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TCs, would you like to publish?
Call to Submit
TITLE:
WHAT:
COPYRIGHT:
DESCRIPTION:
DATE DUE:
EMAIL TO:
Indiana: Surprisingly Extra Ordinary
Self-published book about Indiana places and things that will entertain readers
and encourage tourism
NWP-IN Network
Collection of personal narratives (one or two pages in length) that make Indiana
come alive in the words of those who love the state, live in it and know all the
favorite things
Submit your narrative with the cover page below, as an email attachment, no
later than July 1, 2011
Mary Andis at ourinbook@gmail.com
YOU NEED TO KNOW: You will have your name and position published with the narrative.
You may submit as many as three different narratives.
You may collaborate on a narrative with one or two others.
This is a free submission; you will not be paid.
Your work will be subject to editorial review and all reviews are final.
You should fictionalize names for all private citizens—family and friends.
You will be notified if your submission is selected for the publication.
Your submission will not be returned to you.
You should keep a copy of your submission.
PUBLISHER:
We are researching the best self-publishing package available that includes the
book and marketing and the highest profit margin return.
AUDIENCE:
We are specifically targeting university alums and the schools and communities
in which we live and work.
PURPOSE:
This self-published book project is also my project for the HWP Summer Institute
in June and serves four purposes:
1. To make the case for the high-impact value of university-based, writing
professional development.
2. To help TCs get published.
3. To raise funds for the NWP-IN Network.
4. To demonstrate how we can use the self-publishing trend to get
students’ work published.
BACK STORY:
I retired in 2009 and immediately began work on a long-awaited set of family genealogy projects that are
now nearing completion. While I enjoyed having the time to do the research and genealogy projects, I
realized that I missed being a part of my profession.
In January, I talked with Steve Fox and Herb Budden about getting involved with NWP here in Indiana.
When I worked for the state, I was a liaison for the NWP-IN Network and found that I greatly admired
what NWP was doing. Because my doctorate is in reading education and I had never taken a Summer
Institute, Steve suggested that I take the HWP Summer Institute this year and begin to think of ways to
help the NWP-IN Network with fund raising.
When I reviewed my discussion with Steve and Herb, I was struck by how excited they were about the
success of NWP professional development. It seemed to me that it would be important, particularly now
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that the pool of public funds is dwindling for NWP, to find a way to get the word out to the public about
how valuable and worthwhile NWP really is.
It seemed to me that the best way to demonstrate the success of any writing program is to publish, give
the public something tangible. With the 2012 Super Bowl coming to Indianapolis, this seemed a perfect
time to do a book on Indiana, similar to a guide book but with much richer content, that would garner
interest beyond our state borders and that would represent the quality of writing produced by NWP
teachers who have participated in NWP professional development institutes.
I proposed the idea, at Steve’s request, to those attending the February Retreat in Indianapolis. There
was a lot of interest and a lot of good comments that helped me shape the current outline proposed in the
Sample Packet attached.
 The book should demonstrate the value of university-based professional development.
 The book should focus on putting forth a positive image of Indiana.
 Focus on content that goes beyond what Indiana is generally known for, such as sports and
agriculture.
 Reflect the importance of community.
 Use a narrative approach that would distinguish this from other guidebooks.
 Use a musical tie-in instead of poetry to introduce each chapter.
 Include recipes and something about foods unique to Indiana.
 Cast the net wide for audience and marketing.
 Let contributors submit personal narratives for any chapter of the book.
 Put the book on the market before December 1—in time for holiday shopping.
SAMPLE PACKET:
The Sample Packet attached is the working framework for the book and the guide for the personal
narratives that need to be written. To give you a sense of the final publication, the Sample Packet
includes a (1) working cover page, (2) statements of purpose and intent to copyright, (3) a working
preface, (4) a working expanded table of contents, (5) a working introduction, (6) working back pages and
(7) seven writing samples that may prompt ideas for how you want to give voice to your narratives.
SUBMIT:
The “Working Expanded Table of Contents” in the SAMPLE PACK lists all the items for
which we need narratives. Each item has the required number of words in parenthesis
next to it. NOTE: One single-spaced page equals about 500 words.
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COVER PAGE FOR EACH SUBMISSION
Indiana: Surprisingly Extra Ordinary
DATE
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NAME
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ADDRESS
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POSITION
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EMAIL
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YOUR NWP-IN Network Site & Date
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Complete the information below, if applicable.
NAME (2)
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ADDRESS
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POSITION
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EMAIL
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YOUR NWP-IN Network Site & Date
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NAME (3)
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ADDRESS
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POSITION
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EMAIL
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YOUR NWP-IN Network Site & Date
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ITEM FOR WHICH YOU ARE WRITING A PERSONAL NARRATIVE___________________________
YOUR PROPOSED TITLE_____________________________________________________________
NUMBER OF WORDS IN YOUR SUBMISSION _________________
Are you submitting other narratives?
_____YES
_____NO
If YES, how many others?
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Explain
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INDIANA: SURPRISINGLY
EXTRA ORDINARY
Indianapolis, Host to the 2012 NFL Super Bowl
Come see for yourself! Stories about Indiana let you
check it out--in the WORDS of those who love the state,
live in it and know ALL the favorite things.
First Book in the Celebrating Indiana Series
A Collection from National Writing Project-Indiana
Purchase of this book helps improve student writing achievement by providing additional
funding for the teaching of writing and improving learning in our schools.
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OUR BELIEF IS THAT WRITING IS ESSENTIAL
Writing is essential to communication, learning, and citizenship.
It is the currency of the new workplace and global economy.
Writing helps us convey ideas, solve problems, and understand our changing world.
Writing in its many forms is the signature means of communication in the 21st century.
Writing is a bridge to the future.
SOURCE: The National Writing Project (NWP), headquartered at the University of CaliforniaBerkeley, is a university-based professional development network that serves teachers of
writing at all grade levels, primary through university, and in all subjects. NWP focuses the
knowledge, expertise, and leadership of our nation's educators on sustained efforts to
improve writing and learning for all learners. (www.nwp.org)
Over one million teachers and administrators have been trained in NWP programs from 1974 to 2011. At
present, the NWP has nearly 200 sites in all 50 states. AND IT’S WORKING! In nine independent
studies, in every measured attribute of writing, the improvement of students whose teachers participated
in NWP professional development exceeded that of students whose teachers were not participants.
National Writing Project-Indiana Network
Indiana is home to six university-based, professional-development project sites that form the
NWP-IN Network (iwp.iweb.bsu.edu/nwpnetwork.html).
Appleseed Writing Project at Indiana University Purdue University-Fort Wayne
Dr. Il-Hee Kim, Director (kimi@ipfw.edu)
Hoosier Writing Project (HWP) at Indiana University Purdue University-Indianapolis &
Indiana University-South Bend
Dr. Stephen Fox, Director (sfox@iupui.edu)
Indiana Writing Project at Ball State University-Muncie
Dr. Linda Hanson, Director (lhanson@bsu.edu)
IUS Writing Project at Indiana University Southeast-New Albany
Dr. Kevin Sue Bailey, Director (kbailey@ius.edu)
Northwest Indiana Writing at Purdue University-Calumet, Hammond
Dr. Carolyn Boiarsky, Director (boiarsc@sbcglobal.net)
Riverbend Writing Project at the University of Southern Indiana-Evansville.
Dr. Evon Hawkins, Director (rehawkins@usi.edu)
NOTE: For information about the need to involve more Indiana teachers in the National Writing Project
professional development to benefit our children’s quality of schooling in this fast-paced, high-tech world
and about how you can donate to this vital educational work, see the letter by the NWP-IN Network director
at the back of this book.
This is a non-profit, non-governmental, non-religious publication. Its content is subject to
NWP-IN Network editorial review. Content is selected based upon the perceived
relevance and appropriateness to this publication. There is something here for
everyone, but the content is curated and not all-inclusive.
The views and opinions expressed in the stories are solely those of the individual contributors
and do not necessarily represent or reflect the views and opinions of the NWP-IN Network,
the project sites, the affiliated institutions, the NWP parent organization or any employees.
© 2011 Intent to Copyright by the non-profit NWP-IN Network,
a six-site Indiana Writing Project network of the
National Writing Project based in Berkeley, CA
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WORKING PREFACE
Indiana: Surprisingly Extra Ordinary
Indiana has long been known nationally for its sports—the Indianapolis 500, Colts football, Pacers
basketball, Big Ten college sports of the IU Hoosiers and the Purdue Boilermakers, the “Hoosier Mania”
of high school basketball, the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame, Butler University Bulldogs making the Final
Four back-to-back. . .
