Just passing through before I get to Indianapolis. Heading to Philly after we leave here. This town…read moreis small and service oriented. Walmart is the go to store, almost pizza is served and liquor and beer prices are just as expensive as gas in 2022! As you are traveling on Hwy 41 (the highway that drives through the entire city) you will notice that stop lights dominate the flow of traffic. It is a quiet town... most business close around 6pm. Almost fine dining closes shortly after sundown... this place reminds me of a place where you will get a good education, go to church and become a rock scientist! It seems like this place is where people come for school or retirement. We came here for a college graduation - now that this is over, and I am not in retirement yet... I guess it is time to go back to Atlanta GA

I love Terre Haute. The parks are wonderful and so well cared for. The school system is one to be…read moreproud of. Especially after having to move away and experience what it's like to NOT have Vigo County Schools, you really appreciate what a good school system really is. Ohio Blvd is my favorite city street and the historic neighborhoods are fun to drive through. Even the city cemetery, Highland Lawn, is a beautiful place to drive, bike or walk. The police department and Sheriff's department are both dedicated to keeping Terre Haute safe. I have lived on the southern coast for many years, but I am moving back home as soon as I retire where I can enjoy four seasons again. Autumn and Halloween are magical there, sledding down Deming Park hill in the winter is special too. What's not to love? You have to live away to know what you're missing.

Cunningham Memorial Library is one of my favorite locations on campus. My first visit was in 1985,…read morea nostalgic imprint that remains with me to this day. There are lots of stacks and study spots, even a cafe in the entryway. I didn't spend nearly enough time here as a student, but I still appreciate this concrete behemoth! The card catalogue is gone but plenty of old school history remains in the stacks and the archives. My visit on this day was for historical research on student organizations and ISU presidential papers. The special collections team were most helpful in identifying relevant holdings and giving me access to review documents related to my topic. Advance notice is needed due to storage location of the archives. Legacy materials are held in a different location on campus, thus staff need time for document retrieval.

I am an author. My name is Linda Bates. One of my book is a fiction book called Alisa's New Life…read more It is about a young girl, her three younger brothers, and one older sister. They encounter a change when their alcoholic father Walt Preston has a wreck and is arrested. When her mother dies they are adoped by a local teacher in the town of Terre Haute, Indiana. Alisa, Gilbert Goodnill and Jason Johnson spend the next few years in one adventure after another, dates,, proms, and hanging out. Alisa keeps a journal of her new adventures, and writes her feelings and of her events to her mother while over coming the grief she holds within of her mothers passing. I am in the process of publishing another fiction book called 'Nick Bradford's Ghostly Clients. He is a ghost helper in a small town in the midwest, helping ghost to cross over. He and his good buddy Jerome encounter many adventures. His neighbor Elda Ramon is also a ghost helper. Nick encounters adventures of 13 ghosts that during the story approach him desperatel for help. Nick is a 17 year old boy in his senior year of school. Elda takes him under her wing and teaches him all she knows about helping ghost to cross over. Nick and his girlfriend Clarissa become close and introduce Jerome to a wonderful girl. The four teens bond through the vast ghostly adventures.

Although my review is only a 2 in the Yelp world, I still believe a public library (regardless if…read moreit appears to be as antiquated and dated as the Vigo County Public Library) is a vital resource to a community. So my heart wants to give it higher stars, but it is what it is. If you go to libraries in general, as I do, this library is indeed just at best a 2. It is not a bad library, nor did I have a bad experience, it is just kind of an old crappy library. I would describe it as somewhere between nostalgic and antique. I say this based on having visited this library 20+ years ago (there might still be some of the same material floating around), it still has that feeling of a time capsule and times gone by. In a world where people can look at an atlas on line or simply buy the book used on Amazon, maybe libraries are simply loosing their footing in many peoples eyes. I hope this is not the fate of this institution, despite my 2 rating. While stopping in today to simply check it out, this library is indeed being used by people in the community in which it serves. I saw many at the public computers browsing the web, kids in the children area reading books and smiling attendants at the front desk. There was a little art installation set up down one corridor. I parked myself on a bench and read a bit while observing the happenings going on in the lobby of the library. Something about this space seems old, but old like a blanket your grandma had (which is good and bad at the same time....this is how I feel about this library). If you wanted to pop in to read the local paper, while catching some A/C in a welcoming spot & safe place at no cost, you could come here, and I suppose this is at the heart of a public library. This library is basic, needs a freshening up of some sort and serves this local population in a way that only a small time community library can. After writing this review, I think I might be a library snob and only just figured it out.

