Description
Book SynopsisBenefits from being the first collection of Indiana Christmas stories Includes contributions from Indiana's most famous writers, including James Whitcomb Riley, Kurt Vonnegut, and Jean Shepard Features an excerpt from the story that the film "A Christmas Story" was based on Features poetry, plays, short stories, and letters Takes a nostalgic look at a Hoosier Christmas
Trade ReviewIndiana's deep literary heritage is celebrated in a new anthology with a seasonal theme. . . . In all this collection covers a variety of emotions and literary styles. All are crisply written, and most are just a few pages, which makes this book admirable Advent reading, covering just one or two entries a day during the holiday season.
-- Rich Gotshall * Daily Journal, Franklin, IN *
Bryan Furuness delivers three dozen views of An Indiana Christmas in this new compendium of stories, poems, essays, bits of thought, personal scenes enlarged and condensed, poignant moments crystalized and timelessness upended, all spinning from that whirl on a plastic chair Barbara Shoup relates in the opening offering. . . . An Indiana Christmas invites us inside ourselves: our motivations, our challenges, our ability to connect with the call to care about this planet—our home universally in need of repair.
-- Rita Kohn * Nuvo *
Table of ContentsPreface
Earthbound / Barbara Shoup
Winter Scene, Past Midnight / Matthew Brennan
The Fable of the Cut-up Who Came Very Near Losing His Ticket, But Who Turned Defeat into Victory / George Ade
Making Pierogi on Christmas Eve / Karen Kovacik
Keeping Christmas Our Way / Gene Stratton-Porter
Digging and Grousing / Ernie Pyle
The farm wife finds grace in her empty barn / Shari Wagner
The farm wife makes her Christmas list / Shari Wagner
Indiana Winter / Susan Neveille
Home for the Holidays / Liz Whiteacre
A Reversible Santa Claus / Meredith Nicholson
Two Pieces / Ambrose Bierce
Shepherds, Why This Jubilee? / Bryan Furuness
Pictures from a Clapboard House / Jessamyn West
Too Cold / Jayne Marek
Winter Runes / Jayne Marek
Trifles / Lori Rader-Day
December Barns of Darkness / George Kalamaras
In Sunset and Moonlight, What Gathered Our Thoughts Was the Adhesive Dark / George Kalamaras
Nanny Anne and the Christmas Story / Karen Joy Fowler
Blessed rancor of music / Curtis L. Crisler
Wealth / Scott Russell Sanders
The Christmas Long Ago / James Whitcomb Riley
A Feel in the Christmas Air / James Whitcomb Riley
A Song for Christmas / James Whitcomb Riley
Baby Alive / Melissa Fraterrigo
Santa Claus, Indiana/ Bryan Furuness
Howard Garfield, Balladeer / Edward Porter
The Five Little Sykeses, from Mr. Bingle / George Barr McCutcheon
The Schneebrunzer / Norbert Krapf
The Myth of the Perfect Christmas Photo Family / Kelsey Timmerman
Treasure! / Eliza Tudor
from "December" in Abe Martin's Almanack / Frank McKinney Hubbard
Beasley's Christmas Party / Booth Tarkington
from In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash / Jean Parker Shepherd Jr.
While Mortals Sleep / Kurt Vonnegut
