Some images from Back Home Again, in Indiana

[cajunscot]

It's always comforting to see a monument to Southern marksmanship.

Sir, I find your comment to be extremely disrespectful and insulting. I would never, as the proud descendant of Union soldiers, make such a comment towards Confederate dead. They are all Americans now, united in death and bravery.

Todd

[Riverkilt]

Thanks for the pics Mike1,

I saw the Soldiers and Sailors Monument for the first and last time in 1965 when Indie was part of my sales territory.

Don't recall the high rises so close....remember it as much more open. Guessing some of the new buildings have sprouted in the 42 years since I was there.

Ron
Who's Scott ancestors came to Indiana with a land grant for service in the War of 1812.

[djweso]

Thanks for the pics. That is a part of the city I've never seen. Then again, I've only visited a few times, but all more recent than Ron.

[Scott Gilmore]

In response to Scott Gilmore's comment.

I don't think that it's just America where this happens, modern buildings the world over have developed a large degree of sameness and monuments do not have the scale and variety.

Modernism has taken over and abstract colourful shapes seem to be the order of the day.(

Too bad. There does seem to be a greater degree of what I think of that old pioneering can-do spirit in some isolated parts of the world, but rarely does it manifest itself as elegantly as the neo-classic monument shown in Mike1's lead post.