Max Lynch
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Title |
Max Lynch |
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Alternative Title |
Lynch, Max; Brother Max; Mad Max; Brother Max Lynch; |
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Genre |
Legend -- People -- Local |
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Description |
L. Joseph Stivers transcribed interview of Jamie Virostko about Brother Max Lynch. According to Virostko, Lynch worked at Indiana State University until he was fired for physically restraining a student to prevent them from leaving Lynch's class while he was preaching. |
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Informant |
Virostko, Jamie |
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Collector |
Stivers, L. Joseph |
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Date of Original |
1994-04-28 |
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Contextual Information |
Max Lynch was a math teacher at the Indiana State University Laboratory School and an instructor at Indiana State University in Terre Haute, Indiana, from about 1961 to 1973 or 1974. Lynch was fired after he refused to stop preaching to his classes. After leaving ISU, Lynch started preaching on campuses all over Indiana and eventually started travelling to out-of-state schools. He was a highly evangelical and controversial man. Max Lynch died in 2000. |
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Repository |
Indiana State University Folklore Archives, Special Collections, Cunningham Memorial Library, Terre Haute, Indiana 47809 |
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Coverage |
United States -- Indiana -- Vigo County -- Terre Haute -- 1994 |
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Subject |
Legends
People
Religion
Religious groups
Freedom of religion
Religious meetings
Religious processions
Indiana State University
Indiana State Laboratory High School (Terre Haute, Ind.)
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WV3 Subject |
Folklore
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Type |
text
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Material Type |
Interviews
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Date Digital |
2011-05-25 |
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Technical Metadata |
image/tiff 300 dpi; Epson GT-20000; Epson Scan |
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Copyright |
Digital image copyright c 2011 Indiana Folklore Collection. |
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Item ID |
isuf-MaxLynch004 |
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