Deirdre Fagan reads "To the person in charge of discontinuation," "The Month of the Dead," "Going Hungry," and "Love Begets Love."

After over 200 years of cultivating fields, topsoil has eroded in these areas. What exactly does that mean for farmland?

Not a pretty name for such an attractive plant.

French Lick is known for its Pluto Water and Martinsville once boasted numerous artesian water spas; less remembered is Warren County's “Mudlavia” resort.

A rash of robberies in the 1920s prompted bank employees to take up arms in the name of vigilante justice.

Carmen McRae was one of the most respected jazz singers in the business for four decades. This week, we’ll explore her early recordings for the Decca label in the 1950s.

A celebration of rock 'n' roll in an emerging era of electric guitars, long-playing records, studio wizardry, and social change.

A plant that attracts butterflies to our garden is the pincushion flower. The botanical name is Scabiosa, and these plants usually have blue, white, or pink flowers. As their common name suggests, the shape of the flower resembles a pincushion as the central florets form a rounded shape.

A French expatriate promised her nephews Ohio Valley acreage if they made the voyage, entreating them to bring along apricot cuttings and eau de cologne.

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We’re continuing our series on music in and about the Americas during the first centuries of European colonization with a focus on Southern New Spain and the Portuguese Empire in South America. Join us as we explore the musical legacies of sixteenth and seventeenth-century Peru, Guatemala, Brazil, and more.

Bloomington-based writer Colleen Wells reads her poems “The Sounds of Silence,” “Nature or Nurture,” “Rummy & Chummy,” “He’s Gone,” and “it’s really a crapshoot.”