ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dorothy Weinz Jerse, a native of Des Plaines, Illinois, has lived in her adopted city, Terre Haute, Indiana, for more than fifty years. She is a graduate of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, the former curator of the Vigo County Historical Society and executive director of the Terre Haute YWCA. The author or coauthor of six local history publications, she continues as a freelance writer for the Tribune-Star and Terre Haute Living magazine. A populist at heart, her love of diversity is reflected in this book, remembering the words of Thomas Aquinas: “Diversity is the perfection of the universe.”