Art and History
as an Enduring Force
Daniel Lee's "vocation of passion" is exploring faith, history and increasingly art and literature. His longtime interest in Indianapolis native and sports pioneer Marshall "Major" Taylor, 1899 world sprint cycling champion, has been the subject of many of this efforts.
Daniel helped lead the effort to have a mural of cycling legend Marshall "Major" Taylor in his hometown of Indianapolis. He also is the founder and organizer of the Anthony J. Bridgeman Lecture on Sports and Society at the Indiana State Museum in honor of his late friend.
Over the two years of the Bridgeman lecture, Lee partnered with the Indiana State Museum, the Indianapolis Indians, and received a grant from Indiana Humanities. He hopes to bring the Bridgeman lecture back.
In addition, during his time as a board member of the US Bicycling Hall of Fame, he worked with the Indiana State Museum for the HOF in Davis, CA, to loan Taylor's racing bicycle and autobiography to the Indiana State Museum for its 2022 exhibit on Taylor.
Lifelong Education Through Books
Classic Literature
The Poet’s Homecoming - George Macdonald
The Light Princess - George MacDonald
ETA Hoffmann - The Nutcracker
House or Mirth - Edith Wharton
The Sorrows of Young Werther - Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Lady Into Fox - David Garrett
Daddy Longlegs - Jean Webster
Boule de Suif and Short stories of Guy De Maupassant
The Awakening and Short Stories of Kate Chopin
Frankenstein- Mary Shelley
Call of the Wild - Jack London
Lone Ranger Rides - Fran Striker
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Cashel Byron’s Profession - Bernard Shaw
Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
Age of Chivalry King Aurthur - Thomas Bulfinch
Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
Breakfast at Tiffany’s - Truman Capote
A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
Death in the Afternoon - Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway on Writing
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
Across the River and Into the Trees - Ernest Hemingway
The Nick Adams Stories - Ernest Hemingway
The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
The Complete Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
The Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
Snow Goose - Paul Gallico
Lou Gehrig Pride of the Yankees - Paul Gallico
Mrs Aris goes to Paris - Paul Gallico
Small Miracle - Paul Gallico
Non-fiction / biography / memoir
Education of a Wandering Man - Louis L’Amour
Bushido - Inazo Nitobe audio
Sun and Steel - Yukio Mishima
The Strenuous Life of Theodore Roosevelt- Ryan Swanson
Lost in Thought - Zena Hitz
The Professor in the Cage – Jonathan Gottschall
Indiana subjects / authors
The Sword and the Pen: Lew Wallace bio - Ray Boomhower
The Girl of Limberlost - Gene Stratton Porter
The Magic Garden - Gene Stratton Porter
Gene Stratton Porter: A Literary Examination - Bertrand F Richards
The Song of the Cardinal - Gene Stratton Porter
The Harvester - Gene Stratton Porter
Ben Hur - Lew Wallace
My approach with The WordPreserve™ is rooted in reading. One of my favorite books is “The Education of a Wandering Man” by Louis L’Amour, the prolific writer of Westerns. This is a memoir where he tells of his coming of age by traveling, working on ranches, boxing and reading hundreds of books. I tried to take the same approach in middle age and hope to the coming years share my love of books through programs especially aimed at young people.
Here is a list of many of the books I have read in the past several years….
Sports
You’re the Umpire - Wayne Stewart
A Wrestling Life - Dan Gable
Jake - Alfred Slote
The Sweet Science - AJ Liebling
Ben Hogan’s Five Lessons on Golf - Ben Hogan
Smokestack Lightning: Harry Greb, 1919 - Springs Toledo
The Natural - Bernard Malamud
The Streak: Gehrig and Ripken - John Eisenberg
Jack Dempsey - Jack Dempsey
Luckiest Man the life and death of Lou Gherig by Jonathan Eig
Ali – Jonathan Eig
Season of Life - Jeffrey Marx
Civil War
The Monuments of Shiloh National Park - Stacy Reaves
Lincoln’s Battle with God - Stephen Mansfield
The Gentlemen and the Roughs - Lorien Foote
Mosquito Soldiers - Andrew Bell
Mutiny at Fort Jackson - Michael Pierson
The War for the Common Soldier - Peter Carmichael
Dear Sarah - John Pardington
Coralou Peel Lassen
An Environmental History of the Civil War - Judkin Browning and Timothy Silver
The Vacant Chair - Reid Mitchell
For Cause and Comrades - James McPherson
