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To celebrate his spaceflight in 1961, Grissom was made honorary Mayor of Newport News, Virginia, and a new library was dubbed the Virgil I. Grissom Library in the Denbigh section of Newport News, Virginia. [68] The airport in Bedford, Indiana, where Grissom flew as a teenager was renamed Virgil I. Grissom Municipal Airport in 1965.
The Indiana State Library and Historical Bureau is a public library building, located in Indianapolis, Indiana. It is the largest public library in the state of Indiana, housing over 60,000 manuscripts. Established in 1934, the library has gathered a large collection of books on a vast variety of topics.
Former Library Dean at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis. [53] Laurie Burns McRobbie: November 3, 2021: Indiana University’s First Lady Emerita and co-founder of the Center of Excellence for Women & Technology. [54] Frank Schilling: September 25, 2021: President of the Schilling Home Improvement Center.
Hoosier was one of America's original astronauts. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
Betty Lavonne Grissom (née Moore; August 8, 1927 – October 7, 2018) was the wife of American astronaut Gus Grissom, one of the Mercury Seven astronauts.. After her husband's death, she was the plaintiff in a successful lawsuit against a NASA contractor which established a precedent for families of astronauts killed in service to receive compensation.
The Nina Mason Pulliam Indianapolis Special Collections Room is a special collection of the Indianapolis Public Library in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States.. The collection contains a variety of adult and children's materials, fiction and nonfiction books by local authors, photographs, scrapbooks, typescripts, manuscripts, autographed editions, letters, newspapers, magazines, and regalia.
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Indianapolis Contemporary, Indianapolis, dissolved in 2020 [47] John Dillinger Museum, Crown Point, closed in 2017 [48] Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum, Fort Wayne; The Lincoln Museum, Fort Wayne, closed June 30, 2008 [49] Mascot Hall of Fame, Whiting, closed September 14, 2024. [50] Morris-Butler House, Indianapolis, no longer open for ...