tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-299872112024-02-22T07:56:39.528-05:00Indiana Historical Society Press BlogNews and updates from the IHS Press, publisher of books and periodicals on the history of the Nineteenth StateIndiana Historical Society Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01131966681961551058noreply@blogger.comBlogger158125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29987211.post-12799445290269565862015-04-03T13:41:00.001-04:002015-04-03T13:41:49.784-04:00Youth Biography on Ryan White Available<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In 1985 the eyes of the world turned to the Hoosier State and the attempt by a thirteen-year-old Kokomo, Indiana, teenager to do what seemed to be a simple task--join his fellow classmates at Western Middle School in Russiaville, the school to which his Kokomo neighborhood was assigned.<br />
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The teenager, <a href="http://www.ryanwhite.com/" target="_blank">Ryan White</a>, however, had been diagnosed with Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome from contaminated blood-based products used to treat his hemophilia. "It was my decision," said White, "to live a normal life, go to school, be with friends, and enjoying day to day activities. It was not going to be easy."<br />
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White's words were an understatement, to say the least. His wish to return to school was met with panic by some school officials and parents. The controversy about White and the quiet courage he and his mother, Jeanne, displayed in their battle to have him join his classmates is explored in the eleventh volume in the Indiana Historical Society Press's Youth Biography Series. <i>The Quiet Hero </i>is written by Nelson Price, who wrote about White's odyssey during his days as a reporter and columnist for the <i>Indianapolis News</i>. Price goes beyond the scenes and brings to light stories and individuals who might have been lost in the media spotlight.<br />
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In Price's book, White, who succumbed to his disease in 1990, comes across as a normal teenager who met an impossible situation with uncommon grace, courage, and wisdom. "It was difficult at times to handle; but I tried to ignore the injustice, because I knew the people were wrong," White said. "My family and I held no hatred for those people because we realized they were victims of their own ignorance."<br />
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<i>The Quiet Hero: A Life of Ryan White </i>costs $17.95. The hardback book is available from the IHS's <a href="https://shop.indianahistory.org/" target="_blank">History Market</a>.Indiana Historical Society Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01131966681961551058noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29987211.post-68760737706983299542015-03-26T09:26:00.000-04:002015-03-26T09:26:06.871-04:00IHS Press Books Nominated for AwardsA number of Indiana Historical Society Press books published in 2014 have received nominations in two award competitions for independent publishers.<br />
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In <i>Foreword Reviews</i>' seventeenth annual I<a href="https://indiefab.forewordreviews.com/" target="_blank">NDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards </a> the Press has been nominated as a finalist in the following categories:<br />
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Regional Category:<br />
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<li><i>Hoosiers: A New History of Indiana</i> by James H. Madison (copublished with <a href="http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/" target="_blank">Indiana University Press</a>)</li>
<li><i>Hoosiers and the American Story </i>by James H. Madison and Lee Ann Sandweiss</li>
<li><i>A Leaf of Voices: Stories of the American Civil War in the Words of Those Who Lived and Died, 1861-65 </i>by Jennifer McSpadden</li>
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Young Adult, Nonfiction:<br />
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<li><i>Hoosier Public Enemy: A Life of John Dillinger </i>by John A. Beineke</li>
<li><i>Bones on the Ground </i>by Elizabeth O'Maley</li>
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Winners will be announced on Friday, June 26, at the American Library Association's annual conference in San Francisco. A panel of more than 100 volunteer librarians and booksellers will determine the winners in sixty-three categories based on their experience with readers and patrons.<br />
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In addition, the IHS Press book <i>Hoosiers and the American Story </i>has been nominated as a finalist in the annual <a href="http://ibpabenjaminfranklinawards.com/" target="_blank">Benjamin Franklin Awards</a>, an annual competition sponsored by the <a href="http://www.ibpa-online.org/" target="_blank">Independent Book Publishers Association</a>. Winners will be announced April 10-11 at IBPA's Publishing University in Austin, Texas.Indiana Historical Society Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01131966681961551058noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29987211.post-26030186948193604602015-02-17T11:08:00.000-05:002015-02-17T11:08:03.237-05:00Interview with Author of Wooden Biography<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.barbaraolenyikmorrow.com/" target="_blank">Barbara Olenyik Morrow</a> is a journalist and author
from Auburn, Indiana, who has been a Pulitzer Prize finalist for editorial
writing. Her youth biography of novelist and conservationist Gene
Stratton-Porter was published by the IHS Press in 2010. Morrow’s other books
include <i>From Ben-Hur to Sister Carrie</i>,
in which she profiled five Hoosier writers during Indiana’s golden age of
literature, and <i>A Good Night for Freedom</i>,<i> </i>the well-received children’s picture
book about the Underground Railroad and famed Hoosier abolitionists Levi and
Catharine Coffin. Here she talks about her new youth biography of basketball coach John Wooden.</span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">What inspired you to write about such an Indiana legend?</span></i></div>
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was a student at Indiana University in the early 1970s when the UCLA Bruins—coached
by John Wooden—dominated college basketball. Naturally, I rooted for the IU
Hoosiers, especially when they played UCLA in the semifinal game of the NCAA
tournament in St. Louis in 1973. Like other Hoosier fans, I was sorely
disappointed when Wooden’s squad defeated IU, paving the way for the Bruins to
win their ninth national title two days later. Nine national championships in a
single decade—that’s what Wooden achieved that March. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Two
years later, Wooden retired, triumphantly as ever, having just coached UCLA to
its tenth national championship. At that point he moved off my radar screen,
especially as IU Coach Bobby Knight began to make his mark on the game. IU won
the national basketball title in 1976, the year after Wooden’s retirement, and
the Knight-coached Hoosiers won championships again in 1981 and 1987. In the
midst of all that Hoosier hoops frenzy, Wooden and the UCLA Bruins—in my
limited worldview, at least—seemed “so yesterday.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Then
came June 2010. Coach Wooden died, just months shy of his 100th birthday. Media
coverage of his passing was extensive, and tributes poured in from everywhere. President
Obama remembered Wooden as “an incredible coach and an even better man.” As I
followed the coverage, I became intrigued about the Hoosier roots of this coaching
giant whom I had given little thought to since my college days. I read how he
grew up on an Indiana farm with no electricity or indoor plumbing. I read how
his father knocked the bottom out of a tomato basket and nailed it to the barn
wall, while his mother stuffed rags in her black cotton hose and stitched them
up to make a ball—all so he and his brother could play a game that was taking the
Hoosier state by storm. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I
read, too, how Wooden loved poetry, studied Shakespeare and taught high school
English. And how he always lived modestly and was revered for his decency and valued
his Midwestern upbringing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">All
of this grabbed me. I kept reading. And soon I was inspired to write <i>Hardwood Glory.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">As
I said, I started by reading. I soaked up information from Wooden’s two
autobiographies (<i>They Call Me Coach</i>
and <i>My Personal Best: Life Lessons from
an All-American Journey) </i>and delved into the many books written about his
coaching philosophy, leadership style, and pearls of homespun wisdom. I then read
biographies of athletes who played for Wooden (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Bill
Walton, among them), immersed myself in Indiana high school basketball history,
and researched the evolution of college basketball and post-season tournaments.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Given
that Wooden lived throughout most of the twentieth century (he was born in
1910), I knew I had to give historical context to his life. That led me to bone
up on major events and cultural forces in each decade of the 1900s—from America’s
entry into World War I, the Roaring Twenties and Great Depression to
civil-rights struggles and turmoil wrought by the Vietnam War and Watergate scandal.