And its manufacturing—automobiles, steel, RVs . . .
And its biomedical industry—Eli Lilly and Co pharmaceuticals . . .
And its farms—Orville Redenbacher’s gourmet popcorn, corn, soybeans, beef, pork, turkey. . .
And, of course, the world-famous Indiana limestone used in the monuments, statues and buildings of our
nation’s capital.
Those driving through know Indiana as a beautiful state with the expansive fields of its northern plain
and the forested fields of its southern hills.
 If people drive across Indiana between Ohio and Illinois, they think of it as a small state.
 If people drive up or down Indiana between Michigan and Kentucky, they think it goes on forever!
You may know Indiana by some of its household names:
 James Dean, still an acting icon after all these years, is from Fairmount, Indiana,
as is Garfield and his creator cartoonist Jim Davis.
 Gary, Indiana is the hometown of Michael Jackson, The Jackson 5 and Janet Jackson.
 David Letterman of the Late Show with David Letterman on CBS is from Indianapolis and
an alum of Ball State University.
 Bet you did not know that southern Indiana was the boyhood home of Abraham Lincoln
from the age of 7 until 21 when he moved to Springfield, Illinois.
 Peyton Manning is the quarterback for the Indianapolis Colts and led the team to a Super
Bowl victory in 2007.
 John Mellencamp, from Seymour, may be the rock star who wrote about a “small town”
but he travels the globe performing now.
 No one from Indiana will ever forget that Jane Pauley, from Indianapolis and an Indiana
University-Bloomington alum, followed Barbara Walters of The View, on NBC’s Today.
 Regis Philbin of Regis and Kelly Live on ABC is an alum of the University of Notre
Dame-South Bend.
 2009 Miss America, Katie Stam, is from John Mellencamp’s hometown of Seymour.
 Oprah Winfrey had a farm retreat in LaPorte County in northern Indiana for many years.
 We have to add that three-time winner of the Indianapolis 500, Helio Castroneves and
dance-partner Julianne Hough, won ABC’s Dancing with the Stars, Season 5. Florence
Henderson, Dancing with the Stars, Season 11 and former The Brady Bunch television
star, is from the southern Indiana town of Dale.
MORE INDIANA NOTABLES in the back pages. . .
Indiana TODAY
We will introduce you to a surprising, lesser-known Indiana--the Indiana in “stories” written by
those who know it best and can speak from the heart about its cities, universities,
museums, parks, arts and entertainment, athletics, food, and festivals.
We plan to put the spotlight on an “extra ordinary” Indiana. ENJOY!
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Working (Expanded) Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION: Dear Reader . . .
Chapter 1: Let Us Entertain You with Stories about Indianapolis & Central Indiana
Some Surrounding Towns: Avon, Beech Grove, Brownsburg, Camby, Carmel, Danville, Fishers, Greenfield,
Greenwood, Lawrence, Lebanon, Mooresville, New Palestine, Noblesville, Plainfield, Southport, Speedway,
Westfield, Zionsville
Some Neighborhoods: Broad Ripple, Irvington, Lockerbie, Meridian-Kessler. . .
Introduction: Come Visit
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Music tie: Back Home Again in Indiana (start of Indy 500) – public domain
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GOOD TO GO! – Get Ready with Books, Movies, and Music
Facts to Set Your Mental GPS
Stories Extra Ordinary (500 – 1,000 words each)
1. Prompt for an “invitational overview” of Indianapolis and Central Indiana:
What are all your favorite things about the area?
2. Prompt for a story about a city (or town or community) in the area:
What makes the city (or town or community) come alive for you?
3. Prompt for a story about a university in the area:
What university experience opened the door on your dreams and made you feel
lucky to be at that school?
4. Prompt for a story about the arts and entertainment in the area:
What arts and entertainment fire your imagination and make you feel glad to be
alive?
5. Prompt for a story about sporting and recreational things in the area:
What sporting or recreational things make you feel on top of the world?
Chapter 2: Let Us Entertain You with Stories about The Region
Bordering Lake Michigan, The Region is part of the Chicago metropolitan area.
Some Cities & Towns: Chesterton, Crown Point, Dyer, East Chicago, Gary, Griffith, Hammond, Highland, Hobart,
Kentland, Lake Station, La Porte, Merrillville, Michigan City, Munster, Portage, Rensselaer, Schererville, Valparaiso. .
Introduction: Come Visit
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Music tie: Gary, Indiana (The Music Man) & Michael Jackson’s Number Ones
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GOOD TO GO! – Get Ready with Books, Movies, and Music
Facts to Set Your Mental GPS
Stories Extra Ordinary (500 – 1,000 words each)
6. Prompt for an “invitational overview” of The Region:
What are all your favorite things about the area?
7. Prompt for a story about a city (or town or community) in the area:
What makes the city (or town or community) come alive for you?
8. Prompt for a story about a university in the area:
What university experience opened the door on your dreams and made you feel
lucky to be at that school?
9. Prompt for a story about the arts and entertainment in the area:
What arts and entertainment fire your imagination and make you feel glad to be
alive?
10. Prompt for a story about sporting and recreational things in the area:
What sporting or recreational things make you feel on top of the world?
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Chapter 3: Let Us Entertain You with Stories about Northwest Indiana
Some Cities & Towns: Crawfordsville, Frankfort , Kokomo, Lafayette, Logansport, Mishawaka, Monticello, Plymouth,
Rochester, South Bend, West Lafayette . . .
Introduction: Come Visit
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Music tie: On the Banks of the Wabash (State song) & Kokomo (Beach Boys)
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GOOD TO GO! – Get Ready with Books, Movies, and Music
Facts to Set Your Mental GPS
Stories Extra Ordinary (500 – 1,000 words each)
11. Prompt for an “invitational overview” of Northwest Indiana:
What are all your favorite things about the area?
12. Prompt for a story about a city (or town or community) in the area:
What makes the city (or town or community) come alive for you?
13. Prompt for a story about a university in the area:
What university experience opened the door on your dreams and made you feel
lucky to be at that school?
14. Prompt for a story about the arts and entertainment in the area:
What arts and entertainment fire your imagination and make you feel glad to be
alive?
15. Prompt for a story about sporting and recreational things in the area:
What sporting or recreational things make you feel on top of the world?
Chapter 4: Let Us Entertain You with Stories about Northeast Indiana
Some Cities & Towns: Anderson, Angola, Auburn, Bluffton, Columbia City, Decatur, Elkhart, Elwood, Fort Wayne,
Gas City, Goshen, Hartford City, Huntington, Marion, Muncie, New Castle, Peru, Nappanee, North Manchester, Peru,
Richmond, Wabash, Warsaw . . .
Introduction: Come Visit
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Music tie: You’re the Top! (Cole Porter) &
Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue (Crystal Gayle)
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GOOD TO GO! – Get Ready with Books, Movies, and Music
Facts to Set Your Mental GPS
Stories Extra Ordinary (500 – 1,000 words each)
16. Prompt for an “invitational overview” of Northeast Indiana:
What are all your favorite things about the area?
17. Prompt for a story about a city (or town or community) in the area:
What makes the city (or town or community) come alive for you?
18. Prompt for a story about a university in the area:
What university experience opened the door on your dreams and made you feel
lucky to be at that school?
19. Prompt for a story about the arts and entertainment in the area:
What arts and entertainment fire your imagination and make you feel glad to be
alive?
20. Prompt for a story about sporting and recreational things in the area:
What sporting or recreational things make you feel on top of the world?
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Chapter 5: Let Us Entertain You with Stories about Southwest Indiana
Includes The Tri-State Area (IN-KY-IL, especially Evansville, IN & Owensboro, KY)
Some Cities & Towns: Bedford, Bloomington, Boonville, Brazil, Clinton, Evansville, Ellettsville, French Lick,
Greencastle, Huntingburg, Jasper, Linton, Martinsville, Mitchell, Mt. Vernon, Nashville, New Harmony, Newburgh,
Princeton, Tell City, Terre Haute, Vincennes, Washington, West Baden Springs . . .
Introduction: Come Visit

Music tie: Stardust (Hoagy Carmichael)
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GOOD TO GO! – Get Ready with Books, Movies, and Music
Facts to Set Your Mental GPS
Stories Extra Ordinary (500 – 1,000 words each)
21. Prompt for an “invitational overview” of Southwest Indiana:
What are all your favorite things about the area?
22. Prompt for a story about a city (or town or community) in the area:
What makes the city (or town or community) come alive for you?
23. Prompt for a story about a university in the area:
What university experience opened the door on your dreams and made you feel
lucky to be at that school?
