Geyer's best stories — the residue under its settler's name

The collection's best stories cannot be retold at telling size from open sources, because the collection itself stands in closed stacks — and this article prints that, with everything that does reach. What reaches the open record of Jeanne Geyer's Now & then is its narrative as the Town of Lakeville's 2011 Comprehensive Plan reprinted it: that narrative's claims — the 1832 taking sentence, "Earl Town," the 1845 Vandalia, the first election at Earl's home — are retold and tested at telling size in the stories-told file, and they are the collection's stories at the strength the plan's copying gives them. What does not reach is the book as a book: its selection, its pictures, its order, its best tellings as she chose them. No online carrier — not the State Library's guide entry (title, author, call number, "copy located in closed stacks," nothing more), not any catalog searched in the sources pass — prints a table of contents, an extent, or a single story beyond the plan's reprint. The row therefore closes as a named gap, its settler named and current: the Indiana State Library's closed-stacks copy of Now & then (977.201 S143zLg), read whole — item 1 of the sources file's pull list, standing first there because so much of this town's telling waits on it. Nothing in this article claims a read that was not made.

Principal sources: the banked Sources lk-src-geyer and lk-src-pull-list; Famous Stories & the Record (the plan-reprinted narrative's claims, tested); the Indiana State Library county-history guide entry as read in the sources pass.