At the beginning of the new year, the Exhibition’s department rearranged our areas to better encourage collaboration and brainstorming. Over a span of two weeks, we transformed our exhibit storage area into the brand new design studio.Shelves were moved, past exhibit props were organized and all of the design equipment was moved in. It is […]
Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Goodreads, Flickr, CafeMom the list goes on and on and on. You probably already know what these names have in common. Not so long ago, I wouldn?t have had any idea what these were. Of course, my teenage daughter could?ve filled me in if I were willing to risk the eye-rolling when […]
I spent most of the first week in October in Salt Lake City, Utah, at the American Association for State and Local History conference. Salt Lake City is beautiful, clean and friendly. I heard an organ recital at the Mormon Tabernacle and one night I ate at Squatter?s Brewery, a fun local joint. I had […]
Next spring, the Indiana Historical Society will be one of many organizations commemorating the Great Flood of 1913? that affected cities and towns throughout the Midwest and the Ohio River Valley. Over the Easter holiday weekend in 1913, the area received between six and 12 inches of rainfall over a five-day period that added to […]
I came across this photo on a friend’s Facebook page. It’s a recent shot of her son posing by a 1970s car. She used Instagram’s 1977 filter on it. Looks cool, doesn’t it? But 50 years from now, what date would a photo expert assign to it? A little background: Instagram is a photo-sharing program […]
For the past two years, IHS has offered a day trip to an area historic cemetery. This last week, Jennifer Hiatt, IHS director of membership and annual giving, and I made a trip to Bedford to begin the plans for the 2013 IHS member trip we call “Grave Matters.” In 2011, we went to Spring […]
Our first encounter with an object is usually with our eyes, closely followed by that fifth human sense called touch. As we carefully consider what an object is made of, how it is assembled and its inherent weaknesses, we can pick it up and handle with care. This hand-colored framed salt print was moved by […]
There are few terms that invoke more fear, anger and emotion in the American education psyche than the words “standardized test.” Its most modern Indiana incarnation, ISTEP+, meets the federal requirement of the No Child Left Behind Act, signed by President George W. Bush in 2001. See? I guarantee you had some internal response to […]
Jeff writes: The Local History Services department recently took a group trip across the canal to the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art. We saw an interesting exhibit called Steel Ponies. It was a mix of motorcycle history, motorcycles IN art and motorcycles AS art. It was interesting to see how they blended […]
The intrinsic nature of things makes objects vulnerable to damage as they age. All objects have special physical needs based on what they are made of and how they were made. When we look at different objects, we realize that many are the sum of many parts. A book is an example an assembly of […]
