International Costume Symposium
This event will be held on Saturday, July 12, from noon-4 p.m. in the Great Hall of the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne.

Clothing is more than garments we wear, it reflects our social and economic status as well as the climate we inhabit. The style and decoration of clothing reflects not only personal taste, but the culture of a people. Representatives at the International Costume Symposium will share their culture through clothing. Countries to be represented include Burma, India, Korea, Scotland, Philippine, Poland, Russia, Hungary, Columbia, Peru, Mexico, Czech and Macedonia.

For more information please contact the Macedonian Museum at (260) 422-5900.

The Allen County Public Library is located at 900 Library Plaza in Fort Wayne.

1869 Vintage Base Ball Game
This event from the Ohio County Historical Society will take place on Saturday, July 12, at 1 p.m. at the Ohio County Elementary Middle School in Rising Sun.

Admission is free.

The game features the Cincinnati Red Stockings vs. the Buckeyes. Bring your lawn chairs! See and learn about base ball (two words in the 19th century) as it was played in its formative years, the 1860s. Besides playing by the rules of 1869 they will follow the customs of the time period as well. Some of those customs are no swearing or spitting.  The players' uniforms and equipment are similar to that used back then. Pitching is underhand from 45 feet, players wear no gloves, no over running first base, foul balls caught on a bounce are outs and gentlemanly conduct prevails.

Food will be sold with proceeds benefiting the Ohio County Historical Society.

For more information, call (812) 438-4915 or visit http://www.ohiocountyinmuseum.org/calendar.htm.

Annual Civil War Encampment at the General Lew Wallace Study and Museum
This annual encampment weekend will be held on Saturday, July 12, from 2-9 p.m., and on Sunday, July 13, from 1-5 p.m. at the General Lew Wallace Study and Museum in Crawfordsville.

The scent of campfires and the sounds of Stephen Foster songs will fill the air once again at the annual Civil War encampment weekend. This year, however, visitors will get a rare chance to dig deeper into the experience of life as one of General Wallace’s rank-and-file soldiers. In addition to live demonstrations of camp cooking, construction, medical care, music, telegraphy and artillery training, visitors will have the chance to interact with General Wallace himself, listening in as he reflects on the controversial battle of Shiloh and his innovative defense of Cincinnati.

The live activities include School of the Piece, an instructional training exercise for cannoneers that demonstrates the degree of textbook and practical training required to function on the field of battle. Visitors will also be invited to participate in infantry training drills using toy “Woodfield” (wooden) rifles. Demonstrations in Civil War-era medical care, camp construction and cooking and using a working telegraph (one of the last remaining of its kind in the U.S.) will also be held throughout the weekend.

On the evening of July 12, guests can experience the Civil War re-enactors preparing dinner and readying their tents for nightfall on the lush Museum grounds during their twilight tours of the encampment.

For further information, contact the Museum at (765) 362-5769 or info@ben-hur.com.

Wabash Erie Canal Towpath Trail Meeting
This meeting will be held on Wednesday, July 16, at 1:30 p.m. in the Allen County Fort Wayne Historical Society’s History Center.

Share in the vision to connect the trails and byways of the communities along the Wabash River that once was the route of the Wabash and Erie Canal. Well conceived trails have been established in our towns and villages and now we'd like to work to connect them marking the route and celebrating our rich canal and river heritage.

The History Center is located at 302 E. Berry St. in Fort Wayne.

For more information about this group visit http://wabasheriecanal.blogspot.com/.

Day Trip to the Civil War Era in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Fountain City, Ind.
This event is hosted by the President Benjamin Harrison Home and will take place on Wednesday, July 16.

The tour will include a visit to the National Underground Freedom Center in downtown Cincinnati on the banks of the Ohio River, which separated slave states from free states in the period of American history when slavery was sanctioned in law and supported as a critical component of the national economy. The museum tells the story in major exhibits and programs.

The tour will then visit the Levi Coffin House, an underground railroad station that is located in Fountain City. The Levi Coffin House is a Federal-style brick home built in 1839 and is now a registered National Historic Landmark.

The trip is open to the public and will include lunch at the Porkopolis Tavern and Grill in the Rookwood Factory. The bus will leave at 7:30 a.m. from the Presidential site at 1230 N. Delaware St. in Indianapolis.

The cost is $70 per person, which includes transportation, museum entry fees, lunch, snacks and gratuities. 

