Harrison Eiteljorg

Indianapolis Monthly, July 1983, p. 42; written by Susan McKee

Gene Stratton-Porter

From "Indianapolis Monthly", July 1983, p. 104

Lew Wallace

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/history/2013/03/ben_hur_and_lew_wallace_how_the_scapegoat_of_shiloh_became_one_of_the_best.html

Philadelphia Story

George Cukor
Philadelphia Story (1940)
based on the play by Philip Barrie

When James Stewart's character tells Katherine Hepburn's character that his father had taught English History at South Bend, Indiana, she comments that this sounds like a dance.

Flint and Walling Manufacturing Company

Kendallville, Indiana

Flint and Walling Manufacturing Company: makers of the Original Star Windmill (red, white and blue) popular on the southern Great Plains in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries (made from 8178-1915).

Sold in sizes ranging from 10 to 26 feet in diameter; a 10-foot windmill sold for $90,000 in 1887.


(Photo ©2012 by Susan McKee of a 10-foot Original Star Windmill now in the Panhandle Plains Museum, Texas)

Louis Oscar Griffith

Louis Oscar Griffith

1875-1956

born in Indiana

Moved to Dallas, St. Louis, Chicago.

Lived in Nashville, Indiana (part of "Brown County School)

In the Panhandle Plains Museum, Texas: "Tranquil Afternoon" (1929)

Suzanne Collins

Suzanne Collins

born: 10 August 1962, Hartford, Connecticut

author, "The Hunger Games"

graduate of Indiana University (Bloomington): double major in drama and telecommunications.