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IN Writing Uncovering the Unexpected Hoosier State
- Author / Creator
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Details
- Creator
- Douglas A. Wissing
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Bloomington, Indiana ; Indianapolis, [Indiana] : Quarry Books, 2016
- ©2016
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (264 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9780253019103, 0253019109, 0253019044
- OCLC
- ocn933516749
- Includes index.
- English
- Part I. Saints and sinners -- The last vaudevillian: Red Skelton -- Hubris: Bobby Knight -- Odd Bodkin -- D.C. Riddle -- The Hoosier general: Lewis B. Hershey and the selective service -- Herbie Wirth -- Inner vision: Amish healer -- Part II. Complicated places -- A fair of the heart -- A surprising utopia -- Architecture and community -- The song of Indiana -- Part III. Culinary delights -- 'Cook good, serve generously, price modestly': the Shapiro's story -- She's the cheese -- Strange brew -- Market daze: Bloomington's farmers market -- Pawpaw redux -- Tibetan new year celebration -- Lair of the turtle soup: a culinary tradition -- Part IV. Artists and their craft -- This rash adventure: Ezra Pound at Wabash College -- Erotica whose purpose was scholarly: Kinsey Institute Art exhibit -- Gargoyles and other pagans -- Crossroads of American sculpture -- The stuff of legend: Indiana and the Empire State Building -- Part V. The present past -- John Dillinger's funeral -- Twist the tiger's tail -- That's it: prohibition, 1918-1933 -- Black-gold era's luxurious perch: Evansville Petroleum Club -- Lions, tigers, high wires -- Conflict and conciliation -- Taliban in Indiana -- War fare