Vincennes History You DON'T Know:The 20th Century in the Town by the Wabash
Virtually everything that happened in U.S. 20th century history happened in Vincennes, Indiana. This compilation of columns from the local paper, edited for book readers, reflects a compendium of human experiences in the United States of the 1900s: the coming of the automobile, lighting of the electric lights on Main Street, mine accidents and bank robberies, airplane stunt flying over the town; trucks replacing the horse-drawn fire engines; a Teddy Roosevelt visit and a Lillian Russell performance. German Americans are under suspicion in 1918; the gold star mothers visit France to see their sons' graves. The talkies come to the cinema and the town cheers when beer arrives after prohibition; the local girls, the "Alices," dance with soldiers at the USO and segregationist George Wallace visits in the 1960s to a cold reception.
But it is also a chronicle of the strengths and beauties as well as the idiosyncrasies of human nature. Local characters probably common to every middle-sized town in Indiana are depicted; the bee man and his honey and the national goat expert; the blind violin player at the station. We learn about the peony farm and the coming of the talkies; southern Indiana court cases over hogs and tomatoes, the fox hunts which net only 6 foxes but which are traditional.
What are the values of Hoosier life in the last century: they're obvious here as the citizens run into the streets to help when there are tragedies, when the town's children demand that a mine pony be rescued after a cave-in, when doctors and nurses work themselves to exhaustion treating burn victims from a steam plant accident. Reading this book of columns which take us through the 20th century in a medium-sized Hoosier town, we will wish to return to Vincennes Indiana, circa 1910, or 1940. Those are the days when a town was really a group of people trying to make the best in Hoosier life possible for their families and their neighbors-- and "everybody knows your name."
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But it is also a chronicle of the strengths and beauties as well as the idiosyncrasies of human nature. Local characters probably common to every middle-sized town in Indiana are depicted; the bee man and his honey and the national goat expert; the blind violin player at the station. We learn about the peony farm and the coming of the talkies; southern Indiana court cases over hogs and tomatoes, the fox hunts which net only 6 foxes but which are traditional.
What are the values of Hoosier life in the last century: they're obvious here as the citizens run into the streets to help when there are tragedies, when the town's children demand that a mine pony be rescued after a cave-in, when doctors and nurses work themselves to exhaustion treating burn victims from a steam plant accident. Reading this book of columns which take us through the 20th century in a medium-sized Hoosier town, we will wish to return to Vincennes Indiana, circa 1910, or 1940. Those are the days when a town was really a group of people trying to make the best in Hoosier life possible for their families and their neighbors-- and "everybody knows your name."
Vincennes History You DON'T Know:The 20th Century in the Town by the Wabash
Virtually everything that happened in U.S. 20th century history happened in Vincennes, Indiana. This compilation of columns from the local paper, edited for book readers, reflects a compendium of human experiences in the United States of the 1900s: the coming of the automobile, lighting of the electric lights on Main Street, mine accidents and bank robberies, airplane stunt flying over the town; trucks replacing the horse-drawn fire engines; a Teddy Roosevelt visit and a Lillian Russell performance. German Americans are under suspicion in 1918; the gold star mothers visit France to see their sons' graves. The talkies come to the cinema and the town cheers when beer arrives after prohibition; the local girls, the "Alices," dance with soldiers at the USO and segregationist George Wallace visits in the 1960s to a cold reception.
But it is also a chronicle of the strengths and beauties as well as the idiosyncrasies of human nature. Local characters probably common to every middle-sized town in Indiana are depicted; the bee man and his honey and the national goat expert; the blind violin player at the station. We learn about the peony farm and the coming of the talkies; southern Indiana court cases over hogs and tomatoes, the fox hunts which net only 6 foxes but which are traditional.
What are the values of Hoosier life in the last century: they're obvious here as the citizens run into the streets to help when there are tragedies, when the town's children demand that a mine pony be rescued after a cave-in, when doctors and nurses work themselves to exhaustion treating burn victims from a steam plant accident. Reading this book of columns which take us through the 20th century in a medium-sized Hoosier town, we will wish to return to Vincennes Indiana, circa 1910, or 1940. Those are the days when a town was really a group of people trying to make the best in Hoosier life possible for their families and their neighbors-- and "everybody knows your name."
But it is also a chronicle of the strengths and beauties as well as the idiosyncrasies of human nature. Local characters probably common to every middle-sized town in Indiana are depicted; the bee man and his honey and the national goat expert; the blind violin player at the station. We learn about the peony farm and the coming of the talkies; southern Indiana court cases over hogs and tomatoes, the fox hunts which net only 6 foxes but which are traditional.
What are the values of Hoosier life in the last century: they're obvious here as the citizens run into the streets to help when there are tragedies, when the town's children demand that a mine pony be rescued after a cave-in, when doctors and nurses work themselves to exhaustion treating burn victims from a steam plant accident. Reading this book of columns which take us through the 20th century in a medium-sized Hoosier town, we will wish to return to Vincennes Indiana, circa 1910, or 1940. Those are the days when a town was really a group of people trying to make the best in Hoosier life possible for their families and their neighbors-- and "everybody knows your name."
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| BN ID: | 2940157868277 |
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| Publisher: | Hawthorne Publishing IN |
| Publication date: | 11/20/2015 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 240 |
| File size: | 1 MB |
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