Kathleen Angelone’s Story Archive

Birch Bayh: Making a Difference by Robert Blaemire

October 24, 2019 | by Kathleen Angelone

Blaemire tells the story of the life and achievements of Indiana’s long serving and influential Senator Birch Bayh. Starting with his immigrant ancestors, Blaemire tells just the right amount of Bayh’s background for the reader to understand how the Senator became the man he was. I had no idea that … Read More

Hauntings of the Underground Railroad: Ghosts of the Midwest by Jane Simon Ammeson

August 31, 2017 | by Kathleen Angelone

Hauntings of the Underground Railroad: Ghosts of the Midwest by Jane Simon Ammeson combines history and ghost lore into a fascinating book. Ammeson states in the foreword that although she is not a historian, she was raised in a family of history buffs. It shows. She researched extensively. She visited … Read More

Love and Greed in the Heartland: The Richmond Hill Murders by Robert L. Snow and Russ McQuaid

August 24, 2017 | by Kathleen Angelone

Love and Greed in the Heartland: the Richmond Hill Murders by Robert L. Snow and Russ McQuaid tells the whole sordid story of the Richmond Hill Murders.  The brightly colored “before” explosion and “after” explosion pictures on the book cover set the stage for the reader’s understanding of the gravity … Read More

Eliza And Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia

August 17, 2017 | by Kathleen Angelone

Francesca Zappia’s new book, Eliza And Her Monsters, centers on high schooler Eliza Mirk’s public (Eliza) and private (Lady Constellation) personas. And are they ever different! Eliza is the perfect embodiment of that painfully shy, strange and darkly clothed person all teens know. As Lady Constellation, she’s the anonymous creator … Read More

Spooky Indiana: Tales of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, and Other Local Lore

August 10, 2017 | by Kathleen Angelone

Spooky Indiana: Tales of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, and Other Local Lore as retold by S.E. Schlosser is a marvelous edition to the ever growing collection of stories about Hoosier hauntings and unexplained phenomenon. As the experienced author of several of the “Spooky” story collections published by Globe Pequot, Schlosser brings … Read More