Kermit Weeks

http://www.fantasyofflight.com/press_kit/docs/Kermit%20Weeks%20Bio.pdf

graduate of Purdue University

born in Salt Lake
City, Utah, in 1954 and grew up in Miami.

www.fantasyofflight.com

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Kermit A. Weeks

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kermit_Weeks


The money for all this fun comes from the Weeks Royalty, a 2.5% levy on oil and gas production from the Bass Straits of southeast Australia--Australia's biggest oil field. Lewis G. Weeks, Kermit's grandfather, was the petroleum geologist who advised Broken Hill Proprietary on where to search for oil and helped broker an exploration deal with Exxon, his former employer. Four billion barrels later, Bass Straits has bought a lot of airplanes and built a lot of university geology buildings.

Alexander Ralston

Born: 1771 in Scotland
Died: 5 January 1827
Buried: Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis

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laid out Mile Square plan of Indiana's capital city in the 1820s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Ralston

Stephen King

Yes, the best-selling author who has never lived in Indiana nor has (at least as far as I can determine) ever written about Indiana nonetheless has a strong Indiana connection.

According to Haunted Heart a biography of King by Lisa Rogak, King is working with John Mellencamp on a collaborative musical called The Ghost Brothers of Darkland County. Mellencamp, of course, lives in Seymour, Indiana -- about, as Mellencamp says, as "in the middle of nowhere" as King's Bangor, Maine, home.

Lisa Rogak, Haunted Heart: The Life and Times of Stephen King. New York: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press (2009): 240-241.

Marjorie Main

Film actress.

best known role: Ma Kettle

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