1. James Whitcomb Riley James Whitcomb Riley The Hoosier Poet of the most popular poets in American history, James Whitcomb Riley was born in Greenfield, Indiana, the second son and http://www.indianahistory.org/heritage/riley.html

Our Publications Recently Published Harrison Papers Wallace Papers Author Guidelines ... Home James Whitcomb Riley: The Hoosier Poet EARLY LIFE One of the most popular poets in American history, James Whitcomb Riley was born in Greenfield, Indiana, the second son and third of six children raised by Reuben A.a Civil War veteran and lawyerand Elizabeth (Marine) Riley. At an early age Riley discovered that he disliked the "iron discipline" of school life but enjoyed books. As a child, Riley often accompanied his father (a noted political orator) on trips to the Hancock County courthouse, where he observed the manners and mores of country society, as well as the countrified dialect he later used in his poetry. RESTLESS YOUTH "In my dreamy way I did a little of a number of things fairly wellsang, played the guitar and violin, acted, painted signs and wrote poetry. My father did not encourage my verse-making for he thought it too visionary, and being a visionary himself, he believed he understood the dangers of following the promptings of the poetic temperament. I doubted if anything would come of the verse-writing myself." James Whitcomb Riley on his younger days Leaving school at age 16, Riley first attempted to read law in his father's office. Possessed of a wanderlust, however, Riley turned to another pursuitart. He and some other youths, which he dubbed "the Graphics," traveled the Indiana countryside as sign, house and ornamental painters. He later joined a traveling wagon show as an advance agent. In 1873, Riley returned to Greenfield and worked for the town's newspaper. A year earlier, his poetry, under the name "Jay Whit," had first appeared in the

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James Whitcomb Riley Hoosier Connection: James Whitcomb Riley was born in Greenfield , worked in Anderson , and spent most of his life in Indianapolis . His childhood home in Greenfield, now dubbed James Whitcomb Riley's Old Home and Museum , and his adulthood home on Lockerbie St. in Indianapolis, the James Whitcomb Riley Museum Home , are open to the public. Works Discussed: The Bat A Country Pathway The Hoosier Folk-Child The Iron Horse ... Town and Country ,” and " The Wind " Born in 1849 in the village of Greenfield While working for The Anderson Democrat The Indianapolis Journal . By 1883, his first collection of poems, most of them written in the dialect of rural Indiana folk, was published as and While nature appears as a prominent subject in much of Riley’s poetry, he often treats it in generalized terms, celebrating flowers (e.g., "The Rose”), insects (“Two Sonnets to the June-Bug”), amphibians (“The Frog”), birds (“The Jaybird”), seasons (“Knee-Deep in June”), and so forth. He sometimes alludes to nature in classical myth (“A Glimpse of Pan”), and often presents nature as the background of a happy childhood (“The All-Golden”), but in most such poems he does not comment specifically on Indiana’s natural features.

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James Whitcomb Riley 150 Years Although Riley was born in Greenfield, he had many friends in Anderson and spent a good deal of time here. As a young man, he traveled summers with Dr. S. B. McCrillus, a local medicine man. Riley painted signs for McCrillus and helped put on a show in the towns where they stopped to sell medicine. When Riley came to town to work as a reporter for the Anderson Democrat, he was familiar with the city. During this period he began to write seriously. The poetry flowed from his pen onto the news columns. The face of the Democrat took on a whole new look. An aspiring artist named Samuel Richards cleverly illustrated Riley's poems. Even advertisements for local retail stores and businesses were set to rhyme. Riley "hung out" with the newspapermen at the hotel in the evenings, where is was frequently teased about the quality of his poetry by the editor of the rival Herald. One night, during a discussion about writing, he told the group that any poem by a well-known author would be immediately accepted because of the author's celebrity alone. To prove his point, he wrote a poem, "Leonainie", in the style of Edgar Allen Poe and sent it to a newspaper friend in Kokomo, who was in on the joke. The poem drew national attention and even drew praise from his critical editor. When an authority on Poe wanted to see the manuscript, some friends of Riley's created a hand-written poem on the flyleaf of an old book. However, the fraud was discovered.

