Around 4:00 in the afternoon on the day we filmed Ms. Adeline—two hours after the shop was supposed to close—things slowed down enough for us to ask Ms. Adeline some questions about her life, faith, and business.
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Today, we’re releasing a selection of behind the scenes photographs from our short film Ms. Adeline, and for West.SB members, 28 Minutes with Ms. Adeline, an extended interview with a wealth of memories and wisdom, as well as some of the film's most memorable quotes.
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Nimoy Vaidya is a b-boy, originally from Kathmandu, Nepal, who moved to the U.S. in 2015. He breakdances as an avenue for personal growth and a way to help kids in South Bend.
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While many Americans spend this pandemic at home, crews of essential workers continue to set their alarms and take care of South Bend's parks and public spaces. Today, Jessica Spoor takes us around town to meet a few on the job.
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Ms. Adeline Wigfall-Jones has been cutting hair at 1131 West Washington Street in South Bend since 1976. She is 91 years old. We spent a typical Saturday, from 6:57 am to 4:49 pm, at the barbershop with Ms. Adeline and asked: “when are you going to stop?”
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South Bend is full of signs, and as we live our lives alongside them, they become something more than just markers for a business. Today, Ryan Blaske introduces us to South Bend Signs, a new Instagram account documenting the signs of our city.
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This week we welcome Kathy Burnette to South Bend on Purpose. Kathy is the owner of The Brain Lair, a bookstore in South Bend focused on developing empathy and building community with inclusive books.
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Abigail Gillan opened The Ragamuffin Bakery in April of this year—an uncertain time, to say the least—and proceeded to sell out day after day. I visited on the shop’s one-month anniversary, and this is what I saw.
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Chuck Fry, Ryan Blaske, and I are teaming up to tell stories about South Bend and we’re exploring a new membership model to do it.
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Indiana Avenue was once the commercial heart of South Bend’s old Hungarian neighborhood. Today, it is a one-sided string of storefronts looking out over a vast field, at once echoing our city’s complicated past and pointing to a new, hopeful, fragile future.
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