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Ever since she started her own newspaper at age eight, selling it to neighbors who had no choice but to subscribe, Jane has loved to write. She's now upped her game writing about travel, food, history for newspapers, magazines and Websites and is the author of 16 books, Her recently released Lincoln Road Trip: The Back Roads to America’s Favorite President, a Finalist for the 2019 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards in the Travel category. Her other books include How to Murder Your Wealthy Lovers and Get Away with It: Money & Mayhem in the Gilded Age, Hauntings of the Underground Railroad: Ghosts of the Midwest and Murders that Made Headlines: Crimes of Indiana. She also authored A Jazz Age Murder in Northwest Indiana, a true crime book about a murder that took place in her hometown. She authors a weekly food column for the Herald Palladium and Shelf Life, a book column for the Times of Northwest Indiana, writes about food, wine, people and travel for magazines and newspapers. She currently is developing Indiana's Best, a travel app for TouchScreenTravel. A member of the Society of American Travel Writers (SATW), Midwest Travel Journalists Association (MTJA) and International Food Wine Travel Writers Association (IFWTWA) and pens a monthly marketing column for their Press Pass publication. Jane's home base is on the shores of Lake Michigan in Southwest Michigan. Follow Jane on Facebook at janesimonammeson; Twitter @HPAmmeson, @janeammeson1, harborgirlwrites.tumblr.com/ and instagram.com/janeammeson, @travelfoodIN and on her blogs, janeammeson.blog and shelflife.blog

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  An age-old curse is the center of 'Gothictown'

  By Jane Simon Ammeson Verified

  Apr. 12, 2025

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