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Oct 17, 2024 | 
beltmag.com | Ed Breen
By Ed BreenGoogle search on “Lincoln-Douglas Debates” and it informs that 3,520,000 results await. Open historian Allen Guelzo’s 2008 book on Abraham Lincoln and Stephan A.
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Aug 7, 2024 | 
thepaperofwabash.com | Ed Breen
“Mississinewa 1812” has a new Grant County home. The iconic local history event will be returning in October 2025. And it will be on the banks of the Mississinewa River. But it will be about 14 miles from the battlefield site and the location where the event has been held annually for 36 years.
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May 21, 2024 | 
huntingtoncountytab.com | Ed Breen
“Mississinewa 1812,” the centerpiece of autumn activities in Marion and Grant County for 36 years, has been canceled for this year by its creators, the Mississinewa Battlefield Society. In a statement last week, the organization spelled out a lengthy list of issues that went into the decision to halt the event that had been scheduled for October 11-13, but also […]
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May 15, 2024 | 
thepaperofwabash.com | Ed Breen
“Mississinewa 1812,” the centerpiece of autumn activities in Marion and Grant County for 36 years, has been canceled for this year by its creators, the Mississinewa Battlefield Society.
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Dec 28, 2023 | 
beltmag.com | Ed Simon |Casey Taylor |Morgan Springer |Ed Breen
By Ed Simon What small publication punches that much higher than Belt Magazine does? Operating out of a PO Box and with a shoe-string budget, we publish three times a week with essays, reportage, commentary, and photojournalism from across the wide swath of the region, the only publication in the United States exclusively dedicated to the experience of those in the Industrial Midwest, the Great Lakes Region, the Northern Appalachians, and the Rust Belt.
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Sep 2, 2023 | 
beltmag.com | Ed Breen
By Ed Breen It is neither broad nor deep nor of great length, this river. Just 64 miles of meandering, twisting and turning, flowing and gurgling through the forest and foliage of west Michigan. As the crow flies, only 30 miles from Baldwin to Ludington in the Lower Peninsula. But a creature of what beauty it is, this stream they call the Pere Marquette.
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Aug 9, 2023 | 
thepaperofwabash.com | Ed Breen
The long-term highway project near Four Mile Bridge north of Marion on State Road 15 is not work on the bridge. It is, rather, the installation of a new, massive culvert buried more than 20 feet beneath the road about 200 yards north of the Mississinewa River bridge. The culvert, installed when the SR 15 road grade was built more than 75 years ago, carries a stream beneath the road and on to the river and is in need of replacement.
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Jul 8, 2023 | 
beltmag.com | Ed Breen
That tiny patch of Iowa might well have been returned to corn production when the movie makers left town, but was not. It was preserved, haltingly at first, with nothing more than a rusted coffee can nailed to a post to solicit preservation donations, and now has become an industry, a revenue stream for both Iowa and big league baseball.
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Apr 29, 2023 | 
beltmag.com | Ed Breen
So, be you a Willie fan or not, when his 90th birthday tributes show up on television and radio this weekend, remember that he has in so many ways lived all of our lives and sung all of our songs in all our towns from Pittsburgh to Denver. By Ed Breen A far off journey today up Interstate 35, through Austin and past Waco to just north of West, Texas. We exit on a county road marked 3102 and there’s not much to see, only a sign that points us north and east to Abbott.
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Apr 27, 2023 | 
journalgazette.net | Ed Breen
A little journey today up Interstate 35, through Austin and past Waco to just north of West, Texas. We exit on a county road marked 3102 and there’s not much to see, only a sign that points us north and east to Abbott.
