Indiana Avenue at Dusk
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Yesterday, after dinner in the Crooked Ewe parking lot with my wife Kristen and friends Anthony LaGuardia and Avika Dua, we parked the truck on Taylor Street and set off on a stroll down Indiana Avenue.
This stretch of the avenue, from Taylor to Prairie, was once the commercial heart of South Bend’s old Hungarian neighborhood Rum Village, dividing it from a square mile of Studebaker and Oliver factory buildings.
Today, the avenue 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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