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The article discusses the discovery of a petrified human body in Evansville, Indiana in 1902. This discovery was part of a trend in the United States, from the period 1850 to 1935, that produced several alleged petrified bodies, but ultimately all of the findings turned out to be hoaxes. The author explores the Evansville discovery by John G. Eigenham, a German businessman who settled in the Ohio River town of Rockport, Indiana. Eigenham took advantage of a river dredging project that accompanied the building of a dam along the river to perpetrate his hoax.

Presents an article on the bravery of an Indiana native named sergeant Charles Garrigus Jr. who fought during the Korean War in 1950. Childhood background of Garrigus; Details of the efforts of Garrigus and the others of Task Force MacLean-Faith to try to defeat the Chinese forces in Chosin Reservoir.