Tag: Glenn Miller

The Ernie Pyle Fireman’s Festival: Jitterbugging, Elephant Ears, and Trophies

The Ernie Pyle Fireman’s Festival: Jitterbugging, Elephant Ears, and Trophies

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)