Comments on: Delphi, Indiana: The Opera House Part 2

By: Jessica Nunemaker

Jessica Nunemaker — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:40:17 +0000

Thanks Kathy! What a neat place to grow up!

By: Kathy Hyman

Kathy Hyman — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 22:31:40 +0000

I love this site – I grew up in the opera house building as it was my dads drugstore so I love following what they are doing. I am a life enrichment coordinator for an independent living facility in Lafayette and this site will be great to help find fun places – just need to work my way around the site – hank you for that!!!

By: Jessica Nunemaker

Jessica Nunemaker — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 10:58:45 +0000

@Doug I’m not sure I agree that the small town is past its heyday — I’ve visited plenty that have grown in leaps and bounds!

@Paul There is nothing better than cider! I’ll have to check it out in the Fall. Thanks for the heads up! I hope, hope, hope she’s still making it!!!

By: Doug

Doug — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 23:44:27 +0000

Thanks for the posting about Delphi. Delphi is my home town (I grew up there from 9 mo. to college) but I haven’t been back since the family all died out. I remember the Opera House as a kid as being this creepy, haunted place full of stuff covered with sheets. We used to get the key from a woman on the second floor (who shall forever remain anonymous since everyone worried about toxoplasmosis) and wander around.

Your website is marvelous. Small town Indiana is way past its heyday — which was probably 1855-1885 or so — but there is so much evidence of history from that period has survived that hasn’t in the cities and suburbs. New England values the 1600s, Virginia the 1700s… but the Gilded Age is lost most places, but not all.