Subject: Robert Johnson, first mayor of Hometown, Indiana Chapter 1: 1. Overview of Robert Johnson's final year as mayor. 2. Briefly discuss his accomplishments and focus on the final month, as well as the celebration the town threw him as he retired. Chapter 2: 1. Flashback to early childhood. 2. Briefly recount birth, birth of his siblings, and the early years before the stock market crash of 1929. Chapter 3: 1. Discuss the difficult period of Johnson's early life: being uprooted to Indiana, performing hard labor on his family's farm, death of his mother and baby brother. Chapter 4: 1. Johnson's life during WWII. 2. Cover his enrollment in the army, the battles he was involved in, and the medals awarded to him. 3. Also mention the experience of his cousin Kenneth and how Kenneth's death in 1944 affected Robert. Chapter 5: 1. Life after the war. 2. His father's death, taking over the farm, becoming mayor. Chapter 6: 1. His personal life as an adult. 2. Mention his marriage to Sophia and the birth of his two children, Charles and Isabelle. 3. Describe his family life in detail, including the bouts of illness Charles experienced as a child, the shotgun marriage of Isabelle, and the near divorce and repairing of his marriage with Sophia. Conclude with the birth of Edward. Chapter 7: 1. Mention what was happening in his career as mayor during the years described in the previous chapter, 1957 through 1976. 2. Focus on the formal praise he received in 1968 and describe the actions he took that led to such praise. Chapter 8: 1. Discuss political controversy that took place in the late 1970s and the events that led to his retirement in 1981. Chapter 9: 1. Focus on his volunteer service after retirement, as well as his personal life. 2. Emphasize memories recalled by Edward (see interview notes). Chapter 10: 1. Johnson's declining health and eventual death. 2. Remark on all those who mourned his loss and how his legacy lives on even today (see interview with Miranda Smith, current mayor).