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Reading Room Books in Wabash is one of the many downtown attractions in town.

Downtown Wabash is hidden gem

Just a short drive away is one of north-central Indiana’s sizzling secrets: Downtown Wabash. Over the past 20 years or so, it’s been reimagining and reinventing itself, and more than […]

Shipshewana has something for everyone, especially at Christmas

Yes, Shipshewana is a bit of a tourist trap. But I like tourist traps. I like to be trapped by them. “Trap me, Shipshewana! Trap me!” I yelled in downtown […]

Winona Lake welcomes you to a storybook historic hamlet

In 1911, an unsigned editorial ran in no fewer than a half-dozen Indiana papers. It began, “There has always been a great deal of misunderstanding as to just what Winona […]

Welcome to Wabash

The first thing you need to know is that Wabash is just a corruption of Ouabache, a French word meaning, “I bet you 20 francs some Englishmen will end up […]

Warm weather means time for Lake Wawasee

The first time I walked into the Oakwood Resort in Syracuse years ago, I expected to be so inspired by an antique portrait of a woman resembling a young Jane […]