Background
Kay Franklin was born on uly 30, 1933 in Newark, New Jersey, United States.
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Duel for the Dunes: Land Use Conflict on the Shores of Lake Michigan
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Kay Franklin
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Career
Kay began her career as a teacher, with stints in Utah and California from 1956 to 1958. In 1961 she became head teacher at the University of Chicago’s nursery school. In 1978 she founded Dunes Enterprises, a publishing company, and began work as a freelance writer in 1979. In the late 1970s she began teaching at Purdue University on a part-time basis. Through Purdue she taught inmates at Indiana State Prison about writing. Her later career saw work at the Public Library in Michigan City, Indiana, as a programming and publicity director. She worked as an activist, testifying before Congress in an unsuccessful effort to have Beverly Shores, Indiana, became part of a national park. She wrote about the area as well, in books such as Duel for the Dunes, The Indiana Dunes: A Selected Bibliography, and Round and About the Dunes, coauthored with Norma Schaeffer.
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1956 - 1958
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1978