Bøger af Fred D. Cavinder

Hear tales from the Circle City's murderous underbelly, from poor Silvia Likens, who was tortured for months by her foster mother and eventually discovered dead, to Carrie Selvage, whose skeleton was found in an attic twenty years after she disappeared from a hospital bed in 1900. Discover how housekeepers found Dorothy Poore stuffed in a dresser drawer on a July day in 1954 and the curious story of Marjorie Jackson, her body was discovered clothed in pajama bottoms and a flannel robe on her kitchen floor, and police found $5 million hidden around her house in garbage cans, drawers, closets, toolboxes and a vacuum cleaner bag. Join local historian Fred Cavinder as he recounts the gruesome tales of Indiana's capital city, from mystery to murder.

The stories in this book will provide entertainment for everyone and evoke wonder in the most jaded observer of the human condition. Some of the exploits that Fred D. Cavinder describes are half-hidden footnotes to national and international happenings. Others seem so typical of Indiana that they will appeal to anyone who understands the Hoosier spirit. But all of them are true-recorded in reliable accounts or by reliable witnesses from early times to the present.In "e;Saving Face,"e; Cavinder introduces us to General Ambrose Burnside of Liberty. Burnside blundered his way through the Civil War, relocated to Rhode Island, and served three terms as governor and two terms as U.S. Senator. But what we really remember Burnside for is his unique facial hair-his "e;sideburns."e; Did you know that Indiana produced three of the movie Tarzans? In "e;AHHaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiieeeeeeeee!"e; you can find out who they were. With its sometimes quirky stories about the Hoosier state, More Amazing Tales from Indiana will be a ready companion for the bedside table and will provide a wellspring of anecdotes for speechmakers and pundits.

Reality is often stranger than fiction, and the true wonders of the world are as amazing as anything dreamed of by the producers of fantasy - four-headed cows, Taj Mahals, 1,000-pound people. here is a collection of tales and incredible 'facts, ' some kooky and strange, some from the twilight zone, historical oddities and other fascinations.

What Guinness have done for the records of the world, this book does for Indiana, whose inhabitants have blazed a trail of accomplishments in nearly every field.