24. Prompt for a story about the arts and entertainment in the area:
What arts and entertainment fire your imagination and make you feel glad to be
alive?
25. Prompt for a story about sporting and recreational things in the area:
What sporting or recreational things make you feel on top of the world?
Chapter 6: Let Us Entertain You with Stories about Southeast Indiana
Kentuckiana (Jeffersonville-Clarksville-New Albany, IN & Louisville, KY)
Some Cities & Towns: Batesville, Charlestown, Clarksville, Connersville, Columbus, Corydon, Franklin, Greensburg,
Jeffersonville, Madison, New Albany, North Vernon, Shelbyville, Rushville, Salem, Scottsburg, Sellersburg, Seymour
Introduction: Come Visit
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Music tie: Small Town (John Mellencamp)
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GOOD TO GO! – Get Ready with Books, Movies, and Music
Facts to Set Your Mental GPS
Stories Extra Ordinary (500 – 1,000 words each)
26. Prompt for an “invitational overview” of Southeast Indiana:
What are all your favorite things about the area?
27. Prompt for a story about a city (or town or community) in the area:
What makes the city (or town or community) come alive for you?
28. Prompt for a story about a university in the area:
What university experience opened the door on your dreams and made you feel
lucky to be at that school?
29. Prompt for a story about the arts and entertainment in the area:
What arts and entertainment fire your imagination and make you feel glad to be
alive?
30. Prompt for a story about sporting and recreational things in the area:
What sporting or recreational things make you feel on top of the world?
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Chapter 7: Let Us Entertain You with Stories about Our Two National Parks
Prompt for stories about the national parks: What memorable experience makes you treasure your time at the park?
The George Rogers Clark National Historical Park (500 – 600 words)
BACK STORY: The park, located in Vincennes, commemorates the U.S. capture of the Northwest
Territory from the British in the Revolutionary War. It was authorized in 1928 under President
Calvin Coolidge, was dedicated in 1936 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and was created as
a national park by President Lyndon B. Johnson during a ceremony at the Clark Memorial on July
23, 1966.
Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore (500 – 600 words)
BACK STORY: Authorized by Congress in 1966, the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore is located
in northwest Indiana along the 25-mile southern shore of Lake Michigan from Gary on the west to
Michigan City on the east.
The Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial (500 – 600 words)
BACK STORY: The park, located east of Evansville in the southwest section of the state, was the
first national park established in Indiana. President John F. Kennedy signed the act authorizing it
on February 19, 1962.
RESOURCE: One State, One Story: Indiana Learns about Lincoln – A Living Resource Guide to
Lincoln’s Life and Legacy. Office of Curriculum & Instruction/Indiana Department of Education,
2008 (available online as a cached document at http://doe.in.gov/lincoln).
Chapter 8: MORE Extra-Ordinary Stories . . . the WOW Factor
Prompt for a story about any listing: What unforgettable happening makes you say, “Wow!” about this?
SUPER BOWL COMETH! (500 – 600 words)
THE LITTLE 500, ONE GREAT SPECTACLE IN RACING!
(300 – 600 words)
HOOSIER HYSTERIA!
(300 – 600 words)
OUR STATE FAIR IS THE BEST STATE FAIR! (300 – 600 words)
HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE . . . (300-600 words)
Wine Tours
YUM!
Best Places to Eat Indiana Specialties (300-600 words each)
(Tenderloin, gourmet popcorn, fried biscuits & apple butter,
persimmon pudding, Indiana chili, catfish, etc.)
Recipes
UNIQUELY INDIANA . . .
Amusement Parks (Pick one, 300 – 600 words each)
Holiday Park & Splashin’ Safari
Indiana Beach Rides & Ideal Beach Waterpark
Brown County State Park & Nashville, IN
(Pick one, 300 – 600 words each)
Casinos & Resorts: (Pick one, 300 – 600 words each)
French Lick Resort Casino & West Baden Springs
Grand Victoria Casino Showboat & Historic Madison, IN
Levi Coffin & the Underground Railroad (300 -600 words)
Columbus Architecture (300 – 600 words)
Conner Prairie Interactive History Park (Pick one, 300-600 words each.)
1859 Balloon Voyage
Fourth of July Symphony on the Prairie
The Frontier Village & Community
East Chicago Marina, Yacht Club, & Fourth of July Festival
(300 – 600 words total)
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Festivals (Pick one, 300-600 words each)
Johnny Appleseed Festival - Ft. Wayne, IN
James Dean Festival – Fairmount, IN
Feast of the Hunter’s Moon – West Lafayette, IN
Gary’s South Shore Air Show – Gary, IN
Harvest Homecoming Festival – New Albany, IN
Lewis and Clark Festival – Clarksville, IN
Marshall County Blueberry Festival – Plymouth, IN
Parke County Covered Bridge Festival – Mansfield, IN
Penrod Arts Fair at the IMA – Indianapolis, IN
Persimmon Festival – Mitchell, IN
Popcorn Festival of Clay County – Brazil, IN
Wizard of Oz Festival – Chesterton, IN
Festivals with Battle Reenactments (Pick one, 300-600 words each)
Spirit of Vincennes Rendezvous – Revolutionary War
Battle of Mississinewa – War of 1812
Civil War Battle of Corydon Reenactment
Historic New Harmony (300 – 600 words) – [FOCUS: Incubator for
America’s idea of free education & beginnings of geological and
natural science collections for the Smithsonian Institute]
Indiana Black Expo (300 - 600 words)
Indiana on Lake Michigan (Pick one, 300-600 words each)
Beaches
Super Boat Great Lakes Grand Prix
Indiana on the Ohio River (Pick one, 300-600 each)
Kentuckiana’s Ohio River Steamboat Cruises
Madison Regatta
Indiana University Opera (300 – 600 words)
International Circus Hall of Fame – Peru, IN (300 – 600 words)
International Violin Competition of Indianapolis (300 – 600 words)
Merrillville Entertainment Complex (300 – 600 words)
The Monon Trail (300 – 600 words)
Museums (Pick one, 300-600 words each)
Indiana History Center
Indianapolis Children’s Museum
Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA)
Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library
Old Oaken Bucket Game: IU vs. Purdue (300 – 600 words)
Shipshewana Auction & Flea Market (300 – 600 words)
Shopping Malls (Pick one, 300-600 words each)
Circle Centre Mall – Indianapolis, IN
Edinburgh Premium Outlets – Edinburgh, IN
Lighthouse Place Premium Outlets – Michigan City,IN
Spring Mill State Park & Pioneer Village (300 – 600 words)
White River State Park – America’s only cultural urban state park
(Pick one, 300 – 600 words for each)
Eiteljorg Museum
Indiana State Museum & IMAX
Indianapolis Zoo
Military Park
NCAA Hall of Champions
Victory Field & The Lawn (outdoor concert venue)
White River Gardens & Central Canal
MORE INDIANA NOTABLES: Some Who Put Indiana on the Map
HOPE TO SEE YOU SOON!
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Letter from the Director [High impact value of university-based professional development]
How You Can Donate & Acknowledgments
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WORKING INTRODUCTION
Dear Reader:
This is not your usual Indiana guide book. If you want lots of history, maps, up-to-date information on big
sporting events, hotels, and restaurants, you can easily Google it these days. We expect and hope you
will. What you cannot do—what this book can do—is get to the heart of what it is like to visit Indiana. You
can be a tourist who sees it like a native.
We want to entice you and regale you with stories about favorite things that intrigue us, tickle us, surprise
us, and give us that WOW feeling. If you have never considered visiting our state, you may think of this
book as our open invitation to you.
If you are planning to visit Indiana because of a sporting event or an alumni event or a business meeting
or a gathering of family and friends or just because, we hope you stay long enough to sample and explore
some of what we have introduced you to in these pages.
At the very least, we hope we give your imagination wings as you do a little armchair traveling courtesy of
our stories. Let us take you, as one of our songs says, “back home again in Indiana.”
Before you get started on your journey, we will help you set your mental GPS with a bit of back story
information—some things you won’t need to look up before your visit.
JUST A FEW INDIANA FACTS . . .
Location
Indiana is a Midwestern state situated in the eastern north central U.S. between Michigan to the north,
Kentucky to the south, Ohio to the east, and Illinois to the west.
Size
Indiana is the smallest of the 12 Midwestern states and ranks 38th in size among the 50 states.
Population
According to the U. S. Census Bureau 2010 data, Indiana has a resident population of 6,483,802.
Nickname
Indiana’s nickname is Hoosier State.
Statehood
It was the 19th state to enter the Union on December 11, 1816.
