Kathleen Angelone’s Story Archive

Book Review: The Seventh Mother by Sherri Wood Emmons

August 21, 2014 | by Kathleen Angelone

Jenny and her father Brannon are modern day gypsies, moving often to follow seasonal jobs. Eleven year old Jenny doesn’t remember her mother who died when she was three. Then there were the five other women — her surrogate mothers — each of whom disappeared without saying good bye to … Read More

Killers In The Family: Inside a Real Family of Criminals Bound by Blood by Robert L. Snow

July 10, 2014 | by Kathleen Angelone

During the 1980s, families in the area of 1400 North Bosart Avenue warned their children to stay away from the Reese home and family. Dawn Stuard didn’t follow that advice. She disappeared and her body was later found in a wooded area on East 23rd Street. Police suspected that Paul … Read More

Book Review: Goat Water Is Not What You Think: The Montserrat Island Life of Two Hoosiers and the Volcano That Ended It

June 19, 2014 | by Kathleen Angelone

Most Hoosiers have dreamed of wintering on a Caribbean Island. Carol and Ed Elrod lived the dream. Goat Water Is Not What You Think: The Montserrat Island Life of Two Hoosiers and the Volcano That Ended It is Carol’s memoir of their experience. After visiting to help repair hurricane damage, … Read More

Book Review: Fifteen Minutes of Fame

May 22, 2014 | by Kathleen Angelone

Julie Young, author of popular local histories such as Historic Irvington and Famous Faces of Indy’s WTTV-4, has written her first novel and it is good. Narrated by the protaganist Megan Taylor, Fifteen Minutes of Fame starts with her escape from life as Mon Ami. Then it flashes back so … Read More

Book Review: Girl on the Golden Coin: A Novel of Frances Stuart

May 8, 2014 | by Kathleen Angelone

After escaping to France from England after the fall of Charles I, Frances Stuart was raised in genteel poverty and on stories of her family’s previous prominence. Marci Jefferson’s debut novel, Girl on the Golden Coin: A Novel of Frances Stuart, starts the narration of Frances’ story immediately preceding the … Read More