Paula Dunn

From Time to Thyme By Paula Dunn Last week I wrote about Judge Edward F. New, Jr.’s rough treatment of juveniles and his inventive sentencing of convicted offenders. What created the most headlines, however, was his penchant for citing local officials for contempt. One of the earliest incidents took place in 1967 when the judge…

From Time to Thyme By Paula Dunn I’ve been thinking about writing about Judge Edward F. New, Jr. for a long time, but I put it off because I knew there was so much material to work with that it would be harder to decide what to leave out of the column than to figure…

From Time to Thyme By Paula Dunn The Herb Society of Central Indiana may not be holding their annual Spring Symposium, but we can still celebrate the 2025 Herb of the Year, chamomile (or camomile, if you prefer the traditional British spelling.) The word, “chamomile” is derived from the Greek for “ground or earth apple”…

I’ve been wanting to write something about Hamilton County’s medical history for a long time, but I discovered that’s easier said than done. Most of what’s in the old newspapers are accounts of the Hamilton County Medical Society’s meetings and they don’t make very interesting reading. While trying to come up with a topic for…

From Time to Thyme By Paula Dunn Westfield native Larry Cloud, who pops up in this column occasionally, recently sent me copies of a number of documents related to the service of his uncle, William Stanton Cloud, during World War II. In many ways, the experiences of Larry’s “Uncle Bill” were like those of any…

From Time to Thyme By Paula Dunn A couple of weeks ago, Cynthia Baker emailed to ask if I’d ever written a column about the creation of Morse Reservoir. Not exactly. I’ve covered aspects of the reservoir’s history before, but I’ve never devoted an entire column to it. To be honest, I’ve been a little…

From Time to Thyme By Paula Dunn When I was trying to decide on a subject for Black History Month, it occurred to me that most people have probably never heard of Fred Hord. While he lived here, he was one of Noblesville’s most prominent and well liked African American residents. The only reason he’s…

From Time to Thyme By Paula Dunn I ran across another story in the old newspapers that was just too weird not to share. The Feb. 22, 1881 Noblesville Ledger includes a rather lengthy article about the mysterious disappearance of a Kokomo tailor, John F. Myers. Three weeks earlier Myers, a collector of rare zoological…

It’s a reader response week! Several people mourned the loss of the Jim Dandy.   Sydney Susie noted that while her mother Barbara Heaton Servies Jerrell loved the Jim Dandy’s Jimbo sandwiches, she herself just missed out on the “cruising the JD” tradition. The big high school hangout in Sydney’s day was Ramsey’s Drive-In. (People…