This lodge at Potato Creek State Park will bring another option for Northern Hoosiers and also people in Southwest Michigan.

Yep: Both Washington State (and Washington D.C.) are named for the first president of the United States. Granted statehood in 1889, Washington is the only state named after a president.

Being first means a lot to the Granite State. New Hampshire held its first presidential primary in May 1916 − a week after the Indiana primary − but legislators soon amended state law to hold ...

Woodrow Wilson broke that pattern with his first State of the Union in 1913, near the end of his first year in office. He continued his in-person tradition until a stroke made that impossible in 1919.

Erin Entrada Kelly’s tender, mind-bendy THE FIRST STATE OF BEING (Greenwillow, 272 pp., $19.99, ages 8 to 12) is set quite specifically in August 1999, when the potential Y2K disaster terrifies ...