In his article, Cassell explored the love affair between Chafee and Hammond of Petersburg, Indiana, in the hundreds of letters the two wrote one another. The letters also reveal details of everyday life in Petersburg during the turbulent decades between the Civil War and the Spanish-American War.
Cassell is emeritus professor of history and emeritus president of the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg. He earned his bachelor's degree from Wabash College and his master's degree and doctorate from Northwestern University.
Named for the noted
Dunn,
who helped revitalize the Society in the 1880s, produced such standard works as
the two-volume Greater Indianapolis (1910) and his five-volume Indiana
and Indianans (1919). In his remarkable career, Dunn also worked on a
variety of Indianapolis newspapers, campaigned
to establish free public libraries, endeavored to preserve the language of the
Miami Indians, and prospected for minerals in Haiti .
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The permanent sound.
A sweet
little candour
in the youth
of a white
dream, a tender
illusion where
a fine day
appears.....
Francesco Sinibaldi
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