State Capitol
Indianapolis, host to the 2012 Super Bowl, is centrally located and often called Circle City because it is designed
like the hub of a wheel with city streets fanning out from the downtown Monument Circle and forming the “spokes”
of the wheel.
State Symbols
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Flower:
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Tree:
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Bird:
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Song:
Peony (1957)
Tulip tree (1931)
Cardinal (1933)
On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away (1913) by Paul Dresser,
the older brother of Indiana novelist, Theodore Dreiser (The American Tragedy)
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Major Cities
The world has more big cities than at any time in history, and those cities are larger than they have ever
been. . .Cities are growing not so much because they draw the culturally conscious “creative classes” but
because they are, as they have always been, economic engines. Moreover, as the economist Dr. Rakesh
Mohan has stated, cities have now become “the fulcrum of world development.” (Dwell Magazine, June
2010, p.14)
The “economic engines” for Indiana are its 10 largest cities (est. as of the 2010 U.S. Census Bureau):
Indianapolis (820,445); Fort Wayne (253,691); Evansville (117,429); South Bend (101, 168); Hammond (80,830);
Bloomington (80,405); Gary (80,294); Carmel (79,191); Fishers (76,794); and Muncie (70, 085).
As with all data, the statistics do not tell the complete story. Indiana has three areas that can be called
megacities—extensive metropolitan areas or a chain of continuous metropolitan areas—that serve as important
economic and cultural influences: (1) Indianapolis-Carmel-Fishers in the center, (2) South Bend-Michigan CityMishawaka in the north and (3) The Tri-State Area of Evansville, IN – Owensboro, KY - Harrisburg, IL in the
southwest corner.
Indiana is also influenced by at least two major cities outside of its state boundaries:
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Chicago (The Region borders on Lake Michigan and is part of the Chicago metropolitan area.)
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Louisville (Kentuckiana is the Jeffersonville-Clarksville-New Albany, IN and Louisville, KY area.)
Six City Campuses at the Heart of Our State University System
We are proud that our universities enrich the cultural development, as well as the economic development, of
our cities. Indiana has some important public ones that energize the state as a whole.
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Indiana University Purdue University-Indianapolis (IUPUI), Indiana’s urban research university
founded in 1969, is located in the capital city of Indianapolis, offers degrees from both IU and
Purdue, and is also home to the Indiana University Medical School. (www.iupui.edu)
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Indiana University (IU), the state’s largest and oldest public university founded in 1820, is the
flagship campus for eight campuses statewide and is located in Bloomington in the southern
part of the state. (www.iub.edu)
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Purdue University (Purdue), Indiana’s only Land Grant college, was founded in 1869, is the
flagship campus for six campuses statewide, and is located in West Lafayette in the northern
part of the state. (www.purdue.edu)
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Ball State University (BSU), located in Muncie in the eastern part of the state, began as a private
teacher-training school in 1899, became public as Ball State Teachers College in 1929, and
expanded in the 1960s to become a comprehensive university in 1965. (cms.bsu.edu)
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Indiana State University (ISU), located in Terre Haute in the western part of the state, was the
only public teacher-training school in 1865, eventually becoming the four-year Indiana State
Teachers College before gaining its comprehensive university status in 1965. (www.indstate.edu)
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The University of Southern Indiana (USI), located in Evansville in the southwest corner of the
state, began as a satellite campus of Indiana State University in 1965 and grew to became an
independent state university in 1985. (www.usi.edu)
Welcome to Indiana: Surprisingly Extra Ordinary!
Enjoy your “storied” journey!
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MORE INDIANA NOTABLES: Some Who Put Indiana on the Map
(In addition to those mentioned on page 3)
THE NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS
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In 2010, Purdue University professor Ei-ichi Negishi was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry.
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In 2009, Indiana University professor Elinor Ostrum was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for
economics.
THE STATESMAN
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Director of the educational Center on Congress at Indiana University, former U.S. Congressman and
president of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Lee Hamilton graduated from DePauw
University and the Indiana University School of Law and served as Vice-Chairman of the 9/11 National
Commission on Terrorist Attacks.
THE OLYMPIAN
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Swimmer Mark Spitz, who trained at Indiana University, won seven gold medals at the 1972 Munich
Olympic Games, a record unsurpassed until Michael Phelps won eight at the 2008 Olympics.
THE HONORED ASTRONAUTS
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Neil Armstrong, the first person to walk on the moon, and Eugene Cernan, the last person to walk
on the moon, are both Purdue University graduates of the aviation technology and aeronautical
engineering program, as are twenty-two of our American astronauts.
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Gus Grissom, born in Mitchell and a Purdue graduate, was one of the original NASA Project Mercury
astronauts, the second American to fly in space and the first person to fly in space twice. When he tragically
perished in a fire during a pre-launch test for Apollo 1, Congress awarded him the Congressional Space
Medal of Honor.
THE PIONEER AVIATORS
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Amelia Earhart, the first woman to receive the U.S. Distinguished Flying Cross, was on the faculty of
Purdue University when she disappeared over the Pacific in 1937 while attempting to circle the globe.
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The Wright Brothers spent much of their youth in Richmond where both attended Richmond High School
before the family moved to Dayton, Ohio.
THE DANCER
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Twyla Tharp, born in Portland, Indiana, is an award-winning American dancer and choreographer who
received the 2008 Kennedy Center Honors for her body of work.
THE ARTIST
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Robert Indiana, born in New Castle, is a noted artist in the pop art movement and best known for his LOVE
sculpture that was put on an eight-cent U.S. postage stamp in 1973 as the first of the “love stamps” series.
THE WELL-KNOWN CHILDREN’S AUTHOR
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Clifford, the Big Red Dog series is by Norman Birdwell, born in Kokomo and a graduate of John Herron
School of Art (now Herron School of Art & Design at IUPUI).
THE NOTED WORDSMITHS
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Theodore Dreiser, from Terre Haute, wrote Sister Carrie, which was made into a 1952 movie, and An
American Tragedy, which was made into a 1951 movie, A Place in the Sun, starring Elizabeth Taylor).
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Janet Flanner, born in Indianapolis (1892), worked for The Indianapolis Star as a film critic, one of the first
in the nation.
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Haven Kimmel wrote the coming-of-age novel A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up in Mooreland, IN (2002).
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Ernie Pyle, born near Dana, was a Pulitzer Prize winning WWII journalist for whom the Indiana University
School of Journalism is named.
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The Hoosier Poet, James Whitcomb Riley, was born in Greenfield and rivaled Mark Twain as a popular
speaker in his time. His best known poem, Little Orphant Annie, inspired the Little Orphan Annie comic strip
and gave the Broadway musical, Annie, its name.
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Professor of English at Indiana University, Scott Russell Sanders is a novelist (A Conservationaist
Manifesto, In Limestone Country, Crawdad Creek) who won the 2009 Mark Twain Award from The Society
for the Study of Midwestern Literature.
Rex Stout, born in Noblesville, was a mystery writer known for his fictional detective, Nero Wolfe, series.
Indianapolis native, Booth Tarkington, won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel, The Magnificent Ambersons,
which was made into a 1942 movie directed by Orson Welles.
James Alexander Thom, born in Gosport and a graduate of Butler University, is known for his works of
frontier historical fiction (Long Knife, Panther in the Sky, Follow the River).
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., born in Indianapolis and a graduate of Shortridge High School, is often considered one
of the most influential American writers of the 20th century. He was awarded the Purple Heart after surviving
the WWII firebombing of Dresdan, an event he used as a central theme in many of his novels (Cat’s Cradle,
Slaughterhouse-Five, Breakfast of Champions). The Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library recently opened in
Indianapolis (http://www.vonnegutlibrary.org/).
Lew Wallace, born in Brookville, was a Union general and governor of Indiana best remembered for his
novel Ben-Hur, adapted as the 1959 Academy Award winning movie starring Charlton Heston.
Jessamyn West, born in Vernon, wrote Friendly Persuasion, which was adapted as the Academy Award
nominated 1956 movie starring Gary Cooper.
THE POPULAR SCREENWRITERS
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Madelyn Pugh, a native of Indiana, was editor of the Shortridge High School newspaper in Indianapolis, a
graduate of the School of Journalism at Indiana University, and an award-winning co-writer of the still
popular and much loved I Love Lucy television show.
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Jean Shepherd, raised in Hammond, was the screenwriter and voice narrator for the 1983 holiday classic,
A Christmas Story, set in a fictionalized version of his hometown in the ‘50s.
