The Indiana Tenderloin Chronicles
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The Tenderloin and The Town: Monticello, IN
I’ve been to Monticello (Mont-a-chello) before. The home of our third president, Thomas Jefferson, Italian for little mountain, was a...
The Tenderloin and the Town: Lafayette, IN
I lived in Tippecanoe County for about 4 years in my late teens and early 20’s. I’ll admit that besides the mall, movie theater, and...
The Tenderloin and the Town: Roanoke, IN
It’s fall break over here, so I took off work on a Friday and headed out to a small town with my two sons to make a day of it and find a...
The Tenderloin and the Town: New Castle, IN
After my last visit to the previous blog in Fairmount, I planned to head down to a certain county seat for another tenderloin town tour. ...
The Tenderloin and the Town: Fairmount, IN
While looking for towns to get a tenderloin for the blog, Fairmount came up as the home of James Dean. My first thought was how they...
The Tenderloin and the Town: 50th blog
For the 50th Tenderloin and the Town blog, I’d figure I’d do something different. Instead of gallivanting around courthouse squares,...
The Tenderloin and the Town: Covington, IN
The Tenderloin I had a couple of places in Covington to use for the tenderloin portion of the blog as I found a local Facebook page and...
The Tenderloin and the Town: Indianapolis, IN
Back in 1820 the Capitol of Indiana, Corydon, sat near the Ohio River on the southside of Indiana. Although the center of the population...
The Tenderloin and the Town: Ligonier, IN
The city of Ligonier has a long and diverse history. Founded in the early 19th century it was built in a valley known for their...
The Tenderloin and the Town: Wolcott, IN
When I first starting looking at writing a blog about Wolcott I found three solid places to visit – an old movie theater that is now a...
The Tenderloin and the Town: Wabash, IN
Wabash, Indiana has always been a pass-thru town for me. Whether traveling to Muncie for a bowling tournament, Marion for a Soccer game,...
The Tenderloin and the Town: Valparaiso, IN
Valparaiso sits on the edge of the area that is considered the Indiana suburb of Chicago known as Northwest Indiana (remember I don’t use...
The Tenderloin and the Town: Hartford City, IN
Blackford County is the fourth smallest county in Indiana, the smallest in the north side of the state, and the 8th smallest in...
The Tenderloin and the Town: Wakarusa, IN
For a lot of people in Elkhart County, Wakarusa is the small town you pass when travelling from the city of Elkhart to Nappanee. On...
The Tenderloin and the Town: Frankfort, IN
Continuing on my quest to blog about a tenderloin in all of the Indiana county seats, I seized the opportunity to visit Frankfort, IN. I...
The Tenderloin and the Town: Elkhart, IN - Part 2
Like I said in the part 1 version, Elkhart has too much cool stuff to just write one blog about it. On this version I take a bit more...
The Tenderloin and the Town: Elkhart, IN - Part 1
In January of 2003 a 24-year-old packed all his belongings from a 1 bedroom apartment into a moving truck and headed east for new...
The Tenderloin and the Town: Liberty, IN
In what appears to be the most patriotic town in Indiana, Liberty is the county seat of Union County. With a name like that I wouldn’t...
The Tenderloin and the Town: Rome City, IN
Walking through Rome City today you wouldn’t realize that this used to be a popular resort town. The railroad used stop in town and...



























