Table of Contents
Acknowledgements 5
Introduction 7
The Highest Achiever of Linden High School 9
Spooks, Specters and Spirit Photographs 17
The Week Lana Turner Came to Town 23
Commodore Alf's Improbable Gourd Museum 31
Campaigning in Crawfordsville 37
Dying to Stay Married 47
"Lament of the Fire Laddies" 53
The Legacy of the Jewish Tailor of Crawfordsville 57
Maurine Watkins Makes Satire Out of Murder 67
America's First Airmail 73
Nellie Coutant, Forgotten Photographer 79
The Sad End of Comedian Ferris Hartman 87
Crawfordsville's Playwright: Kenyon Nicholson 95
From Actress to Author: Maude Snyder 101
The Courthouse Tower Is Going to Fall (or Is It?) 107
Crawfordsville's Thomas Edison: Shirl Herr 115
Disgraced Doctors 123
Carrie Nation Cleans Up Crawfordsville 131
Elizabeth Boynton Harbert and the Pursuit of Suffrage 135
Ruth Morgan and the Waveland Vigilantes Foil a Robbery 143
Wabash College's Football Fatality 151
Mary Oda Eglin, "Artist of the Army Air Corps" 157
Sources 165
Index 171
About the Authors 175