"Guardians of the Avenue" is the story of African-American officers with the Indianapolis Police Department (known since 2007 as the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department). "The Avenue" is Indiana Avenue, the African-American district they were largely restricted to for the first decades they patrolled. Five Black men were appointed to the department on May 13, 1876. It was an experiment, five Black men also being appointed to the Fire Department on the same date. The future of African-Americans as public safety workers depended on these men to prove they could do the job and interact...

Quincy, Indiana was founded in 1854 along a rail line which eventually was owned by the Monon Railroad. This helped Quincy flourish for almost 100 years. Fires accidental or not, decimated this town of 200 people. Author Patrick Pearsey lays out the history, of the town and the people who populated it. Loaded with vintage photographs, this book covers the famed Quincy Picnic, Quincy High School, its basketball teams and one still unsolved murder case from the turn of the century.