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A radio station that lost its will
Me on the air in 1987 Last November I shared with you that my alma mater’s radio station, WHMD at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, had shut off its transmitter and gone...
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It’s a shame what’s happened to radio
I signed off the air for the last time 20 years ago tomorrow, capping a nine-year side career on the radio. People still sometimes ask me if I miss being a disk jockey, and for a long time I always...
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Captured: White Chapel
I got to visit my alma mater, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, on the day before Halloween. I made time to take some photos around campus; I’ll share a bunch of them with you on Monday. I was...
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A visit to Rose-Hulman
I missed my 25th college reunion in early October, so I was glad to have a chance to visit campus the day before Halloween. I was officially on campus to interview summer-intern candidates to work for...
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A place to start
This happened 25 years ago. I’ve told this story here twice before: in 2007 and 2011, but I rewrote it this time. Only the rough neighborhoods fit my budget. I’d just graduated from engineering school...
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Captured: Terre Haute Coca-Cola Bottling Company
Shortly after I moved into my Terre Haute apartment in 1989, I rode my bike around the neighborhood with my camera in my hands. The local Coca-Cola bottling plant was only four blocks away, in a great...
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Warm memories of my first apartment
Does a particular home in your past bring especially warm memories? What made the place so special? I’d love to hear about it in the comments, or better yet, on your blog — especially if you have...
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Rose-Hulman, Spring, 1986
What was I doing on the roof of my residence hall that spring day my freshman year of college? Deming Hall, oldest residence hall on campus Nothing more nefarious than taking photographs. I’m sure the...
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What the ice storm could have taught me about myself
What a great day, walking through the park with my camera after the ice storm! It was 1990. I was 22 and didn’t know myself yet. Who does at 22? College was less than a year behind me; I had gone to...
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Captured: 8th and Maple
I’m consistently surprised by what does and doesn’t work on this blog. I’ll pour my heart into a post and when it goes live, crickets: few views, few comments. Other times I’ll dash off something...
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Night game
I knew professional radio was a brutal business. But when Chip, who hired me into my first on-air job, whose blunt critiques of my work made me minimally competent, was fired, I was deeply angry just...
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Connecting through the ether
I miss radio, the kind where I could put on a pot of coffee on a rainy and quiet Sunday afternoon and be kept company by some pleasant music and a live disk jockey. Time was, most towns had such a...
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Headstone’s
I first told this story when this blog was young, eight years ago. I haven’t been back to Headstone’s in almost that many years. I don’t know what’s wrong with me. I still have the tie-dye shirt I...
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Breaking the news of Space Shuttle Challenger
It was my generation’s “I remember where I was when I heard the news” moment: the day Space Shuttle Challenger exploded in the air after launch. It happened 30 years ago today. My “where was I” story...
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Captured: Rose-Hulman spring morning, 1988
Down the Road is on hiatus, returning Monday, 26 September. I’m rerunning old posts in the meantime. As a boy, summer was my favorite season, but as I grew up spring began to overtake it. I remember...
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Headstone’s
Down the Road is on hiatus, returning Monday, 26 September. I’m rerunning old posts in the meantime. When I was in college, I should have just had my work-study paycheck direct-deposited into Headstone...
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A visit to Headstone’s
Every time I go back to Terre Haute I try to at least drive by Headstone Friends. It’s a record store in the late-60s head-shop tradition. I spent a lot of money here in the late 80s when I was in...
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The Indiana Theatre: A crown jewel of Terre Haute
Tucked quietly into the corner of 7th and Ohio Streets in Terre Haute is this grand and gorgeous theater. Minolta XG 1, 45mm f/2 MD Rokkor, Fujicolor 200, 2017 Opened in 1922 and designed by John...
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Everybody wants to know where Jimmy has gone
My brief radio career ended just before Labor Day 23 years ago. On the air at WZZQ, Terre Haute, Indiana, in 1994 I’ve written about my broadcasting days many times because it remains a proud, fond...
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A sense of place: Going home to Twelve Points
How well do we actually see the places where we live? Truly notice the details that give it identity and make it a place? For me, the answer is: Better now than when I was young. I’ve lived long...
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