Jim Brunnemer
Karen Smith has been and continues to be so helpful in arranging a book signing event in Martinsville. On Saturday, July 27, from 1-3 p.m. at the Martinsville Public Library, we'll be there to personalize "The Hoosier Game," on sale at a cost of $20. (The location is a bit ironic, since the only time I entered the library in school days was to get in out of the wind and rain!)
Jane Reese Thompson mentioned that one might recognize places found in the book's fictional town of Morgans Awe, Indiana, as being similar to sites that we who grew up in Martinsville may recall. Here's a brief excerpt from "The Hoosier Game" and one location that you may find familiar:
"South of town arose majestic Tanner's Hill, a monolith unchanged by the vagaries of time. Often, a person revisiting a place of his youth that seemed of considerable size finds the landmark disappointingly normal in the adult reality. Not so with this awesome natural wonder. Tanner's Hill dwarfed the surrounding terrain.
"In winter, boys slogged to the top of the snow-covered promontory, pulling rickety sleds behind them. Plummeting steeply--extending the length of two football fields--was a snowfield designed for young boys by God himself. Intrepid youths shouting 'Geronimo!' careened wildly downhill. Sled and boy would be launched skyward periodically from the small moguls strewn naturally across the hillside..."
On July 27, our hope is that we'll see old friends and classmates and that the gathering will be less a book signing than a reunion of the special people who together walked the halls of MHS.
God's blessings,
"Brum"
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