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Rising Sun After Dark
Tour
Have you ever heard of a
reporter interviewing a goblin? Did you know that
a sea serpent reported to be eight feet long swam in the
Ohio River between Rabbit Hash and Rising Sun in 1882? A
flaming sword, screams, ghostly appearances and other
strange happenings occurred in Rising Sun from the 1800s
to the present.
Join museum volunteers at 7 p.m.
on Oct. 19, 2007, as they lead visitors on a trail
filled with bizarre happenings in Rising Sun. Be
prepared for the unexpected or even the expected. Wear
comfortable shoes for this walking tour. Hot chocolate
and treats will be waiting for you at the end of the
tour to calm your nerves and ease your fears.
The cost of the Rising Sun After
Dark tour is $5 per person 13 and older; $2 ages 4-12;
free ages 3 and under.
Presenting Lincoln: The
Presidential Archives Program,
Book Signing
Intimate photographs,
personal letters and documents that changed
history
As one of the country’s most
controversial, revered and influential presidents,
Abraham Lincoln has been the subject of thousands of
books. In Lincoln: The Presidential Archives,
author Chuck Wills offers readers something new: an
original, meticulously researched biography alongside
removable reproductions of Lincoln’s personal and
political letters, notes and mementos. The author will
discuss his book at 7 p.m. on Oct. 23, 2007, at The
Lincoln Museum. A book signing will follow, and copies
of the book can be purchased in the museum
store.
This engaging and readable
“museum in a book” pulls these rare materials out of the
archive and places them into the hands of the general
reader.
Fully illustrated with more than
120 black-and-white and color images, Lincoln: The
Presidential Archives celebrates Lincoln in
his roles as president, husband, father and leader. From
his log-cabin childhood to his infamous assassination,
Wills separates the man from the myth and leaves readers
with a dynamic understanding of nineteenth-century
America.
Reproduced documents
include:
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A page from Lincoln’s boyhood
school book
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Abraham and Mary Todd
Lincoln's marriage license
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The first letter carried by
the Pony Express
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Lincoln’s original
Emancipation Proclamation
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Civil War
telegrams
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A letter from Mary Todd
Lincoln to her husband
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An 1860 campaign
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Lincoln: The Presidential
Archives is a family-friendly, welcoming
resource for anyone interested in Lincoln and his world.
Special enough for gift-giving, it’s a wonderful book
for everyone interested in one of the most rich and
complex moments in American history.
Chuck Wills is a writer, editor
and consultant specializing in American history. Wills's
most recent books include America's Presidents,
Destination America and Boom Times,
Hard Times. He has written or contributed to
numerous other works on American history, including
Daily Life in Colonial America and a series of
historical albums on the American states. In addition to
his historical work, Wills has a sideline in popular
culture, technology and music, including co-authoring
Grateful Dead: The Illustrated Trip. He lives
in New York City.
The Lincoln Museum is located at
the corner of Clinton and Berry Streets in downtown Fort
Wayne. For more information, call (260) 455-3864 for
additional information.
Online Discussion About the IRS
990 Form
In 2008 there will be many
changes to the way non-profits have to report to the
IRS. The Chronicle of Philanthropy will be
hosting an online discussion at noon on Oct. 24, 2007,
regarding the changes to the 990 IRS Form. Two legal and
regulatory experts will be available to answer questions
during this session.
More information on the changes
can be found from the Chronicle at http://philanthropy.com/news/?id=3223&pth&utm_source=pt&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=leftbottom. You don't need to be a
subscriber of Chronicle to participate; the
discussion is open to everyone.
For more information on the
proposed changes to the 990, read the article
at http://philanthropy.com/free/articles/v19/i18/18003301.htm.
Nightmare on Walnut
Street
Come to the Ohio County
Historical Museum at 212 S. Walnut St. in Rising Sun for
the third annual Nightmare on Walnut Street. The Itsy
Bitsy Spider Parlor will once again be filled with fun
and games for the youngins, ages 7 and
under.
Magical Dan will be on hand in
the parlor from 6 to 8:30 p.m. making balloon animals
and giving them away. Prior to appearing in the parlor,
Magical Dan will be on the stage in the parking lot at
5:30 p.m. to perform some of his magic acts.
Dr. Demented’s Science Lab will
be up and running again this year, only much bigger.
Last year the lab was small and crowded. This is a
young-scientists' favorite. Dr. Demented has more
fun and exciting experiments to try. Are you willing to
be part of the test?
Mobile Music will provide the
tunes to keep the living dead dancing. And speaking of
dancing, the Park Board Dancers will again grace the
parking lot with their dance to Halloween
music.
A costume contest will be held
for all ages. Cash prizes for first, second and third
places in various age groups will be awarded. An overall
best costume will also receive a cash prize. You can
register for the contest at the stage from 6 to 7:30
p.m., with winners announced at 8 p.m.
There is plenty of fun with
various stage acts performing Halloween favorites. There
could be silly singers/dancers to the Monster Mash or
someone reciting Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven.