11. James Whitcomb Riley James Whitcomb Riley. James Whitcomb Riley was born in 1849, and he died in 1916. JamesWhitcomb Riley never went to school untell he was past five years old. http://lowell.warren.k12.in.us/Archive 00-01/4th/Shepler/riley.htm

James Whitcomb Riley James Whitcomb Riley was born in 1849, and he died in 1916. He grew up in Greenfield,IN. James Whitcomb Riley never went to school untell he was past five years old. He was one of the best known authors. James Whitcomb Riley was a poet writer. Some of his favorite poems were the"Swimming Hole",and "Little Orphant Annie". James Whitcomb Riley won a poet contest. He made his name by contributing mainly dialect poems to the Indinapolis Journal in 1877. by Chelsa Sources: Indiana by Dennis and Judith Brindell http://www.biography.com The Wold Book Encyclopedia All about James Whitcomb Riley MSD Warren Township Lowell Elementary Site Map MSD of Warren Township Last Updated: Thursday, June 06, 2002 07:07 AM Lowell Elementary School 2150 S. Hunter Road Indianapolis, Indiana 46239 FAX 317.532.3939 Leopard Webmaster

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Poet of the Month Poetry Contest What's New? ... Guild Members James Whitcomb Riley Born 1846 Died 1916 James Whitcomb Riley was born on October 7, 1849 in Greenfield, Indiana, surrounded by farmland and primitive forests. The wooden planked National Road, which American pioneers and settlers used to travel to the western half of the nation, ran right through Greenfield. The area was diverse in culture, with people from many different homelands, though outwardly appearing as rough wilderness and newly settled country. The critic, Hamlin Garland, described it after a visit by saying, "To my eyes it was the most unpromising field for art, especially for the art of verse. The landscape had no hills, no lakes, no streams of any movement or beauty. Ragged fence-rows, flat and dusty roads, fields of wheat alternating with clumps of trees - these were the features of a country which to me was utterly commonplace - and yet from this dusty, drab, unpromising environment, Riley had been able to draw the honey of woodland poesy, a sweet in which a native fragrance as of basswood and buckwheat bloom mingled with hints of an English meadow and the tang of a Canada thistle." Riley's father, being a frontier politician and lawyer, named his son after an Indiana governor, James Whitcomb. Riley's mother was, of course, a homemaker, and she also wrote poetry. Riley had a difficult time academically, but possessed a talent for language, especially that of his own people. His father wanted him to become a lawyer, but Riley did not apply himself to law. For a time he traveled the American Midwest as a sign painter. He also traveled with a medicine salesman, and drew crowds by playing songs and performing impersonations of people he had met in his travels.

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James Whitcomb Riley James Whitcomb Riley (1849-1916) was born in Greenfield Indiana. He was a regular contributor of poetry to the Indianapolis Daily Journal. In his writing, Riley recorded the speech of a community of rural speakers of the Hoosier dialect. The Tree-Toad "Scur'ous-like," said the tree-toad, "I've twittered fer rain all day; And I got up soon, And hollered tel noon But the sun, hit blazed away, Tel I jest clumb down in a crawfish-hole, Weary at hart, and sick at soul! "Dozed away fer an hour, And I tackled the thing ag'in: And I sung, and sung, Tel I knowed my lung, Was jest about give in; And then , thinks I, ef hit don't rain now They's nothin' in singin', anyhow! "Once't in a while some farmer, Would come a-drivin' past; And he'd hear my cry, And stop and sigh Tel I jest laid back, at last, And I hollered rain tel I thought my th'oat Would bust wide open at ever' note! "But I fetched her!O I fetched her! 'Cause a little while ago, As I kindo' set, With one eye shet, And a-singin' soft and low

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J ames Whitcomb Riley Riley, who was a life long bachelor spent most of his time as the paying guest of the Nickum and Holstein families on Lockerbie Street in Indianapolis. When Riley died, on July 22, 1916, his body was taken to the Indiana Statehouse dome. The long line of people who came to pay their respect to James Whitcomb Riley totaled 35,000.

