- September 2025
- Issue 014
The heir to the Oliver legacy was widowed at 27. It wasn't long after that when the Oliver company dissolved. The story tells that he lived in loneliness and heartbreak, holed up in Copshaholm, for the rest of his days. Now, with the discovery of the man's old briefcase, stuffed full of love letters, we know that his is a story with a happy ending... an ending that's been obscured by history for more than 50 years.
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On the mound, John Ringelski threw the most devastating curve ball South Bend had ever seen. Off the mound, it was his devasting temper that landed him in the news.
It was 1972 when George Wallace brought his intensely racist views to South Bend on a Presidential campaign stop. Ken Bradford was shocked by it then... and now.
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