THE ACADEMY-AWARD WINNING DIRECTORS
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Sydney Pollack, born in Lafayette, won the 1985 Academy Award for Best Director of Out of Africa, the
year’s Best Picture, starring Robert Redford and Meryl Streep, whose artist husband is from Indiana.
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Sound of Music director Robert Wise, born in Winchester, won the 1965 Academy Award for Best Director
of the movie, which also won for Best Picture that year.
THE CELEBRATED COACHES
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Gene Keady was the basketball coach of the Purdue University Boilermakers for 25 years and coached the
team to more victories than any other coach in the school’s history.
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Bob Knight was the coach of the Indiana Hoosiers for nearly 30 years and coached his teams to three
NCAA championships.
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Knute Rockne, a graduate of Notre Dame, coached the Fighting Irish to victory during the 1920s and is
widely regarded as one of the greatest coaches in college football history.
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Brad Stevens, from Zionsville, graduated from DePauw University and is the coach at Butler University,
where in 2011 he became the youngest coach to take his team to two Final Fours back-to-back.
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John Wooden, born in Hall, won an unprecedented ten NCAA national championships in a 12-year period
as head coach at UCLA.
THE STAR ATHLETES
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Former Indiana Pacers coach, Larry Bird, is from West Baden and an Indiana State University basketball
star who was voted to the NBA’s 50th Anniversary All-Time Team in 1996.
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Drew Brees, quarterback of the New Orleans Saints, who won the NFL Super Bowl in 2009, is an alum of
Purdue University where he led the Boilermakers to the 2001 Rose Bowl.
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Oscar Robertson, a graduate and basketball star of Crispus Attucks H.S., was inducted into the Basketball
Hall of Fame in 1980 and voted one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History in 1996.
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Isiah Thomas is a former IU basketball star who led the Hoosiers to the NCAA Championship in 1981.
THE FAMOUS SONGWRITERS
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Born in Bloomington, Hoagy Carmichael graduated from Indiana University School of Law and went on to
write four of the most-recorded American standards of all time (Stardust, Georgia on My Mind, The
Nearness of You, and Heart and Soul).
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Born in Peru, Indiana, Cole Porter, whose most successful Broadway musical was Kiss Me Kate, wrote the
music and lyrics of many songs (I’ve Got You Under My Skin, DeLovely, Night and Day, Anything Goes,
You’re the Top!) currently being performed by major artists on American Songbook albums.
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THE GIFTED VIOLINIST, OPERA SINGER, AND JAZZ GUITARIST
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Joshua Bell, the Grammy Award-winning international violinist, is from Bloomington, trained at Indiana
University’s Jacobs School of Music where he joined the faculty in 2007, and is known popularly for
performing the violin solos for the soundtrack of the film Angels and Demons in 2009.
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Born in Indianapolis, international opera soprano Angela Brown trained at the Jacobs School of Music, was
hailed as opera’s rising star when she made her Metropolitan Opera debut in the title role of Aida, and was
chosen by The Library of Congress as the featured soloist for the February 2009 National Bicentennial
Celebration of Abraham Lincoln.
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Wes Montgomery, from Indianapolis, was a jazz guitarist in the ‘50s and 60s who is widely considered by
his fellow jazz musicians as one of the greatest influences on modern jazz guitarists.
MORE HOOSIER TALENTS
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Actress Vivica A. Fox, born in South Bend, was in the blockbuster movie Independence Day and on ABC’s
Dancing with the Stars, Season 5.
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Canadian-American actor Brendan Fraser was born in Indianapolis and has starred in the movie George of
the Jungle and all of the Mummy series movies.
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Janie Fricke, a country music singer born in South Whitley, received the Country Music Association’s award
as Female Vocalist of the Year in both 1982 and 1983.
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Crystal Gayle, the country music singer who is the younger sister of Loretta Lynn, grew up in Wabash, is
known for her hit Don’t It Make My Bright Eyes Blue, and received CMA’s Female Vocalist of the Year award
in 1977 and 1978.
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Actor Greg Kinnear, born in Logansport, has had a string of hit movies (As Good as It Gets, You’ve Got
Mail, Little Miss Sunshine, Green Zone) and received the 2008 Boston Film Festival Award for Best Actor in
Flash of Genius.
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Carole Lombard, a ‘20s and ‘30s movie star, was born in Fort Wayne and was married to Clark Gable at
the time she tragically died in a plane crash in 1942 at the age of 33.
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Also born in Fort Wayne, Emmy-award winning actress Shelley Long, best known for her role as Diane
Chambers in Cheers, has starred in a number of hit comedies (The Money Pit, Outrageous Fortune,
The Brady Bunch Movie).
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Superstar Steve McQueen, born in Beech Grove, was a top box-office draw in the ‘60s and ‘70s (Bullitt,
The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, The Thomas Crown Affair) and received an Academy Award
nomination for his role in The Sand Pebbles, directed by Robert Wise who was also born in Indiana.
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In the ‘50s, television comedian Red Skelton, born in Vincennes, starred in NBC’s The Red Skelton Show
where he was known for his clown skits based on interpretations of famous circus clowns. After his death,
he was inducted in 1989 into the International Clown Hall of Fame.
THE REALITY TV CELEBRITY
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Rupert Boneham, a mentor for at-risk teens and post-television-show founder of Rupert’s Kids, was the
million dollar winner of 2003 Survivor: America’s Tribal Council, a special episode of CBS’s Survivor: AllStars in which he won the nationwide popular vote.
NOTE: If you have other Indiana favorites, you can find complete lists of famous Hoosiers on websites for the
Indiana Historical Society (www.indianahistory.org/) and the Indiana State Museum (www.indianamuseum.org/).
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7 Writing Samples
Springboards to Prompt Your Own Creative Stories for
Indiana: Surprisingly Extra Ordinary
SAMPLE 1: Invitational Overview
This is a sample of an “ invitational overview” even though it is a letter and a little longer (1,268 words app.)
than the 1,000 maximum requested for the Indiana: Surprisingly Extra Ordinary book.
BACK STORY
The spring of 1989 was a rough time for me. I lost my job as a textbook consultant in Southern California
because of downsizing. At the same time, the man I had been seeing decided he was still in love with his
former girlfriend. So much for expensive dating services! I packed my bags, returned to Indiana and
enrolled in a self-study postdoctoral adult literacy course. Luckily, I had a quick turnaround on the job front.
I accepted a mid-year position at a small university in northern Texas as a visiting professor in education.
Gearing up to teach at a university after a six-year stint in another field was a daunting task. A little R & R
seemed just the thing. I talked some relatives into taking a November vacation in Hawaii, a first-time for all.
SOURCE
This is the holiday letter I sent that year. It proved quite effective at enticing readers because I heard from
friends and family (fictionalized names in this text) that it prompted a number of trips to Hawaii in subsequent
years.
-- Mary F. Andis
December 1989
Greetings from the Heartland! The phrase for this year is “lighten up!” I hope you found some wonderful
way to lighten up this year by making it both memorable and merry.
This was the year I had a dream come true. I vacationed with some very happy first-time visitor relatives like
myself in Hawaii! We just got back the first of December. I have to tell you Hawaii was all I wanted it to be
and more. I had the time of my life.
On the long flight back, we tried to list the top 3 things we did. Our memories left us laughing and breathless
as we each rapidly listed everything we did. I loved it all. As my San Diego friends, Emma and Jack, once
told me, “It’s the best place in the world for a vacation.” I have seen a good bit of this world in my time and
so far I agree with them. I did not hesitate to play tourist to the hilt. So, I will share with you my flood of
memories and the fond hope that you too will journey to “The Islands” someday, if you desire.
At the top of my list of events, I put Waikiki Beach. It’s beautiful by day, with Diamond Head in full view, and
spectacular by night, with a backdrop of a thousand city lights. We walked the beach. We sunbathed there.
We celebrated Happy Thanksgiving (Hau’oli la ho’omaika’l) with a turkey feast at the Beachside Café on
Waikiki at the Sheraton Moana Surfrider. What a treat!
We walked on the wild side by stepping out on the crust of a lava flow at Volcano National Park on the big
island of Hawaii. Most were brave; I was scared. Well, walking on an oven is a scary thing; don’t you
agree? But, you know, it sure was something! Actually, we took a day trip to Hawaii on Aloha Airlines. We
landed in Hilo, changed to a van for a guided tour around the island, and departed from Kona on the
opposite side. Along the way we saw a black sand beach made from the lava that spilled into the sea. It
was beautiful to behold, but since it absorbed heat, we began to perspire just by standing on it for less than
10 minutes. Hawaii is a beautiful island with lots of greenery and flowers. The poinsettias were in bloom,
much like wild flowers along the road heralding Christmas in paradise, as we journeyed closer to Kona. It
was lovely. Wish you could have been there!