16. Introduction A site devoted to the poetry and life of james whitcomb riley, "The Hoosier Poet," or sometimes Category Arts Literature Authors R riley, james whitcomb......A HAPPY BIRTHDAY WEBSITE FOR A 150TH BIRTHDAY. It is not just any poetwe honor with a birthday website! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, james whitcomb riley. http://www.jameswhitcombriley.com/

ANNOUNCING THE "HOOSIER POET WEEKEND" FOR YEAR 2002. COME TO GREENFIELD, INDIANA, BIRTH HOME OF JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY, FOR THE 2D ANNUAL HOOSIER POET WEEKEND WHICH WILL BE HELD IN GREENFIELD, INDIANA FOR ALL interested Riley aficionados ON FRIDAY JUNE 22D THROUGH SUNDAY, JUNE 24TH, 2002. ALL NEW PROGRAM. DIFFERENT FROM THIS YEAR. MARK YOUR CALENDARS EARLY AND MAKE YOUR RESERVATIONS. (Lee's InN in Greenfield did great this year). Cost $75 PAYABLE TO RILEY UNIVERSITY, "hoosier poet weekend". p.o. box 585, Greenfield, IN 46140. RESERVE YOUR SPACE NOW. Teachers can get credits for Cont.Ed. (at least those in Indiana) Email RileyUniversity@aol.com . If you mail your reservation in by Jan. 1, 2002, cost is reduced to $60. A "HAPPY BIRTHDAY" WEBSITE FOR A 150TH BIRTHDAY It is not just any poet we honor with a birthday website! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Yes, Happy Birthday James Whitcomb Riley, America's Children's Poet and the poet of the Hoosier people wherever they may be around the world. Riley is, you see, the "Hoosier Poet." "Hoosier" is not just a name for Indiana folk. No, it is the name for people who are humble before God and hardworking despite suffering all that life throws at them. They are sympathetic with the plight of others and tolerant beyond measure of race, creed, gender, orientation or social status. Each Hoosier keeps an eye out for trouble but hopes and prays that none hits him or her. The themes of the poetry of a "Hoosier Poet" reflect this kenotic outlook.

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18. Riley, James Whitcomb - University Of Maryland riley, james whitcomb. Complete Works Of james whitcomb riley Volume 10 Complete Works Of james whitcomb riley http://www.lib.umd.edu/ETC/ReadingRoom/Poetry/Riley

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19. The Lockerbie Home Of James Whitcomb Riley Information on the author and his home. http://www.indianahistory.org/heritage/jwr.html

Our Publications Recently Published Harrison Papers Wallace Papers Author Guidelines ... Home The Lockerbie Home of James Whitcomb Riley An Indianapolis poet who had recently begun to garner attention for his work in the Indianapolis Journal was out driving with a friend in the city one afternoon in 1880 when he came upon a shady spot at the corner of Lockerbie and East Streets. While taking in the sights, the onetime traveling sign painter chanced to see a young lady drive past in a small, clay-colored carriage, stop, and enter a stately brick home. Entranced by what he had seen, the Hoosier writer returned to the area a few days later. "Walking back to the office, I repeated the phrase with every footstepLockerbie StreetLockerbie Street. The words clung to me like tickseed to a tiger," he said. From the experience he wrote the poem "Lockerbie Street," which was published in the Journal . The work lauded the thoroughfare for offering relief "from the clangor and din" of the big city and offering "sheltering shade" to those who wandered its path. The day the poem appeared the poet discovered that his office had been stuffed full of flowers from grateful Lockerbie Street residents. The bard in question

20. James Whitcomb Riley Frameset Online exhibit from Indiana University. Includes original manuscripts of poetry, first editions of printed works, photographs, correspondence, memorabilia, art work, music, and birthday greetings from admirers. http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/riley/exhibit.htm

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