As the hometown of basketball legend Larry Bird, French Lick pays homage to multiple sites that shaped his life and career. The town hosts grand hotels with architecture stunning enough to draw ...

Shortly after midnight on April 16, 1906, more than 600 people staying at the French Lick Springs Hotel were jolted from sleep by a loud explosion in the nearby casino clubroom. Some of the male ...

Hot mineral springs inspired the establishment in 1845 of a pair of grand hotels in French Lick and West Baden Springs, now both operating under the French Lick Resort banner a mile apart in southeast ...

(Editor's note: A version of this story originally appeared in 2018.) Long before the Civil War, the mineral springs in Orange County drew visitors to bathe in and drink the waters that flowed from ...

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French Lick, Indiana — The first thing that comes to mind at the mention of this sleepy little town in rural southern Indiana is the legendary basketball star, Larry Bird, widely known as “the hick ...