Race relations is another subject I
researched. Wooden grew up in a time and place when segregation was widely
accepted, with “color barriers” the norm in sports and other aspects of
American life. I wanted to understand the various ways those barriers were
broken and to explore Wooden’s forward-thinking views on race.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">My
research inevitably led to travel. I spent considerable time in Morgan County,
Indiana, Wooden’s birthplace. I visited the various communities in which he grew
up (Martinsville, Hall, Monrovia and Centerton), read family gravestones, and studied
old newspapers and yearbooks in Martinsville’s public library. Recent research
by Morgan County residents Curtis H. Tomak, Joanne Raetz Stuttgen, and Norma J.
Tomak served me well; they uncovered new information that corrected often-told
accounts of Wooden’s early life, and I made of a point – following my own
digging—to present the corrected accounts. Wherever I traveled, I interviewed
people. In South Bend, for instance, I was
fortunate to interview men who had played for Wooden at Central High School when
he coached there in the 1930s and early 1940s. Likewise, I was fortunate to
interview Gary, IN, resident Kevin J. Walker, who shared a journal written by
his father Clarence Walker, a member of Wooden’s Sycamore squad at Indiana
State Teachers College in the late 1940s—a pivotal time in the integration of
college basketball. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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research would not have been complete without a trip to Los Angeles. There I
had the pleasure of meeting Wooden’s daughter Nan, who invited me to her home
where I viewed rooms full of family photos and Wooden memorabilia. I also spent
time at UCLA, where Bill Bennett, an athletics department official, gave me
access to a wealth of material and where I benefited from studying an exhibit in
the UCLA Athletic Hall of Fame. The exhibit, known as Wooden’s “den,” contains
furnishings and personal items donated by his family and displayed exactly as
they had been in his suburban Los Angeles condominium. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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would be remiss if I failed to mention that Steve Alford, UCLA’s newly named
head coach at the time of my visit, granted me an interview. We talked about
Alford’s Hoosier roots and how he lived in Martinsville in the early 1970s – a
time when his father, Sam, coached the high school team. Young Alford spent
afternoons hanging out in the very gym where Wooden had been a high school star
decades earlier.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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my request, Coach Alford wrote the foreword to <i>Hardwood Glory</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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across anything about Wooden that surprised you?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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read that Wooden was highly competitive, but I did not realize the extent of
his competitiveness until I researched his early years of coaching. I am
indebted to Peter DeKever, a Mishawaka historian who drew my attention to a
basketball game in January 1937 between the South Bend Central High School
Bears, coached by Wooden, and the Mishawaka High School Cavemen, coached by
Shelby S. Shake. The after-game court fireworks, as reported in a South Bend
newspaper, revealed that Wooden was not someone to push around and that he
definitely had a fiery side.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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also was surprised to learn about the intersection of the lives of Wooden, UCLA
Bruin star center Bill Walton, President Richard Nixon and White House Chief of
Staff H. R. “Bob” Haldeman in the 1970s, before and after Watergate. If I’ve
aroused your curiosity, good!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">He
lived by the saying “failing to prepare is preparing to fail,” and thus he made
the most of basketball practices. He put his players through repetitive drills
so that they instinctively executed “fundamentals” in games. He likewise put
players through grueling physical workouts so that their superb conditioning
enabled them to wear down opponents. Moreover, Wooden stressed teamwork.
Drawing upon a shrewd understanding of human psychology, common sense, and his
own deep-seated decency, he managed to tame egos and meld players into a unit
that made them all look good. The team, not the individual, was the star. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to match Wooden’s accomplishments?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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think not. Today players bolt to the professional ranks after a year or two of
college, making it difficult for coaches to mold team unity and build upon lessons
taught and strides made the previous year. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It
seems rather fitting that Indianapolis will host the 2015 NCAA Final Four
Tournament. This March marks 40 years since Wooden made tournament history by coaching
the UCLA Bruins to their 10<sup>th</sup> national championship, a men’s record
that remains unrivaled. This year also marks 40 years since Wooden retired from
the game at which he excelled throughout his long life, as first a player and
then a coach. The very game, of course, that he learned to play . . . in
Indiana.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Indiana Historical Society Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01131966681961551058noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29987211.post-85671619080434582162014-11-26T10:51:00.000-05:002014-11-26T10:51:01.630-05:00Holiday Author Fair Set for December 6More than seventy Hoosier authors will pack Eli Lilly Hall at the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana History Center, 450 West Ohio Street, Indianapolis, from noon to 4:00 p.m. Saturday, December 6, for the Indiana Historical Society's annual <a href="http://www.indianahistory.org/events/2014%20Author%20Fair%20eBrochure.pdf" target="_blank">Holiday Author Fair</a>. The event is free and open to the public.<br />
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Among the authors who will be on hand to sign their books are bestselling author <a href="http://www.philipgulley.com/" target="_blank">Philip Gulley</a>, basketball legend <a href="http://www.indystar.com/story/sports/nba/pacers/2014/08/06/bobby-slick-leonard-indiana-pacers-nba-aba/13705925/" target="_blank">Bobby "Slick" Leonard</a>, Indiana historian <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atF22fjYpCg&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank">James H. Madison</a>, mystery writer <a href="http://www.terencefaherty.com/" target="_blank">Terrence Faherty</a>, pastry chef <a href="http://www.indystar.com/story/entertainment/dining/jolene-ketzenberger/2013/12/07/chicago-pastry-chef-paula-haney-dishes-on-her-life-in-pie/3895607/" target="_blank">Paula Haney</a>, and former Indiana poet laureate <a href="http://www.krapfpoetry.com/" target="_blank">Norbert Krapf</a>.<br />
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In addition, several IHS Press authors will be at the fair, including:<br />
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<li>Richard D. Feldman, <i>Family Practice Stories: Memories, Reflections, and Stories of Hoosier Family Doctors of the Mid-twentieth Century</i></li>
<li>Wes D. Gehring, <i>Robert Wise: Shadowlands</i></li>
<li>John A. Beineke, <i>Hoosier Public Enemy: A Life of John Dillinger</i></li>
<li>Barbara Olenyik Morrow, <i>Hardwood Glory: A Life of John Wooden</i></li>
<li>Jennifer McSpadden, <i>A Leaf of Voices: Stories of the American Civil War in the Words of Those Who Lived and Died, 1861-65</i></li>
<li>Kenneth L. Turchi, <i>L. S. Ayres & Company: The Store at the Crossroads of America</i></li>
<li>Douglas A. Wissing, <i>Crown Hill: History, Spirit, Sanctuary</i></li>
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To help kick off the event, IHS Press author Beineke will give a talk on the life and career of Hoosier outlaw John Dillinger at 5:30 p.m. Friday, December 5, at the Indiana History Center.Indiana Historical Society Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01131966681961551058noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29987211.post-20615761547743122332014-11-26T08:48:00.002-05:002014-11-26T08:48:38.199-05:00The Life and Times of Coach John Wooden<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The tenth volume in the Indiana Historical Society Press's celebrated Youth Biography Series examines the life of a man who helped define college basketball in the twentieth century and became an icon of American sports--John Wooden.<br />
