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Here is the promised documentation on Vonnegut's boyhood home being up for sale: link http://www.wishtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=6361174&nav=0Ra7

Author Kurt Vonnegut Remembered Throughout Indianapolis

April 12, 2007 06:35 PM	Author Kurt Vonnegut Remembered Throughout Indianapolis AP (File) AP (File) More on the Web Year of Vonnegut Events

INDIANAPOLIS - Famed author and Hoosier Kurt Vonnegut has passed away at the very time Indianapolis is honoring his work. Vonnegut's stories can swing from satire to science fiction to personal reflection often in the same sentence. His own story starts at 4401 North Illinois St.

The house is for sale now, but it is forever marked as the author's childhood home.

"This is the, ah, handprints of the Vonneguts, the Vonnegut family," said current owner Vaughn Hickman.

If Hickman ever wondered about the impressions on his back porch, a letter signed with an unmistakable flourish cleared things up.

"The smallest handprint in the cement slab outside the back door is mine. The cuff of my sweater is also there, immortalized," Vonnegut wrote in the letter.

Hickman said the author even visited on occasion, without fanfare or warning, just to look, then he would slip away.

"So he would do that, he would drop by at times. And we would tell him, you know, "If you're going to drop by, let us know! So we can be there," Hickman said.

Vonnegut left a different kind of impression at Shortridge High School. There, as a teenager, he took a turn editing what was and is otherwise unheard of: a daily student newspaper.

Before young Kurt grew up and brought his family name international fame, the Vonneguts were already well-known in Indianapolis.

"He calls this building his grandfather's masterpiece," said Phil Watts, Athenaeum Foundation.

Bernard Vonnegut designed Das Deutsche Haus, now called the Athenaeum. In recent years, the Athenaeum Foundation revitalized it. Kurt Vonnegut was deeply grateful and came to call those who worked on the project friends.

"The last week and a half I haven't been able to get about him, been worried about him. I knew something was wrong," Watts said. "He was such a great voice, particularly for mercy and compassion, despite some of his cynicism.

People in Central Indiana will learn many things they did not know about Vonnegut in the year ahead as Vonnegut's home city assigns a kind of homework. Indianapolis calls 2007 "The Year of Vonnegut," the year to rediscover a literary giant raised in our own back yard.

When Vonnegut died, city leaders were unveiling the next "One Book, One City" selection: "Slaughterhouse-Five". The author was scheduled to appear at a lecture in Indianapolis later this month. Organizers say the event will go on and Vonnegut's son Mark will deliver his father's words.

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Thanks I'll keep an eye out for the newspaper listing when it appears. Again, I'm more than willing to mail the realtor listing. But this certainly will be in the news briefly, and I'll update when it is. For new it is private showings only by Mrs. L Price. Thanks for the help. I'm getting the hang of posting and appreciate yr assistance-HN

I'll accept that. Jvbishop 16:00, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm afraid the addition of "L. Price, Indianapolic realtor listing" is not sufficient. A reference must allow for independent verification, and this info does not do that.  I have reverted your edit.  If you can provide a proper reference (say, to a well referenced newspaper article), that would be great.  Cheers, Doctormatt 16:34, 2 April 2007 (UTC)