The Wabash River, quiet farms and county fairs provide the backdrop for the home of reporter Ernie Pyle. As a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and World War II combat reporter, Pyle was born and grew up near Dana. Pyle wrote about the average GI in his front-line reports to American newspapers.

In this piece an endless sheet of paper rises upward from a simple typewriter carriage, transforming itself into a winding river as it ascends. The typewriter has keys made of soybeans, as well as a corn-cob cartridge. Once transformed from paper, the river–like an actual current–gently carves its way into the solid rock.

Designers Jeff Laramore and David Jemerson Young of 2nd Globe, an Indianapolis–based artistic company, designed all 92 of the county sculptures featured on the outside of the Indiana State Museum. Their designs narrate the counties’ famous natives, historically significant events, or their cultural characteristics, and were fabricated and installed by various Indiana sculptors, carvers, glassworkers, metalworkers, and other artisans.