When I was giving stump speeches all over the state for the new Indiana State Museum from 1997 to 2004, I frequently worked a couple of canal metaphors into my presentation -- thanks to the perspective and passion of my board members Dan McCain and Tom Castaldi.
It's pretty common for historians to attribute part of the "conservative" Hoosier character to the "failure" of the Internal Improvement Act, the subsequent ban on state borrowing in the 1850 Constitution -- we've had a risk-averse cultu… Continue