Memories Along the South Shore


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A treasure trove of history, profiling many aspects of life in Northwest Indiana. There's the first trolley car to enter Crown Point; the 1954 blast at the Whiting Refinery; the efforts to create the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore in 1966, and the years of effort that lead up to it. There's World War II, the Korean War, and the Cold War. And there's also people having fun, creating communities, making history on the local level. Savor this trip down memory lane!







Hidden History of Lake County, Ohio


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Striking natural beauty draws many visitors to Lake County, but the area also has a rich and captivating history. Willoughbeach Amusement Park arose where one of the worst shipwrecks in Great Lakes history occurred years before. Secret passageways and tunnels helped slaves escape to freedom. Native son and Tuskegee Airman Earl R. Lane earned the Distinguished Flying Cross. Marge Hurlburt, a service pilot during World War II, set an international women's flight speed record, and Amy Kaukonen, one of the nation's first female mayors, personally raided suspected bootleggers during Prohibition. Author Jennifer Boresz Engelking uncovers the history behind some of Lake County's most well-known people and landmarks and reveals stories lost to time.




Counties of Porter and Lake, Indiana


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Centennial Farms of Indiana


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The Pomo of Lake County


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Secure in their isolated valley until the arrival of the white man, the Native Americans of Lake County and their ancestors lived for more than 12,000 years in this temperate Eden of abundance. The anthropologist who labeled them all by one name was mistaken though; the Pomo were actually 72 independent villages, or tribelets, that spoke at least seven distinct and mutually unintelligible languages. Theirs was a culture without war, without tyranny, without greed--until the Gold Rush. Like native plant seeds, they have blown and been carried and have taken root again and again. Though their history far predates the camera, the artifacts, stories, and historical images collected from this region and its inhabitants can portray, in part, their joy and pain and their powerful ability to change and endure.