John McGivern’s Main Streets

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'Cause these are our Main Streets Something 'bout the hometown speaks to me There's nowhere else I'd rather be The heart and soul of community's right here On these Main Streets [upbeat music] - I'm above the Wabash River.

And back in the 1800s, the Wabash River was crucial to connecting the Great Lakes to the Mississippi River.

Today, I'm on a pedestrian bridge that connects Lafayette to its sister city, West Lafayette.

And together, they're known as Greater Lafayette.

I'm about 125 miles southeast of Chicago and 65 miles northwest of Indianapolis.

And Greater Lafayette, these two cities have a population of about 120,000 people.

Emmy, we're in West Lafayette-- - Emmy Fink: Yes, we are.

- Meaning we are on the campus-- - Of Purdue University.

- Of Purdue University.

- I love a college town.

- Yeah.

So, how did it get started?

- So, we're going all the way back to 1862.

President Lincoln agreed to give public land to one community in every state who was willing to start a college that specialized in agriculture and engineering.

And Lafayette was like, "Yes, pick me."

But it's all thanks to this guy right here.

- Hey, John.

- John Purdue.

Good name, right?

[John laughs] He was a businessman and a philanthropist, and he donated $150,000 to help start the university.

There are now over 41,000 Boilermakers.

- Why the Boilermakers?

- Boilermakers?

It's a really cute story, so here's how it started.

- 'Kay.

- So, steam engines used to be made here in Indiana, and the fellas who made the boilers for the steam engines, well, they had this reputation of being really large, strong guys.

Well, when Purdue's football team played Wabash College back in the late 1800s, they absolutely crushed them.

Wabash accused Purdue of recruiting their athletes from the boiler shops, and that's all it took.

Some guy in marketing ran with that idea, and I swear he's still patting himself on the back.

- Are they still making boilers here?

- That's a really good question.

I don't know, but-- - Let's go, come on-- - I say we go take a look.

– John: Let's go ask somebody.

[lighthearted music] We are at the Purdue Food Science Pilot Plant.

- Dr. Dharmendra Mishra: Our department is known for aseptic processing and packaging.

All those product that does not require refrigeration.

They are shelf stable.

We can make them here.

- So, those shelf-safe products that are out there without refrigerator-- - That's right.

- Until open-- - Of course.

- Then put it in the refrigerator.

I'm always like, come on, how does this work?

[both laughing] - If you open the package-- - Yeah.

- Now, it's in the environment, and environment contains microorganisms, right?

- Were you gonna wait for me to guess that?

- That's right!

John, come on!

- Did you see him look at me like, [Dharmendra laughing] "Now you tell me what it has."

No, just keep talking, Doctor.

- Feel like I'm teaching.

- You are teaching.

[both laughing] - Dharmendra: I have been working with entrepreneurs and food manufacturers.

They'll bring a recipe, say, "Well, this is my grandma's recipe.

How can I take it to the retail?

How can I sell it so people can buy and enjoy it?"

They don't know what is the food safety behind it.

- Right.

- They don't know how to manufacture it.

We are helping from a recipe all the way up to a retail-ready product.

- Is there something that you're excited about that you're working on right now?

- To make extruded products.

This is mini cereal balls.

We can also make snack sticks.

And then, we have the dog treats here.

It's not for you, John.

- It's not?

[laughs] - Dharmendra: One of the coolest thing that we are doing right now, we are developing ice cream.

- This is the part of food science I love.

This was developed right here.

It's espresso.

It's delicious.

[light music] We're still on the campus of Purdue.

It looks like we're in a library of sorts.

– Christian Butzke: Well, we're in the food science department, and my science is called enology-- - Enology.

- The science of wine.

And so to give our Purdue students the final polish before they go into the big wide world, we'll teach them about how to appreciate wine and the culture, the religion, the politics, everything that comes with it.

– John: Do you celebrate Indiana wine here?

– Christian: Yes, I mean, Indiana wine has been made for over 200 years-- - Is that right?

– Christian: And the first places in the United States in the early 1800s where wine was made, and it's such an important industry here.

We have more than a hundred wineries in Indiana alone.

- So, it's a wine appreciation class.

- Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.

- And how many students do you have this semester?

- Almost 600 this semester alone.

And so it's a very popular class-- - Yeah.

- Of trying something that you haven't had before.

- Yeah.

- That's what wine appreciation is all about.

Don't let anybody else tell you what you like or what to drink.

If you like it, great.

If not, move on to the next bottle, so.

- That's a lesson in everything.

- Cheers.

- You were great.

There are actually three downtown districts that make up Greater Lafayette.

