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"Operation Postcard" Brings a 94-Year-Old Relic Back Home

July 15, 2022
Lowell Joerg
"Operation Postcard” is mission accomplished — at least the French Lick version of it, anyway.
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Rediscovering the Past at the Neptune Spring

June 22, 2022
Neptune Spring
This wasn't a surprise discovery. More of an “oh, hey, it's been a while.” As in more than 100 years type of a while.
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The Apollo Nameplate: From Buried to Revived

May 25, 2022
Apollos Spring
Apollo — er, well, “Apoll”, still minus the O — is back home once again.
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Mystery Items from West Baden: Can You Help Us Solve the Puzzle?

May 19, 2022
French Lick Resort Mystery Item
Maybe you hold the key to some of the pieces of our past.
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Take a Look at the New West Baden Springs Hotel Museum

May 11, 2022
West Baden Spring Hotel Museum
To think how much history is contained here at West Baden Springs Hotel, it’s tough to wrap your arms around it.
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Looking back to the 1949 Derby season gambling raid

May 05, 2022
The Brown Hotel Post Card
Derby weekend. It starts with drinking, gambling and the usual good times, and ends with the hotel doors chained shut and the casino shut down for good.
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Peter the Great: a Legendary Horse With a Legacy at French Lick

April 14, 2022
Peter the Great
Our history with horses runs deep here at the resort, from the famous double decker horse and bicycle track popular in the 1800s, to the Kentucky Derby theme that greets you today when you step inside 1875: The Steakhouse.
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Take the Self-Guided Larry Bird Tour through French Lick

March 03, 2022
Larry Bird
It’s March in Indiana. So it feels like a dutiful obligation to our Hoosier roots to highlight some basketball-related content right about now.
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The Resort Experience, From 100+ Years in the Past

January 31, 2022
Old Photo of people entering French Lick Hotel
Recently in our blog we shared some of the science-y findings about what’s exactly in the Pluto Water, based on info from a 1910s-era resort pamphlet that included a chemical analysis of our area’s famous H2O.
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What's in It? A Little Science behind that Legendary Pluto Water

January 20, 2022
Old school pluto water experience
That smell. What *is* that smell?
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