IN writing : uncovering the unexpected Hoosier State /
Fueled by an insider's view of Indiana and the state's often surprising connections to the larger world, IN Writing is revelatory. It is Indiana in all its glory: sacred and profane; saints and sinners; war and peace; small towns and big cities; art, architecture, poetry and victuals. It&#...
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Bloomington :
Quarry Books, an imprint of Indiana University Press,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Saints and sinners
- The last vaudevillian: Red Skelton
- Hubris: Bobby Knight
- Odd Bodkin
- D.C. Riddle
- The Hoosier general: Lewis B. Hershey and the selective service
- Herbie Wirth
- Inner vision: Amish healer
- Part II. Complicated places
- A fair of the heart
- A surprising utopia
- Architecture and community
- The song of Indiana
- Part III. Culinary delights
- 'Cook good, serve generously, price modestly': the Shapiro's story
- She's the cheese
- Strange brew
- Market daze: Bloomington's farmers market
- Pawpaw redux
- Tibetan new year celebration
- Lair of the turtle soup: a culinary tradition
- Part IV. Artists and their craft
- This rash adventure: Ezra Pound at Wabash College
- Erotica whose purpose was scholarly: Kinsey Institute Art exhibit
- Gargoyles and other pagans
- Crossroads of American sculpture
- The stuff of legend: Indiana and the Empire State Building
- Part V. The present past
- John Dillinger's funeral
- Twist the tiger's tail
- That's it: prohibition, 1918-1933
- Black-gold era's luxurious perch: Evansville Petroleum Club
- Lions, tigers, high wires
- Conflict and conciliation
- Taliban in Indiana
- War fare.