The first, the one that we're standing in, is the Wabash Riverfront.

It's known for concerts and festivals and outdoor fun.

Then there's Chauncey Village, which has this hip Purdue vibe.

And then, the Arts & Market District, which is known for galleries and museums and theaters.

And since I'm in the Wabash Riverfront, I guess this is the first one I'll just go take a look at.

That sculpture is called "The Flame."

And this sculpture is called "What Lines."

And they are considered the gateway to Downtown Lafayette, and Main Street runs right in between them.

[lighthearted music] We're at this beautiful home called the Haan Museum of Indiana Art.

Talk about the history of this house.

- Okay, so this was the Connecticut Building at the World's Fair in St. Louis in 1904.

And at the end of the fair, they auctioned it off.

So, they took it apart and moved it here by the Wabash Railroad.

– Bob: We're only the second family to ever live here.

– Ellie: A lot of parts are taken from 1760 houses in Norwich, Connecticut.

So the entire front entryway and a lot of the interior woodwork are actually from before the Declaration of Independence.

– John: Amazing.

- In 2007, 2008, we decided it was time to make a museum.

– John: And your commitment in collecting was always to Indiana artists?

- It was.

- We made that decision to start with.

If this group of our best artists had gone to New York, they would be top American artists.

But they chose to stay in Indiana, which we were very fortunate.

This one is painted by T.C.

Steele, Indiana's most important native artist that stayed in Indiana.

All the furniture is American furniture, mostly 1860 to 1890.

- Nice.

- And we had a clock we were looking for, and then we ran into this.

It winds up like this.

– Ellie: Each one of these cylinders plays six different songs.

But my favorite is the birds hitting the bells.

[bells dinging] [soft music] - Bob: The artist that made these was born in Zimbabwe, Africa, and he learned his art over there, and then he came to Indianapolis about 25 years ago.

– Ellie: Wooton Desk Company.

– John: So, built when, do we know?

– Ellie: About 1875.

- John Rockefeller and Queen Victoria bought one.

That's the class of people that were interested in these desks.

We had a desk for ten years-- - And didn't know.

[laughs] - Before we knew it had a secret compartment.

This drawer's short.

Yeah, and you could put your secret stuff behind there.

The Sculpture Garden went in in 2016.

All the sculptures are by Indiana sculpture artists.

- Do you miss living here, you guys?

- No.

- No, no.

- [laughs] Okay, Bob.

Do you wanna think about it?

- Well, let me tell you-- [John and Ellie laughing] Let me tell, let me tell you why.

When we bought it, it was a mess.

All we did was work on the house.

When we say we don't miss living here, we get to come anytime we want to.

We still get to visit everything.

– John: How great that you honor this state and you honor those who gave to the state.

It's great.

– Ellie: Well, thank you so much.

[gentle music] - These cities are named after the French General Marquis de Lafayette, who was the commander of the final battle of the Revolutionary War.

But do you have any idea how many cities, villages, or towns are named after General Lafayette, hmm?

[quizzical music] - Well, if your guess is like, "Yeah, maybe a dozen?"

[scoffs] Not even close.

73!

Seventy-three towns, cities, or villages named after Lafayette, and that's just the start.

Oh, also 11 high schools, four hotels, a theater, and just a minor planet in the solar system's asteroid belt.

I guess that's how you know when you've made it, when your legacy reaches space?

[air whooshes] John?

- Yeah.

- Any guesses who this young man is?

- It's Neil Armstrong.

- How did you know that?

Oh, you weren't supposed to look!

He graduated from here.

- He did.

But he's not in his space suit or something.

- And that's what I think is so cool.

They wanted students to walk by him and think, "Gosh, I could be Neil Armstrong.

That looks like me!"

So inspiring.

- Yeah, it is cool.

So, do you have any idea how many astronauts graduated from this university?

- Mm, I'm gonna say 11.

- 26.

- Oh.

- 26 graduates.

– Emmy: I hear they have a moon rock in here.

- They have a moon rock.

- I kinda wanna see that.

- Apollo 1, a replica, that's very cool.

And the moon steps, did you love those?

– Emmy: Weren't you surprised how big the moon boots actually are?

– Neil Armstrong: That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.

[soft music] [upbeat music] - John: Triple XXX was the root beer, yes?

– Greg Ehresman: Yes.

– Carrie Ehresman: Yes.

- 'Cause who calls their restaurant Triple XXX?

- So I love that you asked me that.

- Tell me, tell me.

- So let me tell-- - I'm like, oh my God, what's going on here?

- So 1895, X, that was a good connotation.

