Author : Mark Marimen
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 16,56 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1402754523
Discover the places in Indiana where tourists usually don't venture-- it's chock-full of oddball curiosities, ghostly places, local legends, crazy characters, cursed roads, and peculiar roadside attractions.
Author : Ashley Petry
Publisher : Reedy Press LLC
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 48,1 MB
Release : 2019-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1681062402
Where in Indianapolis can you find a disappearing painting, a towering “ice tree,” or a giant pink elephant holding a martini? What caused the Great Squirrel Invasion of 1822, and why did Hollywood celebrities once flock to an Indianapolis cottage called Tuckaway? Where can you find a hidden museum dedicated to antique fire extinguishers? And what, exactly, is a Recordface? You’ll find the answers to these questions, and many others, in this guide to Indy’s overlooked, offbeat, and unknown. Secret Indianapolis profiles the city’s best-kept restaurant secrets, strangest parks and museums, creepiest urban legends, and weirdest works of art. It also tells the stories of forgotten local heroes, and it reveals the secrets behind beloved Indy landmarks. You’ll discover the only place in the world where it’s still possible to order Choc-Ola, explore the most haunted house in Indiana, and hear about the very dirty prank Hoosiers once pulled on a former president. Written by lifelong Hoosier and local author Ashley Petry, Secret Indianapolis offers a new way to explore the Circle City—from the quirks of local history to bizarre activities you can try today.
Author : James A. Willis
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,39 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780811707794
A selection of the state's bone-chilling stories of the paranormal, including . . . The ghosts of Kendallville's Strand Theatre San Pierre's Dog-Headed Woman The haunted Purple Head Bridge near Vincennes Indianapolis's House of Blue Lights The creepy 100 Steps Cemetery outside of Brazil
Author : James A. Willis
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 40,12 MB
Release : 2012-02-16
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0811745724
A selection of Indiana's bone-chilling stories of the paranormal.
Author : Laird Hunt
Publisher : Coffee House Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 41,9 MB
Release : 2023-03-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1566896665
A mesmerizing, poignant saga of love and loss firmly grounded in the Midwestern landscape by National Book Award finalist Laird Hunt. On a dark and lovely winter night, Noah Summers sits before a roaring fire, drifting between sleep and recollection, trying to make sense of a lifetime of psychic visions and his family’s tumultuous history on an Indiana farmstead. Decades have passed since Noah first fell in love with Opal, a brilliant but unstable young woman whose penchant for flames separated the couple after just forty-two idyllic days of married life. Despite the challenges they each faced, their love never wavered in the long years that followed, sustained by letters, memories, and the bonds of family. Indiana, Indiana establishes the world Laird Hunt returned to in National Book Award finalist Zorrie and introduces the character of Zorrie Underwood for the first time. Written in a masterful elegiac style reminiscent of William Faulkner and Marilynne Robinson, Indiana, Indiana is a beautiful and surreal story that illuminates the heart of rural America.
Author : Sherry Shahan
Publisher :
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 39,43 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780380797820
Simon and Marshall discover the secret behind Old Fogey's Farm.
Author : Jerome Pohlen
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 22,96 MB
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1613738528
Indiana often calls itself the Crossroads of the Nation. It's not also perhaps the very nexus of US weirdness. Armed with Oddball Indiana, you'll soon discover the strange underbelly of the Hoosier State, from brain sandwiches to square donuts. Indiana has monuments to Michael Jackson, the comic strip character Joe Palooka, and the World's Largest Egg. It's where Alka-Seltzer and Wonder Bread were invented, where A Christmas Story actually took place, and where the good but angry citizens of Plainfield conspired to dump President Martin Van Buren in a mud puddle. Along with humorous histories and offbeat observations, Oddball Indiana provides addresses, websites, hours, fees, and driving directions for each of its 350+ entries.
Author : S. E. Schlosser
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 24,1 MB
Release : 2012-08-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0762789581
Pull up a chair or gather round the campfire and get ready for creepy tales of ghostly hauntings, eerie happenings, and other strange occurrences in the Hoosier State. Whether read around the campfire on a dark and stormy night or from the backseat of the family van on the way to grandma's, this is a collection to treasure.
Author : Corona Brezina
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 39,74 MB
Release : 2010-01-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1448800412
Presents the history, geography, government, economy, and people of Indiana, as well as general facts about the state.
Author : Steve Lopez
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 24,44 MB
Release : 1995-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0140239456
In the Philadelphia neighborhood known as the Badlands, drug gangs rule absolutely. Each time a life is lost in the carnage of the local drug wars, a boldly drawn chalk outline of a body appears on the street leading up to City hall: a teenaged dealer, a priest, a little girl with a jump rope. Ofelia Santoro rides her bicycle through the dark, decaying streets, looking for her fourteen-year-old-son, Gabriel. She’s afraid of what she might find. Gabriel has fallen in with the most savage of the drug dealers, but now wants to get out—if he can. In this gritty, fast-moving novel, acclaimed Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Steve Lopez brings home the violence that is scarring America’s vast urban wastelands, and the humanity that might save them. “An unfancy prose is streaked by strong, cinematic images . . . Lopez aims to prick consciences, in the tradition of the documentary novelist, and he does so with considerable style.”—The Daily Telegraph “Lopez has done what Balzac, Dickens . . . and Dostoevsky did so masterfully: he has taken a torch to the back of the cave and returned to tell us what he has seen.” –Pete Hamill, The Philadelphia Inquirer