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Written by Barbara Olenyik Morrow and featuring a foreword by <a href="http://www.ucla.edu/" target="_blank">UCLA</a> basketball coach Steve Alford, <i>Hardwood Glory: A Life of John Wooden</i>, explores his life beginning from his birth in the small Indiana town of Martinsville near the start of the last century. His claim to fame came first as an accomplished athlete, helping his high school basketball team compete in three state championship games, then earning All-American honors three times in his home state as a starting guard at <a href="http://www.purdue.edu/" target="_blank">Purdue University</a>. After briefly teaching high school English and coaching several sports in Dayton, Kentucky, Wooden returned to Indiana, where he launched a successful career coaching basketball at South Bend Central High School and later at Indiana State Teachers College (today <a href="http://cms.indstate.edu/" target="_blank">Indiana State University</a>) in Terre Haute.<br />
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In 1948, at age thirty-seven, Wooden moved west, as did many Americans in the post-World War II era. He took over the head basketball job at UCLA, a school with virtually no basketball tradition. He took his family and his coaching skills with him. He also took his midwestern values. For the next six decades he remained in Southern California, creating a basketball dynasty at UCLA and solidifying his place as one of the sporting world's greats. When he died on June 4, 2010, at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, he was four months shy of his hundredth birthday.<br />
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Wooden's success as a college coach was unprecedented and, in pure numbers, staggering. From 1964 to 1975, he led the UCLA Bruins men's basketball team to ten NCAA national basketball championships, including seven in a row--a feat that may never be matched. During that string of championships, he coached the Bruins to four perfect 30-0 seasons, a NCAA men's record that still stands. He also coached UCLA to an eighty-eight-game winning streak, yet another unrivaled record. Over the course of his twenty-seven seasons at UCLA, he mentored such All-Americans as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kareem_Abdul-Jabbar" target="_blank">Kareem Abdul-Jabbar</a> and <a href="http://www.billwalton.com/" target="_blank">Bill Walton</a>, earned the respect of legions of players, and inspired countless would-be roundballers and coaches alike.<br />
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In 1973 Wooden was inducted into the <a href="http://www.hoophall.com/" target="_blank">Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame</a> as a coach, making him the first to be honored as both a player and a coach. (He received the honor as a player in 1960.) In 1977 college basketball's annual player-of-the-year award was named for him. The NCAA bestowed its highest honor, the Theodore Roosevelt award, on Wooden in 1995. In 2003 President George W. Bush presented Wooden the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom" target="_blank">Presidential Medal of Freedom</a>, America's highest civilian honor.<br />
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Morrow is a journalist and author from Auburn, Indiana, who has been a Pulitzer Prize finalist for editorial writing. Her youth biography of novelist and conservationist Gene Stratton-Porter was published by the IHS Press in 2010. Morrow's other books include <i>From Ben-Hur to Sister Carrie</i>, in which she profiled fived Hoosier writers during Indiana's golden age of literature, and <i>A Good Night for Freedom</i>, a well-received children's picture book about the Underground Railroad and famed Hoosier abolitionists Levi and Catharine Coffin.<br />
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<i>Hardwood Glory </i>costs $17.95 and is available from the IHS <a href="http://shop.indianahistory.org/" target="_blank">Basile History Market</a>.Indiana Historical Society Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01131966681961551058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29987211.post-25375742006976440742014-10-31T13:45:00.001-04:002014-10-31T13:45:13.499-04:00Native Americans in the Old Northwest<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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What happened to the Indians of the Old Northwest Territory? Conflicting portraits emerge and answers often depend on who's telling the story, with each participant bending and stretching the truth to fit their own view of themselves and the world.<br />
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Written by Elizabeth O'Maley, <i>Bones on the Ground </i>presents biographical sketches and first-person narratives of Native Americans, Indian traders, Colonial and American leaders, and events that shaped the Indians' struggle to maintain possession of their tribal lands in the face of the widespread advancement of white settlement.<br />
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The book covers events and people in the Old Northwest Territory from before the American Revolution through the removal of the Miami from Indiana in 1846, including the Gnadenhutten Massacre, Little Turtle, William Wells, <a href="http://www.nps.gov/fati/index.htm" target="_blank">Fallen Timbers</a>, the <a href="http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/greenvil.asp" target="_blank">Treaty of Greenville</a>, Tecumseh, the <a href="http://www.tcha.mus.in.us/battlefield.htm" target="_blank">Battle of Tippecanoe</a>, <a href="http://www.connerprairie.org/Learn-And-Do/Indiana-History/America-1800-1860/William-Conner.aspx" target="_blank">William Conner</a>, Frances Slocum, the <a href="http://www.potawatomi-tda.org/" target="_blank">Potawatomi Trail of Death</a>, and Jean Baptiste Richardville, among others.<br />
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As America's Indian policy was formed, and often enforced by the U.S. military, and white setters pushed further west, some Indians fought the white intruders, while others adopted their ways. In the end, most Indians were unable to hold their ground and the evidence of their presence now lingers only in found relics and strange-sounding place names.<br />
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A graduate of Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, O'Maley worked after college as a school psychologist in Cincinnati, Louisville, Indianapolis, and Fort Wayne. She is also the author of the IHS Press book <a href="http://shop.indianahistory.org/SelectSKU.aspx?skuid=1008272" style="font-style: italic;" target="_blank">By Freedom's Light</a>. Elizabeth O'Male died on May 20, 2014.<br />
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<i>Bones on the Ground </i>costs $16.95 and is available from the IHS <a href="http://shop.indianahistory.org/" target="_blank">Basile History Market</a>.Indiana Historical Society Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01131966681961551058noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29987211.post-29979932818088776202014-10-17T09:35:00.002-04:002014-10-17T09:38:35.171-04:00Letters from Hoosier Soldiers of the Civil War<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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letters from Wabash County men serving in the Union army. In <i>A Leave of Voices</i> Jennifer McSpadden has
compiled the letters into a volume that gives fascinating insights into a
bygone age. The letter writers are a remarkable cast of characters: young and
old, soldiers, doctors, ministers, officers, enlisted men, newspaper men, and a
fifteen-year-old printers’ devil who enlisted as a drummer boy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the letter writers themselves were grieving as they wrote their families that
another family member was killed in battle or had succumbed to disease. There
were the chaplains who not only often had to be the bearers of bad news, but
also had to bring consolation and comfort to the men with whom they served.
Officers also had the burden of writing to families with the dread news of loved
one’s death. Most officers, in turn, were admired and respected by their men,
and were deeply mourned when they fell in battle<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">These are not stories of generals or
battle strategies, they are the stories of the ordinary soldiers and their
everyday lives. They describe long tiring marches across state after state, crossing
almost impossible terrain, facing shortages of rations and supplies, enduring extremes
of weather where they froze one day and sweltered the next, and encountering guerrillas
that harried the wagon trains.</span><br />
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the bodies of fallen comrades and foes alike, of mules and their wagons sinking
into muddy roads that became like quicksand, of shipwrecks, and of former slaves.
