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The Indianapolis Museum of Art screens the Barbara Stanwyck classic “Stella Dallas,” July 2.
Details
here.

Conner Prairie goes patriotic with its annual in-the-period celebrations, “Glorious Fourth,”
July 2-4. Activities include sack racing, Declaration signing, card making for soldiers, barn dancing and more. Details here.

I’ll be hosting an out-of-this-world spelling bee at InConjunction, the annual science fiction and
fantasy convention, July 2-4 at the Indianapolis Marriott East. Details here.

BB King celebrates the Fourth of July at Southern Indiana’s Horseshoe Casino. Details here.

Concerts on the Canal presents Tad Robinson and Indianapolis Municipal Band July 4 outside the Indiana History
Center. Details here.

The President Benjamin Harrison Home hosts its annual July 4th Ice Cream Social. The program includes a
re-enactment of Harrison’s 1888 nomination acceptance speech. Details here.

Vans Warped Tour brings We The Kings, All-American Rejects and more to Verizon Wireless Music Center, July
6. Details here.

Santana and Steve Winwood pair up for a concert at Verizon Wireless Music Center July 7.
Details here.

 

July 7-Aug. 1
Carmel Community Playhouse
Speedway native Bradley Reynolds, recently nominated for a Tony Award as a producer of the Broadway revival of “Ragtime,”
returns to town as a performer. He’s part of the company celebrating the music of Rodgers and Hammerstein in the revue
“A Grand Night for Singing,” being staged by Actors Theatre of Indiana. Details here.

 

July 2-4
Conner Prairie Amphitheatre
There’s enough firepower in those Conner Prairie cannons for a three-day celebration of Independence Day. Alfred Savia
leads the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra for performances of music from “The Patriot” and “Gettysburg”
and, of course, the “1812 Overture.” Assistance will be provided by Indiana Supreme Court Chief Justice Randall
T. Shepard on the Gettysburg Address, re-enactors from the Indiana Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, a Civil
War honor guard, and the 163rd Field Artillery Unit of the Indiana National Guard. And baritone Daniel Narducci. And fireworks.
Details here.

 

July 2
Verizon Wireless Music Center
Two music legends team up on this tour. And, yes, Clapton has been playing “I Shot the Sheriff,” “Wonderful
Tonight,” “Cocaine” and “Layla.” And Daltry has been performing hits by The Who. Details here.
 

The family of a U.S. Marine and Valparaiso native is mourning after he was killed Friday while on foot patrol in Afghanistan.
Cpl. Daane Adam DeBoer, 24, died after encountering an improvised explosive device during a patrol in Helmand Province, a
longtime Taliban stronghold. His mother, Charlene Zerrenner of Ludington, Mich., says her son died a hero who loved his family
and his country.

Firefighters battled a pair of overnight house fires on the near-north side of Indianapolis. The first was near 18th Street
and Massachusetts Avenue—where firefighters also extinguished a blaze over the weekend. Just after that fire started,
firefighters were called to another house less than a mile away on Holloway Avenue just north of I-70. Both houses are thought
to have been vacant. Fire investigators are looking into both incidents to see if arson was likely.

A boy and his grandmother were killed Monday night in a boating accident on the south end of Lake Monroe near Bloomington.
Police say a 23-foot speed boat pulling a wakeboarder collided with a fishing boat carrying a Bedford couple and their three
grandsons. Susan Collier, 51, and Gage Pruitt, 8, died of their injuries. Collier’s husband was treated for leg injuries;
the other children were unharmed. It's still not clear why the ski boat, with 19-year-old Winston Wood at the helm, ran
into the smaller vessel. Police say no one appeared to be drinking. As of this morning, no charges had been filed. Fox59 will
have more at 4 p.m.

On a seasonally adjusted basis, the pace of mortgage loan activity decreased 5.9 percent for the week ended June 18, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association. The rate for 30-year mortgages decrased to 4.75 from 4.82 percent the previous week. The rate for 15-year mortgages decreased to 4.19 percent from 4.23 percent.