European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 26, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse By Nancy Shuli is associated press 1 he Slouch. The squint. The switchblade. The smoke. The sports car. The Speed. The smash up. To most fans James Dean is the quintessential rebel the sullen Blue leaned Symbol of angst and attitude who personified adolescence in All its tortured tumultuous glory. But in today s mythology Dean is an eternal child. Like other divine youth he had a Core of innocence that conveyed childlike sweetness and aching vulnerability subtler messages telegraphed with his face and body. The rebel came from Hollywood. The innocence came from the heartland. For most of his life Dean was neither movie Star nor daredevil. He was an Indiana farm boy who Rode his motorcycle Down quiet country roads and played basketball for a High school team known As the quakers Fairmount ind., roughly 90 minutes by speeding porsche from the Indianapolis Airport is where Dean lived and where he lives on in a Quaker farming Community that s a veritable theme Park of Small town innocence. It s a town of 3,000 people tree lined streets creaking porch swings potted geraniums american flags farm implement dealers convenience stores. By All accounts it s changed Little since its famous son boarded a bus for California a month after his 1949 graduation. Thousands come each sept. 30 for a Church service marking Dean s 1955 death at the wheel of his porsche spider. But even the annual invasions have yet to spell an end to innocence in Fairmount. After 35 years Jimmy s fans Are still Welcome to photograph the White victorian farmhouse where his Cousin Marcus Winslow still lives to Call up retired teacher Adeline Nail who had the boy in her speech class 50 years ago to drop by the historical society for a Chat with Bob Pulley who spent his teen years on the Back of Dean s motorcycle to press reverent faces against the Pink Granite Headstone mottled with red lipstick stains. Pretty near every Day someone s Here taking pictures. It s just always been that Way says Winslow Whoso parents took in 9-year-old Jimmy Dean their Nephew after his Mother died. Winslow now raises Black Angus cattle on the 180-acre farm where he and his Cousin grew up. They Good honest upright people Nail says of the win slows. If Marcus is your Friend you have a Friend for David Loehr a fan from Pittsfield mass., first knocked on the win slows door in 1979 and got the usual treatment from Dean s aunt Ortense. She showed me his room his boots his books his bongos the Mirror where he created All those faces says Loehr who was so taken with it All that he now divides his tune Between new York and Fairmount. Loehr owns the 2 year old James Dean gallery James Dean lives on in Fairmount each year thousands of James Dean fans visit Fairmount ind., the Quaker farming town in which the actor grew up. Home of the world s Foremost collection of de Nabilia. It features the Brown Wool trousers size 31 Waist that Dean wore As Jim Stark in rebel without a cause a piece of the Fence around Jim s House and a Complete set of yearbooks chronicling the Fairmount High career of a Small Skinny kid with a Crew Cut and glasses. Greg Larbes of Cincinnati got his first look at Fairmount when he was 18, crippled by polio he had from the world. Being disabled and All that it was a big Factor being Able to reach out to Jimmy and his family. They really opened their doors and their hearts to me. They welcomed me says Larbes who says friendships forged in Fairmount helped give him Confidence to pursue other interests today he s Active in Community theater and at 43, he s engaged to be married next year. It Means a lot to them to come Here. I feel a responsibility says Winslow who was 11 when Dean died. We Don t see him As a Star or an icon like his fans do. It probably took us years to realize it. After he died we had a lot of people coming out Here and we just figured it was Normal when a celebrity died. We figured it would Stop in a few because it never stopped Bob Pulley Dean s boyhood buddy looks after the fans who wander like stray cats through Fairmount s open doors. He and his wife take them in feed them supper and put them to bed if need be in their kids rooms. His childhood Friend will be 24 forever but Bob Pulley is 58 and retired with thinning Gray hair and kindly Blue eyes behind bifocals. 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