Besides the games in the Itsy Bitsy Spider Parlor, five
challenging games will be played outside to win
prizes.
As always there will be a
selection of frightfully delicious food. There will be
plenty of characters roaming around plus an area for the
haunted vignettes to send a chill up your spine. Food,
some activities and games need tickets. The evening will
be capped off with a local “celebrity” receiving a pie
in the face. The person with the most votes (votes can
be cast for a penny) will receive a pie in the face at
8:45 p.m. Come enjoy the fun. The cost is $1 per person
to enter.
Sponsored by Aurora Casket
Company, Friendship State Bank, Grand Victoria Casino
& Resort, Rising Sun Police Department, Bright
Veterinary Clinic, Lane Siekman Attorney At Law, Eagle
Radio and Indiana Michigan Power, Tanners Creek
Plant.
Call (812) 438-4915 for more
information.
New Albany to Welcome Hoagy
Carmichael for One Final Tour
A life-size bronze statue of
Hoagy Carmichael at his Steinway Grand Piano will be
visiting downtown New Albany Oct. 19 to 20, 2007, at the
Speakeasy Jazz Club, 225 State St., and Indiana
University Southeast Oct. 22 to 25. This visit is part
of a statewide tour to re-engage Hoosiers’ knowledge of
this creative composer and his enormous contributions to
the landscape of American music. At the conclusion of
the tour this fall, the statue will be dedicated and
permanently installed at Indiana University in
Bloomington, where Hoagy was born and received a law
degree.
Accompanying the sculpture will
be a display chronicling Carmichael’s life, kiosks,
archives and various items promoting his life and
career. Sculptor/designer Michael McAuley will also be
on site to answer questions and present a lecture
concerning the sculpture and Carmichael’s
life.
Carmichael was one of America’s
great songsmiths and the very first of the American
singer-songwriters. Although playing piano from an early
age, his passion for music truly ignited at the
beginning of the America Jazz movement. He composed
numerous songs, including Stardust and
Georgia on My Mind – two of the most recorded
songs in the history of music. In 1951 he won an Oscar
for his song In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the
Evening. Later, Carmichael was given his own
television show and gained 14 film credits with actors
such as Kirk Douglas and Humphrey Bogart, among others.
He was one of the first ten songwriters inducted into
the nation’s Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Sponsored by Caesars Foundation
of Floyd County, local organizers of this Hoagy Tribute
Tour include the Carnegie Center for Art & History,
the Floyd County Historical Society, Develop New Albany
and the IU Alumni Association.
Sheep to Shawl
Program
A Sheep to Shawl program will be
held at the Putnam County Museum from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
on Oct. 27. At 10 a.m., Dave Greenburg, winner of
sheep-shearing awards in Indiana and Illinois, will talk
about sheep, wool and shearing. Then he will shear a
sheep for all to see. After the sheep is sheared until
3:45 p.m., women in the Putnam County Spinners and
Weavers Guild will demonstrate how to spin and weave
naturally-dyed wool on their spinning wheels and a
loom.
Raffle tickets will be sold for
$1 throughout the day. At 3:45 p.m., a raffle ticket
will be pulled, and the Guild's fully-woven shawl will
go to the winning ticket-holder. Half of the proceeds
will benefit the museum, while the other half will go to
the Guild.
The museum is located at 1105 N.
Jackson St. in Greencastle. For more
information, call (765) 653-8419.
Crawfordsville's Brown Bag Book
Club Expands into Autumn
After a successful summer
discussing fascinating women-centered books, the Brown
Bag Book Club at the General Lew Wallace Study &
Museum is extending the experience into autumn. In
keeping with a woman-centered theme to complement this
year’s exhibit Collective Influence: The Wallace
Women, this summer’s titles included March
by Geraldine Brooks, Parallel Lives: Five Victorian
Marriages by Phyllis Rose and political commentator
Eleanor Clift’s book Founding Sisters and
the Nineteenth Amendment, an eloquently written
in-depth study of the struggle for women’s right to
vote.
Extending the program prompted
expanding the book selection to a general celebration of
literature guided by the annual theme. Fall selections
are My Antonia by Willa Cather for Oct. 29,
2007, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora
Neale Hurston for Nov. 19, 2007, and Land of
the Pueblosby Susan Wallace for Dec. 17.,
2007 The books are available in the gift shop in
the Carriage House Interpretive Center, and Book Club
participants get a 20% discount.
The Book Club meets from 12 to 1
p.m. in the Lynne D. Hohlbein Education Room in the
Carriage House, and participants are encouraged to enjoy
their lunches while discussing the books. The program is
free, and no advance registration is
required.
The Brown Bag Book Club program
is made possible through a grant from the Institute of
Museum and Library Services and additional support is
provided by the Lew Wallace Study Preservation Society
and the League of Women Voters of Montgomery
County.
