I grew up in Westfield, Indiana, a quiet little mile-square Quaker-built town of about 800 souls, 20 miles north of the center of Indianapolis. My father was born in Westfield in 1914; his father was born there in 1876. Not long before that, Westfield was a major waypoint on the Underground Railroad; some of the old hidey-holes for escaping slaves still exist. And not long before that, Grandpa’s grandpa’s grandpa had left Sevier County, Tn. in 1805, bound for western Ohio, next door to ... more