Reservations are required and can be made by contacting Jo Baize at (317) 631-1888 or by e-mailing volunteer@presidentbenjaminharrison.org.

For more information, visit http://www.pbhh.org/.

Family Days at the Navarre Cabin
This event will take place on July 26-27 from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. at the Navarre Cabin in South Bend.

Suggested donation is $3.

During Family Days at the Cabin, participants can visit with "Pierre Navarre" and see demonstrations of crafts, cooking, recreation, trades and period dress in the early 1800s. Costumed interpreters will give a guided tour of the Navarre Cabin and tell about Pierre Navarre, his wife, Angelique, and their children. Visitors can purchase items at the "Trading Post."

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the cabin was built c. 1820 by Pierre Navarre, considered to be the first European to permanently settle in St. Joseph County. Pierre Navarre was an educated man of French descent who came from Monroe, Michigan, in 1820 as an agent of the American Fur Company. Begun in 1808 by John Jacob Astor, the company competed with the great fur trading companies in Canada. Navarre’s arrival in South Bend and the establishment of the first trading post on the St. Joseph River prepared the way for the founding of Southhold, later to become South Bend. Navarre married a Potawatomi woman named Angelique Kechoueckouay. The couple had ten children, all of whom lived in the cabin.

The Navarre Cabin, which is owned by the Center for History, is located in Leeper Park.

For more information, call (574) 235-9664 or visit http://www.centerforhistory.org/.

Danny Barber’s JazzCats at Music in the Gardens
This event will take place on Aug. 1 from 5-8:30 p.m. in the Center for History’s Historic Oliver Gardens in South Bend.

The event is co-hosted by the Center for History and 88.1 WVPE Public Radio. Sponsors are NIPSCO and the Center for Hospice and Palliative Care.

Danny Barber is known throughout the music world for his trumpet sound, power and musicality. Starting in South Bend with the Jazz Assemblage, he went on to play at Indiana University, the U.S. Army Jazz Ensemble, and has played in concert halls and colleges through the country. He has performed with many entertainers, including Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra, Joni Mitchell and Styx. In addition to recording sessions, he has played for such Broadway shows as Fiddler on the Roof, Bye Bye, Birdie, Les Miserables, Phantom of the Opera, and Grease.

Danny’s group, The JazzCats, is a group of world class musicians who have performed at jazz festivals throughout the United States and Europe, performing with such stars as Maynard Ferguson, Dizzy Gillespie, Doc Severensen, Nancy Wilson and Count Basie, to name a few. The group plays music from the libraries of Duke Ellington, Nat King Cole, Miles Davis and many more, and their repertoire spans well over 2,000 songs.

The lush grounds of Copshaholm provide a perfect setting for Music in the Gardens. Copshaholm is the 1896 home built for industrialist J. D. Oliver and his family. The mansion’s surrounding 2 ½ acres of gardens, in full bloom at this time of year, offer a fragrant backdrop to the evening of music.

Complimentary visits to the Center for History’s newest exhibits, 100 Years of Design, R.I.P. - Victorian Mourning Customs and Lost Landmarks: Then and Now, will be offered.

Guests are invited to bring lawn chairs or blankets. Food and beverages will be sold. No carry-in foods or beverages are permitted. The event will be held rain or shine. Corporate table packages may be purchased by calling the Center for History.

For more information, call (574) 235-9664 or visit http://www.centerforhistory.org/ or http://www.wvpe.org/.

Furniture: More than Wood, Varnish and Glue
This program is part of Insights in History for Seniors and will be held on Aug. 6 at 1:30 p.m. at the Center for History in South Bend.

Admission is $3 and reservations are requested by Aug. 4.

Using the exhibit 100 Years of Design as a backdrop, Dave Bainbridge, the Center for History’s Senior Curator, will compare and contrast the style, construction and usage of furniture in the periods shown in the exhibit (1830 - 1930). Participants will also tour 100 Years of Design.

For more information, call (574) 235-9664 or visit http://www.centerforhistory.org/.

Twilight Tour of Cedar Grove Cemetery
A tour of Cedar Grove Cemetery on the Campus of the University of Notre Dame will be offered on Aug. 14 at 6:30 p.m. by the Center for History in South Bend.

The cost is $2 per person. The tour is open to all ages.

Led by Travis Childs, the museum’s director of school programs, the tour features historic grave sites, including those of Alexis Coquillard, one of the founders of South Bend, and the O'Brien family (of O'Brien Paint Company).

