New Books
The Aurora Farmers Fair: 100 Years
Jenny Awad
In 1908, the Aurora Business Mens Association decided to bring a celebration to its sleepy river town. Little did these men realize that the Aurora Farmers Fair would bring their community together for the next 100 years. During the 1909 fall festival, Second and Main Streets were blocked off and lined with farm exhibits and storefronts were decorated. There were over 700 entries and 12,000 people attended. Every year merchants and manufacturers parade, and contestants are selected from area schools to compete for a place in the royal court that presides over the festivities. Class reunions and family homecomings are held around the event, and schoolchildren are released early to participate in a bicycle and pet parade. In 1959, the Aurora Business Mens Association ceded management and sponsorship of the fair to the Aurora Lions Club, and in 1969, the Lions Club purchased a beautiful old building from the Aurora Casket Company to house exhibits. Sadly, in 1998, arson destroyed the fair building, and years’ worth of fair history was lost. This book has been created, in part, in an effort to regain a portion of the collection that was lost.
paper 128 pp. 2008 / ISBN 0738551686 /$19.99
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Madame President, 1901-1905
Lucy Jane King
A powerful woman behind the scenes, gracious and charming in the public eye, she was a progressive operative in political and social circles. From 1901 to 1905 she was the equivalent of female president of the United States, President General of the Daughters of the American Revolution, headquartered in Washington, D.C. One of the best known women in the United States at the time, she was on the National Board of the giant General Federation of Women's Clubs. Club women of her day assumed leadership roles long before professional women would be able to be leaders in many venues. Nellie Fairbanks helped to pave the way for women to be revered as leaders. She believed that women should be able to hold public office although she died before they were even allowed to vote in national elections.
cloth 232 pp. 2008/ISBN 9781434385949/ $24.99
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paper 232 pp. 2008/ISBN 9781434385932/ $14.49
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Always A People: Oral Histories of Contemporary Woodland Indians
Rita Kohn and W. Lynwood Montell, eds
Honors the 20th-century Native American Woodland People and their distinctive, related, cohesive cultures.
cloth 297 pp. 1997/ISBN 0-253-33298-2/$35.00
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paper 297 pp. 1997/ ISBN 978-0-253-22001-1/ $24.95
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Historic Irvington
Julie Young
Founded in 1870, historic Irvington serves as a time capsule to the bygone days of the Victorian and Edwardian eras. The once autonomous community along the Pennsylvania Railroad and U.S. Route 40 has a history as rich and spellbinding as the legendary tales of its namesake, Washington Irving. Featuring plenty of architectural diversity and notable citizens, Irvington served as the original home to Butler University and became known as a cultural, arts, and academic pillar of the Indianapolis landscape. Today Irvington continues to be the gem of Indianapolis’s east side with locally owned shops and businesses along with a community that is committed to the past while focusing on the future.
Images of America series from Arcadia Press.
paper 128 pp. 2008 / ISBN 0738552119 /$19.99
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Perennials Short and Tall: A Seasonal Progression of Flowers for Your Garden
Moya L. Andrews
Gillian Harris, Illustrator
Designed for accessibility, this book offers tried-and-true advice on how to keep a yard in bloom. Presented in the sequence in which they bloom, with a chapter devoted to each of the three major growing seasons, 25 varieties of flowers are profiled with accompanying color illustrations.
paper 144 pp. 2008/ISBN 978-0-253-21976-3/$19.95
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The Tao of Cooking: an International Vegeterian Cookbook
Sally Pasley
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This book offers the adventurous cook a chance to experiment with three hundred meatless recipes from around the world. This easy-to-use culinary guide offers an assortment of recipes for breakfasts, soups, appetizers, entrees, side dishes, pasta, breads, and desserts. Menus for full meals, a glossary of ingredients, and a thorough index help to make this cookbook indispensable for vegetarian households and all who enjoy good food.
paper 236 pp. 1982*/ISBN 978-0-253-21237-5/$19.95
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*recently released in paperback
Masterworks from the Indiana University Art Museum
Linda J. Baden, Ed.
Richly illustrated with more than 10 full-color plates, this book presents a selection of the finest works from one of the world's best university art museums. Included are examples from the full range of world cultures collected by the museum: Africa, the Ancient Western World, Asia, the Ancient Americas, the South Pacific, and the West before and after 1800.
cloth 362 pp. 2007/ISBN 978-0-253-21956-5/$39.95
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Major: A Black Athlete, a White Era, and the Fight to be the World's Fastest Human Being
Todd Balf
Major is the gripping story of a superstar nobody saw coming--a classic underdog, aided by an unlikely crew: a disgraced fight promoter, a broken ex-racer, and a poor upstate girl from New York who wanted to be a queen. It is also the account of a fierce rivalry that would become an archetypal tale of white versus black in the 20th century. Most of all, it is the tale of our nation's first black sports celebrity-- a man who transcended the handicaps of race at the turn of the century to reach the stratosphere of fame.
