Geyer, Now & Then — the Town's Own Book, and the Verso That Would Date It

undated in every catalog reached · ISL 977.201 S143zLg, closed stacks

Lakeville has a history of its own — Jeanne Geyer's Now & then, a collection of pictures and stories about Lakeville, Indiana, a pictorial town history — and no catalog this build can reach will say when it was published, by whom, or how long it is. The State Library's county-history guide entry, read first-hand, is the whole of its public bibliography: "Now & then, a collection of pictures and stories about Lakeville, Indiana (Jeanne Geyer) — 977.201 S143zLg, copy located in closed stacks." No date, no publisher, no extent, no OCLC number. The tries run against that silence, every one negative: WorldCat, the county library's own catalog, Google Books, the HathiTrust catalog, exact-title web searches, the town's 2002 centennial coverage (a carrier that might have dated the book — nothing relevant returned), and the 2011 Comprehensive Plan's bibliography (an unreached carrier — LK-2 established that the plan's narrative rests on Geyer, and its 1832 taking sentence rests on her narrative alone). The author stands at public-record strength: the South Bend Tribune of 2004 shows Jeanne Geyer on the festival board, her book the source of the photographs in the centennial history quilts ("The quilts contain images of old downtown Lakeville buildings from photographs in [Jeanne Geyer]'s book"), photographed holding a history quilt with Ron Porman; the Tribune of 2005 places Russell and Jeanne Geyer as Lakeville farmers on Kenilworth Road, their home and barn built in 1959, 272 acres, her reupholstering business of fifty years. No obituary or separate author credit was found. Gap G-S8 therefore stands, sharpened by everything tried: its settler is a single physical page — the title-page verso of the State Library's closed-stacks copy. The book's photographs are the town's picture stock, and they stand in the image roll as reference candidates only, treated as in copyright until the pull establishes otherwise.