Comments on Advance Indiana™: What's The Historical Significance Here?

Ballard's timing is off. He was slated to run ...

2009-11-23T14:15:28.584-05:00

Ballard's timing is off. He was slated to run in February, 2007 after he filed to run. He couldn't have made the decision to run in the spring of 2007.

The historical significance of this Dunham house w...

2009-11-23T12:47:00.413-05:00

The historical significance of this Dunham house was lost when its owner obviously remodeled it without attention to following historic guidelines.

Riley was born in Greenfield, Indiana where he own...

2009-11-23T11:10:43.793-05:00

Riley was born in Greenfield, Indiana where he owned a home. He only visited the people who owned that home and would occasionally stay with them when he was in town. The website reads, "Set foot into the James Whitcomb Riley Museum Home and step back to the beginning of the 20th century—just as the great Hoosier poet James Whitcomb Riley experienced it for 23 years of his fascinating life." "Experience it" it says. It doesn't claim he lived there.

They even contacted our local Historical Society t...

2009-11-23T10:24:39.564-05:00

They even contacted our local Historical Society to maybe work together.

I think pretty much any home 50+ year old has historical significance, but of course the link to distant Obama relatives should only be a footnote.

Btw, where did you get the information that Riley didn't spend most of his last 23 years at Lockerbie Street? The museum of course website says so....