Welcome to Indiana

I went to Indiana University, though I am not from Indiana. The music school at IU is world class (I, unfortunately, am not). Bloomington Indiana (at least circa 1988) is not a hugely metropolitan area. The university was a bastion of culture in the middle of, well, Indiana.

I recall my first week there, in one of the practice rooms in the music school, reading the graffiti on the wall:

Welcome to Indiana. Please set your watches back 50 years.

Hilarious, and mostly true.

So it is with some shock today that I read this.