They wrote of marching by moonlight and of people and places they would never
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Today a resident of Wabash, McSpadden was born and grew up in England, where she was educated at boarding schools and obtained six general certificates of education from the University of London. While living in London, McSpadden, who has always had a keen interest in history, was a member of the Richard the Third Society. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">She has also worked as a volunteer at the <a href="http://www.wabashmuseum.org/" target="_blank">Wabash County Historical Museum</a> and is currently on the museum's board of directors. McSpadden worked as a reporter for the <i><a href="http://www.chronicle-tribune.com/wabashplaindealer/" target="_blank">Wabash Plain Dealer</a> </i>from 1986 to 1997 and served as a guest columnist until 2010.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><i>A Leaf of Voices </i>costs $27.95 and is available from the <a href="http://shop.indianahistory.org/" target="_blank">IHS Basile History Market</a>.</span></div>
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Indiana Historical Society Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01131966681961551058noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29987211.post-7365197911852569212014-08-01T09:03:00.001-04:002014-08-01T09:03:25.137-04:00Crown Hill Book HonoredThe IHS Press book <i>Crown Hill: History, Spirit, Sanctuary </i>was a silver winner in the regional category at the annual IndieFab <a href="https://indiefab.forewordreviews.com/" target="_blank">Book of the Year Awards</a> for the best independent books of 2013 sponsored by <i>Foreword Reviews</i>.<br />
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Representing hundreds of independent and university presses of all sizes, the winners were selected after months of editorial deliberation over more than 1,500 entries in sixty categories. Gold, Silver, Bronze, and Honorable Mention awards were determined by a panel of librarians and booksellers and announced at a special program during the American Library Association annual conference in Las Vegas.Indiana Historical Society Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01131966681961551058noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29987211.post-22490976696536115712014-05-27T10:20:00.000-04:002014-05-27T10:20:06.365-04:00Interview with Author of Dillinger Biography<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">During his career, John A. Beineke, author of the new IHS Press youth biography <i>Hoosier Public Enemy: A Life of John Dillinger</i>, has worked as professor of history at <a href="http://www.astate.edu/" target="_blank">Arkansas State University</a>, where today he is distinguished professor of educational leadership and curriculum. Beineke has also been a public school teacher, university administrator, and program director in leadership and education at the <a href="http://www.wkkf.org/" target="_blank">W. K. Kellogg Foundation</a>. Here Beineke talks about how he came to write about Dillinger.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">My dad was an <i>Indianapolis News</i> paperboy
during the 1930s and told stories of how John Dillinger would slip in and out
of Indianapolis and Mooresville to visit family. And, of course, the
newspapers he carried told of the bank robberies and escapes. I never
forgot hearing those stories. I also wanted there to be a book on
Dillinger for young adults and to place him in historical context--the Great Depression, the rise of the <a href="http://newdeal.feri.org/" target="_blank">New Deal</a> and the <a href="http://www.fbi.gov/" target="_blank">Federal Bureau of Investigation</a>, and the role technology
played, from high-powered automobiles and weapons to the scientific method used
to rob banks. There is a strong move in public schools to include more
nonfiction in the curriculum. A biography about a figure who was
emblematic of the time he lived and also a figure who captured the public’s
imagination both then and now seemed a great match with Dillinger.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Yes, on some stories where there were multiple
versions I had to ask myself “Did this really happen?” Some sources would
leave out a certain bank robbery, have him in two states at the same time, or
not know where he was for a period of time. I tried to use eyewitness
sources as to the bank robberies. Most people knew if it was Dillinger or
not--and for most, such an event was the most exciting thing that ever
happened in their lives. Some have said he robbed a bank or two in Kentucky,
but I could not verify that. When I didn’t know where he was I said
so. A good example of “myths” would be the “fake” gun used to break out
of the Crown Point Jail. Some say it was real, others say it was carved
from soap, but most think it was carved from wood and blackened with shoe
polish. I put the different theories out there with the evidence I found
and will let the reader decide.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Dillinger treated by newspapers during his prime--as a villain or a “Robin Hood”
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Good question. At first a “Robin Hood.” Letting a farmer keep the money on the bank counter saying it belonged to the
man, yet at the same time emptying the safe. Whose money was that? The Mooresville newspaper was sympathetic to him for a while, but that may have
been that the citizens respected his hard-working father. After the
policeman was shot during an East Chicago bank job in early 1934 and Dillinger
was accused of being the gunman, things turned sour in the press. (It is
still disputed he was even in East Chicago that day.) Even up until
the end, though, many people liked him because they didn’t like banks.
The storyline that he spent far too long in prison (nine years) for a botched
robbery and that caused him to “go bad” also gained him support in eyes of the
public. Finally, being shot in the back didn’t seem fair to some. But after fourteen months of robberies and escapes, almost all newspapers thought him
a villain rather than a hero.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">His exploits, his personality, and the fact he
remains an icon in popular culture all testify to the ongoing public
fascination with him. The name Dillinger even sounds a dangerous. He is both hero and desperado. This book’s cover makes that point
with his menacing countenance staring at the reader while there is a
simultaneous passing resemblance to movie star of the era of <a href="http://humphreybogart.com/" target="_blank">Humphrey Bogart</a>. Other examples abound. There have been about a dozen books
on him over the past fifty years. Four motion pictures--the latest
starring Johnny Depp--and also several documentaries. There is a
Dillinger tour that begins in the Wisconsin lodge where he escaped FBI
agent Melvin Purvis and then moves to Chicago’s Biograph Theater the scene of
his death. The tour ends in Indianapolis at Crown Hill Cemetery, the
location of his grave. There is a Dillinger Museum in Lake County
in northern Indiana. A few months back Dillinger's father’s farmhouse in
Mooresville appeared in a real estate advertisement and the home wasn’t even
for sale. Earlier this year a political commentator on NBC, when asked if
Hillary Clinton was going to run for president, answered, “Does Dillinger rob
banks?” He used the present tense as if Dillinger were still alive! And he didn’t have to identify the reference to Dillinger, dead eighty years in
July.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I am working on a long scholarly piece on Indiana
University president Herman Wells’s leadership and how he built IU by
supporting controversial researchers, such as the sex researcher <a href="http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/" target="_blank">Alfred Kinsey</a>. There are two other Indiana ideas bouncing around in my mind. One
would be to focus on the early years of World War I flying ace Captain <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Rickenbacker" target="_blank">EddieRickenbacker</a>. His strong connection to the <a href="http://www.indianapolismotorspeedway.com/" target="_blank">Indianapolis Motor Speedway</a> as
both racer and track owner plus his involvement in the automotive industry of
the 1920s. While from Ohio, not Indiana, Rickenbacker had a
flamboyant and adventuresome personality and might make for a good young adult
book. The other thought I have had is something on the theme of Indiana
gas stations. My grandfather and father owned a “Hoosier Pete” filling
station in Marion, Indiana from the late 1940s to the mid-1970s. Maybe a
pictorial book with commentary on the role these stations played in
popular culture from the 1920s to the present. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The <a href="http://www.in.gov/library/icb.htm" target="_blank">Indiana Center for the Book</a> has selected the IHS Press youth biography <i>Hoosier Public Enemy: A Life of John Dillinger </i>by John A. Beineke to represent Indiana at the <a href="http://www.loc.gov/bookfest/" target="_blank">National Book Festival</a> in Washington, D.C. The book will be featured on the Festival's "Discover Great Places through Reading Map."<br />
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The book selection is based on criteria where each states selects one title of fiction or nonfiction that is relevant to the state or by an author from the state and that is a good read for children or young adults. The map is distributed at the Pavilion of the States at the Festival.<br />
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"This selection is a unique opportunity for students to learn more about history's most notorious Hoosier," said Suzanne Walker, Indiana Center for the Book director. "While most books about John Dillinger are scholarly or adult-themed in nature, <i>Hoosier Public Enemy </i>tells this compelling crime drama in a way that is educational and entertaining for young readers."<br />
