Hoosiers

You know I'm taking another step back from the stories today to expound about Indiana, yeah we complain about the weather being unpredictable, seriously who could blame us, we have to run the heat in the morning turn the air on in the afternoon, and then turn the heat back on in the evening. That's just Indiana though we all know it who lives here, we burn in the summer due to humidity, in fact a man from Arizona wished he was back there where it was cooler, and I won't even start about the winters. It's home, many of us who stay here were either born here or moved here, and if you say you don't have any Kentucky in you we all know your not telling the truth, most of all who lives in Indiana had a relative who moved up here from Kentucky. Look at our nick name, Hoosier, we're called that because the accents of our ancestors, when someone came to the door and knocked on it they would call out, (W)ho'ss(Th) ere yes we have a colorful past. We also have hero's in George Rogers Clark, we had honorable enemies Tecumseh a Shawnee chief who incidentally was killed in battle fighting against another famous man of Indiana William Henry Harrison who would become the nations ninth President and the only one from Indiana. We also have sports hero's such as Larry Bird, Bobby Plump, and "Big" George McGinnis in basketball our state pass time, but it doesn't end there, we have Bob Griese in football, Tony Stewart in Auto Racing, Fuzzy Zoeller in Golf, Mike Aulby in bowling, and Fred "Cy" Young and Don Mattingly in Baseball. Then music, Micheal Jackson, John Mellencamp, and Kenny "Babyface" Edmunds just to name a very few, actors and actresses, Florence Henderson, Steven McQueen, and James Dean to name an extreme few. There are other famous people from here, Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Vivica A. Fox, Jay Cutler, Janie Fricke, Katie Douglas, and many many more, we are talented poets, business men and women, we are animal lovers, and hunters in the same breath we are Americana at its best. Our bird is fragile but strong in flight, our state bird is non other than the Cardinal, we raise our heads up high not afraid to be noticed, but give us Hoosiers a little wind for flight and like the Cardinal we sail through the skies.