Collections Preservation Workshop
This workshop is instructed by Ramona Duncan-Huse, and will be held at the Marion Public Library in Marion, Ind., on June 17, from 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m.

The cost is $105 per person, $200 for two from the same organization or $295 for three.

Register by June 10.

Learn how to preserve your historical collections and avoid harm in the collection environment. Discussion will focus on current issues in preservation such as storage and collection environmental issues, undertaking preservation efforts, and exploring conservation techniques. Registration fee covers cost of tools, which participants will keep.

• Understand essential issues in preserving historical collections
• Recognize different types of material and how their preservation varies
• Learn how to humidify, surface clean and provide housings for paper materials
• Obtain answers to the most perplexing problems about institutional collections provided from individualized pre-workshop survey

Ramona Duncan-Huse is Senior Director of Conservation at the Indiana Historical Society. She has specialized in managing the preservation and treatments to the library’s rare collection of manuscripts, printed and photographic collections for 20 years. She holds a Certificate of Conservation from a program sponsored by the University of London and the Courtauld Institute.

For more information or to register call (317) 233-3110 or visit http://www.indianahistory.org/lhs/workshops.html.


Midwestern Roots 2008: Family History and Genealogy Conference
This conference is sponsored by the Indiana Historical Society and will take place on Aug. 15-16 at the Indianapolis Marriott East, located at 7202 E. 21st St. in Indianapolis.

Early registration before July 25.

The early registration cost for the basic two-day workshop (including lunches) is $150 ($125 for IHS members, $75 for students), and single-day registration (including lunch) is $90 ($75 for IHS members, $45 for students). Additional pre-conference activities and workshops are available for a fee, and the Indiana Historical Society will offer three scholarships for graduate students to attend the conference.

Many pre-conference activities will take place at the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana History Center, located at 450 W. Ohio St. in downtown Indianapolis.

Learn more about genealogy from some of the nation's leading experts and get the tools to implement that knowledge. Midwestern Roots will feature more than 30 presentations, covering topics ranging from DNA and genealogy to technology and methodology. The opening session of the conference will be led by James Madison, the Thomas and Kathryn Miller Professor of History at Indiana University (Bloomington), who will illuminate the importance and use of wartime letters for family history by relating stories from his new book Slinging Doughnuts for the Boys: An American Woman in World War II.

Another featured presenter will be Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak, Chief Family Historian and North American spokesperson for Ancestry.com. Other notable national speakers appearing at Midwestern Roots include Dick Eastman, Roberta Estes, Charles F. Kerchner, David Lifferth, Stephen Morse, Christine Rose, Beau Sharbough and Curt Witcher.

In addition to the sessions, an exhibit hall will showcase vendors selling the latest products and tools for genealogists. The exhibit hall is free and open to the public on Friday and Saturday.

A pre-conference highlight on Thu., Aug. 14, will be a panel discussion with some of the pioneers in genetic genealogy on its evolution, potential and present-day uses-panelists include Smolenyak, Estes and Kerchner. Other pre-conference activities include: tours of the William Henry Smith Memorial Library (History Center), the Indiana State Library and the Indiana State Archives; writing workshops on preparing family histories for publication; computer labs; and a workshop designed for library staff and volunteers who answer questions posed by genealogy patrons. The Genealogy Division of the Indiana State Library, the State Archives and the William Henry Smith Memorial Library also will be open late for research.

For conference information, registration forms, exhibitor information, specific pricing or a scholarship application, call (800) 447-1830 or visit www.indianahistory.org/midwesternroots.

Hotel reservations may be made at the Indianapolis Marriott East or La Quinta Inn. Room reservations must be made by July 21, 2008. For the Indianapolis Marriott East, 7202 E. 21st St., call (317) 352-1231 or (800) 228-9290 to receive the special $99 room rate. For the La Quinta Inn, 7304 E. 21st St., call (317) 359-1021 to receive the special $72 room rate. Please indicate association with Midwestern Roots 2008.

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Please confim events specifics with sponsoring organization, especially if traveling any distance.

Brown Bag Book Club at the General Lew Wallace Study and Museum
Discussion on The Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson, will take place on Wed., June 4, from noon-1 p.m. on the grounds of the museum.

Enrollment in the Book Club is free, and no advance registration is required. Participants are encouraged to enjoy their lunches while discussing each book. Participants are expected to read the book before the meeting, but purchase is not required.  All Book Club selections are on sale at the General Lew Wallace Study and Museum gift shop, where Book Club participants can buy featured books for 15% off.

The July 2 Book Club discussion will be on The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World, by Randall Stross.

The Aug. 6 Book Club discussion will be on A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail, by Bill Bryson.

