Minnie Mermaid - Don't you wish you could go rowing with a Summer man? Bessie Mermaid - No, I don't; men are lazy things. He...

Combining two things you love can be a fickle affair. If you read many of my posts, you're aware that I'm into local history. I spe...

Labor Day Crowds, 1938 Indiana State Fair It's that time again, summer's had its splendid hour and autumn is waiting in the wing...

Life Magazine, 1914

"Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropped the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them." - Edward...

Summer vacation season has arrived again, bringing with it warm tropical breezes, long lazy days, and the urge to wander. Since I spend a...

Life Magazine, 1914

Not so much a car ad for the first Sunday in June, but a car service ad. This little missive advising dad to tune the old jalopy up befor...

Here's another ad for Waterman's Ideal fountain pen touting what in 1911 was a big selling point, its portability. Imagine how f...

Technically this isn't an ad for the Indiana State Fair, but it is a fair themed magazine cover. The Billboard Magazine eventually sh...

Welcome to August and the Dog Days of Summer. Does that phrase bring to mind a panting pooch? Well, here's an Old Farmer's Almanac p...

Ah, July, one of my favorite months. It’s the month of thunderstorms and fireworks. Thunder in the sky and thunder on the earth! I can rem...

One day after summer starts and I’m about to say something sacrilegious. So you might want to usher the children out of the room, close the...

Today kicks off a season that meant a lot more in the days before year-round school, summer internships, and making up every snow day. I re...

There are a lot of things that we’ve come to take for granted. Take what’s considered a staple of modern life: air conditioning. Central air...

Dear Reader, Summer is long, hot, and listless. It's only just begun and already the days seem to stretch out, hazy morning becoming h...