So one X was good, two X was better, three X is the best.

- The best.

- The highest grade.

And sorry, dear, but you are old enough to watch "The Road Runner."

- Sure.

[laughs] Xs are still on sugar bags, gunpowder bags, and flour bags.

So, once I tell people that, they're like, "Oh, okay, that makes sense."

- And it does.

- But before that-- - I love that it's Triple XXX.

- X.

- So, it's-- - I know.

[John laughing] People-- - Exponentially good.

- People say it-- - But it's superlative X.

- Listen, I didn't come up with the name.

- We're keeping it.

- Yeah, we're keeping it.

- Yeah, we're keeping it.

- Good.

- Do you like peanut butter?

- Yes.

- Would you like to try the Purvis Burger, which is our number one selling burger.

- Purvis?

- Named after Duane Purvis, who played for Purdue in '32 to '34.

– John: And it's a peanut butter burger?

- Peanut butter burger.

- Yes.

- Who's gonna teach me?

You guys?

- Me!

- Oh good, you are?

- Yeah.

- This was actually started as a Triple XXX Root Beer Thirst Station.

- So, they're a franchise?

- They were franchised-- - Like A&W?

- Like A&W.

- Yeah, similar.

- Yeah.

Well-- - And this is the last one standing.

- Standing.

And it opened when?

- 1929 originally.

- So, when did you start working here?

- In 1968.

- Oh.

- I was 14.

– John: Food-wise, what did it start off?

- Steak burger.

- Steak, we call 'em chop steaks.

- Steak burger.

- This is our top choice sirloin.

These are all weighed and ready to go.

Initial flatten, and then fingertip it.

- Fingertip it.

- There you go.

But the burgers are the signature piece along with the root beer.

- Right.

– John: I love the sign.

Triple XXX Chop Steak.

– Carrie: Chop steak.

- Chop steak?

- Oh, hello, I know.

- Oh, it is.

- It is chop steak.

- It's so reminiscent of the days.

- Well, and I added the family restaurant because I moved here in 1989, and I was his sales rep for advertising.

And he was very much like, "Well, everybody knows who we are.

I'm the Triple XXX."

[John laughing] And I said-- - True!

That's true.

- I said, "You're gonna have to maybe do something with the name."

- She was right, you know, so that-- - He's like, "I need to marry this girl.

She just insulted me," so.

[Greg and John laughing] - Perfect.

Okay.

– John: It's places like this that you really can't change much-- - No.

- Or people are like-- - Oh, no.

- "Are you nuts?"

- Oh, sweetie.

- That's ridiculous.

- Isn't that awesome?

- Look at that.

– Greg: I love some onion on mine.

– John: A little bit of onion?

- A little bit of onion.

- Cheers.

Peanut butter cheeseburgers.

Look at these.

I love this part!

Oh.

Look at this.

And that looks perfect right here.

- Isn't that awesome?

- And the peanut butter's running in my hand right now.

- Yeah.

Elbows out.

- Which is part of the appeal, yes?

- Yeah, it is.

- Okay, here we go.

- You kinda eat it and wear it.

- Who would've thought?

This is a peanut butter root beer jelly cheeseburger.

Come on!

[Greg laughing] West Lafayette, it's a tradition, and I'm glad to follow it right here.

Mm!

- This is the Tippecanoe Battlefield & Museum.

This monument behind me marks the site of the 1811 Battle of Tippecanoe.

So that was between the Native American forces and the U.S. troops, which was led by that gentleman up there, future President William Henry Harrison.

The battle that was fought right here is considered by some as the unofficial start to the War of 1812.

What's really neat about this museum, they pay tribute to both sides of the battle.

It is really well done.

[lighthearted music] - John: Who is Prophet in Prophetstown?

– Lee Goudy: Yeah, so Prophet was a Native American in this area.

So this land now is a part of the state park system.

- And The Farm at Prophetstown Park, is this farm always been here?

- No, this was all field in 1998.

And several people got together and wanted to preserve 1920s farmsteads.

- So, what's on this farm that is reminiscent to that area?

- Oh, yeah, so you have the original farmhouse.

This is a replica of a 1920s Sears and Roebuck home that could have been purchased and built onsite.

You're gonna have all the antiques, the feel, the smells, everything that you would experience in the 1920s.

[lively piano music] - Robin.

- [claps] She's fantastic.

- Your feet are brilliant!

[Lee laughs] - Well, thank you very much.

[John laughs] - Lee: Countless number of visitors come to The Farm and say, "This was just like Grandma's house when I visited."

- Except my grandma's was much bigger.

