Porter County Museum is hosting a free demonstration of historical trades interpreted by living-history reenactors from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug.

T he hotel room is cold, antiseptic, the only sound the gentle whisper of central air. I can’t go outside, my fixer tells me, or I might be kidnapped. From my window high up in the most expensive hotel in town, I look down at a baseball field and a new luxury condominium complex under construc...