We loved the three Polynesian reviews we saw in the first two days. We had such a good time watching the
dancers, especially the powerful male dancers, recreate the ancient dances, complete with costumes from
various islands. The men in ancient times actually originated the hula. Did you know that? I didn’t.
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We liked hearing music everywhere. Our hotel, the Sheraton Princess Kailani, had a free poolside show
every night. It was wonderful. We ate outside and watched the performances while the trade winds gently
blew through the palm trees.
We loved the shows we saw. We saw the Don Ho Show. We wondered if he hates his theme song, Tiny
Bubbles in the Wine. He said he does. One of the dancers in the Don Ho Show is the double for the actor
Joe Penny--Jake in TV’s Jake and the Fat Man series. I was hoping that we would see a crew filming an
episode. I wanted to catch a glimpse of Joe Penny. No such luck. We saw The Society of Seven Show.
We really liked the lead singer, Gary Larsen. He was terrific. He carried most of the show, a revue of the
best songs of the 70s and 80s, as well as Broadway show tunes. We really loved the impersonations they
did: Elvis, Tony Bennett, Johnny Mathis, Little Richard, Liberace, The Beatles; would you believe Louis
Armstrong singing with Stevie Wonder? It was great!
We loved our tour of Oahu, the island where Honolulu is located. We saw Waimea Falls and watched cliff
divers plunge into a small pool of water at its base. We had a pineapple ice cream cone at a pineapple
plantation stop. We had a picnic on the beach where the surfers ride the winter waves. Unfortunately, the
waves were unusually low. So we missed seeing the giant ones. Our guide had the nerve to suggest that
we would see the best waves on a VCR of the surfing championship! We wanted live action! But, as we
drove back to Honolulu, we saw the location of the Robin Masters’ estate of Magnum, P. I. fame, the cove
where they shot the love scene in From Here to Eternity, and Hanauma Bay Beach Park where they shot
Blue Hawaii with Elvis. (On yet another tour, we saw Jack Lord’s office site on Hawaii Five O.) We stopped
at Hanauma Bay for some snorkeling and sunbathing. Believe it or not, the fish came right up to me and
swam around me as I was wading. They were incredibly friendly—and large. What fun!
And the fun just kept happening. We took a 12-minute helicopter ride over Honolulu and Diamond Head.
Spectacular! We took a pink, self-pedal boat called the Paddle Cat out into the Pacific off Waikiki. (I kid you
not.) We went sailing on the Royal Hawaiian catamaran with its pink sail to match the color of the hotel.
The sail was fantastic and calm. Now, some of us want to buy a catamaran. We ate gourmet hamburgers
at the finest hotel on Waikiki (The Halekulani, five stars) and watched the most beautiful sunset over the
ocean. We actually took a picture of Santa Claus arriving at Waikiki in an outrigger canoe. (I’m not kidding
about this either.) The hotel was filming a commercial. Santa really does arrive in a canoe for the children
of Hawaii. They cannot relate to his coming down the chimney since they don’t have chimneys. (I’m not
sure what they tell the kids about the reindeer—or Mrs. Claus. This Santa was minus the reindeer and had a
hula girl with him! Figure that.)
We ate at a restaurant which has a huge aquarium, three-stories high for the diners’ viewing enjoyment. We
got pictures of a diver feeding the fish. We saw hundreds of happy, paying Japanese tourists. It reminded
me of the time I went to Europe in 1971 with an American Express busload of 45 Americans and Canadians.
I imagine the Europeans stood around and envied us all our money just as we do the Japanese today. We
visited Pearl Harbor and were proud of how reverently the memorial has been kept. We went to the
Punchbowl, National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. This is where Ernie Pyle, a Hoosier, is buried and
America’s Hawaiian astronaut on the Challenger. So, we had our touching moments, as well.
Finally, we shopped and shopped and shopped. You will just laugh when you realize that all we bought
consisted mostly of t-shirts and beach towels. Well, I did get into jewelry and purchased a really beautiful
coral necklace.
The six days we were there flew by. We eventually made it home, each saying “next time we’ll visit Maui;
next time we’ll go parasailing (well, maybe?); next time. . .” but each knowing that that might not happen
anytime soon. Never mind, we all had the time of our lives and the memories will always be there—special
and fine.
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
Mary
Mala (in Hawaiian)
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SOURCE
620-word (app.) excerpt from I Love You, Miss Huddleston (2009) by Indiana author Philip Gulley, Chapter
18, p 151-154.
BACK STORY
Gulley explains his collection of stories in this book in the Preface. -MFA
In his book, Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart, Gordon Livingston writes, ‘Memory is not, as many of us think,
an accurate transcription of past experience. Rather it is a story we tell ourselves about the past, full of
distortions, wishful thinking, and unfulfilled dreams.’ I Love You, Miss Huddleston is the story I have told
myself about my adolescence.
Those who shared those years with me might remember them differently. That is their prerogative, just as it
is my right to make things more lively than they might have been. I am probably a little more exciting in the
following pages than I was in real life.
This is not a careful narrative, meticulously following the march of days. Nor is this history. It is story, and
story has a way of shifting with the sands of time.
Chapter 18
My father was the only bug spray salesman in town, indeed only one of three in the entire state, which gave the job a
certain panache. Tim Hadley’s dad was a school janitor, a noteworthy job, since it allowed us access to the Coke
machine in the basement workshop. Peanut’s father lived up in the city, working a mysterious job no one knew
anything about, not even Peanut. Bill Eddy’s dad was a school guidance counselor, but on nights and weekends
made wooden doodads, which he sold at craft fairs across Indiana.
Like all fathers everywhere, they tended to be grouchy, except for Ralph Hadley, who went about his custodial duties
with unwavering cheerfulness. During the flu season, with six to eight vomiting per hour, Mr. Hadley could be seen
patrolling the school hallway, a mop in one hand, a bag of sawdust in the other, whistling contentedly. There was no
shaking the man.
George Eddy churned out wooden puzzles, clocks, checker sets, letters, numbers, and other knickknacks by the
thousands, which he and his wife, Libby, loaded into their Ford Esquire station wagon each Friday evening, Bill and I
would watch from a hidden vantage point, lest we be drafted into helping.
“Where you going tomorrow?” I would ask in a whisper.
“To the Cornbread Festival,” Bill would whisper back. “Want to come?”
“Sure, I like cornbread.”
On any given Saturday, in any given direction, there were dozens of festivals or craft fairs to choose from—the
Covered Bridge Festival in Mansfield, the Popcorn Festival of Clay County, the Navy Bean Festival in Rising Sun, the
Elwood Chili Cookoff, or the Ligonier Marshmallow Festival. There were, and still are, more festivals in Indiana than
in all the other states combined—annual celebrations of little-known foods, persons, plants, or architectural features,
pageants honoring industries that had died years before—and the Eddys sold wooden doohickeys at every one of
them.
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Of all the festivals, my favorite was the Covered Bridge Festival in Mansfield, situated on the banks of Raccoon
Creek. Bill had a canoe that Mr. Eddy lashed to the top of the Esquire, so we spent the day canoeing several miles
upstream, then floating back down, coming to shore near an old mill that had recently been restored. The mill had
been built in the mid-1820s. It had ceased operations in 1968, but several old men were on hand to give tours. They
would start their memorized spiel, reciting the dramatic history of corn and its many virtues. Bill and I would interrupt
when they paused to catch their breath, asking them corn questions: How much corn does there have to be in a
corndog for it to be a corndog? Are there wheatdogs? Why do they call thick skin on your toe a corn? As corn fans,
does it bother you to see something so unpleasant named after your favorite crop? If a cornucopia is shaped like a
horn, why isn’t it called a hornucopia? Had the corn people paid for naming rights? The corn men offered no
satisfactory answers.
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In late afternoon, we’d reload the Esquire and head back to Danville, Bill and me stretched out in the back, planning
the rest of our weekend.
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SAMPLE 3
SOURCE
583-word (app.) interview, travel-adventure article in The Sunday Star (April 3, 2011) by Indy Star reporter
Barb Berggoetz.
WHAT WORKED FOR HER: THRILLS NOT GONE
Marie Albertson, 78, Carmel, retired librarian
Ignore all the stereotypes of librarians, women in their 70s and lonely widows.
Marie Albertson doesn't fit any of them.
The 78-year-old isn't letting age slow her down. In fact, she's done more in the past 15 years or so than most women
-- or men, for that matter -- half her age.
