- June 2026
- Issue 023
Pierre Navarre arrived at the bend in the river in 1820, three years before the next European-descended person. He's the first settler to call the area home, but he is not remembered as one of the founders of South Bend.
He'd probably prefer it that way.
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As a high school phenom at South Bend Riley, pro scouts said Bob Rush threw has fastball harder than anyone they'd ever seen. He rode that fastball to a 13-year big league career.
It was 1856 when Scuyler Colfax was elected to the House, a body so fractured that it passed almost nothing during the term. Except the Guano Islands Act, and it's still on the books.
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