Jul 29, 2026
Originally aired 7/19/2025. Architectural historian James Glass will share insights about the evolution in the Hoosier capital city of skyscrapers, which date back more than 120 years. From the 1960s to the 1990s, a new “tallest building” in the city was constructed each decade.
Jul 27, 2026
Originally aired 07/12/2025. Nelson welcomes father-daughter duo, Chris Taelman and Kate Newman to the show. They have been on a quest to hike up to - then climb into - every fire tower that’s open in Indiana, many of which are in the state parks. Chris and Kateshare what they have learned about the history of these...
Jul 24, 2026
Originally aired 07/05/2025. Nelson’s guest is journalist Will Higgins, who created a pop-up museum that spotlights obscure history called the Museum of Fabulosity. The exhibit was up at CAMI throughout the summer of 2025. Highlights included an Olympic gold medalist in 1904 who later was a bank embezzler, and rock...
Jul 22, 2026
Originally aired 06/28/2025. A massive sculpture of Bigfoot at Patoka Lake; a horror-themed pizza parlor in Decatur, and a former Presbyterian church in Richmond with 62 genuine Tiffany stained glass windows. All of these and other off-the-beaten-path sites are the center of discussion between Nelson and his guest Jamie...
Jul 20, 2026
Originally aired 06/21/2025. Alan Hunter, the history columnist for the Weekly View newspaper that covers the east side of Indy, is Nelson's guest. The two discuss Nazi sympathizers who, during the late 1930s, lived on the eastside of Indianapolis. Families who were members of the German American Bund, a pro-Hitler...