One of its most famous residents, James Whitcomb Riley, loved the area so much that he named his dog Lockerbie and penned a poem to express his adoration. It opens with the lines, “Such a dear little ...

In an effort to garner more acclaim, he submitted a supposedly long-lost poem by Edgar ... a wealthy family on Lockerbie Street, which now operates as the James Whitcomb Riley Museum Home.

James Whitcomb Riley (1849 ... such work as Riley’s “Little Orphant Annie” (1885) and “The Raggedy Man” (1888) were well known and widely recited. That’s not to say the poems were taken entirely ...

Today James Whitcomb Riley's Tomb ... But consider several things: Riley, who wrote "When the Frost is on the Punkin," "Little Orphant Annie," and other poems using back-country dialect ...

James Whitcomb Riley is one of the most famous Hoosiers of all time. The poet's collected works are a must-read today, as schoolchildren know, but he was popular in his lifetime, too. Poems were ...

GREENFIELD — New events and old traditions will come to the boyhood home of James Whitcomb Riley this year ... Each meeting will open with a Riley poem. Books can be purchased at the museum ...

b. Victorian Christmas Open House: i. Saturday, December 8, 10am – 4pm, James Whitcomb Riley Museum Home at 528 Lockerbie St., in Historic Lockerbie Square Neighborhood ii. Victorian Santa ...

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