Lewistown News

In this May 7, 2012 photo, Dickson Mounds State Museum Director Michael Wiant talks to members of a school group about one of the displays depicting local American Indian history at the museum near Lewistown.

Gene Fithian, a sailor aboard the USS Farenholt, was among the men who took part in an unheralded air campaign during the Battle of Okinawa.

Hanging on a wall not far from the entrance to the Dickson Mounds Museum, a handful of posters reminds visitors of the controversy that flared years ago atop an ancient burial mound.