The Blue Guide to Indiana
- Sep 15, 2018
- 1 min read
★★★☆☆
Spanning the gamut from eye rolling to laugh-out-loud funny, with the majority of the book falling into the mildly-amusing middle, Michael Martone's nearly-true travel companion, The Blue Guide to Indiana, seems best suited as a welcome gift for those newly transplanted to the almost-mottoed "Heritage State" (if then Secretary of State Ralph Otter's first official act of office in 1979 hadn’t lead to an insurrection and bloodless coup) or as gag gift/stocking stuffer for the Hoosier native. Having been born in Indianapolis in 1973, and having attended and graduated from high school on the Southside (fourth-generation Cardinal) and Indiana University-Bloomington, I myself fall into the latter category.
Some sites that will be on the top of my list the next time I go home to visit family: The Tomb of Orville Redenbacher in Valparaiso, The National Monument for Those Killed by Tornados in Trailer Parks and Mobile Home Courts in Goshen, The Trans-Indiana Mayonnaise Pipeline at the intersection of US 31 and Indiana 18 (between Miami and Cassville), The World's First Parking Lot in Plato, the Grand National Locomotive Drag Racing Finals in Whiting, Eli Lilly Land outside Martinsville, the First and Second Daylight Savings Wars of 1948 and 1955 in various locations north of US 24, and the Musée de Bob Ross in Muncie.
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