Patrickj Chesebrough News Today

Mike Mapes grew up thinking everyone’s dad wrote poetry. “It seemed natural to me. That’s what dads did,” he said when he and his siblings gathered in February for a video about their father — Arthur Franklin Mapes — author of Indiana’s state poem. Arthur Franklin Mapes wrote “Indiana” while sitting at the kitchen table ... he would get something in his head and he would jot it right down, his children recalled, in various ways. A machinist at Flint ...