From Mark Bennett, Tribune-Star: Even as the pandemic has strained already-worn small towns, there is a brighter future for Dana, Indiana, thanks to generous grants and the return of the annual festival honoring its hometown hero, Ernie Pyle. Read the full piece here.
Last Thursday, the New York Times posted an article on Dana, Indiana and the Ernie Pyle Museum. The piece, written by “This Land” columnist Dan Barry, highlights the struggles of the museum and its recent loss of precious artifacts related to Ernie’s work. To read the article, …
One particular weekend each summer I become extremely nostalgic (more than usual) for Dana, Indiana. The rural western Indiana town, population 608, is where I spent my middle and high school summers with my paternal grandparents while my mother, a single-parent nurse, worked (too hard) …