Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 October 1937 — Page 4

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The bank of Brandywine was memory lane today for J. Mart

Hinchman (above).

The Greenfield schoolmate of James Whitcomb

Riley paid bis in to the poet with a visit to ihe Efley homestead.

‘Jim Didn’ t Care for School Friend of Riley Remembers

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myself played hookey for 10 days. There was too much excitement to stay in school. Those were Civil War days and we went off along the railroad tracks to watch. trainloads of soldiers go by.” He went about examining an old case in the homestead which contained early records and programs of events in which the poet participated.

Teacher Recognized Talent

“That puts me in mind of some of the others who were in our room,” Mr. Hinchman said. “There was Will Pierson, John Guyman and Jerry Martin. I can’t remember all the teachers we had, but there was a fellow named Stevenson, Col. Foley, one named Van Wee and of course Lee O. Harris. “Now Lee, I guess, was about the first one who thought Jim really .could be a poet and he taugh him . about rhyme. Funny thing about Lee. He'd sneak down the aisle, stop at my seat and ask: ‘Got a chew?’ He'd always chew in school, but wouldn't let the rest of us.” Mr, Hinchman continued his latest tour of the restored homestead with Arthur Downing, Old Home Society president, who this afternoon was to accept it upon presentation by Mayor Arthur Allen. Dean Herman Wells, acting Indiana University president, also was to speak.

Qld Furnishings in Shrine

The-solid walnut doors, old maple dining room’ table, -four-poster beds, trundle bed and other handmade furnishings were examined by Mr. Hinchman. “Cap Riley, he was Jim’s father. He was a lawyer and went to the State Legislature. He could make a fine speech until he spoke too long and spoiled it. He had a hobby for making furniture. I used to watch him in my father’s planing mill. “Cap always was making rolling pins, towel rollers, potato mashers like this (he picked one he had made off the kitchen table) instead of ’'tending to his business. - “Cap wanted Jim to be a lawyer, but he wouldn't and kept on drawing and writing. Guess maybe I did read some of his’ early poems in The Democrat (Greenfield), but I don’t remember. Nobody really paid much attention then. They didn’t think he was going to be the great poet he was. “But everybody thinks different of Jim now. Wonder what he'd think about that shelter house for putting on bathing suits down at his swimmin’ hole they're going to

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dedicate this Tn the procession back here and this radio business tonight?” Mr. Hinchman was speaking about tonight's NBC broadcast from the Riley homestead.

“I'll be here,” he said: “Some of Jim’s relatives and friends of later days will be here for the party, too. Billy Davis, who swam with him, and David Walsh, who played in the Adelphian Band with him, ought to come, too.” Mrs. Leah K. Early, hostess, wel-

lessons.”

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Brandywine Bank Is Memory Lane for Cw Chum

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He is shown sitting before its open fireplace toading one of “Jim’s pieces that I guess maybe he dreamed about when he wasn't studying his

comed a group of visitors to the home. One was more than 90. He examined the poet’s trundle bed. “One thing about it,” he said, “Mr.

Riley slept in the same kind o’ ‘bed grandma tucked me into.”

School Children To Honor Riley

State and city school children today paid their tribute to James Whitcomb Riley in song and pageant. Programs were scheduled in -the

schools, while other youngsters were to give a program in his Lockerbie St. home, and another in the Wm. H, Block Co. auditorium. A program at Riley Memorial

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Hospital at noon was to be featured by the unveiling of a bust of the poet. The work of Myra Richards, made before Mr. Riley’s death, has been given to the hospital by Mrs. William H, Coleman in memory of her grandson, William Coleman Atkins, killed recently in an automobile accident. ) The program was to be in charge of the Junior League with Dean Herman Wells, acting Indiana Universiyt president, as speaker. John Herron Art Institute was observing Riley Day with an exhibition of portraits of thg poet.

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