I truly enjoyed the concept of this book. I agree with the previous reviewer that the photographs are exceptional in that they often depict the history of a subject as well as the present.

I am quite disappointed, however, in the editing (or lack thereof) of the book. It appears that the manuscript was put together in haste. The editor and/or the publisher really fell short of their job.

Because I was born, and still live in Indianapolis - and my family history began in this city around 1850 - I looked forward to reading each of the chapters. Unfortunately, the frequent grammatical and typographical errors really distracted from the content. If the work had been edited, it would have a home among other treasures on my bookshelf. It is sad, however, that I would be expected to pay even Amazon's discounted price for a piece that could have truly been a treasure - if someone had just taken the time to edit it.

I grew up in Indianapolis and really enjoyed reading about all of the things that have gone away since I was a little kid. I used to love Burger Chef, and the downtown Ayres store. I remember the Riverside Amusement Park sitting closed there for years when we would pass it going out to the Speedway.

The author also has a webpage called "Lost Indiana" which talks about some of the Lost Indy topics, but also some other neat sites in the rest of the state. You could google this to find it.

I live in the Indianapolis area, so this book is extra special. The photographs are amazing. It tells the story of the old Indianapolis and how life used to be in our fair city. The canal is lovely to look at now, but the author takes us back to when the canal was used for trade. You can still shop at LS Ayres in the suburbs, but you can't shop in the store downtown in all it's history and glory. shopping used to be a big event. This book is wonderful. The stories are told in a way to take you back in time. Who knew Indianapolis had interurbans & streetcars? Now I Know....

My grandmother was the best cook in the world. Thanks to this cookbook, I now know how she made those great lumpy mashed potatoes and homemade-tasting green beans and... It's too bad terms like "homemade" and "country" have been overworked by Madison Avenue types because those adjectives apply perfectly here. It's all good, but it's not all healthy fare. In fact, I eat pretty "clean" throughout the week but on my "free" day, this is the cookbook I reach for. The only drawback is the ingredients are not listed separately with the recipes. That can become a bit problematic for a person like me, when the stove is blazing and you've got three things going at the same time and you forgot how many cups of milk the recipe called for. Still, the food always comes out tasting great. Invariably, Hutchens' recipes are the ones asked for by guests. I share the name of the cookbook and its author's identity -- but I don't share the cookbook itself. It's one of the few I would truly miss if it didn't come back.

This book is the real thing. Nancy Hutchens' stories and recipes brought back yummy memories of one of the thrills of my childhood - the day-long trips to my grandfather's Illinois farm. Growing up outside of St. Louis, life and mealtimes were pretty suburban. But meals at the farm were just as Nancy describes - two or three different meat dishes, numerous dishes of vegetables which we helped pick out of the garden that morning (no gardens back in the suburbs), several choices of pies and cakes for dessert all made that morning and LOTS of people sitting at one long table in the kitchen itself. My sister and I always requested our favorite meal from our grandmother for our birthdays - Chicky Noodles and Green Beans. This meal always was accompanied by the Angel Food cake because what else do you do with a dozen egg whites when you've used the yokes for the noodles? We've been looking for these recipes for years and thanks to Nancy, we've finally found them, just as we remembered them. Now our children can share some of the delicious and fulfilling dishes we grew up on - and we'll tell the stories. A wonderful way to pass on family history. Thanks to Nancy Hutchens for putting it all together.

This book is good for someone that is wanting to learn alot about Indiana Railroads, and their historical value. If your into railroads, this is a must have coffee table book. Some small errors in it, but for a book of this scale, it is great, and very profesionally done.

Very complete for a one volume history. If Indiana railroads are an interest, this is the starting book.

"Eerie, Indiana" was my favorite TV show in the world during that sadly brief period, when I was 13 years old, that I had a reason to live every Sunday night at 7:30. When I recently discovered that it had been turned into a young adult book series, I rushed to the store to pick up the first installment.

What impressed me is how the writer, Mike Ford, kept the novel in the tradition of the TV show. The characters, right down to every last obscure one, are all intact and the book sticks to the shows whole ominous yet comic tone, with witty pop culture references scattered throughout. One thing that placed "Eerie" high above all other shows aimed at the same audience (or higher, for that matter) was that it never talked down to it's audience just becuase they were kids. The book doesn't either. It assumes that young readers are capable of thought and imagination.

Another thing that I love about the show, and that this book picks up on as well, is that, as weird as the situations got, there were usually traces of humanity in the characters actions. Here, the Stewarts use Foreverware as a clinging onto the past and erasing the tragedy that's plagues their lives for years. The citizens of Eerie are weird, but rarely are they weird simply for weirdnesses sake.

