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2015 GLPA Poster: First Midnight
Celebrating history through starlight. As South Bend, IN, celebrates its sesquicentennial (dubbed SB150) in 2015, the First Midnight...
Oct 14, 20153 min read


Find Your Place
The 2015 Perseid meteor shower peaks Wednesday night (August 12) and into Thursday morning (August 13). Look up on either side of the...
Aug 10, 20153 min read


Timestamp: New Horizons at Pluto
Let’s photo bomb Pluto and leave no trace. Take pictures all week during Pluto Time. Image courtesy of NASA. Anywhere in South Bend, take...
Jul 7, 20151 min read


Planets Kiss as Predicted
On the last day of June 2015, the planets Venus and Jupiter nearly kissed in silent conjunction--stunning in the western twilight. That...
Jul 2, 20153 min read


Pluto Time
The New Horizons spacecraft will zip past Pluto and its moons on Tuesday, July 14, 2015, at 7:49 a.m. EDT. For much of the day the...
Jun 30, 20153 min read


"Scope Out South Bend" Launches
As announced on WNIT’s Experience Michiana on Friday, June 19, the Scope Out South Bend challenge is underway. Scope Out South Bend...
Jun 21, 20152 min read


Scopes on The SB150 Green
South Bend, IN, celebrated its sesquicentennail Birthday Weekend on May 22-24, 2015, beginning with the dedication of its new River...
May 31, 20152 min read


Scope Out South Bend
Seek some sites in a sesquicentennial city this summer and you may find yourself $150 richer. Eight libraries in South Bend, IN, are...
May 25, 20152 min read


Look Under Moon
The timing of this double-header in the sky couldn't be better. On Friday, May 22, as the 150th anniversary of South Bend's First...
May 22, 20153 min read


Walt Whitman 150 Years Ago
What happened 150 years ago? 1. The City of South Bend, IN, was incorporated May 22, 1865, for which it is having a year-long...
May 21, 20151 min read