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From: Margaret Bierlein [mailto:MBierlein@indianahistory.org]
Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 3:04 PM
To: INGEN-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: [INGEN] 85th Indiana History Conference and Indiana Historical
Society Annual Meeting
85th Indiana History Conference and
Indiana Historical Society Annual Meeting
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Mari Evans and Henry Z "Hank" Jones, Jr. among those to speak at October 29
conference.
Indianapolis -The Indiana Historical Society will host its 85th Indiana
History Conference and annual meeting on Saturday, October 29, at the
Indiana History Center, 450 W. Ohio Street, Indianapolis.
Focusing on the theme "Indiana's Creative Spirit," the
conference will offer thought-provoking sessions on the Hoosier state's
artistic and cultural pasts. Noted artists, scholars, genealogists and
community leaders will discuss topics ranging from Indiana's musical past to
influential artists, writers and so-called "rebels."
Following the annual meeting, poet, playwright, educator and IHS "Living
Legend" Mari Evans will deliver the keynote address. Evans will discuss her
craft and how one's creative expression is often tied to a sense of personal
history.
The author of the now-classic poetry collection I Am a Black
Woman, Evans has received numerous honors, including a Grammy nomination,
induction into the National Literary Hall of Fame for Writers of African
Descent at Chicago State University, and a Ugandan postage stamp. Her résumé
boasts numerous political articles, six children's books and a lengthy list
of awards and distinctions.
Other sessions will include history professor Michael McGerr of Indiana
University who will consider how the middle class used music as a form of
leisure during the turn of the last century, and former WTLC deejay Rickie
Clark and others will explore the "Naptown sound" of Indianapolis's soul
and
funk scene during the 1960s and 1970s.
Judith Vale Newton and Carol Ann Weiss will discuss their 2005 Indiana
Center for the Book "Best Book of Indiana" nonfiction winner, Skirting the
Issue. James Dean, one of Indiana's most famous and enigmatic natives, will
be the featured topic in a session by Ball State University
telecommunications professor Wes Gehring, author of James Dean: Rebel with a
Cause. Civil War general and Ben-Hur author Lew Wallace will serve as the
topic of another session.
The 2005 Willard Heiss Memorial genealogy lecture will be presented by Henry
Z "Hank" Jones Jr. Jones will entertain and educate participants with
"How
Psychic Roots Became an Unsolved Mystery" and two other lectures, including
what to do when sources are wrong.
Jones has actively been climbing his family trees since the age of eight,
when he found an old trunk filled with fading tintypes, family letters and
old newspaper clippings. He wrote his first genealogical work while in high
school and continued his interests while attending Stanford University, from
which he graduated in 1963. Jones early career in the entertainment field
included co-starring on the daytime Tennessee Ernie Ford show and as a
recording artist for RCA, Capitol and Epitome Records. During the 1960s and
70s Jones was featured in a number of motion pictures and television
programs including "Herbie Rides Again," "The Cat from Outer Space,"
"My
Three Sons," "Mork & Mindy" and many others.
The Annual Indiana History Conference has been made possible through a
matching grant from the Indiana Humanities Council in cooperation with the
National Endowment for the Humanities.
Full registration for the conference, including lunch, is $39; $34 IHS
members; $24 for students age 23 or younger with a current student ID. The
cost to attend conference sessions only is $25; $20 IHS members; $10 for
students. Seating is limited and early registration is encouraged by October
17. To register or for more information call (317) 232-1882. A registration
brochure can be downloaded at
http://www.indianahistory.org/pub_prog/genealogy/gen_programs.html#oct29.
Since 1830, the Indiana Historical Society has been Indiana's
storyteller, connecting people to the past by collecting, preserving,
interpreting and disseminating Indiana history. The independent, nonprofit
organization also publishes books and periodicals; sponsors teacher
workshops; provides youth, adult and family programming; assists local
historical groups throughout the state; and maintains one of the world's
largest collection of material on the history of Indiana and the Old
Northwest. The Indiana Historical Society is one of the oldest historical
societies in the United States, and one of the largest with more than 10,000
members. (
www.indianahistory.org)