Also shown will be a mass grave mound of Potawatomi Indians that was moved from the land where St. Joseph High School now stands as well as several gravestones that have a unique design and some which are inscribed in Polish.

Participants should meet at the cemetery’s entrance on Notre Dame Ave., on the campus of the University of Notre Dame. 

For more information, call (574) 235-9664, ext. 242 or visit http://www.centerforhistory.org/.

Concerts on the Canal: Buselli-Wallarab Jazz Orchestra with Everett Greene
This concert is held in partnership with the Indiana University School of Music at IUPUI and will be held on Thursday, July 17, from 6-8 p.m. at the Canal Plaza of the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana History Center.

The event is free to the public.

The feature for this concert is Basic Basie: The Music of Count Basie by Buselli-Wallarab Jazz Orchestra with Everett Greene

Free seating is available on the Plaza steps and on the greenway across the Canal. The cost for reserved table seating for four is $30 or $25 for IHS members; for tables of eight: $40 or $35 for IHS members. Tables may be reserved in advance by calling the Welcome Center at (317) 232-1882.

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 the Plaza.

The Café, cash bar and outdoor grill will be open from 5-7:30 p.m.

Indiana Living Legends Gala
This event will take place on Friday, July 18, at the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana History Center.

Each year, the Society honors extraordinary Hoosiers for their statewide and national accomplishments in a variety of areas and disciplines. This year’s honorees were selected from more than 150 nominations by a committee of civic and corporate leaders, volunteers and IHS trustees.

The individuals who will be named Indiana Living Legends in 2008 are Birch Bayh, Scott Jones, David T. Wong, Barbara Baekgaard and Patricia Miller.

The Living Legends event also serves as a fundraising event that assists the Indiana Historical Society in fulfilling its mission to be Indiana’s Storyteller™ by providing programs and resources throughout the state. In addition to generous corporate sponsorship from partners OneAmerica Financial Partners, Inc. and Fifth Third Bank, individuals and companies are invited to support the IHS mission by attending the event.

Tickets can be purchased individually or by table. The cost to attend is $250 per person or $2,500 for a table of 10. Those wishing to attend a patron’s reception with the Living Legends may purchase patron-level tickets for $350 per person or $3,500 for a table of 10.

For additional information or to receive an invitation, please contact the IHS Development Department at (317) 233-6578.

For more information on any of these events, please visit http://www.indianahistory.org/.

"One Shot": The WWII Photography of John A. Bushemi at the Lake County Public Library in Merrillville
John A. Bushemi was a good-natured, talented photographer from Gary, Ind., who covered several of the island invasions during World War II in the Pacific. This traveling exhibit features reproductions of Bushemi’s photographs “from a rifle’s length vantage point,” according to his colleague and fellow war correspondent Merle Miller. Among the magazine covers and personal photographs from Bushemi’s assignment to YANK, the weekly magazine written by and for enlisted men, are images of soldiers training at Fort Braggs, soldiers on the beach of Entiwok Island in the Marshalls awaiting the order to attack, and close-up portraits of soldiers who were featured in a YANK article about the battle for New Georgia.

Bushemi died February 19, 1944, when shrapnel from Japanese knee-mortar shells hit and mortally wounded the photographer. As navy surgeons frantically attempted to save Bushemi’s life, the photographer gave his epitaph, telling Miller “Be sure to get those pictures back to the office.” Images of both his battleship funeral service and his funeral service back home in Gary are included in the exhibit.

The Golden Age: Indiana Literature at the Merrillville/Ross Township Historical Society and Museum
The 19th state's rich literary heritage at the turn of the century is highlighted in this Society exhibition. Drawn from collections at the IHS, Indiana State Library and Indiana University's Lilly Library, the exhibition explores what came to be known as the Golden Age of Indiana Literature, a time period in which Hoosier authors achieved both national prominence and popular acclaim. Indiana writers in the late 19th and early 20th century catered to readers who preferred writing that idealized traditional values or offered escape from an ever-changing world. A 1947 study found that Hoosier authors ranked second to New York in the number of best-sellers produced in the previous 40 years. The exhibition examines some of the many writers who contributed to the state's literary golden age, but concentrates on the lives and careers of four individuals who loomed large during this period–George Ade, Meredith Nicholson, Booth Tarkington and James Whitcomb Riley.