[Lee and John chuckling] - Lee: We also have a tenant house, that is an actual 1920s Sears and Roebuck home.

- This is an actual?

- It is.

I believe this house would've been $850.

- Is that right?

- Yeah.

– John: And they would ship it to you?

– Lee: Amazon has nothing on Sears and Roebuck.

– John: Come on!

[John and Lee laughing] It's the first!

- Yeah, so here you go.

– John: Oh, this looks great.

– Lee: All of our animals onsite are gonna be heritage breeds.

They're gonna be animals that you would've seen on the farm in 1920s.

- Right.

– Lee: So JJ is everyone's favorite.

– John: Come on, JJ.

Come on.

Come on!

Here we go.

- And you made a new friend.

This is Georgia.

She's usually fairly friendly.

- Hi, Georgia.

I gave my apple to the donkey.

[Lee chuckling] Hey, pig!

[hand smacking] Pigs are smart.

They're fat.

- And they're fat.

Yep, they make the best bacon.

[John wheezing] So right now we have three cows.

These are Herefords.

[Lee laughing] - John: Look at you.

That's fun.

- Oh, it's fun.

You wanna drive it?

- Can I?

– Lee: Yeah!

– John: People who farmed in the '20s survived off everything that happened at the farm, their acre.

- It was homesteading.

– John: Right, and that's what's going on.

- It is.

- Yeah.

What are you looking at?

[Lee laughing] - Yep, every day.

- Why is it important to preserve this moment?

- Because it's going away.

That's the importance of it.

- Farm life.

Not sure if it would've been for me.

My hands smell like pigs right now.

[pigs oinking] - 25% of the workforce here in this area is involved in the manufacturing industry, and that has helped Greater Lafayette become one of the fastest income growth cities in the entire country.

Isn't that amazing?

- This is the beautiful Tippecanoe County Courthouse.

Back in 1859, 20,000 people gathered here to witness a new way to transport the U.S. mail.

Can you guess what that was?

Okay, I'll give you a hint.

It was a lofty idea.

[quizzical music] - In 1859, John Wise, a Lafayette resident, attempted to deliver 123 letters by air mail.

That's right, all the way to New York.

The plan was to fly these letters in his balloon that he named "Jupiter."

Except Mother Nature got in the way.

The trip ended early and really ended air mail altogether until actual airplanes in 1911.

Mr.

Wise, that's why you use your Weather app, duh!

[lighthearted music] - We're at Wolf Park.

When did this start, and how did it start?

– John Joyce: Dr. Klinghammer, who was a ethologist out at Purdue, wanted to study some wolves.

Back in 1972, there weren't a lot of wolves around, so he started Wolf Park.

He got this property, got some wolves, and started studying them, and then it just grew over the past 51 years.

All of the animals we have at Wolf Park are native or historically native to Indiana.

– John: So there's bison?

There are wolves?

- We have bison.

– John: We saw a fox on the way over here.

– Jon: We have two species of fox.

– John: Oh, you do?

How many acres on this property?

- About 25 acres of the property, and then we also have about another 50 acres of bison fields.

– John: Are wolves shy of people?

– Jon: Wolves are neophobic, which is one of my favorite science words, meaning that they are afraid of new or novel things.

- Okay.

- Step one in any process when working with an animal, if you wanna do it properly, is to get to know them.

We can step right inside of this one, but we'll stay towards this-- - Okay.

- This side of the fence.

– John: So, this would be a training session, and they're trying to do what with them?

- What Lauren is trying to work with right now-- - Ooh, did you hear that?

Choppers!

- Oh yeah.

Niko does have a very loud snap.

What Lauren is doing with Sparrow is a behavior where we ask for the chin.

And this is basically so Sparrow can help participate in her own veterinary care.

And then, she'll say, for example, teeth.

So now she can look up and look at her teeth.

Now, if Sparrow removes her chin, Lauren will stop.

And Niko, he doesn't like to train as much, but he does like the food, so.

[John and Jon laughing] Okay, here's the pups.

[John gasp] They're just working on simple behaviors, and they also know that they don't have to work with us.

You're such a good boy.

And this is actually really good for them also.

This is part of their socialization process.

[wolves howling] - John: Why are they howling?

– Jon: This is called a rally.

And basically, this is just kinda all get together and have fun.

[chuckles] [wolves howling] [imitating GNR] Take me down to the Paradise City - Is that where I am?

Yes, it is.

Because Axl Rose, the lead singer of Guns N' Roses, he went to high school right here at Jefferson Lafayette High School.

That's right.

Home of the Bronchos.

