Marigolds in Boxes - Paperbackby Rebekah Spivey (Author) The founder of Chanceville, Indiana, Arnold Chance, had planted only marigolds in his window boxes since the town was incorporated in 1845. Legend has it he liked the no nonsense colors of those flowers. The tradition continued long after Arnold died in 1908. His flower boxes got a fresh coat of plain tan paint on every year's last day of March. The citizens of Chanceville, Indiana, could set their calendars by this. So many