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Author Janis Thornton reveals the stories of a day in Indiana like no other.Palm Sunday 1965 started as the nicest day of the year, the kind of weather that encouraged Hoosiers to get out in the sun, fire up the grill, hit the golf course, or roll down their car windows and take a leisurely drive. That evening, however, throughout northern and central Indiana, the sky turned an ominous black, and storms moved in, quickly manifesting as Indiana's worst tornado outbreak. Within three hours, twisters, some a half-mile wide, ripped through seventeen counties, devastating communities and leaving death and destruction in their wake. When the tornadoes were finished with Indiana, 137 people were dead, hundreds were injured, and thousands more were forever changed.
About the Author
Janis Thornton is the author of true crime/oral history/memoir "Too Good a Girl," two cozy mysteries in the Elmwood Confidential series -- "Dust Bunnies & Dead Bodies" and "Dead Air & Double Dares," and two local history books -- "Images of America: Tipton County" and "Images of America: Frankfort."She is a member of the national and Indianapolis chapter of Sisters in Crime, the Authors Guild, Indianapolis Writers Center, and the historical society of her hometown, Tipton Indiana. You may contact/follow/like her at www.janis-thornton.com, Twitter (@JanisThornton) , and Facebook (facebook.com/janisthorntonauthor) .