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The National Book Festival will be held on the National Mall on Saturday, August 30. It will feature award-winning authors, poets, and illustrators in several pavilions dedicated to categories of literature. Festival-goers can meet and hear firsthand from their favorite authors, get books signed, have photos taken with mascots and storybook characters, and participate in a variety of learning activities.<br />
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The Indiana Center for the Book is a program of the <a href="http://www.in.gov/library/" target="_blank">Indiana State Library</a> and an affiliate of the <a href="http://www.read.gov/cfb/" target="_blank">Center for the Book in the Library of Congress</a>. The Center promotes interest in reading, writing, literacy, libraries, and Indiana's literary heritage by sponsoring events and serving as an information resource at the state and local level. The Center supports both the professional endeavors and the popular pursuits of Indiana's residents toward reading and writing.Indiana Historical Society Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01131966681961551058noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29987211.post-46408218999652456492014-05-15T10:57:00.001-04:002014-05-15T10:57:17.140-04:00John Dillinger Youth Biography Released<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">During the bleak days of the
Great Depression, news of economic hardship often took a backseat to articles
on the exploits of an outlaw from Indiana—John Dillinger. For a period of
fourteen months during 1933 and 1934 Dillinger became the most famous bandit in
American history, and no criminal since has matched him for his celebrity and
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In <i>Hoosier Public Enemy: A Life of John Dillinger</i>, ninth volume in the
Indiana Historical Society Press’s Youth Biography Series, John A. Beineke delves
into Dillinger’s life from his unhappy days growing up in Indianapolis and
Mooresville, Indiana; his first unlucky brush with the law; his embracing of a
life of crime while behind bars at the Indiana Reformatory; his exploits as the
leader of a gang that terrorized banks and outwitted law enforcement in the
Midwest, earning a reputation as a Robin Hood-style criminal,; and his
headline-grabbing death in a hail of bullets on July 22, 1934, at the Biograph
Theater in Chicago.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Dillinger won public attention
not only for his robberies, but his many escapes from the law. As Beineke notes
in the book, Dillinger’s breakouts, getaways, and close calls were all part of
the story. The escapes he made from jails or “tight spots,” when it seemed law
officials had him cornered, became the stuff of legends. While the public would
never admit that they wanted the “bad guy” to win, many could not help but root
for the man who appeared to be an underdog.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Another reason that the name
Dillinger still resonates with the public is that his raids on banks coincided
with the rise of new crime-fighting methods. These modern approaches were
employed by newly created agencies of the government to battle the innovative
technologies used to carry out the crimes. Powerful automobiles and modern and
deadly weapons were used by the men (and some women) who were labeled as
“public enemies.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">There was also the Dillinger
personality. He was viewed as the gentleman bandit, letting a poor farmer keep
the few dollars on the bank counter rather than scooping it up with the rest of
the loot. He was polite and handsome. Women liked him. One of Dillinger’s girlfriends,
Polly Hamilton, once said, “We had a lot of fun. It’s surprising how much fun
we had.” All this made good copy for newspapers around the country. It seemed
like a Hollywood movie and Dillinger was the star. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Although his crime wave took
place in the last century, the name Dillinger has never left the public
imagination. Biographies, histories, movies, television and radio shows,
magazines and newspapers, comic books, and now Internet sites have focused on
this Indiana bandit. If the public enjoyed reading about the exploits of these
“public enemies” or viewing the newsreels in the movie theaters of that day, so
did Dillinger. Ironically, it was outside a theater screening a movie about
gangsters that his life ended.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Beineke is distinguished professor
of educational leadership and curriculum and also professor of history at Arkansas
State University. He has been a public school teacher, university administrator,
and program director in leadership and education at the W. K. Kellogg
Foundation. Beineke is the author of <i>And
There Were Giants in the Land: The Life of William Heard Kilpatrick</i>;<i> Going Over All the Hurdles: A Life of
Oatess Archey</i>;<i> </i>and <i>Teaching History to Adolescents: A Quest for
Relevance</i>. An inductee of the Marion
High School Hall of Distinction and an Outstanding Alumnus of Teachers College
Ball State University, he has also been a summer research fellow at Harris
Manchester College Oxford University.
Beineke and his wife, Marla, live in Jonesboro, Arkansas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Hoosier Public Enemy </i>costs $17.95 and is available from the IHS's <a href="http://shop.indianahistory.org/" target="_blank">Basile History Market</a>.</span></div>
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Indiana Historical Society Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01131966681961551058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29987211.post-31342639027438624872014-04-11T12:10:00.000-04:002014-04-11T12:10:33.279-04:00IHS Press Books Named as Award FinalistsTwo publications from the Indiana Historical Society Press have been named as finalists in <a href="https://www.forewordreviews.com/" target="_blank"><i>Foreword Review</i></a>'s 2013 Book of the Year Awards. The books and the categories they are entered in are as follows:<br />
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<li><i>Indiana Out Loud: Dan Carpenter on the Heartland Beat</i>, Essays Category</li>
<li><i>Crown Hill: History, Spirit, Sanctuary</i>, Regional Category</li>
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Winners will be announced at 6 p.m. June 27 at the American Library Association's annual conference in Las Vegas, Nevada.<br />
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<br />Indiana Historical Society Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01131966681961551058noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29987211.post-88951684651521889762014-04-11T12:03:00.002-04:002014-04-11T12:03:47.285-04:00Memories of Hoosier Family Doctors<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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An initiative of the Indiana Academy of Family Physicians and the Indiana Academy of Family Physicians Foundation, <i>Family Practice Stories: Memories, Reflections, and Stories of Hoosier Family Doctors of the Mid-Twentieth Century</i>, is a collection of tales told by, and about, Hoosier family doctors practicing in the middle of the twentieth century. <div>
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Edited by Richard Feldman, MD, the stories celebrate that time in America considered by many to be the golden age of generalism in medicine a time that conjures up Norman Rockwell s familiar archetypal images of the country family doctor and a time when the art of healing was at its zenith.<br /><br />The book is divided into two sections. The first is a collection of reflective essays on various subjects, some written by individuals who participated in interviewing these older doctors, some by invited essayists, and others the perspectives of the doctors themselves concerning medicine and their careers. The second part contains a large collection of stories from Hoosier family physicians that practiced in this era. The stories are specific episodes in their careers and reveal much about how these family doctors touched the lives of their patients and their influence on their communities.<br /><br />Feldman is a lifelong Hoosier who grew up in South Bend, Indiana. He is a 1972 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Indiana University, Bloomington, and a 1977 graduate of the IU School of Medicine. After completing one year of psychiatry residency at IU, he finished his postgraduate medical training at Franciscan Saint. Francis Health Family Medicine Residency in 1980. He is a frequent lecturer, locally and nationally, on public health and medically-related subjects. He writes for the <i>Indianapolis Star</i> as an editorial page columnist on health-related issues.</div>
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Indiana Historical Society Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01131966681961551058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29987211.post-11674454715756753062013-10-22T08:55:00.002-04:002014-05-15T10:58:10.429-04:00History of Crown Hill Cemetery Available<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, Crown Hill Cemetery has
been a vital part of the Indianapolis community dating back to its first
interment, Lucy Ann Seaton, on June 2, 1864. Since then, Crown Hill has grown
from a “rural cemetery” into the nation’s third largest private cemetery and is
a community treasure that serves a broad range of needs and stands as a
monument to the memories of hundreds of famous Hoosiers and the thousands more
who selected Crown Hill as their final resting place.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt;">Published by the Indiana Historical