cloth 306 pp. 2008/ISBN 978-0-307-23658-6/$24.00
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Brookville
Craig T. Chappelow and Donald L. Dunaway
Platted in 1808 on a strip of land between the confluence of the East and West Forks of the Whitewater River, Brookville is one of the oldest and most picturesque towns in Indiana. The authors have assembled more than 200 historic postcards, contributed by local residents and collectors, that tell the story of Brookville's people and places.
paper 27 pp. 2008/ISBN-13 978-0-7385-5158-6/$19.99
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Monticello
W.C. Madden, Introduction by Mayor Robert E. Fox
Monticello was founded by the White County commissioners in 1834 on a bluff above the Tippecanoe River. They named it after the mansion of Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States. Today the city of Montiello is a thriving, progressive community growing in population and size. About a million tourists come to the area each summer to relax and have fun. The White County Historical Museum and City of Monticello contributed many of the images and provided much of the information for this book. W.C. Madden, an author and historian, offers a thoughtful visual essay on the growth and evolution of the city.
paper 127 pp. 2007/ISBN-13-978-0-7385-5148-7/$19.99
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Notorious 92: Indiana's Most Heinous Murders in All 92 Counties
Andrew E.Stoner
With about 400 murders each year in Indiana, Hoosiers witness their share of human darkness. And, while many citizens might prefer to forget these unfortunate episodes, the seamy side of the state must not go unexamined. Notorious 92: Indiana’s Most Heinous Murders In All 92 Counties examines the state’s dark side, illustrating that the murderous venom of today has been present in Indiana for two centuries. From marital and financial problems to substance abuse and racial hostilities, generations of Hoosiers are linked by not only the lands they inhabit, but by the demons they face.
paper 505 pp. 2007/ISBN 978-1-60008-024-1/$19.95
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A Meredith Nicholson Reader
Ralph D. Gray
This is an introduction to the writings of one of the so-called Big Four in Indiana's Golden Age of Literature. Meredith Nicholson, however, is the least known of that quartet which includes James Whitcomb Riley, Booth Tarkington, and George S. Ade. Nicholson (1866-1947) was a talented, versatile, and remarkably prolific writer. This reader is designed to restore writings by Nicholson to bookshelves in homes, schools, and public libraries, and revive memories of the man himself in the people of the state and nation that he loved so deeply.
paper 354 pp. 2007/ISBN 978-1-4343-2151-0/ $21.99
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Long Journey Home
James W. Brown and Rita T. Kohn, eds.
Through first-person accounts, Long Journey Home presents the stories of the Lenape, also known as the Delaware Tribe. These oral histories, which span the post-Civil War era to the present, are gathered into four sections and tell of personal and tribal events as they unfold over time and place. The history of the Lenape is one of forced displacement, from their original tribal home along the eastern seaboard into Pennsylvaia, continuing with a series of displacements in Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, Kansas, and the Indian Territory. For the group of Lenape interviewed for this book, home is now the area around Bartlesville, Oklahoma. The stories of their long journey have been handed down and remain part of the tribe's collective memory and bring an unforgettable immediacy to the tale of the Lenape. Above all they make clear that the history of seven generations remains very much alive.
cloth 448 pp. 2008/ISBN 978-0-253-34968-2/$34.95
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*Limited number of signed copies available
A Fierce, Wild Joy
Stephen E. Towne, Editor
The ninety letters in this collection document the Civil War career of Col. Edward Jesup Wood, an officer of the 48th Indiana. Evocative and rich in detail, A Fierce, Wild Joy offers a view of the war from an officer's perspective and provides important insights into the day-to-day administration of a Civil War regiment.
cloth 295 pp. 2007 / ISBN 1-57233-599-8 / $38.00
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Mr. Jefferson's Hammer: William Henry Harrison and the Origins of American Indian Policy
Robert M. Owens
Owens traces Harrison's political career as secretary of the Northwest Territory, territorial delegate to Congress, and governor of Indiana Territory, as well as his role in military and Indian affairs. Thomas Jefferson, who was president during the first decade of the nineteenth century, found in Harrison the ideal agent to carry out his administration's ruthless campaign to extinguish Indian land titles.
cloth 311 pp. 2007 / ISBN 978-0-8061-3842-8 / $34.95
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Fighting for Equality: A Life of May Wright
Ray E. Boomhower
A biography aimed at young readers, Fighting for Equality showcases Sewall's important contributions to the history of Indianapolis, Indiana, the United States, and the world. A woman who had the "organizing touch," Sewall helped to establish such Indianapolis institutions as the Girls' Classical School, the Indianapolis Woman's Club, the Contemporary Club, the Art Association of Indianapolis (today known as the Indianapolis Museum of Art), and the Indianapolis Propylaeum.
cloth160 pp. 2007/ISBN 978-0-87195-253-0/$17.95
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