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Episode 1808Original air date: 1/28/2008
The Secret Ingredient
| Watch This Segment Online. | | Description: | At the start of this season, we told you the story of Mishawaka’s Elizabeth Richardson—a World War II Red Cross Clubmobile worker who is one of only four women buried in the American Cemetery at Normandy. While we were taping that segment, we became enchanted with one of our interviews—Kathryn Kirkpatrick Huehl from Irvington—also a Clubmobile worker. Now, we don’t know about you, but we have trouble remembering what day of the week it is or where we misplaced our car keys. Kathryn’s memory, on the other hand, is remarkable and she remembers dates, sights, sounds, smells—you name it—from 60 years ago in glorious detail. We begin this trip with her remarkable tales of bringing hope and conversation from home to soldiers on the front lines. But the “secret ingredient” to Katy’s work wasn’t the coffee and doughnuts she served – it was the Clubmobile “gals” themselves. | | Credits: | Gary Weir | | Location: | Irvington |
A Message from the Heart
| Watch This Segment Online. | | Description: | Next, we pose one of our famous “Across Indiana” philosophical questions for you. If you’re a parent, what’s the best thing you can leave your children? Why, a world that’s a better place to live than the way you found it. Sad to say, there are some sections of the globe where we’re not doing such a bang-up job of that. But where those might be fightin’ words for some people, for Jean-Michel, the subject of our next jaunt, it’s an opportunity for mediation, teamwork and diplomacy. Jean-Michel has brought his message to a packed house at Hanover College. He’s also brought with him his very famous name—that of Cousteau. | | Credits: | Jim Simmons | | Location: | Hanover College |
If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Reuben
| Watch This Segment Online. | | Description: | If you’re suffering from a touch of cabin fever right now, here’s a suggestion. Nothing puts a little zest into your life like—a quest! The Holy Grail. The perfect wave. The sword in the stone. But we are, after all, “Across Indiana,” famed throughout cornfield and salvage yard for our somewhat rarified status as the guardian of fine culture in this fine state. So for us, no ordinary quest will suffice. Needless to say, we’ve found just the right object for all of us to pursue with dogged determination. We’re joining the “Reuben Realm” of Indianapolis, who set forth every other Tuesday on a noble journey to find the perfect Reuben Sandwich. And for our guide—well, to find an object of heroic proportions, we’ll need a Sherpa with nearly superhuman powers: a man known only as “The Reubenator.” | | Credits: | Scott "The Hungry Hoosier" Hutcheson | | Location: | Indianapolis |
A Little Luxury
| Watch This Segment Online. | | Description: | And now, for a relaxing change of pace. We’re going to take you to a little bed and breakfast getaway near Anderson—but we caution you. The typical overnight guest is a little different from you and me. Exotic themed-rooms. Continental breakfasts. Bottled water. In-room color TV. But hey, if you’ve had your nose to the ground all week, you’d deserve a break, too. And if these amenities don’t sound all that exceptional to you, then you should know that the “Little Rascals” Motel serves ONLY dogs, cats, and large birds (“No reptiles,” says owner Lloyd Shinholt)—and that includes a pampered evening in a luxuriously-named suite called the “Taj-Mutt-hal.” | | Credits: | Ryan A. Hostetler, Darcy Noonan, Monique Morosko | | Location: | Anderson |
Porch Talk: A Man’s Garage Is His Castle
| Watch This Segment Online. | | Description: | Man’s best friend aside, there is only one thing in an adult male’s life that is steadfast, trustworthy, reliable, respectful and constant—and woe be to that sorry segment of manhood that has grown old without it. For there is no relationship on this planet, according to our good friend, the minister-author from Danville, Philip Gulley—quite like that of a man and his garage. “I’d rather be homeless than garage-less,” quips Mr. Gulley. “If I was homeless, I could live in my garage.” | | Credits: | Aric Hartvig |
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