If I have one minor complaint about this book its that I kind of wish that Ford had come up with a different premise for it instead of simply revisiting the story of the first "Eerie" episode. He does it very well this time but I'm hoping that the later books in the series will go off in their own directions. I intend to find out for myself very soon.

It's a great book except to understand it, you have to see FOREVERWARE, an original EERIE INDIANA show. It's a great book. It was more weird than scary.

I received this as a college graduation gift as I was leaving my Southern Indiana home. I have treasured it since. And, it makes a great "coffee table" book.

"With poet David Ignatow you may call Krapf's work 'a book of rural psalms' that celebrates the chain of generations past and still unborn. No doubt, Norbert Krapf is today's strongest poetic voice in search of German heritage," German Life; "Although these poems are deeply rooted in the ...lives of Krapf's German-Catholic ancestors, their ultimate concerns are what Faulkner called the 'old universal truths' of 'love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice,'" Arts Indiana; "With its emphasis on the specifiities of a place and its people, Krapf's poetry had deep affinities with the local color tradition of American literature. But like Kentucky poet Wendell Berry, Krapf's fore is in recognizing the spiritual interaaction between a people and their place," Sycamore Review; "The mix of sunny and dark images places the poet in a Frostian tradition as well as a Whitmanian one; Krapf's poems reverbate with the mystery of human character at the core of his family roots."

This story is about Indiana Jones, the famous hero, when he was a youngster. Indiana and his friend Herman are home from school vacation and are in England to help their fathers explore Stonehedge. When they arrive they find all the workers are being scared away by strange and scary things. It is Indy and Herman's job to discover who is scaring the men away. The boys discover a group of dark robed men led by a bad wizard. Indy and Herman must solve the mystery of what these men really plan on doing. This book was very exciting and also taught me about history. Read this book to solve the mystery of Stonehedge.

In this book, Indiana Jones is brave as he battles mystery after mystery, searching for clues. I recommend this book and all of the other Indiana Jones books to all lovers of action.

This isn't the best introduction to the world of Indy novels. Obviously, Indy of 1922 wouldn't get to see as much action as Indy of the 1930's, but still... The book seemed to be focused more on politics and intrigue than the archeology. The visions Indy gets when holding the Omphalos, though, are a nice touch. Be sure to read my reviews of Dance of the Giants, Seven Veils, Genesis Deluge, Unicorn's Legacy, Interior World, Sky Pirates(coming soon), Philosopher's Stone, Dinosaur Eggs, and Secret of the Sphinx.

I just finished Peril at Delphi, and I thought it was great how MacGregor shed some light on the younger Jones. I enjoyed the book, and will continue to read the rest of Rob's Indy adventures.

I thought Peril at Delphi was a good beginning to the novel series that fills in the blanks of what happens in Indy's life between where the Young Indiana Jones Chronicles TV series left off and the Raiders of the Lost Ark begins. It's fast-paced, interesting and stays true to the Indy that we all know and love. However we must remember while reading this book that Indy is still young and not as worldly or battle-hardened as he is in the Movies. That's what I think is really special about the Rob McGregor novels. He lets us see the events and cicumstances that shape Indy into the gritty, Harrison Ford character of later adventures. Peril at Dephi is a must-read for all Indy fans.

This book was simply a pleasure to read. While it was well documented, the documentation did not grind the book to a halt. I would consider this more as an anecdotal history rather than a military history. The author puts a human face on a serious topic. I have now read all of the books in print on the Iron Brigade and the Nineteenth Indiana Volunteers and this one is the best.

As an ardent student of history I found this book to be wonderfully documented and accurate. I have read all of the books about the 19th Indiana and the Iron Brigade and found this one to be the best by far. I was so intrigued with the book that I visited the critical archives and libraries cited in Mr. Dunn's book to verify their accuracy. Each entry which I checked was quoted exactly as I found them. I have heard through some Civil War circles that there has been an attempt to impugn this book in an attempt to increase sales of the other 19th Indiana books. If so, this is sad. I have recommended this book to all of my friends.

What a great book on the Nineteenth Indiana Volunteers of the Iron Brigade. The book was maticulously researched and documented. The best part about the book was that the documentation did not detract from the enjoyable reading. The pictures and roster were very helpful. I have personally read over 200 Civil War regimental histories and this one was my favorite. I have read two other books on the Nineteenth Indiana and found them to be lacking in documentation and in ease of reading. This book is the best.

