So, I never knew my great grandparents were bee keepers. This might not sound like a big deal, but when you are researching your family history, finding fun facts like these can make the story that much more complete and interesting. I found a reference to their involvement in a beekeeping convention in a 1920 […]
My grandfather passed away three weeks ago. I’m 31 years old, and this is the first grandparent I’ve lost. I consider myself very lucky. After the funeral, we gathered at the house to start going through his stuff. The voice behind the stories was gone but the stuff remained. The bowling trophies and golf equipment. […]
If you have followed politics and education trends over the past few years you have probably noticed theshift in focus toward a few key subjects, for this blog posts’ sake, most notably the STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Math) initiative.There are many critics of STEM, both for and against, and all of their points are […]
Often when I visit museums, I overhear bits and pieces of conversations and random comments. Frequently I hear people complaining about kids walking around museums, holding their phones and texting. Those kids are not paying any attention.? They?re being disrespectful and not listening.? How can they be in a museum and not be completely absorbed […]
One of the things that I enjoy about my work at the Indiana Historical Society is the interrelatedness of our collections and, through those collections, my introduction to ordinary people the common men and women of history, many who have done extraordinary things. Though we have much material at the William H. Smith Library dating […]
The Indiana Digital Archives has made available new materials for researchers interested in Indiana?s heritage. The Marion County Court Records Index includes information on nearly 130,000 court records created between 1822 and 1930. The database includes case files, bonds and licenses, summonses, subpoenas, jury lists and coroner?s inquests. This index encompasses most of the records […]
The Indiana Bicentennial Train will make its debut this fall in northern Indiana. An exhibit on the train will look at pieces of Indiana’s 200 years of history while tents outside the train will contain hands-on activities, a first-person interpreter, and a community art space. It will be free to visit, and school groups are […]
This is my favorite part of exhibit design. It’s that time in the process when all the planning and designing starts to come together. Well, as you can see from how it looks this week, our fabricators, Roger and Jim, are well on their way to completely transforming the space: After removing all the brick […]
Each year, as I prepare for my family?s annual summer trip to Michigan, I pull up the 10-day extended forecast. Without it, I am powerless to pack, as the temperature can fluctuate more than 40 degrees from year to year. If it looks like a lot of rain is heading that way, we might even […]
At a recent In Your Neighborhood meeting, Erin Kelley (our director of Education and Community Engagement) noticed an interesting collection of costumes and props from a secret society on display at the Dearborn County Historical Society. She compared the way people would dress up and take on a role in those secret societies to what […]
