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Hoosier
History Live! is a weekly radio adventure through Indiana
history, live with call-in, hosted by author, historian, and
connoisseur of all things Hoosier, Nelson Price. Each
week, the program includes a featured guest and topic, a call in
from “The Roadtripper” with a tip about a Hoosier
heritage-related road trip, and a Hoosier History Trivia question,
complete with a prize for the correct answer. It is the nation’s
first and only call-in talk radio show about history, and premiered
as a live weekly show on January 12, 2008.
The program
airs live Saturday mornings from 11:30 a.m. to noon Eastern
Time on WICR at 88.7 FM from the University of Indianapolis. It
re-airs the following Wednesday morning at 9:30 a.m. Listen
On-line to Hoosier History Live! either day on WICR's live
webstream
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Traces, the quarterly magazine
published by the Indiana
Historical Society is celebrating its 20th
Anniversary.
Current Shows
July 4
Filming of Movie About 1911 Inaugural 500 Mile Race
 Following
on the heels of our recent show about the colorful life of
Indianapolis
Motor Speedway founder
Carl Fisher
Hoosier History Live! will explore an exciting, current project
about a milestone in Indy city history. Nelson will be joined in
studio by businessman and motor sports enthusiast Roger Brummett,
who, as associate producer, is helping arrange the funding for a
major movie now in production about the
inaugural Indianapolis 500 in 1911, a race that was
extremely controversial. (Tune in to find out why.) (Photo Courtesy:
Al Weatherburn)
The
$35 million movie
is sparking a lot of excitement. The screenplay is by none other
than Angelo
Pizzo of Bloomington, who wrote Hoosiers (1986) and
Rudy (1993), smash-hit movies about other Indiana sports
legends. A racetrack designed to resemble the Speedway of 1911 is
expected to be built in Newton County for the movie, which will
feature Carl Fisher as a major character.
Fun fact: According to Donald
Davidson’s Official History of the Indianapolis 500, the
winner of the inaugural 500,
Ray Harroun,
always thought of himself more as an engineer and inventor than a
race driver. He’s believed to have been the very first person to use
a rearview mirror when he installed one on his
Marmon Wasp
that won the first 500.
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This Week's Trivia Mystery
The Call-in Number for the correct
answer is: (317) 788-3314
July 11
Mooresville Town History
 Amid
the hype about outlaw
John Dillinger
and the new movie “Public Enemies” starring Johnny Depp, what better
time to explore the heritage of the Morgan County town where the
bank robber spent many of his formative years and first slid into a
life of crime? Mooresville,
which is located ten miles southwest of Indianapolis, has a rich
heritage even aside from its association with the youthful
Dillinger; to share it, Hoosier History Live! has lined up a
studio visit from a lifelong resident steeped in his hometown’s
history and folklore. Don Adams, who will be Nelson’s guest,
is a retired history teacher at Mooresville High School. Don grew up
in a house once owned by one of Mooresville’s other notable
residents: watercolor artist
Paul Hadley,
the designer of the state flag of Indiana. We’ll explore how
Mooresville feels about its link with Dillinger, who moved there as
a teenager with his father and stepmother. We also will explore the
kinds of “nuggets” that have been shared about other Hoosier
communities in our rotating series of town histories; previous shows
have focused on Greencastle, Madison, Sheridan, Greenfield, and the
bygone town of Elkinsville.
Fun fact: Mooresville was founded in
1824 by a Quaker from North Carolina named Samuel Moore.
 Fireside Chats with Hoosier History Live!
is a listening group that meets weekly at the Indianapolis Marion
County Central Library during the live show, Saturday mornings from
11:30 a.m. to noon.
The Fireside Chats will resume on Saturday, September 12, and is an
opportunity for history lovers to listen to the live Saturday 11:30
a.m. show together, and call into the show with questions. The
Chats are lead by Central Librarian Joan Harvey or one of her
colleagues, and are free and open to the public.
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Your friends in “Hoosierdom,” Host &
Creative Director Nelson Price and Producer & Development
Director Molly Head at the Indiana Living Legends Gala, July
18, 2008 at the Indiana History Center
Curious.... about all things Hoosier, the Indiana Humanities
Council blog, Hoosierati
discusses how our heritage shapes
the Hoosier state
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