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From: Ray Boomhower <rboomhower(a)statelib.lib.in.us>
To: H-INDIANA(a)H-NET.MSU.EDU <H-INDIANA(a)H-NET.MSU.EDU>
Date: Monday, June 22, 1998 8:41 AM
Subject: Rural Community Workshop
From: Darrel Bigham <dbigham.ucs(a)smtp.usi.edu>
Date sent: Mon, 22 June 1998
Subject: Rural Community Workshop
We request your assistance in identifying potential participants in our
fall workshop on rural community planning, "Your Town: Designing Its
Future." This workshop is sponsored by the National Endowment for the
Arts and the National Trust for Historic Preservation, in cooperation
with Historic Southern Indiana, a heritage-based regional development
program of the University of Southern Indiana. Other partners are
Historic New Harmony, Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana, Southern
Indiana Rural Development Project, Indiana Rural Development Council, the
Hoosier National Forest, and Purdue University's department of landscape
architecture.
This Midwest workshop will be held November 12-14, 1998, in New Harmony,
Indiana. It is for residents of Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, and
Wisconsin.
American communities face many critical problems--in some cases, heavy
outmigration and loss of jobs, and in others rapid growth from suburban
sprawl or location of a new business. Such issues affect community
vitality--its design and sense of place. The "Your Town" workshop will
introduce rural technical assistance providers and decision makers to the
role of design in community planning.
The workshop will begin at noon on November 12, and adjourn on the
evening of November 14. Design changes, the design process, natural and
cultural resources inventories, getting and managing design assistance,
local case studies, are communicating your vision are session topics.
Emphasis is on group exercises in "your town" problem solving using a
hypothetical town with real-world problems.
We would appreciate your sending us the name(s) and address(es) of
nominees for this workshop. These should be rural leaders who can effect
change in your area or state but are NOT design professionals and could
benefit from this intensive 3-day event. Thirty participants from the 5
states will be selected. Board, room, and registration fees are covered.
The only cost participants will incur is travel to New Harmony, which is
about 40 minutes west of Evansville Regional Airport.
I would appreciate your sending names of possible participants by July 8.
Names of contacts in other areas and states would also be appreciated.
Please also forward this request to other email contacts.
Invitations to apply will be sent in mid-July..
Thank you.
Darrel E. Bigham
Professor of History
Director, Historic Southern Indiana
University of Southern Indiana
8600 University Blvd.
Evansville, IN 47712
812 465-7014/FAX 812 465-7061
Veritas