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Episode 1712Original air date: 5/15/2007
Traderspoint Creamery
| Watch This Segment Online. | | Description: | Meet Nelda Wert -- judged by our top-flight staff to be the ultimate "Across Indiana" fan, ever. Why? She knows more about our little show than we do -- including imitations of how host Michael Atwood holds his hands when he talks on-camera and turning places she sees on the program into daytrips for her and her patient husband. Anyone that devoted deserves 15 minutes of "Across Indiana" fame -- so, its off on a daytrip with Nelda to the Traderspoint Creamery, to enjoy some fresh-fruit ice cream from some organically-grass-fed contented cows. | | Credits: | Jim Simmons | | Location: | Traderspoint | | Contact: | www.tpforganic.com |
The Best Little Museum in Indiana
| Watch This Segment Online. | | Description: | That would be the Monon Connection Transportation Museum in (where else?) Monon. It's a celebration of everything railroad and an homage to the American character -- where hard work and a couple-million hand-driven spikes united a nation. Be prepared to have your jaw drop when you come in the front door -- its quite a collection. | | Credits: | Dick Wolfsie | | Location: | Monon | | Contact: | www.mononconnection.com |
Monticello Travels
| Watch This Segment Online. | | Description: | What would a daytrip be without proper transportation? Well, we've got it -- a 1950 Chevy painted in the school colors of Monticello High School, complete with Indian head decals. It belongs to John Fraser, who's visited every town named Monticello in the country. That's 21 Monticellos in all -- including Monticello, California, that happens to be under water . . . a reservoir covered the town, but that didn't stop John from stopping by. Though he's in his 70s, John's a bit of an iron man -- putting some 7,000 miles on his car in 13 days in one jaunt that including a radiator-threatening trek through Death Valley. | | Credits: | Michael Atwood | | Location: | Monticello | | Contact: | e-mail Jim Simmons @ jsimmons@wfyi.org to contact John |
Guidance from Above
| Watch This Segment Online. | | Description: | History is filled with stories of explorers (like John Fraser) boldly going where no man has gone before. It's a safe bet, though, that nearly half of them got lost. But never again, thanks to GIS Technology -- that's satellite-mapping coupled to a supercomputer in Bloomington. It's "astronomically" high-tech. Let's say you're a policeman responding to a distress call in a particular city block. The GIS will not only show the house you're headed to -- it'll let you know what other buildings surround the location, where the streets are, and various "quirks" about the neighborhood that might provide an escape route to a felon. Better still, you don't have to fold the map up when you're done! | | Credits: | Aric Hartvig | | Location: | Bloomington | | Contact: | www.indianamap.org |
Running for Those Who Can't
| Watch This Segment Online. | | Description: | We follow-up on a story we first featured in March. Dewon Darden was determined to run in the Indianapolis 500 Mini-Marathon with his son, DJ. But DJ has muscular dystrophy and needs a wheelchair to get around. Two months ago, we told you about a special wheelchair designed to carry DJ to the finish line and we showed you the Dardens training for the event. Come with us now to the streets -- to see the Dardens cross the finish line -- in a story of a father's love that knows no limits. | | Credits: | Vincent Manganello | | Location: | Indianapolis | | Contact: | www.mdff.org |
Divided by War; United in Peace
| Watch This Segment Online. | | Description: | This is a survivor's tale about two men who found peace in new lives tied to the Columbus area. Indonesian-born Gus Pothoff served in World War II, was captured by the Japanese, and forced to endure brutal abuse as he and his fellow POWs worked on the Thailand "Death Railway," building the legendary "Bridge on the River Kwai." After the war, Gus chose to live in the United States, settling in Columbus. The people of the town were so impressed by his life story that they commissioned a documentary about it -- and, at its premiere, the mayor named the occasion "Gus Pothoff Day." Libero Puccini was an Italian POW, imprisoned at Camp Atterbury. A rock with the "Atterbury" logo carved by Libero in 1942 stands at the entrance to this very day. Libero, too, decided to remain in America -- and here's an irony. His son Mark now serves in our Navy, flying jets over Iraq. Of all brave men who serve their country, Libero says: "I see U.S. veterans of Korea and VietNam when I return to Atterbury -- I tell them, 'I was on the other side.' They tell me, 'What the hell's the difference? -- we're brother veterans.' | | Credits: | Jim Simmons | | Location: | Columbus | | Contact: | e-mail Jim Simmons @ jsimmons@wfyi.org to contact Libero; e-mail Clayton Taylor @ ctaylor@wfyi.org to contact John |
Still Waters
| Watch This Segment Online. | | Description: | After spending the day with Nelda Wert on our daytrip, she takes us on a passion of her own. It's called "Casting For Recovery" -- where women who are breast cancer survivors are taught how to fly-fish. That might seem an odd pairing, but the muscles used in casting are the same ones that have been weakened by cancer surgery. But there's more . . . this outing at Fort Harrison Park in Indianapolis gives these women a chance to "cast-off" their various roles of mother, businesswoman or caregiver and just be themselves. There are some remarkable stories . . . including a 33-year cancer survivor in her 80s whose daughter -- in her 50s -- is a 3-year survivor and who was diagnosed with cancer when she was the same age as her mother was when she was first diagnosed! | | Credits: | Jim Simmons | | Location: | Indianapolis | | Contact: | www.castingforrecovery.org |
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