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Mike Mapes grew up thinking everyone’s dad wrote poetry.
“It seemed natural to me. That’s what dads did,” he said when he and his siblings gathered in February for a video about their father — Arthur Franklin Mapes — author of Indiana’s state poem.
Arthur Franklin Mapes wrote “Indiana” while sitting at the kitchen table . he would get something in his head and he would jot it right down, his children recalled, in various ways.
A machinist at Flint and Walling in Kendallville by day and a dad, nature enthusiast and poet at all other times — that’s how his children remember him. During the day “he’d think about nature and the great outdoors and he’d come home with thoughts in his head, grab anything, a napkin or whatever, and he’d start writing out his poems .” ....

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