New Carlisle Arts, Media and Sports History

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New Carlisle Arts, Media and Sports History

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Arts, Media & Sports

§ 15New Carlisle Sports History: Two State Titles and the Game the Town InventedNew Carlisle's teams played for half a century before they won anything the state keeps: the town's high school closed into New Prairie in 1969, and the consolidated school's Cougars reached two football state finals…19 entry pages § 82New Carlisle Team HistoriesMost towns have one team institution with a history deep enough to stand on its own. In New Carlisle that institution is not a school program but a backyard game that grew into a national tournament: The Wiffle®Ball…8 entry pages § 55Racing in New CarlisleThe racing leg's origin-ground test meets the same sentence the fair test met: the South Bend Tribune of 28 June 2026 remembers that the town "has had a racetrack" — and nothing else in the record reached seconds it. No…§ 84Halls of Fame and New CarlisleNew Carlisle seats one hall of its own — the New Carlisle Wiffle Ball Hall of Fame, established in 2020 with an inaugural class of fifteen, carried whole in part (a) of this section and not re-dug here. this section is…6 entry pages § 37New Carlisle Arts and CultureNew Carlisle's culture is kept in three rooms and one street: a museum that has moved three times and now sits in a former café on Michigan Street; an opera house that survives as one line in an 1884–85 state gazetteer…42 entry pages § 81New Carlisle ComedyNew Carlisle's one world-known performer is not a comedian. Richard Risley Carlisle (1814–1874), the acrobat who bought the townsite in 1835 and gave the town his name, built the Risley act — foot-juggling, circus work…9 entry pages § 60New Carlisle in FilmOne feature film has shot in New Carlisle, and the record of exactly what it shot is unusually good: Prancer (1989), the Christmas film set in Three Oaks, Michigan — the town exteriors were filmed in Three Oaks, with…§ 59Film and Television Producers From New CarlisleThe town's one station finally gets its builders at federal-record strength: WUBU 102.3 FM, FCC Facility 63772, licensed to New Carlisle, first on air 2 July 1991 — the station the newspapers leg seats with its format…§ 58New Carlisle PhotographersThree legs of makers share this section, and each begins by settling what its roster actually holds: a photographers' leg whose one name was filed in another leg's long tail; a producers' leg whose one station finally…3 entry pages § 57New Carlisle Newspapers and Media: The Gazette, the Journal, the Town Crier and the NewsNew Carlisle has been a newspaper town in bursts, not in one unbroken line: the directory record gives the town four papers across a century and a third — a Gazette founded in 1880, a second Gazette founded as a new…12 entry pages § 44New Carlisle Authors and BooksThe Authors leg existed in this build only as a pointer: the museum article assigns the Groves volume's contents "to the Authors leg," and no such leg stood anywhere in the banked set. Run now, this section's first…6 entry pages § 45New Carlisle Fashion HistoryNew Carlisle dressed itself the way farm-trade villages did: cloth and notions from the general stores, hats from one milliner at a time, suits ordered through a clothier or made by a tailor in the trade's early…6 entry pages § 42New Carlisle Awards and HonorsNational Awards & Honors11 entry pages § 88New Carlisle Influencers and Digital CreatorsThe leg's first item is what a search for this town's creators actually finds, and it finds the wrong thing: query the town's name against the creator economy and the returns are the marketplace listicles — "top…

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Source: New Carlisle Arts, Media and Sports History, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/new-carlisle/topics/arts-media-sports/

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