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To: Miss Marple

Always think of "The Girl of the Limberlost" when thinking of Indiana. Our teacher read to us every Friday before school let out. Wasn't the "Hoosier Poet" from Indiana?


136 posted on 12/11/2004 11:17:55 AM PST by joybelle
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To: joybelle
My grandfather was from Portland, Indiana, which is Limberlost country. I live in central Indiana, near Indianapolis, which was the home of James Whitcomb Riley, the Hoosier Poet.

Riley wrote a lot of poems, but the most famous is "Little Orphan Annie." Riley was originally from Greenfield, and I believe there is a home there set up as a museum to him.

137 posted on 12/11/2004 12:22:47 PM PST by Miss Marple
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