Tom Castaldi
Host, The Heritage TrailTom Castaldi, Allen County (Indiana) Historian and retired Essex Group Vice President, hosts "On the Heritage Trail". An audio walk through Fort Wayne's history, On the Heritage Trail, follows historical markers describing the significant sites on an actual walking trail created as a lasting legacy for the Fort Wayne Bicentennial Cerebration of 1994. Tom is an Indiana University School of Business alumnus, and is the author of the Wabash & Erie Canal Notebook series.
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Fort Wayne is home to many inventions. Among them is the boss roaster, which was a major kitchen innovation in the 1800s and used often during the…
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School is back in session for much of the region, and on this episode of The Heritage Trail we'll go back all the way back to 1857 when Fort Wayne…
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This week 131 years ago, League Park, known today as Headwaters Park, hosted the first professional evening baseball game under big league lights. WBOI’s…
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Lincoln Tower was Fort Wayne’s first skyscraper and turns 99 years old this month. The Heritage Trail’s Tom Castaldi tells us about the founding and…
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Tom Castaldi talks about how Fort Wayne hosted the first major league baseball game.
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Four famous Hoosiers sand their way to the top of the charts.
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