The Hoosier Centennial: A Look Back at the 1916 Celebration at the Merrillville/Ross Township Historical Society and Museum
The pageantry and spectacle surrounding Indiana's 1916 statehood centennial is showcased in this exhibit. This exhibit was part of the Indiana Historical Society's effort to commemorate the 175th anniversary of Indiana's statehood. The statewide centennial celebration in 1916 would prove to have a lasting effect on the state, establishing the first state parks, spurring the production of lavish historical pageants, and prompting steps toward an improved highway system.

These traveling exhibits are 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".

Assistant Administrator at Pottsgrove Manor in Pottstown, Pa.
This position is with Parks and Heritage Services.

The salary is $34,330-37,766, depending on relevant experience.

Responsibilities:

• Established experience in collections care, historic interpretation and museum operations.
• Knowledge of the theories, procedures and practices of collections care and accessions methods.
• Lead interpretive tours for children and adults.
• Develop and implement interpretive and educational programs, special events and exhibits.
• Perform general administrative duties and represent site at professional meetings, seminars and conferences in the absence of the Site Administrator.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in American History, American or Museum Studies; and a minimum of two (2) years of relevant experience. 
• Knowledge of collections management. 
• Knowledge of interpretive programming, including educational and adult programs, special events and exhibits.

Abilities:

• Ability to plan and implement collections care program. 
• Ability to plan, organize and present interpretive programs, special events and exhibits.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with supervisors, associates, subordinates, County officials, volunteers and the public.
• Must be a "team player".
• Ability to express ideas clearly and concisely, orally and in writing. 
• Computer literate and good typing skills.

Position requires alternating weekend duty, certain holidays and additional attendance at all special site events and occasions. On call 24 hours daily. Official affiliations in site support groups would be a conflict of interest.

Contact Montgomery County Human Resources Dept. at (610) 278-3052, or apply to
Human Resources
One Montgomery Plaza, Swede and Airy Sts.
Norristown, PA 19404. 

For more information about Montgomery County, Pa., visit http://www.montcopa.org/.

Curatorial Assistant at the National Museum of American Jewish History
Reporting to the Deputy Director for Programming and Museum Historian, the Curatorial Assistant will participate in the development of a 25,000 square foot, landmark exhibition currently under development for a new building the NMAJH will open in 2010.

The Curatorial Assistant supports, and contributes to, all aspects of the NMAJH's work with collections and exhibitions. Candidates must have excellent research skills and advanced experience with MS Excel and Word.

Specific job duties include:

• Historical research
• Collections-based and archival research
• Visits to libraries and archives
• Creation, organization and maintenance of large data files containing artifact data in MS Word and Excel
• Contributing to exhibition development correspondence
• Assisting with loan requests
• Selecting and transcribing texts for exhibition narratives
• Preparing documents for exhibition design meetings
• Providing administrative support to the Deputy Director for Programming and Museum Historian

Qualifications and Experience Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree required; preference to candidate with advanced degree or graduate level work in American History or Jewish Studies
• Exceptional computer skills, including proficiency with Word, Access and Excel, good working knowledge of the internet and experience with a wide range of online and print research resources such as Proquest, Project Muse and the New York Times.
• Solid writing skills
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to compile and synthesize information from multiple sources into concise reports
• Well-organized and detail-oriented
• Able to work effectively under pressure while maintaining good interpersonal skills and dealing courteously with the public.

Please send a cover letter and resume to:
Curatorial Assistant Search
National Museum of American Jewish History
55 N. Fifth St.
Philadelphia, PA  19106-2197

E-mail applications may also be submitted to curatorial-search@nmajh.org.

Programming and Operations Coordinator at the Penn State All-Sports Museum
The Penn State All-Sports Museum is seeking a Programming and Operations Coordinator. 

Responsibilities:

• Plan, direct and oversee all aspects of daily Museum operations as instructed by the Museum Director.
• Develop, write and review public programming which advances the Museum's mission and goals.
• Develop and supervise effective execution of the Museum's educational program.
• Coordinate educational program development with area schools.
• Train and oversee operations personnel and volunteers in program implementation and delivery.
• Coordinate, cultivate and recruit volunteers to fulfill the Museum's needs.
• Promote Museum programs to the general public and the community.
• Design revenue-generating programming that effectively uses the Museum's facilities.
• Assist the Museum Director with special projects related to Museum enhancement.

Requires Bachelor's degree or equivalent, plus three months of work-related experience.

This is a fixed-term appointment funded from July 1, 2008 through June 30, 2009. 

All applicants must apply through the Penn State job site at http://www.psu.jobs/.