Archives for March 2016
There Was No Way We Could Lose
Had ‘em all the way. Thirty-five years later, that’s what members of the Vincennes Lincoln basketball team will tell you, and for the most part it’s the truth. When it was all said and done on the night of March 21, 1981, the scoreboard hanging above Market Square Arena in Indianapolis read: Vincennes 54, Anderson 52. In winning Lincoln’s second Indiana High School Athletic … [Read more...]
Kennedy connection helps in fulfilling islander’s wish
Jim Osborne's connection with the Robert Kennedy campaign in 1968 led to him helping Knox County native and avid military historian, Mark Roche, make contact with the Kennedy Library Foundation. Osborne's phone calls to then Sen. Evan Bayh, and others, led to Roche finally fulfilling the request of an elderly South Pacific islander. He and Osborne were the guests of the … [Read more...]
RFK brings campaign to Vincennes in 1968
Fifty years ago Robert F. Kennedy, the idealistic Democratic presidential candidate of the late 1960s, arrived in Vincennes to tour local historic sites and to speak to local businessmen. The Indiana primary election was in May and Kennedy visited in late April. Kennedy was the younger brother of slain President John F. Kennedy, though his politics and demeanor were much … [Read more...]
The Stars Have Lined Up Just Right
Dave LeDune says there are “worse habits” he could have picked up along the way, other than making music. The 63-year-old Carlisle man, a telecommunications specialist for AT&T out of Vincennes by trade, has spent the better part of his lifetime playing a variety of stringed instruments and singing. It’s all led to LeDune being inducted into the Wabash Valley Musician’s … [Read more...]