is one of my favorite picture book authors. Polacco is very creative with all her books. She finds a way to incorporate education in an entertaining way into all her books. This story is...
Jan 30, 2017 | Uncategorized
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney Lillian Boxfish is the highest paid woman working in advertising during the 1930’s. She works for R.H. Macy’s in New York City and is also a successful poet and writer. She is fiercely independent and while she...
Jan 26, 2017 | Uncategorized
Sing You Home By: Jodi Picoult The award-winning author Jodi Picoult has become one of my favorite go-to writers when I need a thought-provoking good read. Picoult, 50, hales from Hanover New Hampshire and is a graduate of Princeton and Harvard; pretty...
Jan 26, 2017 | Highlights in History
John H. Wise – Noblesville Playwright By: David Heighway, Hamilton County Historian With the creation of the new Noblesville Cultural Arts District, it’s good to look at the history of some of the different kinds of arts in town. There has been quite a...
