Midland Book

By: Fred D. Cavinder

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Paperback | 1 October 1990

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176 Pages

Age
22+

Grade
17+

Dimensions(cm)
21.59 x 14.61 x 1.91

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" . . . freaky and fascinating . . . Cavinder is a storyteller with an engaging sense of humor." --Gary (IN) Post-Tribune

"Because the contents of this eminently readable book cover many people, places, and events there is something for every reader young and old." --Madison Courier

It's Ripley's with a Hoosier twist--Fred Cavinder has put together a group of findings and stories, some kooky and strange, some from the twilight zone, some historical oddities and fascinations, all gleaned from Indiana. Submitted for your consideration: the blind man who designed and built an automobile, the "volunteer" tree growing out of a courthouse roof, and much, much more.

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"... freaky and fascinating ... Cavinder is a storyteller with an engaging sense of humor." - Gary (IN) Post-Tribune "Because the contents of this eminently readable book cover many people, places, and events there is something for every reader young and old." - Madison Courier

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Non-Fiction History Regional & National History History of the Americas Local & Family History, Nostalgia Local History Society & Culture Popular Beliefs & Controversial Knowledge Folklore Studies / Study of Myth (Mythology)

Introduction	p. XI
The Boy Who Wanted to Be Buried	p. 1
The Kremlin Connection	p. 1
The Ohio River Turnaround	p. 2
Abuzz in the Bog	p. 2
The Mother of Streams	p. 3
The Ghost Stream	p. 4
Ironplated Welshmen	p. 5
Fabulous Flow	p. 5
Jolted into Action	p. 6
Dual Duels	p. 7
The Grass Is Always Bluer	p. 8
Portrait of the Artist's Father	p. 9
The Year without a Summer	p. 10
In the Key of Strange	p. 11
The Devil Spirit	p. 12
The County That Disappeared	p. 14
The Legendary Bear Woman	p. 15
Harriet, Tom, and Eliza	p. 17
Passing the Word	p. 19
A Spel of Reformashun	p. 20
China and the Martin Dynasty	p. 21
The Almost President	p. 22
The Soule of Greeley	p. 23
Mark of the Hunter	p. 24
This Gun for Hire	p. 24
Going Whole Hog	p. 25
The Unhappy Wanderer	p. 26
A Man Who ... And Another Man Who ... And ...	p. 28
Reading, Writing, and Stage Fright	p. 29
Boggstown Goes South	p. 30
The Lady on the Front Lines	p. 32
Cradle of Commanders	p. 34
The Gat with a Mission	p. 35
Cowed at Vernon	p. 37
Desertion and Disgrace	p. 38
Off the Wall Edition	p. 39
Hoosiers Aweigh	p. 40
Start the Presses	p. 41
The Assassination Assemblage	p. 43
Courthouse Tree-Top Tall	p. 45
The Girl Who Wasn't There	p. 47
The Circus's Greatest Coup	p. 49
Burning Desire to Die	p. 50
Attractive Water	p. 51
The One and Only Curve-Ball Pitcher	p. 52
Uneasy Rests the Head of State	p. 53
Stretch, the Mound Builder	p. 55
Bedrock Imagination	p. 56
The Dome That Daunts Science	p. 58
From a Reliable Source ...	p. 58
The Benefactor of Books	p. 59
All Ships Aboard	p. 60
Need a Body Cry	p. 61
Indiana's Pharaoh	p. 62
The Desperate Designer	p. 62
Knowing Beans about It	p. 64
Corn on the Current	p. 64
Harrison the Flag Waver	p. 65
At Grammar He Declined	p. 67
The Kouts Bout	p. 68
He Rode for a Fall	p. 69
The Bigger They Come	p. 70
Wake-a-Bye Jones	p. 75
Sight Versus Insight	p. 77
Preaching Power	p. 78
From Horsehide to Cowboys	p. 79
The Horse Sense That Faltered	p. 80
Happy--Not so Fast--Birthday	p. 83
The Hanging Judgment	p. 83
Pregnant with Promise	p. 85
Fingers Enough	p. 86
The Mosquito Martyr	p. 88
Mother's Initial Helper	p. 89
Dead Center in the Road	p. 90
When Smoking Caused Sparks	p. 92
Quiet Please, This Is an Election	p. 93
Lewdness and a "G" String	p. 94
Little Big-League Town	p. 95
Ballooning	p. 96
Prison Inside and Outside	p. 98
Cash on the Cob	p. 100
World Series Wonder	p. 100
Giving It the Gas	p. 101
Judah Goes to the Movies	p. 103
A Congressman and His Dog	p. 105
A Tip of the Hat to ...	p. 107
Here's to the Heat	p. 107
Lumbering Giants	p. 109
Planted Then, Dug Later	p. 112
Painting by Numbers	p. 113
What's in a Name?	p. 115
The Dunes Flower Child	p. 115
The Center Who Carried His Load	p. 118
Victim and Survivor	p. 119
Immovable Force, Irresistible Object	p. 120
Hot Time in the Old State	p. 120
The Up and Down Touchdown	p. 121
Reach Out and Shift Someone	p. 122
Dead Men Have Tales	p. 125
Husking Corn for 200,000 Ears	p. 126
It Was His Funeral	p. 127
Caligula, Il Duce, and a Hoosier	p. 128
Animal Anomalies	p. 129
Infantile Incidents	p. 130
The Brothers of Stone	p. 131
Music to Milk By	p. 132
Wanted: One Model	p. 132
The Village That Vanished	p. 133
Odon's Home Fires Burning	p. 135
The Attack Blimp	p. 136
Bitten by Fame	p. 137
Horse Sense	p. 139
A Salute to the Kernel	p. 140
Ring around the Commode	p. 141
No Bones about It	p. 142
Test Case for Auctioneers	p. 143
Execution by Surgery	p. 145
The Fall and Rise of Roger Reynolds	p. 146
The Poster That Shouldn't Have Been	p. 147
Marjorie's Millions	p. 148
A Home That's Quite a House	p. 150
Mother Played Basketball	p. 152
Fish Stories	p. 153
Wetting Day	p. 154
Two by Two by Two	p. 155
A Little Soap Never Hurt	p. 156
In the Chips	p. 156
Beating the Odds	p. 157
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