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as they say, is history.

Sydney Pollack

The popular director/producer/actor, originally from Lafayette, Indiana, won Academy Awards for directing and producing the 1985 film Out of Africa. Having directed more than 20 films and 10 television shows, and having acted in over 30 shows or films as well as producing over 40 films, Sydney kept busy until the day he died. His first film, The Slender Thread, starred Sidney Poitier and Anne Bancroft. He had worked with the likes of Woody Allen, Dustin Hoffman, George Clooney, Meryl Streep, and Robert Redford. He was working on two films at the time of his death in May of 2008.

James Dean

James was born in Marion, spent some time in California, and then came back to Fairmount for his teenage years upon the death of his mother. Returning to California for college, he broke into acting to the dismay of his father. Taking on a number of small television roles, he only filmed three film roles, and was the first person to be posthumously awarded the Academy Award nomination for Best Actor; he died at 24 due to a tragic car accident that was not his fault. He starred in Rebel Without A Cause, East of Eden and the last film, Giant, was released after his death.

Garfield

This lovable cat, the comic strip character drawn by the artist Jim Davis from Muncie, Indiana, debuted in 1978 in forty one newspapers. Within a year, the strip had spread to one hundred papers. His first book, in 1980, hits the NY Times Bestseller List. By 1982, Garfield has seven books on the same list and is in one thousand newspapers. By 1987, Garfield is the third strip to appear in two thousand papers. www.garfield.com debuts in 1996. Jim and Garfield are Grand Marshals for the Indianapolis 500 race that year, too. In 2002, Garfield is declared the most widely syndicated comic strip by the Guinness Book of World Records. These are just a few of the highlights of this busy Hoosier.

Lew Wallace

This quiet gentleman, who was an author, ambassador, governor and soldier (although not necessarily in that order) hailed from Brookville, Indiana. Once he passed the bar, and married, he and his family moved to Crawfordsville, where he started a militia group. After several promotions in the Civil war, Lew was the one to save Washington, D.C. from the Confederate assault in the Battle of the Monocacy. Appointed as Governor to New Mexico in between writing his first two books, Lew started the hard process of trying to straighten things out in New Mexico during that rough

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