The library has cordial and helpful staff. While the selection can sometimes be limited in certain…read moreliterary genres, overall, there is a solid collection of books here. I am able to find many books in the purview of Classic Fiction, Poetry, Science Fiction, History, and Philosophy, with ease.

This is by far the WORST bmv or dmv I've ever been to in my life. Went in to get an out of state…read morevehicle registered in this god forsaken state known as Indiana and they tell me that my car is already titled in Mississippi and I've never been to Mississippi, called the idaho and Mississippi dmvs and they confirmed what I already knew. Go back in to the Bmv and they give me attitude and are rude to me they clearly are not wanting to deal with this. They put in the information wrong and wanted to say that their system "just glitched". I would rather drive all the way to Indianapolis for anything car related from now on because this place is TERRIBLE. The only reason it's not a flat 1 star is because the wait time is almost non existent and most of the employees are pretty nice

This BMV is terrible. They will not process your paperwork properly, they will argue with you when…read moreyou have the proper information to proceed. This place needs a rehab of all employees and their nasty I'm better then all of you attitudes.

I am done sending my gifts by Post Office. Every time I send a gift in a card it does not get to…read morewhere I send it. I think post workers are keeping them. They look for gift cards. I paid $2.38 to send an envelope on 12/03/2024 & it never got there. I sent a package to go 80 miles & it took 4 days to get there. I am done with post office. I hope they loose their jobs.

Anyone who knows me knows I am a Post Office geek! Anywhere in the world I go, you can normally…read morefind me penning off a post card, sending a birthday greeting or mailing a bill regularly by stopping in my local post office...with a real person who works for the government's postal agency. I digress..... This branch in Terre Haute gets 5 Stars in my Yelping mind for a few reasons: 1) There never seems to be a line at this location. Heck, I was there at 8:45AM this morning shooting the breeze with the postal clerk for 10 minutes before I even saw another customer walk in. Maybe now that I have dumped this spot into Yelp, I have jinxed myself and swarms of people will be flocking to this location, but I kind of think not. 2) They are open until 7PM during the week and 4PM on the weekend. Say what????? Please know that other US Post Offices across the US are never open this late, especially on a Saturday. 4PM on Saturdays? That is almost 6 full days of having a post office available to you...with funds being cut and losing money, post offices across the country are trimming back days and hours, not having great hours like this Terre Haute branch does. 3). Passport hours are posted as 9am-3:15pm Monday through Friday. Another unheard of at all US Post Offices across the US. (Passport services are not available on Saturdays). 4). Staff is always sincerely pretty nice. Customers to the post office universally can be not nice (short on time, always in a hurry, expectations too high). But I gotta tell yeah, as an official "Post Office Geek," the staff here are pretty nice, normal and sincerely there to help you. 5) They have a very organized and stocked array of merchandise from greeting cards, tapes, post wrapping papers and boxes. Compared to other US Post Office branches, this location always seems relatively organized, clean and stocked. So there is my input on this US Post Office location. Pick up a pen and write your dear mom or kind Aunt Netty a note and stop into the post office to check it out for yourself. Heck, buy the card for your beloved relative that does not even know what your handwriting looks like right there on site and then mail it in one fell swoop!

The Vigo County Courthouse is a jaw dropping work of architecture. The Victorian structure is one…read moreof the largest and grandest in the state of Indiana. The Courthouse was designed by Samuel Hannaford of Cincinnati and the builder was Terra Haute Stone Company. The French Neo-Baroque structure was completed in 1888 at the cost of $434,000. The building's limestone was mined from the Stilesville quarries. The two ton bell that runs rings in the clock tower was purchased by the County namesake, Col. Francis Vigo, who assisted with early exploration and Revolutionary War efforts. The west entrance is open to the public. Entry requires security screening. The officers are considerate and helpful. I obtained a paper describing the Courthouse history. The Courthouse is large with multiple Superior Courtrooms. There is a central atrium with a grand painted dome at the top. The woodwork has been painted and marble floors replaced. Doors to offices and courtrooms were closed and access limited. The iron staircases were beautiful. On the ground floor are several modern murals depicting local history. Unfortunately, I did not encounter anyone that shared stories about the Courthouse. Courts were in session and people were busy. The Courthouse grounds are immaculate. A beautiful water feature artwork runs near the west entrance of the Courthouse. Benches and tables attract the lunchtime visitors. Several war memorials stand on the Courthouse grounds. There was no or limited parking around the courthouse square. Construction on the grounds limited access to the entire square. We found free street parking across the street from the Courthouse. Traffic is crazy fast, so you need to be careful at crosswalks.