Reprinted from the Indianapolis Star, with the kind permission of author John Gutowski. The bold green print indicates events depicted in some form in Turtle Soup. 1898: Reports of a giant, prehistoric turtle in Oscar Fulk's lake. July 27, 1948:…
--Guest blog by playwright Michael Wilhelm There once was a farmer who found a monster turtle in his lake. The story of Gale Harris and his encounter with the Beast of ‘Busco is such a thing as fairy tales are…
In 1949, Gale Harris and some of his friends claimed to have caught glimpses of an enormous turtle in Fulks Lake, a small body of water on Harris' farm. What followed defied probability: Harris' feverish search to find and capture the…