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Two great nonfiction titles are back on the bookshelves down in the Historic District.
Shipwreck! A Comprehensive Directory of Over 3,700 Shipwrecks on the Great Lakes
by David D. Swayze
This 1992 compendium of disasters human and financial is the indispensable guide for history buffs, adventure divers, and for anyone fascinated by our inland seas. It includes treasure maps and a ship-by-ship inventory of losses on the five Great Lakes.
Did You Know? Three ships carrying the name Indiana were lost on the Lakes, including two in the same year on Lake Erie. Gordon Lightfoot had a huge hit with his song about the most capacious vessel ever to be lost on the Lakes. What ship was that?
Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong
by James W. Loewen
He shook things up with Lies My Teacher Told Me and walked away with the American Book Award. Now, Loewen looks askance at the way our historic site commemoraters mix up fact with fiction. This "subversive take on all things bogus and misinformative" is filled with debunkings of storied legends that continue to persist in a hero-starved America.
Did You Know? When white men came to settle in Indiana, they apparently left their women behind, at least if you inventory the historic markers erected by the state. How did they ever have children? In 1809, a Mrs. Jane Todd of Kentucky was relieved of an ovary without the benefit of anesthesia. She, and the bold doctor, continued to live in the Bluegrass State afterward. But the state felt it to be worthy of a marker to tell us she DIED in Indiana in 1842, thus making her the only white woman deemed to have contributed to the state's history.
Shipwreck! A Comprehensive Directory of Over 3,700 Shipwrecks on the Great Lakes
by David D. Swayze
This 1992 compendium of disasters human and financial is the indispensable guide for history buffs, adventure divers, and for anyone fascinated by our inland seas. It includes treasure maps and a ship-by-ship inventory of losses on the five Great Lakes.
Did You Know? Three ships carrying the name Indiana were lost on the Lakes, including two in the same year on Lake Erie. Gordon Lightfoot had a huge hit with his song about the most capacious vessel ever to be lost on the Lakes. What ship was that?
Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong
by James W. Loewen
He shook things up with Lies My Teacher Told Me and walked away with the American Book Award. Now, Loewen looks askance at the way our historic site commemoraters mix up fact with fiction. This "subversive take on all things bogus and misinformative" is filled with debunkings of storied legends that continue to persist in a hero-starved America.
Did You Know? When white men came to settle in Indiana, they apparently left their women behind, at least if you inventory the historic markers erected by the state. How did they ever have children? In 1809, a Mrs. Jane Todd of Kentucky was relieved of an ovary without the benefit of anesthesia. She, and the bold doctor, continued to live in the Bluegrass State afterward. But the state felt it to be worthy of a marker to tell us she DIED in Indiana in 1842, thus making her the only white woman deemed to have contributed to the state's history.
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