
Where Pen Meets Place
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Barton Towers
Etheridge Knight
“The Idea of Ancestry”

Booth Tarkington House
Booth Tarkington
The World Does Move

Catacombs
Maurice Broaddus
Pimp My Airship

Central State Hospital
Multiple Works

Crossroads of America
Kurt Vonnegut
Breakfast of Champions

Fletcher Trust Building
C. L. Moore
“The Black God’s Kiss”

Garfield Park
Multiple Works

Indiana Avenue
Mari Evans
“Ethos and Creativity: The Impulse as Malleable”

Jacob Klein Bakery and General Store
Johnny Gruelle
“Raggedy Ann and the Kittens”

Kurt Vonnegut Mural
Kurt Vonnegut
Marian McFadden Memorial Lecture

Lockerbie Street
James Whitcomb Riley
“Lockerbie Street”

Mari Evans Mural
Mari Evans
“I Am a Black Woman”

Meredith Nicholson House
Meredith Nicholson
The House of a Thousand Candles

Pogue’s Run
John Green
Turtles All the Way Down

Red Key Tavern
Dan Wakefield
Going All the Way

Shortridge High School
Madelyn Pugh
Multiple Works

Skiles Test Nature Park
Susan Neville
“Blue”

The Pyramids
Adrian Matejka
“Ascendant Blacks”

Woodruff Place
Booth Tarkington
The Magnificent Ambersons
Skiles Test Nature Park
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The urban legend of Skiles Test inspired Susan Neville’s In the House of Blue Lights.