Steve Connelly’s life reads much like a novel.
The Indiana State University English professor rides unicycles for fun, and once was scouted as a shortstop by Major League Baseball.
He’s been among the vanguard of Pop Culture studies, trading letters with Kurt Vonnegut Jr. and famous cartoonists.
He withstood the glare of racist Southerners just after the Civil Rights Movement, travelling to New Orleans with his friend, Terre Haute’s Olympic gold medalist and long jump champ Greg Bell.
He’s been a strong promoter of the legacy of Eugene Debs, a Hoosier politician …

Craig Stauffer does not care a lick about chess.
At least that’s what he’d like people to believe.
But for anyone who knows Stauffer, for anyone who’s ever stepped foot in his home situated a few quiet blocks away from Woodrow Wilson Junior High School, this statement is patently false. After all, chess and jazz and cigars and even fine wines (and all of their respective trappings) are ubiquitous in his home. A few of his favorite albums are artfully displayed on his living room walls, while others are meticulously …