To register for the Brown Bag Book Club Series or for individual sessions, contact the General Lew Wallace Study and Museum at (765) 362-5769 or info@ben-hur.com.

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Lunchtime Concerts on the Canal
This event will be held on Wed., June 4, from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. on the Canal Plaza at the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana History Center.

The event is free to the public and is presented by Clarian Health and co-presented by Indy Parks and Recreation

The featured performer for this concert is Jessica Sonner, acoustic pop singer/songwriter guitarist.

Attendees may bring their own food and non-alcoholic beverages to the concert. Attendees may NOT bring alcoholic beverages onto the premises. All alcohol must be purchased on site.

No pets and no smoking allowed on Plaza.

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Bremen High School at the Marshall County Historical Museum in Plymouth
This exhibit is now open and will continue through the summer.

For the past several years, the Marshall County Historical Museum has featured a different Marshall County school with a special exhibit. This year, just in time for summer class reunions, the Museum is featuring Bremen High School.

Although Bremen is the highlighted school this year, there are several other exhibits going on this summer that are of interest to alumni of all Marshall County schools. One such exhibit goes back 50 years to when It Was 1957, featuring events and memorabilia from that era.  Another, lets you take a trip down the Lincoln Highway, America’s First Coast to Coast Road, with pictures and stories, including The Barrel, Plymouth’s First Dairy Queen, the Bourbon A & W and lots more. Lincoln High School’s Class of 1958 has the museum on their reunion itinerary and we honor them with a fun collection of artifacts, including their commencement address given by Evelyn Doerr.

If your reunion needs favors or giveaway items to commemorate your event, the museum gift shop offers lots of mementos, including playing cards, notecards, t-shirts, books and framed photos of Marshall County sites and schools.

Whether you are celebrating a milestone year or just enjoying the chance to catch up with old friends, the Marshall County Historical Museum is a trip to include in any reunion schedule. 

For more information, to contribute Bremen High School artifacts and stories to our exhibit or to schedule a tour, contact the Museum at (574) 936-2306 or mchistory@mchistoricalsociety.org.

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Hoosier Family Album at the Nettle Creek Valley Cultural Center in Hagerstown
When first developed, photography was practiced largely by professional photographers. As evolving technology made it possible for the average Hoosier to own a camera, the subject matter of photographs became much broader. This exhibit examines how photography has been used to document everyday occurrences in Hoosiers' lives, such as vacations, holidays, education, religion, work and romance. Some of the scenes represented in the exhibit are a turn-of-the-century dancing class going through the steps in New Castle, a group of Brookville residents gliding across an ice-skating pond, the Greenfield baseball team preparing for a game around 1918, and Christmas stockings hung by the chimney with care in an Indianapolis Woodruff Place home.

This traveling exhibit is on loan from the Indiana Historical Society. For more information about the IHS traveling exhibit program, go to www.indianahistory.org/LHS and click on "Traveling Exhibition"

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Exhibitions Coordinator/Facilities Manager at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pa.
This position is responsible for the daily coordination of exhibitions and programs at the Regina Gouger Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon, including all aspects of installation and preparation.

Duties:

• Manages 9000 square feet gallery facility, capital equipment and other inventories.
• Coordinates university personnel, outside contractors and vendors for the maintenance and upgrade of facilities, equipment and inventories and (de-)installation of exhibits.
• Supervises and works closely with all exhibiting artists, artists in residence, guest lecturers and performers.
• Directs all student assistants, interns and volunteers in their various roles. Responsible for the care and security of artwork.
• Assists gallery director to ensure smooth operations of exhibitions.
• Requires extensive knowledge of art gallery operations and facilities management, and knowledge of university policies, marketing and financial accounting.
• Reports to the Gallery Director.
• At the discretion of the Director may assist with or collaborate on research, coordination, and exhibition design of the gallery's three to six contemporary art and traveling exhibitions per year, two annual student exhibitions, and any associated outreach and educational programs such as workshops, lectures, conferences, symposia, screenings, live art/performances and music events.

Minimum Requirements:

Preferred Requirements

For more information or to apply visit http://hr.web.cmu.edu/prospective/.

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The NonProfit Times Free Corporate Grants Research Portal
This site allows nonprofit organizations to search records on corporate donations.

Visitors to the site can search by business name or by recipient cause or location. Results include donor, recipient, donation amount range, year of donation and recipient city and state.

For more information visit http://www.nptgrantsearch.com/.

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Note from the Editor:

Do you know someone who might want to receive Communique Online? Anyone may join the mailing list by e-mailing col@indianahistory.org.

If your historical organizations, genealogical society or museum has changed its address or phone number in the past six months, please send the updated information to Coordinator, Local History Services, at the above e-mail, or Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana History Center, 450 W. Ohio St., Indianapolis, IN 46202.