coming of age
Bob Dylan's wish for you as you age.
Forever Young
This Indiana town has a song in The Music Man named after it.
Gary, Indiana
Henry David Thoreau book about his time in a cabin.
Author of It Takes A Village and Living History, among others.
Hillary Clinton
This store's signature seagull t-shirts.
Hollister
Sue Monk Kidd's sweet novel, set in the 60s.
The Secret Life of Bees
This Pennsylvania steel town was headquarters for one of the twentieth century's most powerful company's, though it lacked the staying power of the pilgrimage site in Israel of the same name.
Bethlehem
The largest lake completely within the boundaries of the US.
Lake Michigan
This American chef's "My Life in France" was the basis for a 2009 film.
Julia Child
A chance to meet Jonathan Groff, who starred in this musical adaptation of a 19th-century German play.
Spring Awakening
Holden Caulfield's signature clothing item.
Red hunting hat
John Prine song about the coal town his parents were raised in.
Paradise
The term for the tendency of most people to believe they are above average gets its name from a Garrison Keilor creation.
Lake Wobegon effect
Mindy Kaling
To watch this 2008 Shailene Woodley show.
Secret Life of The American Teenager
German term for a novel that deals with moral development from youth to adulthood.
Bildungsroman
American saying asking how something will go over in an Illinois town.
How will it play in Peoria?
Term for water that mixes seawater and freshwater.
brackish
Barack Obama's new memoir.
"A Promised Land"
The first generation of this Apple device, released in 2007.
SE Hinton novel adapted by Francis Ford Coppola.
The Outsiders
Detroit
The Everglades is known as the river of ____.
grass
Though she's better known for her fictionalized account of her difficult relationship with her mother, "Postcards from the Edge," this actress's memoir is called "Wishful Drinking."
Carrie Fisher
To learn the dance to this song, the top song of 2007.
Crank That (Soulja Boy)