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re: our US tour in October (which I was supposed to be doing a series about, but was too busy with other things to get around to until now):
The visit to the Colonel Sanders Museum in Corbin, KY was unplanned.
Our subsequent visit to the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library in Indianapolis was not.
I should qualify that. We had already planned to return to Chicago via Indianapolis because it’s a relatively shorter drive from East Tennessee than the way we came (via Carbondale, IL and Nashville). But it’s still a nine-hour drive, so we planned to stay one night in Indianapolis so we could split up the drive time and be leisurely about it.
Having never been to Indianapolis before, and not knowing anyone there, I had no idea what we might do besides eat and sleep. The only attraction I knew anything about was the speedway, which wasn’t of much interest to us.
It was when we were in Chicago that my friend Lori said, “You could always go to the Kurt Vonnegut museum.”
To which I replied: “What Kurt Vonnegut museum?”
Turns out there is one. It looks like this.
They call it a Memorial Library, not a museum, but it does kind of serve that purpose – it has lots of Vonnegut’s personal memorabilia and artwork, as well as a recreation of the study in which he usually wrote in the 1970s.
Like this:
The study includes a working electric typewriter on which you can type whatever you want, albeit with the understanding that it will be tweeted via Kurt’s Typewriter.
(FWIW, here’s what I typed.)
There’s also an interactive video screen with video interviews of Vonnegut associates, including Morley Safer.
And of course you can buy pretty much all of his books there, as well as souvenirs.
More pictures here.
We spent about an hour there, and it was well worth the visit – provided yr a Vonnegut fan, of course, which I am.
So it goes,
This is dF
The visit to the Colonel Sanders Museum in Corbin, KY was unplanned.
Our subsequent visit to the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library in Indianapolis was not.
I should qualify that. We had already planned to return to Chicago via Indianapolis because it’s a relatively shorter drive from East Tennessee than the way we came (via Carbondale, IL and Nashville). But it’s still a nine-hour drive, so we planned to stay one night in Indianapolis so we could split up the drive time and be leisurely about it.
Having never been to Indianapolis before, and not knowing anyone there, I had no idea what we might do besides eat and sleep. The only attraction I knew anything about was the speedway, which wasn’t of much interest to us.
It was when we were in Chicago that my friend Lori said, “You could always go to the Kurt Vonnegut museum.”
To which I replied: “What Kurt Vonnegut museum?”
Turns out there is one. It looks like this.
They call it a Memorial Library, not a museum, but it does kind of serve that purpose – it has lots of Vonnegut’s personal memorabilia and artwork, as well as a recreation of the study in which he usually wrote in the 1970s.
Like this:
The study includes a working electric typewriter on which you can type whatever you want, albeit with the understanding that it will be tweeted via Kurt’s Typewriter.
(FWIW, here’s what I typed.)
There’s also an interactive video screen with video interviews of Vonnegut associates, including Morley Safer.
And of course you can buy pretty much all of his books there, as well as souvenirs.
More pictures here.
We spent about an hour there, and it was well worth the visit – provided yr a Vonnegut fan, of course, which I am.
So it goes,
This is dF
