Do the Right Thing By Jane Green Chapter One: Flight, Fight, or Obey? The law is something that is supposed to make life safer and easier for all of us. If we follow the law, we should be okay. If we don’t, then there will be consequences that will make us wish we had followed the law...

Brothers at War By Jane Green The founder of the Dowell family in the United States to which William Newton “Newt” Dowell belonged came from England in the 1600s and settled in Maryland. His first name is lost to history. His son Philip married Mary Tydings, and they had 10 children. ...

Three-year-old Roy Sanders took his mother’s death hard in 1899, and friends and neighbors said he had an unhappy childhood. He left home when he was about 14 years old and found work in Indianapolis. Roy enlisted in the US Navy on April 2, 1917, when he was 20 years old although he claimed he was 21, the age for legal enlistment. The US entered World War I on April 6, 1917. Roy was transferred to the USS Charleston on June 7, 1917...

On October 15, 1907, Clay County residents felt the ground shake under their feet and heard two enormous explosions, one at 9:08 a.m. and the second at 9:40 a.m. The DuPont Powder Mill, seven miles from Brazil as the crow flies and the main employer of the town of Fontanet in neighboring Vigo County, had blown up. The blasts destroyed not just the mill; they leveled most of Fontanet-- and killed dozens of people...

Chapter One: Murder in Downtown Brazil The founder of Brazil, William Stewart, originally from Massachusetts, picked the town’s name while reading newspaper coverage of the revolution occurring in Brazil, South America, in 1838...