Indiana Humanities’ fifth annual historic “bar” crawl, which combines thematically-appropriate food and drinks with historic re-enactments of stories of the city and its people will return to Indianapolis on June 20 and 21.This year’s theme is “Naptown Get Down: A Groovy, Boozy Tour through 1970s Indianapolis.” Participants will weave through downtown, beginning and ending at 416 Wabash and will journey to four different stops along the way to learn about the people and places that helped transform the city from “India-no-place” to the dynamic urban center of today.

Indiana Humanities spends several months working with the Indiana Historical Society to conduct archival research and interviews in order to develop the vignettes and characters, who are brought to life by Indiana Historical Society actors. This year’s stops (typically not bars, but instead locations conducive to talking and/or tied to the theme) are all based on real events and include a re-enactment of Bobby Slick’s Indiana Pacers telethon that was created to save the team from leaving Indianapolis and a meeting of Indy feminists at a CityWay apartment where they discover they have been reprimanded by the National Organization for Women. Other stories and locations will be revealed on the night of the event.