At age 75, Albertson parachuted out of an airplane. She went on a mustang drive out West -- and was voted "cowgirl
of the week." She's soared as a passenger in a glider and swung from a trapeze at a circus in Florida.
She's learned to canoe and fly-fish and has kayaked in rivers in Utah, Colorado, Arizona, Oregon, Alaska and
Yellowstone National Park and in the ocean off the Georgia coast.
She's visited every continent. Among her adventures: riding a camel in the Sahara Desert, snorkeling with sea lions in
the Galapagos Islands, crossing a bamboo bridge in the Amazon jungle, walking along China's Great Wall, zip lining
in an Australian forest, visiting the pyramids in Egypt and swimming in the Mediterranean Sea.
She takes low-budget trips by traveling with Elderhostel's Road Scholar Educational Adventures and Overseas
Adventure Travel.
While her adventurous lifestyle gives her satisfaction, she has a greater goal.
"I hope I inspire women to do things and not to be sedentary," she said. "Life is an adventure. Live it up."
She wants to be a life coach to baby boomer women coming into retirement. To help do that, she got an associate
degree in counseling from Ivy Tech Community College at age 70.
"I want to show them it's not too late and they're not too old to do things and that they need to keep their minds
active," Albertson said.
What keeps her going?
She describes it as the three "Cs" -- curiosity and the desire for change and challenges.
While she's always been physically active, she calls herself a "late bloomer." She spent most of her life in Plymouth,
married for 40 years to her husband, Bob, who died in 1997. They raised two sons and two daughters.
At age 47, she started at Ancilla College in Donaldson. She wanted to just take a writing class, but a nun there told
her she had to go on.
She earned an undergraduate degree in liberal arts at Indiana University-South Bend, and then a master's degree in
library science there at age 60. Three years later, she moved to the Indianapolis area and got a job at the Indiana
State Library. Most of her adventures started after she retired at age 70.
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When she's home, she's not sitting around. At Carmel Total Fitness, she does Pilates and strength training. She's
taking a speech class and just got back from mountain climbing in Colorado.
Now, she has a new challenge -- her first sprint triathlon at Ancilla on May 21. She'll be swimming 500 meters, biking
15 miles and running three miles.
"I think women should experience everything in life they can afford to do," she said. "If there are things you want to
do, just do them."
ALBERTSON’S ADVICE TO STAY ACTIVE
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Never think it’s too late. Never even say you’re too old. As long as you’re upright, you can still try to be
active.
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Always be curious. Go back to school, keep an open mind, and be curious about life and everything that
goes with it.
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Accept change. Rise to challenges. People have a hard time with change as they get older.
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SAMPLE 4
SOURCE
961-word (app.) excerpt from Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur’s Odyssey to
Educate the World’s Children (2006) by John Wood, Founder of the non-profit Room to Read
organization, Chapter 1, pp.9 & 10; Chapter 2, pp. 31 & 32.
BACK STORY
The book jacket flap gives a summary of the reason John Wood used his travel journals to write this book about his
journey as a modern Andrew Carnegie. –MFA
Leaving Microsoft to Change the World chronicles John Wood’s struggle to find a meaningful outlet for his
managerial talents and entrepreneurial zeal. For every high-achiever who has ever wondered what life
might be like giving back, Wood offers a vivid, emotional and absorbing tale of how to take the lessons
learned at a hard-charging company like Microsoft and apply them to one of the world’s most pressing
problems: the lack of basic literacy.
On a soul-searching vacation trek through the Himalayas, Wood met Pasupathi, a middle-aged Nepali man, at the
next table in an outdoor café and learned that he was the educational resource person for the local district. Wood, a
passionate life-long reader, was stunned to learn about the high level of illiteracy (70%) in Nepal. He was even more
shocked to discover that the desire for education was high but that the poverty-stricken country simply did not have
books for the kids. Wood asked if he could join Pasupathi as he visited his schools so that he could see for himself. MFA
Chapter 1, pp. 9 & 10
We visited each of the eight classrooms; all were equally packed. As we entered, every student stood, without
prompting, and yelled, ‘Good morning, sir,’ in perfect English. The headmaster next took us to the school’s library. A
sign outside the door proudly announced SCHOOL LIBRARY, but inside, the room was empty and the only thing
covering the walls was one old, dog-eared world map. It showed, ten years after the fall of the Iron Curtain, the
Soviet Union, East Germany, Yugoslavia, and other countries that had ceased to exist. The books were noticeable
only in their absence.
I phrased my question in the most polite way possible: “This is a beautiful library room. Thank you for showing it to
me. I have only one question. Where, exactly, are your books?”
The headmaster stepped out of the room and began yelling. A teacher appeared with the one key to the rusty
padlock on the cabinet where the books were locked up.
The headmaster explained. Books were considered precious. The school had so few that the teachers did not want
to risk the children damaging them. I wondered how a book could impart knowledge if it was locked up, but kept that
thought to myself.
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My heart sank as the school’s treasure trove was revealed. A Danielle Steel romance with a couple locked in
passionate and semi-clothed embrace on the front cover. A thick Umberto Eco novel, written in Italian. The Lonely
Planet Guide to Mongolia. And what children’s library would be complete without Finnegans Wake? The books
appeared to be backpacker castoffs that would be inaccessible (both physically and intellectually) to the young
students.
I asked about the school’s enrollment and learned there were 450 students. Four hundred and fifty kids without
books. How could this be happening in a world with such an abundance of material goods?
Without prompting, the headmaster said: “Yes, I can see that you also realize that this is a very big problem. We
wish to inculcate in our students the habit of reading. But that is impossible when this is all we have.”
I thought that any educator who used the word, inculcate in a sentence deserved to have better teaching materials. I
wanted to help, but would it be considered condescending if I offered? The headmaster saved me the trouble of
thinking this through. His next sentence would forever change the course of my life: “Perhaps, sir, you will someday
come back with books.”
Chapter 2, pp. 31 & 32 – Wood went back a year later after a successful world-wide book drive. –MFA
As we got close to the school, a cacophony of voices could be heard. Our pace quickened. In the dusty schoolyard,
children were running around. Teachers were shouting. The headmaster approached and gave me a warm hug.
The students had formed a human corridor through which we were to walk. Sushil urged me to go first. I pressed my
hands together, bowed, and said, “Namaste,” to the first child, a five-year-old girl. She had jet-black hair and an
ivory-white smile. She hung a marigold garland around my neck. Laughter ensued as several other girls competed
to be the next to hang their garlands. We moved slowly through the line. Every moment of contact with each student
was to be relished. The youngest ones had picked flower petals in the forest. These small offerings piled up in our
hands. By the end, we could have opened a small flower shop.
We were led to a makeshift podium. The teachers were waiting to greet us. I recognized faces from the prior year.
We shook hands and exchanged “Namastes.” The children were hushed, and the headmaster made a brief speech:
“This is a very big day for our school and our village. We now have a library full of books. Inside books you will find
hidden the mysteries of the world. With books, yiou can learn, and you can make a better future for your families and
for our country. We wish to thank Mr. John and his father, Mr. Woody, for giving us such a precious gift, and we
promise to always take good carfe of the books.” I made a mental note to ask him not to lock these books up and
wondered whether I should assure him that we’s return each year with new books to replace those that had been
damaged.
And with that, we relieved the donkeys of their burden. As we unloaded the books, children rushed toward us,
eagerly grabbing for the new treasure. As boys do one of them bonked his friend on the head to secure a better spot
in line. Except that there was no line. Only chaos. The students’ excitement indicated that this was the first
encounter with brightly colored children’s books. They were wide-eyed as they gazed at photos of giraffes and
hippos. They motioned eagerly to friends to point out the rings of Saturn. A girl’s face was frozen in fear at her first
encounter with the teeth of a great white shark. A small group giggled at a picture book of Labrador puppies.
As we watched, a teacher joined us. He took my hand in his. His brown eyes were moist and his face wore a wide
smile, “You have given our children so much. We have so little to offer in return.”
I had a lump in my throat. Words were hard to find. I struggled to explain that the school had filled my heart with a
feeling it had never before experienced—that I had made a difference in the world, or at least one very small part of it.
For these children, there was a bit more opportunity today than there had been yesterday. All of this had come about
because of a simple request a year ago—“Perhaps, sir, you will someday come back with books.”
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SAMPLE 6
SOURCE
640-word (app.) excerpt from Educating Alice: Adventures of a Curious Woman (2005) by Alice
Steinbach, Chapter 1: Cookin’ at the Ritz, pp. 3 & 4.
