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“Even now when we visit Indiana I get a twinge in my heart to see the old place. There is a new, young family…

— Ora-Jay Eash

“Being in Indiana was harder than I had expected. As we spent time in the familiar community, we didn’t seem to fit in as…

— Ora-Jay Eash

“The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.”

— Frederic Bastiat

“I love my State, because her people have been good and kind to me, and because her sky is above my home, as it…

— William Woods Holden

“How strange it is to view a town you grew up in, not in wonderment through the eyes of youth, but with the eyes…

— Marvin Allan Williams

“Kentucky, a state whose capital I did not know. I had never wondered about Kentucky, never imagined it as a girl the way I…

— Ann Patchett

“It's hard for people now to remember just how enormous the world was back then for everybody, and how far away even fairly nearby…

— Bill Bryson

“If you ask me why I came to Iowa, I would say that Iowa is beautiful in the way that any place is beautiful:…

— Nam Le

“ Nebraska is raw, primitive, ancient, other-worldly, spiritual, nihilistic, heartbreaking, horrifying and a whole bunch of other things that come to you like apparitions…

— David Burke

“Wisconsin isn't a state, it's a state of mind; and gentle good humor is the coin of the realm.”

— Scott Jacobs

“As a child I read hoping to learn everything, so I could be like my father. I hoped to combine my father's grasp of…

— Annie Dillard

“to explore the inner country of his own soul.”

— Jon Krakauer