History comes alive with this collection of photographs of people living, working and enjoying being a part of Northwest Indiana in the first half of the twentieth century. You'll view athletic gatherings, church picnics, and get a glimpse into the stables that were needed in Hammond if you had to ride your horse to work. From leveling the sand dunes on the south shoreline of Lake Michigan, to harvesting ice on Wolf Lake and Cedar Lake, you'll get...

A treasure trove of history, profiling many aspects of life in Northwest Indiana. There's the first trolley car to enter Crown Point; the 1954 blast at the Whiting Refinery; the efforts to create the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore in 1966, and the years of effort that lead up to it. There's World War II, the Korean War, and the Cold War. And there's also people having fun, creating communities, making history on the local level. Savor this trip...