Society Press in cooperation with the Crown Hill Heritage Foundation, <i>Crown Hill: History, Spirit, and Sanctuary </i>examines
the cemetery’s complete history and places its story in a the larger historical
context of the development and growth of American landscape architecture. In
addition, the book includes vignettes of the famous families and individuals
buried and/or entombed at Crown Hill and numerous photographs of the cemetery,
its remarkable architecture, intricate sculptures memorializing the dead, and
its lush landscape in every season. The cemetery is not only a place of memory,
but it is also a place of contemplation for thousands of Indianapolis residents
that pass through the site annually for such special events as Memorial Day,
Benjamin Harrison’s birthday, Veterans Day, and other public and private group
tours. Its rural setting also draws nature lovers to see deer, foxes,
red-tailed hawks, and the more than 250 species of trees and shrubs on the
grounds.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt;">As far back as 1711, there were
those who advocated for the development of landscaped cemeteries in rural
settings. Since the founding of Mount Auburn Cemetery near Boston,
Massachusetts, in 1831, Americans had looked to bury their loved ones in these
rural cemeteries located on the outskirts of cities and towns across the United
States. These locations were civic institutions designed for use by the public
as a place to enjoy refined outdoor recreation and be exposed to art and
culture.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">The
first burial ground in Indianapolis was a five-acre tract on Kentucky Avenue
near the White River. The 1821 graveyard became the nucleus of Greenlawn
Cemetery (later known as City Cemetery). By the 1860s this cemetery was unable
to meet the needs of the growing capital city. With the suggestion of a Fort
Wayne businessman, Hugh McCullough, some of the leading citizens of
Indianapolis called upon John Chislett, a landscape architect from Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, with the development of what came to be Crown Hill Cemetery,
which began with 274 acres bought for $51,000. Over the years additional
acreage has been added to Crown Hill, the last coming in 1911.</span></div>
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the cemetery occupies a 555-acre plot of land in northwest Indianapolis,
bordered in the south and north by Thirty-second and Forty-second Streets
respectively. More than 200,000 individuals are buried there, including many
notable native and adopted Hoosiers. </span></div>
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Indiana Historical Society Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01131966681961551058noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29987211.post-60975715791494758012013-07-29T08:35:00.000-04:002013-07-29T08:35:00.277-04:00Interview with IHS Press Author Dan Carpenter<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Dan Carpenter, author of the IHS Press book <i>Indiana Out Loud: Dan Carpenter on the Heartland Beat</i>, has been writing for the <i>Indianapolis Star </i>since 1979. In writing for the state's largest newspaper, Carpenter has covered the life and times of some notable Hoosiers, as well as serving as the voice for the disadvantaged. An Indianapolis native, Carpenter answers some questions about his work and career.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">What influenced you to go into the journalism profession?</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I fell into writing not long after I learned to
read, and fell in love with bylines and readers as a high school newspaper
reporter. College in the 1960s, an era of explosive politics and social change,
sealed the deal for one who yearned to be in on the action, or more precisely
on the edge of it. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">What were some of your early jobs with newspapers?</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">First was the
<i>Greenfield</i> (Ind.) <i>Daily Reporter</i>, where I covered police, fire, city hall and,
on nights and weekends, high school sports. I also learned photography there by
the sink-or-swim method. Next, 180 degrees removed, was the <i>Milwaukee Courier</i>, an African-American weekly where I practiced by straight and advocacy
journalism and learned the priceless lesson that "straight" depends
on where one stands.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">How do you come up with the ideas for your columns?</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The general flow of news provides lots of ideas
for spinoff features, further digging and commentary. Countless contacts
accumulated over all these decades keep me supplied with possibilities and in
touch with pursuits, people and causes that otherwise would be ignored or not
given justice. My reading beyond the news, from history to poetry, often
inspires themes and style turns.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Over the years, have you received regular comments from readers,
both positive and negative, on your work?</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Many, but rarely a deluge on any single story. Gun control,
religion, President Obama, marriage equality and Bob Knight (still) can be
counted on to stir response. Rarely is there not a fair distribution of
positive and negative.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">With all the problems seemingly besetting the profession, would
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Absolutely. But be nimble. The technology and
market trends that have us multi-tasking and risking accuracy and nuance for
speed and distribution will doubtless continue to accelerate and change. The
writer who wishes to tell rich, humane, politically courageous, exhaustively
researched stories will find his/her New Yorkers, Salons and even room in the
daily "press." But he or she will need a closet full of hats to get
established as an employee. Freelancers and bloggers likewise will have to be
more resourceful than ever if they're to make a living. There's always PR and
advertising, and more power to them. But we know what kind of word-and-picture-maker
America needs. Desperately.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I'm fussing with a second book of poems for
breathlessly waiting publishers out there. I also pine to write some intensive
magazine-type stories from some of the locales I have observed from afar as a
local newsie -- Haiti, Cameroon, the Middle East, etc. I am weighing the notion
of teaching for a semester or so in a foreign country and writing about the
experience, the place, the people.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Indiana Historical Society Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01131966681961551058noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29987211.post-34686680838328635352013-07-23T13:18:00.003-04:002013-07-23T13:18:35.529-04:00Indiana Out Loud: Dan Carpenter Book <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Since
1976, Dan Carpenter’s writing has appeared in the pages of the <i style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://www.indystar.com/" target="_blank">Indianapolis Star</a></i></span><i style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">as a police reporter,
book critic, and renowned op-ed columnist. In writing for the state’s largest
newspaper, Carpenter has covered the life and times of some notable Hoosiers,
as well as serving as a voice for the disadvantaged, sometimes exasperating the
</span><i style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Star</i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">’s readership in central Indiana
as the newspaper’s “house liberal.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><i>Indiana Out Loud</i>, now available from the Indiana Historical Society Press,<i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">is a collection
of the best of Carpenter’s work since 1993 and includes timely and engaging
examinations of the lives of such intriguing people as wrestling announcer Sam
Menacker, survivor of the James Jones People’s Temple massacre Catherine
Hyacinth Thrash, Indianapolis African American leader Charles “Snookie”
Hendricks, Atlas Grocery impresario Sid Maurer, and coaches James “Doc”
Counsilman and Ray Crowe. The book also includes a healthy dose of literary
figures, politicians, historians, knaves, crooks, and fools.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">As
Carpenter notes, the book “presumes to make itself heard as a distinct voice of
this place in this time of economic struggle, political divisiveness, creative
persistence, flammable faith, terror brought home and war, seemingly, without
end or limit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“The cumulative sound comprises the
sweet and strident, the measured and manic, the deafening and the barely
detectable. It is as sharp as the orchestrations of a legendary neighborhood
grocer and as seductive as the baritone riffs of a celebrated junkie poet. It
shrieks against arbitrary war and enforced poverty. It sings the pain of
inevitable loss and the praises of improbable gift-bearers.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Carpenter is an Indianapolis native and a graduate of Cathedral High
School and Marquette University. In addition to his work for the <i>Indianapolis Star</i>, he has published
poetry in <i>Illuminations, Pearl, Poetry East, Flying Island</i> , <em>Tipton
Poetry Journal</em> , and <em>Southern Indiana Review</em>. Carpenter’s book <i>Hard Pieces: Dan Carpenter’s Indiana</i>,
was published by Indiana University Press in 1993. He lives in Indianapolis’s
Butler-Tarkington neighborhood with his wife, Mary, and children, Patrick and
Erin.<br />
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<i>Indiana Out Loud </i>costs $16.95 and is available from the Indiana Historical Society's <a href="http://shop.indianahistory.org/" target="_blank">Basile History Market</a>.<br />
