In a cozy home a stone’s throw from Sarah Scott Middle School there lives a woman who carries within her a sizeable chunk of Wabash Valley history. Though she would be the first to say her life is rather unremarkable, it is hard to take her at her word. Not knowing how much she has witnessed as a lifetime Hautean. Not knowing the things that I know about her.
For the record, coming into this interview, here is what I know: I know that her name is Claudia Fitzsimmons Fulwiler. …

When they walked through the then-new Honey Creek Mall, gawky teens with painted faces, they were like nothing Terre Haute had ever seen, a rag-tag coalition of kids whose support for their favorite band became the first draft of the KISS Army.
“We were like Wayne and Garth, from ‘Wayne’s World.’ We were all nerds, and I’m not ashamed to say that,” Bill Starkey laughs, remembering the days before KISS was a household name, let alone inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Now in their 50s, Starkey and …

The man was as inconspicuous as a tall, broad-shouldered fellow wearing a zebra-striped shirt and black short pants could be walking across the Valle Field parking lot. He had the earnest look of a Boy Scout troop leader preparing to take youngsters on a long hike, but he was on his way to the football field complex’s east gridiron to referee Sunday afternoon Vigo County Youth Football League third- and fourth-grade games.
Even after the big fellow took the field with his refereeing partner and began tossing his yellow flag and …