Friendly Persuasion While it is the simple story [from a novel by Jessamyn West] of a Quaker family in Indiana back in the 1860s, the footage contains just about everything in the way of comedy ...

At the event, Coroner Rob Russell said the skull found in the home has been identified as that of Esther Granger, an Indiana teen who died in the 1860s. (R. Christian Smith / The Beacon-News) ...