Working at IU, I have a free subscription to the New York Times and other publications. I could read all of the time and not read it all. And that’s just in today’s world. I also have access to the Times Machine which is more than a century and a half of old news, and a reasonably decent search engine.
So I searched. And one of the first things I found was the supposed origin of the word hoosier.
This is one of the stories that gets around. Truth is, no one really knows where the word comes from. There are some scholars still working on trying to figure it out.
Everyone is trying to figure something out, though, I suppose.
We were figuring out a sports show tonight:
And I watched this documentary on the history of music in Memphis. And if you like music, the history of music, or the South, or just watching joyous people do things they enjoy …
That is a film worth your time.
