Fairmount

Today my partner Steve and I decided to get to the bottom of an issue that's hanging over the small town of Fairmount. Perhaps you've heard of Fairmount, it's actually a small town with a pretty big history. Fairmount is the hometown of two famous people, the first is James Dean and the second is Jim Davis (The creator of Garfield).

Anyway (I'm easily side tracked by history like that) recently the Fairmount town marshall was forced to take leave with pay and just Monday he resigned his position. Also on Monday it was discovered that the Indiana State Police and the FBI are currently investigating the town marshall. So...Steve and I decided we would try to find out what in the world the FBI is doing in Fairmount, Indiana. We drove to Fairmount (about a 35 minute drive) and started asking people what they knew. We continually got the same answer, "Well, I don't know for sure but I heard that..."

We wanted a little more than what was the latest gossip about the story but when we went to the police station you would have thought we were asking for credit card and social security numbers. They would barely mutter "no comment." So we called the "High Hog" as some of the local's called her. She was the boss on the town board but she said she had nothing to say about the situation. At this point Steve and I really needed a story and so far we had nothing. So we decided to go to the local diner (it was a neat little place) and wait for some locals. Boy did we hit the jackpot.

We found out that every day at around noon 6 or 7 local farmers gathered and the diner for lunch. We asked the leader of this group if he would mind if we put a mic on the table and simply record their conversations. He agreed and what an "interview" it was.

We sat around for an hour+ and listened to these fellas shoot the breeze about everything under the sun. We got some good quotes about how the farmers didn't know anything but they all had their ideas about what was going on. The package we turned is now online at www.newslinkindiana.com.

It was a really neat experience and Steve and I got some really good food too. I'll also do some shameless promotion here. For newslink I'll be blogging every Wednesday and today was my first day. You can check it out by clicking on the blog section on the top of the newslink indiana website.