A Theatrical Presentation and
Reception at The Lincoln Museum
Abraham Lincoln
and Fredrick Douglass: A Friendship
Unique
The play Abraham Lincoln and
Fredrick Douglass: A Friendship Unique will be
presented at The Lincoln Museum at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 2,
2007. The drama stars museum favorite Fritz Klein as
Abraham Lincoln and Michael Crutcher as Frederick
Douglass. The action begins in March of 1860 as Douglass
remarks how his relationship with Lincoln has changed
over the years. He recalls his reaction to Lincoln's
election and first inaugural speech as a feeling of
hope. The Douglass/ Lincoln relationship is chronicled
throughout the Civil War where the pair struggled with
issues such as pay inequalities for Negro
regiments.
The drama ends on March 4, 1865,
as the final phrases of Lincoln's Second Inaugural
Speech linger throughout the theatre.
A reception will follow the
play. Tickets are $12 for museum members and $15 for
non-members. Seating is limited. Doors Open at 7 p.m.
Please purchase your tickets by Oct. 26, 2007, by
calling (260) 455-6087 or emailing diane.savieo@TheLincolnMuseum.org.
Sponsored by The Friends of The
Lincoln Museum and the Boscia Family
Foundation.
President Harrison Home Opens
Helen Keller Exhibit with Guest Lecturer and
Book-Signing
The President Benjamin Harrison
Home opens a special exhibit Helen Keller: Touching
the World with a free guest lecture and
book-signing on at 2 p.m. on Nov. 8, 2007, at the
presidential museum, 1230 N. Delaware St., as part of
the annual Spirit & Place Festival.
Dr. Kim E. Nielsen, professor of
women’s studies at the University of Wisconsin-Green
Bay, will present a lecture, “Helen Keller: Beyond the
Cover,” highlighting Keller’s generous life of service
and purpose, and hold a book-signing. Dr. Nielsen’s most
recent books are The Radical Lives of Helen
Keller and Helen Keller: Selected
Writings.
The exhibit will feature an
original heart-felt letter to First Lady Caroline
Harrison from 12-year-old Keller, written in 1892, in
which she extended her best wishes to the ailing First
Lady.
Reservations for the Nov. 8
program are encouraged, as seating is limited. For
reservations, call (317) 631-1888.
The Keller event is supported by
the Indiana Humanities Council in partnership with the
National Endowment for the Humanities.
Museum Fund Raiser Features
Seymour Families
The Seymour Museum, Inc. fund
raiser uses colorful profiles of five families to tell a
little history of the city's first half-century at the
Riverview Cemetery 125th Anniversary Observance &
Visitation, at 2 p.m. on Nov. 10, 2007.
Tickets are $6.99 through Nov.
3, 2007, and $9.99 from Nov. 4 to 10, 2007, if space is
still available. Tickets can be purchased at Artistic
Impressions, 127 W. Second St. in Seymour.
Historically factual profiles
will include two typical families: Meedy and Eliza
Shields, founders of Seymour; and Travis and Esther
Carter, who bought the first lot and spent the next
half-century in Seymour. Perhaps less typical will be
profiles of Dr. Jasper R. Monroe, a physician and
surgeon who started the first newspaper in Seymour and
later became a leader of the Freethinkers movement,
gaining a national following before moving his newspaper
to Indianapolis and renaming it the Ironclad
Age (The Evoluted Seymour Times); the
honorable Jason B. Brown, an often-married lawyer
accused by Detective Allen Pinkerton of defending
members of the Reno Gang while under retainer to Adams
Express Company, whose first three wives died (or did
they?) shortly after marriage, whose political exploits
included Indiana legislative leadership, party switches
(possibly for his personal gain?) and a brief stint as
Secretary of Wyoming Territory; and Monroe's friend as
well as Brown's one-time law partner (although Monroe
and Brown were not exactly friends), Samuel Wilson
Holmes, who died before age 50 after serving as Seymour
mayor as well as working in the state legislature and
leading his political party.
Order a copy of Saving
Seymour Stories: Bits From the First 50 Years for
$17.99 and get two free tickets to the event. For more
information, call museum board member and Jackson County
Historian Charlotee Sellers at (812) 522-3412 ext
240.
Life as a Hobo Features Jackie
Schmidt
At an early age, Jackie Schmidt
was influenced by her own father’s stories of his hobo
life. At 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 12, 2007, the Sheridan
Historical Society will learn about hobos from Schmidt
in a special program to be conducted at the Sheridan
Public Library, 103 W. First St. Admission is
free.
While pursuing her
communications degree at Indiana University, Schmidt,
who now lives in Carmel, spent one semester studying the
hobo culture, interviewing and conducting oral histories
for what she fondly named “knights of the iron road.” To
learn from hundreds of old-timers, Schmidt put on her
back-back and hit the road herself, riding freight
trains across the country collecting notes for a book
eventually published by Indiana University Press. She
now travels in a 10-foot camper to do mission work and
help on small church projects enroute.
The Sheridan Historical
Society has been working to chronicle the hobo history
of a small hobo stop along the Sheridan Monon Trail
adjacent to Biddle Memorial Park.
The regular Sheridan Historical
Society business meeting will take place at 6:30 p.m.
preceding the program.
For more information, contact
the Sheridan Historical Society at (317)
758-5054.
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