BACK STORY
Steinbach, a journalist turned independent author after her children were grown and on their own, describes the
purpose of her book in the Introduction. This is also a story set in an urban environment. –MFA
This book is the result of my decision to travel around the world as an informal student, taking lessons in
such things as French cooking in Paris, Border collie training in Scotland, traditional Japanese arts in Kyoto,
and the architecture and art of Havana. The premise behind the trip described in these pages was simple. I
wanted to study things that interested me in places I found interesting. Some of the lessons were taught in
organized classes, others were learning experiences where the approach was more about teaching
learnable rules in unstructured settings.
Chapter 1: Cookin’ at the Ritz, pp. 3 & 4
A light snow was falling as I left my hotel and hurried across the narrow rue Cambon to the employees’ entrance of
the Hotel Ritz. It surprised me that I had learned only two days earlier that such a door even existed. How, I
wondered, in all my years of explaining the streets and passages of Paris had I missed it? After all, back doors were
a major interest of mine. And so were side doors and courtyards hidden behind green gates and anything else that
concealed the private Paris from me. Once, I spent two years writing letters and making phone calls before being
allowed to visit the mysterious Maison de Verre, a house on the Left Bank designed in the late 1920s by the French
architect Pierre Chareau. Compared to that heroic effort, gaining entrance to the back door of the Hotel Ritz was a
snap. I had simply enrolled as a culinary student in the Ritz Escoffier Ecole de Gastronomie Francaise.
Now here I was, on a snowy morning in February, about to enter the hotel not as an outsider but as an insider, a
thrilling prospect. After all, I told myself, anyone willing and able to pay seven hundred dollars a pop to stay overnight
could walk through the Ritz’s imposing place Vendome entrance. But only those carrying an employee’s identification
card were allowed through the back door on rue Cambon. Still, as eager as I was to begin what seemed an
adventure, the truth is I was nervous about what to expect on the other side of the door. A French security officer
who would turn me away? A snooty chef who would laugh at my limited French vocabulary? Classmates who would
criticize my chopping and dicing techniques? A sudden, humiliating announcement from the school’s Directeur that,
for undisclosed reasons, he had revoked my student status?
It was in this Kafkaesque frame of mind that I pushed open the plain unmarked door and stepped into a small
vestibule. A security guard sitting in a small room behind a counter stood up and carefully gave me the once-over.
Immediately his stern appraising demeanor made me think of my root canal dentist.
“Bonjour,” I said with fake nonchalance, holding out my photo ID in such a way that my thumb covered any evidence
of a very bad haircut. He nodded and reached for the card. I watched as he looked at it and frowned. Was it my bad
haircut that offended? “Is something wrong?” I asked. His response was to look at my face and then at the photo
comparing the two. He repeated this twice. Face-then-photo. Face-then-photo. Just as I started to explain that I’d
drastically altered my hairstyle—for the better—since the photo was taken, a buzzer went off. A clicking sound
followed as the gate to the long basement corridor unlocked and, with a wave of his hand, the guard motioned me
through.
So this was it, then, the moment when I became a part of the venerable Hotel Ritz. After descending a flight of stairs,
I looked down a corridor so long I couldn’t see the end of it. What I could see, however, was a small army of
employees engaged in a whirlwind of activity. Fascinated, I watched as men in crisp white uniforms picked up crates
filled with lavish arrangements of lilies, tulips, and irises. As I moved deeper in the corridor I saw workmen carting off
worn pieces of Persian rugs and cabinetmakers moving a hand-painted Chinese chest marked “For repair.” Service
staff carrying covered silver breakfast trays entered and exited the service elevator. Some of the employees nodded
to me in a collegial way as they passed by. I nodded back, trying to conceal my excitement at witnessing all the daily
routines necessary to run a world-class hotel.
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SAMPLE 7
SOURCE
1,164-word (app.) excerpt from Listening for the Crack of Dawn: A Master Storyteller Recalls the
Appalachia of the 50’s and 60’s (1990) by Donald Davis, Chapter 6: Miss Daisy, p 92 and pp.95-97.
BACK STORY
Donald Davis, a popular storyteller at the Jonesboro, TN storytelling festival, wrote this “story” about his fourth-grade
experience as a student of Miss Daisy, a forty-one year teaching veteran, who created a year-long thematic unit in
which all subjects were taught in an imaginary trip around the world. –MFA
Chapter 6: Miss Daisy, p 92 and pp.95-97.
The whole course of the year was going to be great fun. As she described her plan to us, Miss Daisy was going to
take us, without our ever leaving our room at Sulpher Springs School, on an imaginary trip around the world.
It was going to be a year of play. Each day we’d get out our maps and plan our travels. Then, with Miss Daisy’s
help, we’d go on our travels for the day.
She didn’t pass out the spelling books. She didn’t even pass out the arithmetic books. We were just going to play all
year.
Our imaginary plan was this: we would get some of our parents to pretend to drive us to Atlanta in their cars. I was
not sure about whether Daddy would take the blue Dodge. He didn’t usually like to travel very far from home.
Once in Atlanta, our plan was to board the train. Miss Daisy told us all about it. It was “the wonderful Southern
Crescent,” with a dining car that had fresh-cut flowers and real sterling silver on the tables. We were all to ride the
train to New Orleans.
After a day or two in New Orleans, we would load up on what Miss Daisy called a “tramp steamer,” and steam away
for South America.
The real truth was that Miss Daisy had never actually been out of Nantahala County in her life except for four brief
years some forty-one years in the past when she had ridden the train less than a hundred miles to Asheville Normal
to learn to teach fourth grade. But for forty-one years she had sent away by mail and had ordered thousands and
thousands and thousands of picture postcards. It was not possible for us to go anywhere on our imaginary travels,
from a small town in Alabama to a temple garden in Japan, without Miss Daisy being able to dig down through her
files of shoe-boxes to finally come up with a postcard to show us what that place looked like.
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At last we made land in South America. After leaving the steamer, we visited our first city, Belim, where we
discovered that everyone spoke not Spanish but Portuguese. Then we hired small boats and guides to take us up
the Amazon River.
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No matter where we went after that (all the way down to the tip of South America, on an imaginary ice-breaker to the
South Pole, up the Congo and down the Nile), the Amazon was always my favorite place.
That was because my big art project for the year was making a butterfly “so big you could ride on it.”
Several months earlier my Uncle Floyd had tried to invent a flying machine. He had made a two-part framework out
of copper tubing and the flat sides of orange crates. It was joined in the middle by a long piano hinge so that the
wings could flap.
Once the basic construction was finished, he had glued what looked like two million white-leghorn feathers to both
side of the “wings.” Finally he rigged a harness to the underside so that the wings could be strapped on his back and
he could flap them with his arms.
When the glue was all dry, he carried the huge wings up a ladder to the roof of the front porch of his house.
He told us all about it later. “I was going to try a little test flight from the house out to that red maple tree,” he said,
“but a downdraft got me!”
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He sprained his ankle crash-landing. He was lucky he hadn’t broken his neck.
The lucky thing for me was that the crash didn’t tear up the wings. As soon as the Friday after the art project
assignments came, I started begging Daddy to take me to Uncle Floyd’s. Once there, I started begging Uncle Floyd
for the wings.
After taking off the harness straps to be sure that I couldn’t try to fly with them, he gave me the wings for the
foundation of my butterfly. We folded them by the piano hinge and took them home in the blue Dodge.
I went to work. The body was made out of some big mailing tubes with the ends stopped up. The head was a rubber
ball with pieces of coat hanger bent to the shape of antennae.
The big job was painting the wings. It took nearly all day Saturday. Yellow and green, blue and red, purple and
orange, swirls and patterns, matching on both sides of both wings, until by the end of the day I had created a butterfly
so big you could really ride on it.
The only problem was that with the body and all the paint I had used, the wings wouldn’t flap by the piano hinge
anymore. It took all day Sunday for the paint to dry.
On Monday morning Daddy said he would take Joe-brother and me to school in the blue Dodge. “I don’t think that
thing will go through the door of the school bus,” was his excuse.
Now that the paint was dry and the wings were stiff, it wouldn’t fit through the door of the Dodge either. So Daddy
drove us to school very slowly, with the window rolled down, holding the big butterfly outside the window. Several
times he pulled to the side of the road to let the cars pass which had backed up behind us as he drove slowly enough
to keep the butterfly from taking off.
When I got to the classroom with the butterfly, Miss Daisy was thrilled! She fastened a wire to the butterfly’s back,
climbed on top of a desk in the middle of the room, and suspended the butterfly from one of the light fixtures.
For the remainder of the year it hung there, multicolored and beautiful, decorating the room and reminding us of the
Amazon.
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