The Center for Ray Bradbury Studies (in Indianapolis) has been in existence for about seven years - and it now has a Facebook page. Check it out here:

www.facebook.com/pages/Center-...dies/766546360037269

Did anyone else post comments to this page only to have them deleted!?*

*Update: I have been informed that a number of comments of a negative nature were deleted. Just wondering whether any were from anyone else here.

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I've visited the page a few times, but do not have a Facebook account. I do try to keep up with the actual website and expect to order Volume Two of the Collected Stories soon.

In honor of the eighth anniversary of Ray Bradbury's passing, in 2020, the Center for Ray Bradbury Studies posted this recitation of my favorite of all of Ray's poems, "Remembrance". The recitation is accompanied by some wonderful pictures of Ray. I had never before seen some of the photos showing Ray as a youngster or young man. Wonderful stuff! To view, click on the link below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vJzZmsWAmE

The link below will take you to a September 11, 2024 article in MirrorIndy, an on-line newspaper, titled "Ray Bradbury Museum a hidden gem at IU Indianapolis", regarding IU's Ray Bradbury Center. And I do believe that is this Forum's own fjp451 in the second picture, and who was interviewed for the article!

https://mirrorindy.org/iu-indi...enheit-451-festival/

Richard: They caught me when I dared leave my "NNY Basement." Enrique Saenz, Mr. Goller, Dr. Aukerman, and the RBC staff were all so gracious. Dr. Jon and Mrs. Debra Eller, to whom we offered assistance when RB materials had first arrived, were very kind in making initial contacts. Our recent visit, just a month ago, was again extremely rewarding. We heard some plans may be set in motion for a possible expansion of RBC facilities.

While in Indy, we also visited the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library. KV stories were also consistently on my secondary reading list. He was an Indy native. Interestingly, there are references made in Slaughterhouse Five of upstate rural NY locales. Mr. Vonnegut attended Cornell U into his junior year, before WWII and his enlistment into the Army. Familiar NE mountain regions are referenced as a part of the narrations which detail Billy Pilgrim's magical journey. https://www.vonnegutlibrary.org/
RB and KV ~ Truly Prolific American Authors!