Vachel Lindsay and the Bluegrass : typescript, n.d.

South, Eudora Lindsay

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6cc3trz (person)

Vachel Lindsay, renown for his musical style and his troubadour ways, visited his relatives in Kentucky twice according to South. South's mother and Lindsay's aunt, Eudora South, ran the Excelsior Collegiate Institute, outside of Frankfort, Kentucky. In his first book, A HANDY GUIDE FOR BEGGARS, Lindsay himself discusses reading one of his poems at the Institute's commencement in 1906. He came back several years later when the Institute had been closed and his aunt had d...

Lindsay family.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6454r9f (family)

Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6xk8f3t (person)

Nicholas Vachel Lindsay was born in Springfield, IL. He studied in Ohio, Chicago, and New York and acquired a reputation as a poet and lecturer. Lindsay became famous for his walk from Springfield, IL to New Mexico in 1912, and for an unusual method of writing poetry. In 1924 he arrived in Spokane where he worked as a columnist for the "Spokesman-Review". He returned to Springfield in 1929, and at the time of his death was a major figure in American poetry. From the description of Co...