Author: David Boyer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781723903793
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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"She had been my first true love, that one you never really forget, the one that for all the fighting you do later on to suppress the fact she is still in your heart, you are doing so in vain." So says Brian, the young man who was sure he'd found the love of his life - until death stole her away. In the book Criminal Activity In the Hoosier Heartland, author David Boyer offers up tales that have no happy endings, no Prince Charming or fairy tale romances. Truth is much stranger than fiction, as these tales will prove beyond the shadow of a doubt. In the author's world, deep, dark secrets lie beneath the friendly, normal facade known as Knox County, Indiana. Ghosts haunt the minds of God's special children; fledgling serial killers, who may be living right next door, hunt for prey on our city streets in plain sight; a young woman, doing time in jail for being a habitual offender, decides to follow a new path in life - only to realize that the path she has chosen leads her stumbling into her worst nightmare; neighborhood bullies torment the innocent just for fun, but end up crossing the line into murder; and star crossed lovers living fairy tale romances find out the hard way that love is the cruelest lie of all. Based on real events, yet fictionalized for dramatic effect, the characters in this book will linger on in your mind long after you put the book away - and the lights go out.
Author: C. James Owen
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520317025
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1985.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Author: Keven McQueen
Publisher: Quarry Books
ISBN: 9780253058447
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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-Author attends numerous local events and will be a good self-promoter -Author's books have good sales numbers
Author: Madison, James H.
Publisher: Indiana Historical Society
ISBN: 0871953633
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 359
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A supplemental textbook for middle and high school students, Hoosiers and the American Story provides intimate views of individuals and places in Indiana set within themes from American history. During the frontier days when Americans battled with and exiled native peoples from the East, Indiana was on the leading edge of America’s westward expansion. As waves of immigrants swept across the Appalachians and eastern waterways, Indiana became established as both a crossroads and as a vital part of Middle America. Indiana’s stories illuminate the history of American agriculture, wars, industrialization, ethnic conflicts, technological improvements, political battles, transportation networks, economic shifts, social welfare initiatives, and more. In so doing, they elucidate large national issues so that students can relate personally to the ideas and events that comprise American history. At the same time, the stories shed light on what it means to be a Hoosier, today and in the past.
Author: Cynthia Carr
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307341887
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 514
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The brutal lynching of two young black men in Marion, Indiana, on August 7, 1930, cast a shadow over the town that still lingers. It is only one event in the long and complicated history of race relations in Marion, a history much ignored and considered by many to be best forgotten. But the lynching cannot be forgotten. It is too much a part of the fabric of Marion, too much ingrained even now in the minds of those who live there. In Our Town journalist Cynthia Carr explores the issues of race, loyalty, and memory in America through the lens of a specific hate crime that occurred in Marion but could have happened anywhere. Marion is our town, America’s town, and its legacy is our legacy. Like everyone in Marion, Carr knew the basic details of the lynching even as a child: three black men were arrested for attempted murder and rape, and two of them were hanged in the courthouse square, a fate the third miraculously escaped. Meeting James Cameron–the man who’d survived–led her to examine how the quiet Midwestern town she loved could harbor such dark secrets. Spurred by the realization that, like her, millions of white Americans are intimately connected to this hidden history, Carr began an investigation into the events of that night, racism in Marion, the presence of the Ku Klux Klan–past and present–in Indiana, and her own grandfather’s involvement. She uncovered a pattern of white guilt and indifference, of black anger and fear that are the hallmark of race relations across the country. In a sweeping narrative that takes her from the angry energy of a white supremacist rally to the peaceful fields of Weaver–once an all-black settlement neighboring Marion–in search of the good and the bad in the story of race in America, Carr returns to her roots to seek out the fascinating people and places that have shaped the town. Her intensely compelling account of the Marion lynching and of her own family’s secrets offers a fresh examination of the complex legacy of whiteness in America. Part mystery, part history, part true crime saga, Our Town is a riveting read that lays bare a raw and little-chronicled facet of our national memory and provides a starting point toward reconciliation with the past. On August 7, 1930, three black teenagers were dragged from their jail cells in Marion, Indiana, and beaten before a howling mob. Two of them were hanged; by fate the third escaped. A photo taken that night shows the bodies hanging from the tree but focuses on the faces in the crowd—some enraged, some laughing, and some subdued, perhaps already feeling the first pangs of regret. Sixty-three years later, journalist Cynthia Carr began searching the photo for her grandfather’s face.
Author: Illinois Information Service
Publisher:
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Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Author: United States. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 824
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Author: United States. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Author: Frank Bill
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446457710
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Welcome to Heartland America circa right about now, when the union jobs and family farms that kept the white on the picket fences have given way to meth labs, backwoods gunrunners, and bare-knuckle brawling. Frank Bill's Southern Indiana is haunted by a deep, abiding sense of place, and his people are men and women pressed to the brink - and beyond. They are survivors, and in Frank Bill's hands, their stories bristle with noir energy.
