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A Hoosier holiday

Chapter 2: ILLUSTRATIONS
By Theodore Dreiser
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An author returns to his Midwestern home on a long road pilgrimage with an artist companion, offering a series of travel sketches that mix on-the-spot description with recollection. He moves through towns, lakeshores, hotels and country roads, noting industry, rural work, fairs and local characters while evoking childhood places and old acquaintances. The pieces alternate vivid landscape and weather scenes with reflective essays on memory, coincidence, and community change, balancing intimate small-town detail with broader meditations on time, modern life, and personal identity.

ILLUSTRATIONS

The Warsaw Home Frontispiece
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The Old Essex and Morris Canal 38
Wilkes-Barre 58
A Coal Breaker Near Scranton 62
Franklin Studies an Obliterated Sign 70
Factoryville Bids Us Farewell 88
The Great Bridge at Nicholsen 94
Florence and the Arno, at Owego 110
Beyond Elmira 132
Franklin Dreams Over a River Beyond Savona 136
The “Toon O’ Bath” 140
Egypt at Buffalo 178
Pleasure before Business 186
Conneaut, Ohio 200
The Bridge That Is to Make Franklin Famous 218
Where I Learn That I Am Not to Live Eighty Years 222
Cedar Point, Lake Erie 238
Hicksville 268
With the Old Settlers at Columbia City, Indiana 276
Central Indiana 330
In Carmel 362
The Best of Indianapolis 382
The Standard Bridge of Fifty Years Ago 390
Franklin’s Impression of My Birthplace 398
Terre Haute from West of the Wabash 404
My Father’s Mill 422
Vincennes 432
The Ferry at Decker 444
The Ohio at Evansville 458
A Beautiful Tree on a Vile Road 468
A Cathedral of Trees 472
French Lick 478
A HOOSIER HOLIDAY