This week we welcome our friend Chuck Fry to the podcast to discuss his road to South Bend, how he learned to tell stories with film, why he got out of bed to start creating things during quarantine, and the internal battles that come with being a full-time artist.
Read MoreToday, fourteen regional musicians worked with South Bend Venues Parks and Arts to release a new music video featuring an arrangement of the late Bill Withers’ “Lean on Me” with an original verse from Heyzeus, and production from Chuck Fry, Ryan Blaske, Eli Kahn, and Buddy Pearson.
Read MoreOn this forty-fourth episode, we record remotely for the first time and are joined by Jason Miller, the founding pastor of South Bend City Church, for a long conversation about the state of belonging amid the pandemic.
Read MoreYesterday I was live on Instagram with Jason Miller to talk about South Bend, creativity, and my new daily podcast.
Read MoreIn a new episode of This Day in South Bend, we read a remarkable article in the April 23, 1927 evening edition of The Tribune in which a local attempts to sell South Bend to the people of America with a simple, yet profound, message: the people make the city.
Read MoreOn July 25, 1945, the South Bend Tribune broke the news of a new freight terminal to be built on former Oliver Corporation land, citing it as the “first hint of an industrial building boom in South Bend.” The terminal still stands today—empty.
Read MoreLast week my dad purchased a weather-worn 1952 Studebaker 2R-series truck with a plan to rebuild it from the ground up. This is the first in a series of posts documenting the process.
Read MoreThe coronavirus crisis reveals a key strength of most heartland cities: they are much thicker societies than global cities on the coasts.
Read MoreDuring the Second World War, South Bend was a powerhouse of industrial production in service of the Allied Powers. As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads, it’s time for us to imagine a new kind of wartime production that places us in service to each other.
Read MoreWilson Brothers Shirt Factory is a 133-year old, half-demolished complex on Sample Street in South Bend. We reflect on life surrounded by crumbling infrastructure and share photographs of the factory as it stands today.
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