Part I. Saints and sinners
The last vaudevillian: Red Skelton
Hubris: Bobby Knight
Odd Bodkin
D.C. Riddle
The Hoosier general: Lewis B. Hershey and the selective service
Herbie Wirth
Inner vision: Amish healer
Part II. Complicated places
A fair of the heart
A surprising utopia
Architecture and community
The song of Indiana
Part III. Culinary delights
'Cook good, serve generously, price modestly': the Shapiro's story
She's the cheese
Strange brew
Market daze: Bloomington's farmers market
Pawpaw redux
Tibetan new year celebration
Lair of the turtle soup: a culinary tradition
Part IV. Artists and their craft
This rash adventure: Ezra Pound at Wabash College
Erotica whose purpose was scholarly: Kinsey Institute Art exhibit
Gargoyles and other pagans
Crossroads of American sculpture
The stuff of legend: Indiana and the Empire State Building
Part V. The present past
John Dillinger's funeral
Twist the tiger's tail
That's it: prohibition, 1918-1933
Black-gold era's luxurious perch: Evansville Petroleum Club
Lions, tigers, high wires
Conflict and conciliation
Taliban in Indiana
War fare.