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Indiana Historical Society Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01131966681961551058noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29987211.post-56133861747584916702013-05-22T08:12:00.000-04:002013-05-22T08:12:03.170-04:00IHS Author Series SetAn Indiana politician and environmentalist, a Hollywood movie director, a mysterious totem pole, and a beloved Indianapolis store will all be featured in this summer's Indiana Historical Society Author Series. The programs, free and open to the public, begin at noon in the multipurpose room at the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana History Center, 450 West Ohio Street, Indianapolis. <div>
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The Author Series schedule is as follows:</div>
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<li>Tuesday, June 18--Ray E. Boomhower, <i>The People's Choice: Congressman Jim Jontz of Indiana</i></li>
<li>Tuesday, July 16--Wes D. Gehring, <i>Robert Wise: Shadowlands</i></li>
<li>Tuesday, August 20--Richard D. Feldman, <i>Home before the Raven Caws: The Mystery of a Totem Pole</i></li>
<li>Tuesday, September 17--Kenneth L. Turchi, <i>L. S. Ayres and Company: The Store at the Crossroads of America</i></li>
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Indiana Historical Society Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01131966681961551058noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29987211.post-53123512098725810372013-05-13T10:44:00.000-04:002013-05-13T10:50:34.865-04:00L.S. Ayres, Immigration Books Honored<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The IHS Press book <i>L. S. Ayres and Company: The Store at the Crossroads of America</i>, written by Kenneth L. Turchi,<i> </i>won first place in the Midwest Regional Interest: Text category at the 23rd annual Midwest Books Awards. Ray E. Boomhower, senior editor at the Press, was on hand at the event in Bloomington, Minnesota, to receive the award from Sherry Roberts, chair of the Midwest Independent Publishers Association, the group that sponsors the awards.<br />
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The competition attracted 187 books, entered in 44 categories, from 75 publishers in a 12-state Midwestern region. The Midwest Independent Publishers Association is a nonprofit professional association that serves the upper Midwest publishing community, advancing the understanding and appreciation of publishing production, promotion, and related technologies, professions, and trades.<br />
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Also, the IHS Press book <i>Indianapolis: A City of Immigrants</i>, written by M. Teresa Baer, is one of three finalists in the Teen: Nonfiction category in the 2013 Benjamin Franklin Awards competition sponsored by the Independent Book Publishers Association. Winners will be announced at a May 29 ceremony at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City. </div>
Indiana Historical Society Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01131966681961551058noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29987211.post-13857416404427712232013-04-24T10:56:00.003-04:002013-04-24T10:56:57.154-04:00Biography Wins SPJ Honor<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The IHS Press book <i>The People's Choice: Congressman Jim Jontz of Indiana </i>captured first place in the non-fiction book category at the Indiana Professional Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists' annual Best in Indiana journalism contest.<br />
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The judge for the category said of the book: "Ray E. Boomhower's thoroughly researched and documented biography of Jim Jontz is a touching story well told--an inspiring portrait of a man's passion for the environment."<br />
Indiana Historical Society Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01131966681961551058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29987211.post-8089725950075583242013-04-19T10:04:00.001-04:002013-04-19T10:04:29.950-04:00IHS Press Books Nominated for AwardsA number of IHS Press books have been named as finalists in the annual <a href="http://www.mipa.org/midwest-book-awards">Midwest Book Awards</a> sponsored by the <a href="http://www.mipa.org/">Midwest Independent Publishers Association</a>. Winners will be announced on May 8 at the Bloomington Center for the Arts in Bloomington, Minnesota.<br />
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The IHS Press books named as finalists are:<br />
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<li><i>Robert Wise: Shadowlands </i>by Wes D. Gehring in the Biography category</li>
<li><i>L.S. Ayres and Company: The Store at the Crossroads of America </i>by Ken Turchi in the Midwest Regional Interest, Text, category</li>
<li><i>Indianapolis: A City of Immigrants </i>by M. Teresa Baer in the Young Adult, Nonfiction category</li>
<li><i>Paint and Canvas: A Life of T.C. Steele </i>by Rachel Berenson Perry in the Young Adult, Nonfiction category</li>
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<br />Indiana Historical Society Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01131966681961551058noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29987211.post-22962365739690883682013-04-11T10:03:00.002-04:002013-04-11T10:03:35.858-04:00The Mystery of a Totem Pole<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In 1903 Alaska governor John Brady collected fifteen old totem poles for preservation at Sitka National Historical Park, creating one of the most famous collections of totem poles in the world. One pole became separated, and its fate remained a mystery for nearly ninety years.</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Written by Richard D. Feldman<i>, Home before the Raven Caws: The Mystery of a Totem Pole</i>, published by the IHS Press in cooperation with the <a href="http://www.eiteljorg.org/"></a></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art</span></div>
, unravels the mystery of that missing pole from the Brady collection. The old Alaskan pole found its way to Indiana more than a hundred years ago. A new version of the pole stands today at the Eiteljorg.<div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Feldman is a family physician who has a longtime interest in Native
American religion, art, and culture, having studied with the renowned scholar
Joseph Epes Brown at Indiana University, Bloomington. Feldman was adopted into
the Haida nation by Mary Yeltazie Swanson in 1996. Feldman lectures frequently
on a variety of medical as well as historical topics and has been the subject
of several public television documentaries.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Home before the Raven Caws </i>costs $15.95 and is available from the Indiana Historical Society's <a href="http://shop.indianahistory.org/">Basile History Market</a>.</span></div>
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Indiana Historical Society Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01131966681961551058noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29987211.post-11926142514246066372013-03-18T08:21:00.000-04:002013-03-18T08:21:47.262-04:00IHS Press Books Finalists for National Awards<span style="font-family: inherit;">Three IHS Press books have been named as finalists in <i>ForeWord Reviews </i>2012 <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3C/font%3Ehttps://botya.forewordreviews.com/finalists/2012/press-release/"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Book of the Year Awards</span></a>. Those books nominated and their categories are:</span><br />
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<li><i>Robert Wise: Shadowlands</i> by Wes D. Gehring in the biography category</li>
<li><i>Indianapolis: A City of Immigrants </i>by M. Teresa Baer in the young adult nonfiction category</li>
<li><i>Paint and Canvas: A Life of T. C. Steele </i>by Rachel Berenson Perry in the young adult nonfiction category</li>
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The finalists were selected from 1,300 entries covering sixty-two categories of books from independent and academic presses. These books represent some of the best produced by small publishing houses in 2012.<br />
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Over the next two months a panel of sixty judges, librarians and booksellers only, will determine the winners. Gold, Silver, and Bronze awards, as well as Editor's Choice Prizes for fiction and nonfiction, will be announced at the <a href="http://ala13.ala.org/">American Library Association</a>'s annual conference in Chicago on Friday, June 28. <i>ForeWord</i>'s Book of the Year Awards program was created to highlight the years most distinguished books from independent publishers.Indiana Historical Society Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01131966681961551058noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29987211.post-39062813869800803822013-01-14T08:36:00.004-05:002013-01-14T08:36:43.842-05:00Poetry Book Wins Honor<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The IHS Press book <i>And Know This Place: Poetry of Indiana</i>, has won the poetry category in the <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3C/font%3Ehttp://www.in.gov/library/icb.htm"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Indiana Center for the Book</span></a>'s 2012 Best Books of Indiana competition.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The poetry category judges called the book "an encapsulation of an essential part of our state's literary history," and noted it was "deserving of a place of honor in the personal library of any lover of things either poetic or Hoosier. As a resource for a connoisseur or novice, it would be well placed on a bookshelf next to Czeslaw Milosz's <i>A Book of Luminous Things </i>and Garrison Keillor's <i>Good Poems</i>."
