More Amazing Tales from Indiana - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook More Amazing Tales from Indiana write by Fred D. Cavinder. This book was released on 2003-11-19. More Amazing Tales from Indiana available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Stories from the state of Indiana that put a lively twist on Hoosier history . . . Entertaining and sometimes jaw-dropping, these true tales were recorded in reliable accounts or by reliable witnesses from early times to the present—and provide anecdotes from Indiana history that are funny, dramatic, quirky, and just plain amazing. Learn about: General Ambrose Burnside, who blundered his way through the Civil War, relocated to Rhode Island, and served three terms as governor and two terms as US Senator—but is most remembered for his unique facial hair—that is, Burnside’s “sideburns” The three movie actors from Indiana who played Tarzan on screen The Revolutionary War battle that took place in the famed Indiana sand dunes The nineteenth-century town that may or may not have existed, but whose name lives on and more
Amazing Tales from Indiana
Amazing Tales from Indiana - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Amazing Tales from Indiana write by Fred D. Cavinder. This book was released on 1990-09-22. Amazing Tales from Indiana available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Submitted for your consideration: the blind man who designed and built an automobile, the "volunteertree growing out of a courthouse roof, and much, much more.
Wake Up, Woods
Wake Up, Woods - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wake Up, Woods write by Michael A. Homoya. This book was released on 2019-10. Wake Up, Woods available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Early in the year, our North American forests come to life as native wildflowers start to push up through patches of snow. With longer days and sunlight streaming down through bare branches of towering trees, life on the forest floor awakens from its winter sleep. Plants such as green dragon, squirrel corn, and bloodroot interact with their pollinators and seed dispersers and rush to create new life before the trees above leaf out and block the sun's rays. Wake Up, Woods showcases the splendor of our warming forests and offers clues to nature's annual springtime floral show as we walk in our parks and wilderness areas, or even in shade gardens around our homes. Readers of Wake Up, Woods will see that Gillian Harris, Michael Homoya and Shane Gibson, through illustrations and text, present a captivating look into our forests' biodiversity, showing how species depend on plants for food and help assure plant reproduction. This book celebrates some of nature's most fascinating moments that happen in forests where we live and play.
Oddball Indiana
Oddball Indiana - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Oddball Indiana write by Jerome Pohlen. This book was released on 2017-05-01. Oddball Indiana available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Secret Indianapolis: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure
Secret Indianapolis: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Secret Indianapolis: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure write by Ashley Petry. This book was released on 2019-09-15. Secret Indianapolis: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
