Books

Dean Kendall

The Wabash Valley High School Basketball Tournament

This lengthy tome covers the final 16 of the Wabash Valley Tournament from its inception in 1916 to the last tourney in 1972. This tourney, which was the largest invitation high school tourney, at one point encompassed more than 140 high schools from Indiana and Illinois. Most years the tourney took two weeks to play.

Included are box scores from all championship games, as well as the results from the preliminary round of 16.  Explore the reason one Terre Haute coach vowed to kill the tourney, and what precipitated his feud with another well-known Terre Haute coach.

I'm Telling You, You Can Go Back Home

     Relive the experince Dean Kendall had growing up in southwestern Indiana in the 1920's and '30's.   His parents ran a filling station and restaurant "The Blue Moon," which sat next to Hiway 41. 

Pimento

A History and Memories

     Experience small town life back in the "good old days."  Learn about life in a small high school. Meet many small town characters. And if you get nothing else from this book, you will learn the correct pronounciation for "Pimento."