So "Paradise City," the song, talks about the differences between Axl's stardom in California and his Midwest upbringing right here in the Midwest.

So he even comes back to the neighborhood once in a while for a good slice of Arni's pizza.

Yum!

Where is that?

- Okay, my new favorite place in the whole world, McCord Candies, yeah.

It opened its doors in 1912 and it looks the same, it really does.

And it's everything in the shop that made me a chubby 8-year-old.

They have a soda fountain.

They serve phosphates.

Do you know what phosphate is?

It's charged soda water with a syrup.

So as a kid, we used to go to Oakland Serv-U Pharmacy on Oakland and Hampshire in Milwaukee and have a Green River.

- Here you are.

- That was a phosphate.

I went on a binge.

[cameraman laughing] It's a soda.

Mm-hmm.

During Christmas, they make their own candy canes.

I wish I was here at Christmas, but since I'm not, I'm just gonna enjoy what I enjoyed as a kid.

So, the wax bottles, and then, what are you supposed to do with the wax?

Mm.

[lively music] I'm gonna make myself... [cameraman laughing] some dentures.

[upbeat music] So, when we told people we were coming to see Tom Turpin, they said, "You mean the bug guy?"

So that's how you're referred to in town.

Do you know that?

– Tom Turpin: My grandkids call me 'Grandpa Bug.'

- Grandpa Bug?

- Yeah.

I started some activities to popularize the discipline of entomology or the study of insects.

- These are Madagascar hissing cockroaches.

– Chris Wirth: Hissing cockroaches.

So, we've got a couple adults and some baby.

- So, those are them.

– Chris: This is a leaf insect.

You'll notice it wobbles a little bit, just like a leaf in the wind.

All scorpions glow that fluorescent color, yeah.

- That blue?

- These are ones we can't take out.

- What are they?

- They are assassin bugs.

- Okay.

- We had Bug Bowl here at Purdue, started in my class, and we had the students were cooking insects.

- You cooked insects?

- Yeah, oh, yeah!

And some guy was standing there and said, "Yeah, I couldn't put one of those crickets in my mouth!

If I did, I'd spit it from here to that tree."

And I thought maybe a contest next year at Bug Bowl.

Well, first, you gotta see the crickets.

- They're dead, right?

- Yeah, they're dead.

- Okay.

- They're frozen.

– John: They're not really frozen.

– Tom: Well, they're not frozen.

They're thawed.

- They're thawed.

- Select the cricket.

- I did.

- Guinness World Record is 32 feet, 1 1/4 inches.

- Well, we'll see.

- You then put it in your mouth.

- Are you sure this thing isn't alive?

It seems to be moving.

- No, no, no, it's not alive.

– John: Okay, here we go.

- You may now step into the circle, and you have 30 seconds to spit that direction.

[John spits] Oh!

- Oh!

That's better than ten feet!

– Tom: Well, probably.

- We're gonna try it again.

[John spits] Hey, I did better though.

- Oh, you did!

Twelve feet.

- Twelve feet.

[claps] - Whoa!

- I'm the record breaker today!

[Tom laughs] - Tom: This activity here with Bug Bowl and the Bug Barn began to popularize entomology all around the country.

And I'm told now there are about 130 insect kind of activities like Bug Bowl where people come in to get acquainted.

– John: But that's where it started.

- It started here.

- It did.

- Yeah.

- Oh!

Who can tell with all that on your face what's hanging out?

[laughs] - Strategy.

- It is strategy.

[Tom spits] - Uh, sorry, Tom.

But, um-- - Aw!

- I beat the frass outta you.

– Tom: Oh.

[John laughing] - Hey, that was fun!

- Hey, good!

[upbeat music] - Emmy, Greater Lafayette, let's sum it up.

- Okay, we could say three great districts-- - And two beautiful cities.

- One stellar university.

What else is there?

- Zero complaints.

[claps] - Oh.

That's a great way to end.

[laughs] There's nowhere else I'd rather be The heart and soul of community's right here - We wanna put you to work.

I'm gonna put an apron-- - Nobody's really talking to you right now.

- Oh, I'm sorry.

[John and Greg laughing] - You're just so-- - Ooh, one was on the bottom.

John: [bleep]!

– Cameraman: Ohh, surprise!

[people laughing] - The museum pays tribute to both sides of the aisle.

Not the aisle.

[people laughing] The battle.

– Lee: One rooster may have seven or eight hens that they do their rooster things with.

[John laughing] Might wanna cut that out, but you'll-- - No, that's gonna make air.

I love that.

Does the rooster things... You go, Cocoa!

[people laughing] Now I gotta pee.

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