Arthur Franklin Mapes' poetry inspires people of all ages
Mike Mapes grew up thinking everyoneâs dad wrote poetry. âIt seemed natural to me. Thatâs what dads did,â he said when he and his siblings gathered in February for a video about their father â Arthur Franklin Mapes â author of Indianaâs state poem. Arthur Franklin Mapes wrote âIndianaâ 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 and Walling in Kendallville by day and a dad, nature enthusiast and poet at all other times â t...
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