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Gene Stratton-Porter
NARRATOR: This Indiana Bicentennial minute is made possible by the Indiana Historical Society and law firm of Krieg DeVault.
PAULEY: An author, she wrote 26 books, several made into movies, a columnist published regularly in national magazines, a nature photographer bent on capturing the scenes of her vanishing Indiana wetlands and a movie producer.
Images of Gene Stratton-Porter is shown.
PAULEY: Gene Stratton-Porter was one of the most remarkable women of her day. Gene was born in 1863 and grew up on a Wabash County farm. After marriage she lived near the swamp that inspired her stories, “A Girl of the Limber Lost,” “Harvester,” and “Freckles.” After development drained her beloved wetlands, she moved to Rome City and built the cabin, “Wildflower Woods.”
Images of the cabin is shown.
PAULEY: It’s an Indiana State Historic site open to a public who loves Indiana as much as did Gene Stratton-Porter. I’m Jane Pauley.
NARRATOR: This Indiana Bicentennial minute is made possible by the Indiana Historical Society and law firm of Krieg DeVault.
Indiana Bicentennial Minute
- Gas Boom
- Miles Labs
- The Harrisons
- Native Americans
- Elwood Haynes
- Morgan’s Raid
- Red Skelton
- Indiana Astronauts
- John Dillinger
- Gov. Oliver Morton
- Indiana State Parks
- Cole Porter
- Auto Indiana
- Evansville, Refrigeration Capitol of the World
- Knute Rockne
- Gennett Records
- Indiana Agriculture
- Kurt Vonnegut
- Carole Lombard
- State Capitol History
- Saint Theodora Guerin
- Hoagy Carmichael
- French Lick and West Baden Springs
- Eugene V. Debs
- Indiana’s First Railroad
- Eli Lilly
- Gary, Indiana, and Michael Jackson
- John Wooden
- Cummins Engine
- General Lew Wallace
- Back Home Again in Indiana
- Indiana Avenue
- Indiana Statehood
- Steamboat Era
- James Whitcomb Riley
- Super Bowl XLVI
- Abraham Lincoln
- Madam Walker
- Crispus Attucks
- Vice Presidents
- Philo Farnsworth
- T.C. Steele
- Milan Miracle
- Levi Coffin
- Robert Kennedy
- Von Tilzer Brothers
- Ernie Pyle
- New Harmony
- Gene Stratton-Porter
- The Shaping of the Crossroads of America
- Soldiers and Sailors Monument
- Indianapolis Motor Speedway
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