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Finalists in the poetry category included <i>Airmail from the Airpoets</i> and Rob Griffith's book <i>The Moon from Every Window. </i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Kander's poetry has appeared in </span><em style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Flying Island</em><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">, </span><em style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">California Quarterly</em><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">, </span><em style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Bathtub Gin</em><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">,</span><em style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Wind</em><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">, </span><em style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Southern Indiana Review</em><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">, and </span><em style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Shiver</em><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">. Her chapbook </span><em style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Taboo</em><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"> was published by Finishing Line Press in 2004. She has compiled and edited two volumes of poetry, </span><em style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">The Linen Weave of Bloomington Poets</em><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"> and </span><em style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Celebrating Seventy</em><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">, both published under Wind’s logo. </span><br style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Greer’s poems have appeared in </span><em style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Streets Magazine</em><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">, </span><em style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Flying Island</em><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">, </span><em style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Wind</em><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">, and other publications. He has been active with the Bloomington Free Verse Poets, and he coedited, with Kander, </span><em style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Say This of Horses: A Selection of Poems</em><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"> published by the University of Iowa Press in 2007.</span></span>Indiana Historical Society Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01131966681961551058noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29987211.post-63285698500298332652013-01-03T08:23:00.001-05:002013-01-03T08:25:59.359-05:00Interview with Author of L. S. Ayres Book<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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I've always been interested in retailing. My first job in high school was as an
errand runner at The Golden Rule, a small chain of now-defunct women's clothing
stores in my hometown of Crawfordsville. Later I worked for Loeb's of Lafayette
and for L. S. Ayres. Researching and writing this book was a way for me to
explore an area of interest in depth and meet some great people. It was an easy
topic to choose: Ayres enjoyed such respect for its integrity, both as a
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What made Ayres different from other department stores?</b></span></div>
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At least two things: Ayres was among the first department stores to anticipate
the shift from dressmaking to ready-to-wear after World War I. To help
customers make that transition, they came up with "That Ayres Look"--a slogan that signaled to its customers that ready-made fashions were just
as desirable as custom-made ones, regardless of price. The slogan served them
well for more than fifty years and set the pace for the store's commitment to
quality, from the designer salon to the downstairs store.<br />
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Second, Ayres saw itself as being in the merchandising business, not the
department store business. This broad strategy took them into new lines of
business: discount stores, trade sources, specialty stores, all of which
anticipated market trends years in advance. I believe that if the company
hadn't made a couple of strategic errors in the early 1970s (and the economy had
cooperated), they would occupy the space now owned by Target Corporation, which
followed a similar growth path to Ayres. (Target was the discount-store arm of
Dayton's, a Minneapolis department store similar to Ayres.)</span></div>
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I would name two: Ted Griffith, who married into the Ayres family and guided
its growth from the 1920s until about 1960. He was a master merchandiser and by
all accounts an exemplary leader. Jim Gloin also comes to mind: he was the
store's numbers man who kept things going during World War II and set the stage
for its growth and diversification in the 1960s. Other names come to mind, too:
Dan Evans, John Peacock, and Elizabeth Patrick. </span></div>
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Looking back, was there a way for Ayres to have survived into the twenty-first
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As mentioned, Ayres made a critical decision in the late 1960s to continue
building its department store franchise, which impeded growth of its Ayr-Way
discount stores. If they had cast their lot with discount and specialty
retailing, we quite probably would all be shopping at Ayr-Way rather than
Target, and at Sycamore Shops rather than The Limited.<br />
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But other than that, Ayres as a traditional department store, where you could
spend the day browsing for everything from furniture to sheet music to sewing
notions to typewriters, could not survive today. Shopping habits have changed,
and customers aren't as willing to pay for service over price. A few specialty
retailers--Nordstrom, Crate and Barrel--have taken over the high-end
general merchandise market. Macy's does a good job as a department store, but
not in the traditional sense, and its results depend heavily on promotional
pricing.</span></div>
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Are you working on another book?</b></span></div>
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Indiana Historical Society Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01131966681961551058noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29987211.post-54613109511141186152013-01-02T08:27:00.002-05:002013-01-02T08:27:21.050-05:00New History of L.S. Ayres and Company Released<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8Xio-qDWlqRODbaHeURak5OUdFT1YOt4Dhs2ajNi_UyoNuXdRKmvYmcGy3yGWXdFhE74PrhtiU_ytlsM7DScNqzSEKOmC_oKT7le3CVoLOG2E4BhmgxOQxUQqHO8b5P9zddpd/s1600/L.+S.+Ayres+and+Company.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8Xio-qDWlqRODbaHeURak5OUdFT1YOt4Dhs2ajNi_UyoNuXdRKmvYmcGy3yGWXdFhE74PrhtiU_ytlsM7DScNqzSEKOmC_oKT7le3CVoLOG2E4BhmgxOQxUQqHO8b5P9zddpd/s320/L.+S.+Ayres+and+Company.jpg" width="320" /></a>In 1872 Lyman Ayres acquired a controlling interest in the Trade Palace, a dry-goods store in Indianapolis. Two ears later, he bought out his partners and renamed the establishment L. S. Ayres and Company. For the next century, Ayres was as much a part of Indianapolis as Monument Circle or the Indianapolis 500. Generations of midwestern families visited the vast store to shop for everything from furs to television sets, to see the animated Christmas windows, and, of course, to visit Santa Claus and enjoy lunch in the Tea Room.<br />
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As Kenneth L. Turchi highlights in his new IHS Press book <i>L. S. Ayres and Company: The Store at the Crossroads of America</i>, Ayres was more than just a department store. At its helm across three generations was a team of visionary retailers who took the store from its early silk-and-calico days to a diversified company with interests in specialty stores, discount stores (before Target and Wal-Mart), and even grocery stores. At the same time, Ayres never lost sight of its commitment to women's fashion that gave the store the same cachet as its largest competitors in New York and Chicago.<br />
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What was the secret of Ayres's success? In the book, Turchi traces the store's history through three wars, the Great Depression, and the changing tastes and shopping habits of America in the 1960s and 1970s. Examining Ayres's hundred years of management decisions, he offers strategic takeaways that explain not only the store's success, but that also apply to anyone who wants to be successful in business. Along the way, he describes the store's phenomenal growth while offering a behind-the-scenes look at this beloved and trusted institution.<br />
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Turchi developed an interest in retailing while working for a clothing store in his hometown of Crawfordsville, Indiana. He worked for L. S. Ayres and Company while in college and later earned a law degree. He has spent most of his career in marketing and strategic planning in the financial services industry. Currently Turchi is assistant dean at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law in Bloomington. This is his first book.<br />
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<i>L. S. Ayres and Company: The Store at the Crossroads of America </i>costs $29.95 and is available from the IHS's <a href="http://shop.indianahistory.org/">Basile History Market</a>.Indiana Historical Society Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01131966681961551058noreply@blogger.com0