Alec Evans
Erasmus Books Still Feels Like a Secret
BY ALEC EVANS // POSTED JUNE 23, 2025
If you turn down Wayne Street near downtown South Bend, there is a home located a stone's throw from Eddy with overgrown foliage out front. It's a two story Prairie style house with white stucco walls and a low hip roof covered in burnt sienna shingles. When you walk up the driveway to enter the building, there is a door with a bronze sign to your right installed on the stucco wall reading “Erasmus Books”.
How Mishawaka Moved Its Library and Preserved Its History
BY ALEC EVANS // POSTED APRIL 9, 2025
On July 16, 1969, the Apollo 11 mission commenced lift off to transport humans to the moon's surface. Two days prior, another mission was in its final stages in the heart of downtown Mishawaka. As the sun rose above the Main Street bridge over the Saint Joseph River, with the lingering chemical smell from Uniroyal hanging in the air, employees of the library on Hill Street prepared for the same cumbersome task that every resident must endure in life: transferring your belongings to a new home.