South Shore Blog

Eureka! You have come across a list featuring 2019 Easter Sunday brunches throughout Northwest Indiana. Take a peek at the restaurants listed below and make this year's brunch one to remember. Check back as we will continue to add more brunches as they are announced!

“Hey, whattaya know, we got ourselves a cinnamon!” April and May are the typical calving months for our Kankakee Sand bison. So, you can imagine our utter shock and surprise when we saw a little red bison calf in the pasture this past November!

The first question that comes to mind is, “How did that happen?!” Well, we know how it happened.  The better question may be, “Why did that happen?”

Though many good sized fish inhabit small lakes and streams, when that’s the case, the big dudes are

Sláinte! to the South Shore!

Get ready to embrace Irish traditions in the South Shore! Below you

Every March, maple trees in the South Shore awaken with the warm days and cold nights and the sap begins to flow. It's that time of year again, and the maple sugar farmers are busy, headed out with their tools to tap the trees.

I recently visited the Theatre at the Center in Munster to see a special performance of Love Letters, a one-night-only fundraiser. 

Love Letters written by A.R. Gurney was truly a remarkable production. From the very beginning, this play was filled with laughter, love, heartbreak and raw passion. The play was starred Crista Zivanovic, from The Times Media Company, as rebel Melissa Gardner, and Phil Potempa, from the Post-Tribune, as scholarly Andrew Ladd III.

Savor the South Shore, the region’s 5th annual Restaurant Week, kicked off Monday, February 18 and will continue until March 3, 2019! Maybe you have a restaurant you haven’t tried yet, or a favorite that you haven’t been to in a while, Savor the South Shore is the time to check it out. This amazing event means it’s time to go to as many restaurants as possible for lunch and dinner in a span of two weeks. With more than 30 different restaurants participating in the region, there will be plenty of variety and AMAZING deals at all of them. 

Photo: Aphrodite butterflies on butterfly weed by Gus Nyberg

My mailbox is starting to fill with seed catalogs. Even though it is only February, my mind is already dreaming of a well weeded garden, overflowing with the ripest of fruit and not a garden pest within 40 miles. 

Oh! And I just know that this year my landscaping of native flowers and shrubs will bloom all through the spring, summer and fall, with nary a weed to be found. Sigh…maybe someday. 

Winter is here, and you don’t want to be caught with the classic “I’m bored” coming from your little ones. Sure being outside in the snow is super fun for children and many teens, but it can only entertain for so long. So here are some other ideas to get the family together, inside, and entertained!

Photo copyright Christopher Jordan

While visiting the east coast this past December, my family took an evening drive to a “Winter Wonderland.” For $18, we were able to drive through three miles of outdoor light displays. Holiday tunes played in time to the light display. The displays were made of silver, blue, red, green and gold lights welded to metal frames in the shapes of larger-than-life castles, horse drawn carriages, poinsettias, wreaths, snowmen, St. Nick, the Grinch, pine trees, leaping deer, dinosaurs and exploding volcanoes!