Journalism; Indiana State Normal School; Indiana State University; Education; Literature; College yearbooks;
A monthly journal written and published by the students and faculty of Indiana State Normal School. The last issue of the school year was dedicated to the graduating seniors and printed in the style of an annual yearbook.
Journalism; Indiana State Normal School; Education; Literature; College yearbooks;
A monthly journal written and published by the students and faculty of Indiana State Normal School. The last issue of the school year was dedicated to the graduating senios and printed in the style of an annual yearbook.
Black and white copy of an aerial photograph of the Hulman Farm, it was formerly Frank's Chicken Dinner House. The image was taken from 1000 feet up showing Highway 40, a lake, and summer house. The red arrow indicates the two story house that was...
Black and white photograph of Erny Miller on a tractor grading the new dual lane US 40 highway. Erny Miller grading the new US 40 highway near the Vigo and Clay County Line Road at Miami Gardens in 1941. Old US 40 became State Road 340. Erny...
Black and white reproduction of a newspaper article about a Seelyville safety meeting regarding the lack of proper signs and caution lights upon entering Seelyville from the east or west. There was no stop light in Seelyville until 1952, and in...
Legends; People; People associated with military activities; People associated with politics & government; Indiana Territory; Indiana Territory -- History;
Darrel Thomas's transcribed interview of Robert Lee about Daniel Boone. According to Lee, Boone's brother once lived in a clearing near U.S. Highway 41 and Indiana State Road 46.
Erica Garwood's transcribed interview of Donna Wood's account of a supernatural experience involving a guardian angel making a semi appear in front of her on the highway so she would slow down and not get a ticket.
Jean Whitcomb collected a legend from Sue Daugherty pertaining to the spirit of a man that appears in a field by the highway every Halloween night in Hammond, Indiana.
Jeff Hinkle's transcribed variant of the Vanishing Hitchhiker urban legend as collected by Josh Cronkhite. In this account, a woman picks up a hitchhiker, and they stop for some fast food. As they pull back onto the highway, the hitchhiker asks the...
Ken Segal's transcribed variant of the Vanishing Hitchhiker urban legend as collected by Richard Rebber. In this account, Segal describes a woman who killed her husband on their wedding night. People now report seeing a woman in her wedding dress...
Letter from Theodore Debs, 4/2/1945. Writes that friends are of the greatest importance in life. Says that a "man or woman without a friend, though possessed of material wealth in lavish abundance, is poorer than a mendicant on the highway." ...
Journalism; Indiana State Normal School; Indiana State University; Education; Literature; College yearbooks;
A monthly journal written and published by the students and faculty of Indiana State Normal School. The last issue of the school year was dedicated to the graduating seniors and printed in the style of an annual yearbook.
This is Jake Sheehan's typewritten account of the legend of Spook Light Hill in Clay County near Brazil Indiana, collected Garry Elder. According to legend, he approached the lights and was frightened, but realized that they were cars coming from...
