Four Purdue University Press books featured as Bicentennial Legacy Projects

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Four books from Purdue University Press are being featured as Bicentennial Legacy Projects and will be highlighted at the Indiana Historical Society's Holiday Author Fair.

The Indiana Historical Society's Holiday Author Fair will be noon to 4 p.m. Saturday (Dec. 3) at the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana History Center, 450 W. Ohio St., Indianapolis.

The four books are:

* "Calculated Risk: The Supersonic Life and Times of Gus Grissom," by George Leopold.

* "Enriching the Hoosier Farm Family: A Photo History of Indiana's Early County Extension Agents," by Frederick Whitford, Neal Harmeyer and David M. Hovde.

* "Slow Ball Cartoonist: The Extraordinary Life of Indiana Native (Purdue Graduate) and Pulitzer Prize Winner John T. McCutcheon of the Chicago Tribune," by Tony Garel-Frantzen.

* "A Place Called Turkey Run: A Celebration of Indiana's Second State Park in Photographs in Words," by Daniel P. Shepardson.

Authors Leopold, Hovde, Harmeyer and Garel-Frantzen will sign books. Proceeds from book sales will support the Indiana Historical Society.

From 1-3 p.m. Sunday (Dec. 4), Leopold will speak at the Barnes & Noble at The Shops at River Crossing (Keystone at the Crossing) in Indianapolis.

Peter Froehlich, Purdue University Press director, said all Bicentennial Legacy books are on sale through February 2017 as part of the press' Winter Gift Sale.

The state of Indiana will celebrate Statehood Day on Dec. 11.

For more information, contact Froehlich at pfroehli@purdue.edu.

Writer: Megan Huckaby, 765-496-1325, mhuckaby@purdue.edu

Source: Peter Froehlich, pfroehli@purdue.edu