Osceola Awards and Honors

Awards & Honors · The Grantors' Rolls, Run Class by Class

Osceola bestows almost nothing itself: a town of 2,590 has no hall of fame, no key to the town, and no roll of distinguished citizens, and the one civic honor it does confer — the grand marshal's sash on its Memorial Day parade — stands whole in the Wars leg, where the parade is told. What this section keeps is the other side of the ledger: the honors that arrived here from outside grantors, tested class by class against the grantors' own records, and the honors that did not arrive, printed as a register of tested negatives so that no reader mistakes this section's silence for an unsearched shelf. The search finds two holders of the state's highest civilian honor with ties to this ground, a state school-board honor one township over on the board that governs Osceola's school, a school-designation shelf that is honestly empty, and a long national suite in which no Osceola name stands. It also finds the traps this kind of ledger exists to catch: a national teaching award whose winner now works in Osceola but whose granting record seats it in Granger, and commercial star-ratings dressed up as honors. Each is printed with its verdict.

The banked leg carried stage and screen in one lumped line — "Oscar, Emmy, Tony, and Grammy taken one class at a time: no holder found" — and carried the Pulitzer alone among the book and newspaper prizes, with no shelf named for the rest. This addendum repairs both defects in this section's own discipline: each award class gets its own line, nominations are counted separately from wins, the classes this ground's search actually brushes are printed at their true size, and every empty line names the shelf that was searched to empty it.