Dean, who was born on Feb. 8, 1931, grew up Fairmount, a town in north central Indiana. After graduating from high school, he moved to California, enrolling at UCLA to study drama before dropping out ...

150 E. in Jonesboro, Indiana Each fall, during the last weekend of September, Fairmount hosts the annual James Dean Festival right in Fairmount. Nearby Gas City hosts the Ducktail Run, so you’ll ...

The Reverend James DeWeerd arrived in Fairmount, Indiana, when Dean was still a teenager. Something of an outsider, the youngster had lost his mother to cancer when he was just nine and ...