Ball State University - Orient Yearbook (Muncie, IN)

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Th I ll 'good ol days HILE students began bust- mg., own onthe north of bouncy carnival out in a festival of their side of Muncie, strains melodies mixed with aromas of frying doughnuts, cotton can- dy,and old-fashioned ham and beans.as city residents r lived the good ol' days, during an Eiearly-September street festival in the central part of town. Sponsored Neighborhood sixth annual Festival spotlight city's historic redevelopment the 600 to 900 Main, Jackson, streets. Visitors toured homes and stroll craft displays, markets that Washington Stre sold caramel by Association CECNAJ, the Ol the East Central Washington Street d more than 36 of the homes participating in and renewal projects in blocks of Washington, Adams and Charles the early 20th-century ed among the various bake sales and farmer's were located on et. Local Boy Scouts apples, Muncie North- side Thespians used makeup to trans- 85 pose adventurous passers-by into animals and monsters, and the intersec- tion of Hackley and Washington streets became a stage for magic shows, ragtime piano players and chamber choirs. lt keeps getting larger and larger, ECNA spokesperson Marie Rhorer said, referring to the two-day event. We're here mostly because we want to be recognized. We want to raise money to put back into the neighborhood. We want more people to move down here. When Muncie resident and author of, How Dear to My Heart, Emily Kim- brough was born in 1898, her family's house at 715 E. Washington Street was in the heart of the city's aristocratic neighborhood. As people moved from the inner-city to the suburbs, however, the once-flourishing street began to deteriorate and slowly lose its appeal. One of the families to finally leave in the mid-1970s after their home was burglarized was James O. Fields and his wife, Ocalee. The Fields had lived t'0N'l'lNlllrLlJ MIKE VUIJHR ROCK MUSIC was not the type of music played by bluegrass and gospel music on the guitar, autoharp and Sounds and Stuff, Rather, the gmup fgrmed by Tom mandolin for the audiences at the Washington Street Oglesby, Ivan Rdmon and Cecil Shigley chooses to play Festival. Washington St. Festival

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M MIKE YODER