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Downtown to welcome 'Brink of Summer' with art and more


Flower Hour: While exploring downtown Muncie during Brink of Summer ArtsWalk, collect flowers from 10 different locations to create a beautiful, custom bouquet. Tickets for Flower Hour are $20 and can be purchased online at downtownmuncie.org/flowerhour or from a participating sponsor or Downtown Development board or staff member. Money raised through this event will support DWNTWN event programming and development opportunities. This event is presented by Normandy Flower Shop, Foister s Flowers and Gifts, Dandelions Flowers and Gifts, and Miller s Flowers and Gifts.
The Commercial Kitchen by Pink Leaf, 108 S. Walnut St.: The new Commercial Kitchen by Pink Leaf will be open 5:30-8 p.m. for tours. Check out a newly commissioned art piece in the lobby, take home a packet of seeds and let the kids enjoy youth-designed coloring pages and cookies. ....

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Bygone Muncie: Reporting on a horrifying chapter in Muncie history


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As I grew up in Muncie, the only place my parents told me never to go to was Westside Park after dark. My folks, like many local residents, were horrified at the 1985 murders of Kimberly Dowell and Ethan Dixon in the park that fall. In the 1990s, when I was old enough to bike and later drive around our fair city, I avoided Westside Park after sundown, recalling my parents’ injunction against it.
But I don’t remember the actual murders, as I was only 5 at the time. Nevertheless, I do remember the stories that followed. By the time I was in high school, I’d heard a dozen different theories about, opinions of, and supposed insider information regarding the real story  of the killings. These near-folklorish accounts of the tragedy, as ridiculous as they were bizarre in retrospect, became the  narratives of the homicides. Much to my chagrin now, I accepted some of these bogus renditions as fact, falsely embracing them as accurate explanations of what hap ....

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