Start Over Date 2019

341. Ben Guard Interview (21:57)

Date:
July 17, 2019
Main contributors:
Ben Guard; Beth South
Summary:
Interview of Benjamin Guard, who started Richmond, Indiana's first Pride Festival (2019) and who currently runs the Rainbow Richmond Facebook group.

342. Paul Kriese Interview (25:58)

Date:
August 5, 2019
Main contributors:
Paul Kriese; Beth South
Summary:
Interview of professor emeritus of political science Paul Kriese. Dr. Kriese identifies as asexual and discovered his identity later in life.

343. Stephen S. Mills Talk with Eng-W270 (56:22)

Date:
September 25, 2020
Main contributors:
Stephen S. Mills
Summary:
Stephen S. Mills is an award-winning LGBTQ poet who is a native of Richmond, Indiana. Travis Rountree, assistant professor of English and director of the Writing Program invited Stephen to IU East ...

345. Oral History excerpt: "I just loved drinking from that spring" (01:30)

Date:
December 7, 2019
Main contributors:
Waters, Dorothy (narrator); Waters, Robert (narrator)
Summary:
Dorothy Waters grew up in the Black Oak neighborhood of Calumet Township and her parents owned farm land near the Chase Street spring in Small Farms. Waters and her siblings pulled weeds in their f...

346. Oral History excerpt: "That water runs constantly, 24-7" (02:01)

Date:
October 25, 2019
Main contributors:
Castellanos, David (narrator)
Summary:
Little Calumet River Basin Development Commissioner David Castellanos credits Lake County Commissioner Roosevelt Allen for first bringing the Chase St. Spring to his attention. He talks with people...

347. Oral History excerpt: "There were people from all over" (00:32)

Date:
November 8, 2019
Main contributors:
Standifer, Terence (narrator); Standifer, Connie (narrator)
Summary:
Connie Standifer recalls the community use of the Chase Street Spring when she was growing up. She remembers that people traveled to Small Farms to collect water from the artesian well, sometimes d...

348. Oral History excerpt: "There used to be...a gravel road" (00:36)

Date:
December 7, 2019
Main contributors:
Waters, Dorothy (narrator); Waters, Robert (narrator)
Summary:
Dorothy and Robert Waters describe a gravel road on their family farm that connected the Black Oak spring to the Chase Street spring. The road made a relatively straight east-west line between the ...

351. Jerry Springer Documentary Interview (2:44:00)

Date:
2020
Main contributors:
Springer, Jerry
Summary:
Jerry Springer recounts his involvement with the youth-led effort to lower the voting age in Ohio, his testimony before Congress, and youth political attitudes then and now.

352. Ian MacGowan Documentary Interview (43:16)

Date:
2020
Main contributors:
MacGowan, Ian
Summary:
Ian MacGowan starts by talking about the year 1968, reactions and protests to the Vietnam War, and the general atmosphere of chaos and anger. He then discusses the atmosphere in Washington, DC, and...

353. Patricia (Pat) Keefer Documentary Interview (1:26:00)

Date:
2020
Main contributors:
Keefer, Patricia
Summary:
Pat outlines her motivations for getting involved with the youth vote, her activism at the time, the youth vote's path from Congress to Supreme Court to constitutional amendment, and the Nixon sign...

355. On Air with IER: Episode 26 (12:19)

Date:
June 11, 2019
Main contributors:
Edwards, Beth; Saenz, Enrique
Summary:
This week: We take a look at how the state of Indiana's position on pesticides in food products selected for the state's WIC program could be exposing needy Hoosier families to potentially toxic ch...

356. On Air with IER: Episode 33 (18:15)

Date:
August 5, 2019
Main contributors:
Edwards, Beth; Saenz, Enrique
Summary:
This Week: Air quality gains have slowed after two decades of improvement, and an app is helping beekeepers and growers check in on their bees without disturbing them.

357. On Air with IER: Episode 30 (22:20)

Date:
July 15, 2019
Main contributors:
Edwards, Beth; Saenz, Enrique
Summary:
This Week: We learn more about a proposed Vigo County ammonia plant that seeks to have a near-zero carbon footprint, and health organizations are suing the Trump administration to stop an air pollu...

358. On Air with IER: Episode 27 (14:19)

Date:
June 17, 2019
Main contributors:
Edwards, Beth; Saenz, Enrique
Summary:
This week: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency lifted a ban on the sale of higher ethanol blends of gasoline during the summer months, a move that will benefit corn growers in Indiana but coul...

359. On Air with IER: Episode 34 (19:07)

Date:
August 19, 2019
Main contributors:
Edwards, Beth; Saenz, Enrique
Summary:
This week: Community and environmental groups are suing the EPA for higher dust-lead standards, and environmental groups are concerned a Hoosier National Forest management plan may have a negative ...

360. On Air with IER: Episode 32 (15:51)

Date:
July 29, 2019
Main contributors:
Edwards, Beth; Saenz, Enrique
Summary:
This week: The U.S. EPA has chosen not to ban an Indiana-made pesticide linked to brain abnormalities and autism in children, and the state of Indiana has chosen the first round of proposals for Vo...