I have read all of Rob MacGregor's, one of Caiden's (very poor Indiana Jones rendition in my opinion) and now all of Max McCoy's. First off I loved the early stories telling how Indy became an achaeologist, his college years, and the love of his life. Rob MacGregor captured the magic of Indiana Jones, and quite frankly the personality that we already knew from the three movies. He established a great continuity that I had hoped would follow over into rest of the books, but sadly did not once Martin Caiden took over the pen. I figured that Max McCoy would carry on with the continuity, but again I was disappointed. Something that Rob MacGregor made clear in Dance of the Giants, Seven Veils, and the Genesis Deluge was that Indiana Jones was married at one point in his life to a woman named Deirdre Campbell. In this book however, Faye Meskelyne asks if he had ever been married, and Indy replied "No I have never been married before." So whatever was established by MacGregor, was totally ignored by McCoy. Still Max gave out four really good novels, and I hope that in the future, if the Indiana Jones series is revived that the author sticks to the previous continuity of the other books.

This is te first bok I've read by Max McCoy. I didn't even realize it was a part of a series (other than being an Indiana Jones bok, obviously) until he was talking about his old girlfriend and I realized this was supposed to be familiar ground to the reader. Undaunted, I soared ahead, enthralled by the adventure. I enjoyed the bok up until the last twenty or so pages, when it becomes glaringly necessary to have followed McCoy's series in order to appreciate what's going on. I wouldn't have minded this, had the cover said something like "Fouth Installment in this Series" or something. Then, that time-travel thing came out of left field. I hope the earlier boks in the series give some sort of justification for that, although from reading the reviews here, it seems doubtful. That's why this bok didn't get 5 stars from me. Other than that, the bok is great. The pacing, dialogue, flavor, action, and scenes/locations are right out of an Indy movie. So far, only other book by McCoy I have is "Philosopher's Stone." Sounds like I ned to pick up a couple more before reading any further...

I really enjoyed reading this, in fact I read the whole thing in one night. Very Raiders of the Lost Ark - esque, it's fast-paced, exciting, and pulls you right in. If you like Indiana Jones, the books and the movies, then you'll definitely like this.

A book that defies the crime fiction mold. From page one, you know you're in for a different kind of read. Forget the doughnuts, stale coffee, stakeouts and nicotine-addicted cynics. Private eye Chase Dagger ferrets out leads with the aid of his unseasoned, yet bright and enigmatic partner, Sara Morningsky - who draws on mystical shape-shifting powers passed down through generations of Native American ancestors to investigate leads. This murder mystery is full of twists and turns and red herrings that keep you guessing till the end. The first Chase Dagger novel, I understand Lee Driver really hits her stride with the next in the series, 'Full Moon, Bloody Moon,' which won a Book of the Year Award.

Recently I read Lee Driver's, The Good Die Twice. This is a terrific mystery whether you enjoy reading mysteries or not. An excellent author is Lee Driver keeping me into the story throughout.

The story revolves around Sara Morningsky, a charming Native American girl with divine shape-shifting powers, and Chase Dagger, a very hard-nosed detective. They investigate the murder of supermodel Rachel Tyler. Sara, as a shapeshifted Hawk, witnesses a murder of a young woman. However, by the time she goes and gets Dagger from her apartment, all evidence has disappeared. Later, they are invited to a party at the Tyler house. At the house, Sara sees a picture of Rachel and recognizes her as the one who had been murdered. However, evidence had shown that Rachel passed away five years before while on a family yacht one night. Sara and Dagger are left to investigate what really happened with some help from Skizzy, Padre, Nick Tyler, and Einstein, Dagger's annoying macaw.

The author does an excellent job in tying the plot together in the end. Although I do not enjoy reading, this was one of the first books in which I understood what was happening and actually enjoyed the story. Despite the 300 pages, I loved this book and how Lee Driver writes.

A handsome detective, colorful sidekicks, and great writing make for a wonderful read. Chase Dagger has a past not fully shared with his readers. The cases he works are ones not usually taken by your everyday P.I. Couple this with some Native American mythology and a quirky paranoid computer geek and you've got one entertaining read. THE GOOD DIE TWICE basically refers to someone who dies twice. She was assumed dead the first time and the puzzle is in who tried to kill her the first time and where has she been hiding out for five years. The Native American lore is in Sara's ability to shapeshift. (Native Americans believed that elders could shapeshift into animal forms to spy on their enemies.) I love mysteries with a bit of fantasy, sci-fi, psychic phenomena, you name it. By reading the cover or reading the book description on Amazon, anyone can tell that this is what the book entails. So for readers who can't suspend disbelief, it's your own fault if you are disappointed. Stick to the Oprah picks!