For Immediate Release Contact: Amy Lamb, Media Relations Manager (317) 232-1878 or alamb@indianahistory.org Indianapolis—The Indiana Historical Society and Storytelling Arts of Indiana will help bring storyteller Sue Grizzell to two more communities in 2010 with the Sharing Hoosier History Through Stories project. Since 1999, this collaboration has commissioned an Indiana storyteller to research, develop, and […]
This week is National Volunteer Week. I have been asked several times over the years, What is National Volunteer Week; is it just to recognize volunteers?? My response is usually similar to what I am about say … National Volunteer Week is a week that is dedicated to thanking volunteers as well as a call […]
Easter came early this year, and in Indiana, the snow had no sooner melted than the air warmed up, the grass turned green, and the trees started budding in earnest. This is the fastest transformation I can remember from one season to the next. In my family of numerous children, spouses and grandchildren, we get […]
Vevay, Indiana where hay was king was the site of the most recent Local History Services In Your Neighborhood meeting. All three of us in Local History Services Jeff Harris, Jeannette Rooney and Stacy Klingler hop in the IHS van once a month to spend some time with local history organizations from an area. After […]
As the mother of a three month-old, I find that I usually arrive to work a little bleary-eyed. The good news is that after over a year?s hiatus, school and group tours are in full swing again here at the History Center. Nothing will wake you up like a group of 60 fourth-graders filing through […]
What a joy it is to walk out into the Lilly Hall and see the History Center buzzing with activity. Visitors to the now-open Indiana Experience can be seen enjoying the interactive stations in Destination Indiana, listening to music in the Cole Porter Room, using the telescopes to explore the graphics in Lilly Hall, learning […]
Do you keep a diary, journal or daily blog? I often think about how researchers hundreds of years from now will use these items to document what life was like during our time. When I was young, I briefly kept a diary and although I don?t think historians will consider who I had a crush […]
Spring heralds the beginning of conference season for family historians, a time to get away from archives and computers and visit with like-minded people. It?s difficult to unchain myself from deadlines and the office, but I?m always glad I do. Just as the physical exertion of carting books to and from exhibition halls is good […]
One of the things I share with many Hoosiers is a love for the game of basketball. I fill out a bracket every year, hoping the upsets I chose come through. My bracket is already busted (I picked Kansas to win it all) but it?s fun to follow along and cheer for the Indiana teams. […]
Despite the flurry of activity around the opening of the Indiana Experience, some of us are keeping busy with our usual jobs. For me, this means being on the road, most recently, picking up a traveling exhibit. Jeannette Rooney and I trekked up to neighborly Middlebury way north in Elkhart County to pick up the […]
