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The Black Oak artesian well was located in the front yard of Dorothy Waters' family home. She says that when people from the neighborhood collected water from the spring, they sometimes left pennie...
Kristin Huysken, Associate Professor of Geoscience at Indiana University Northwest, describes how she uses the Chase Street Spring to teach her students about artesian wells. She asks her students ...
Little Calumet River Basin Development Commissioner David Castellanos discusses plans for the beautification and enhancement of the Chase Street Spring. He says, "So if we work together in partners...
Dorothy Waters recalled that her brother told her that there used to be a house next to the Chase Street spring: "There was a house there, that he called the Spring House. Because it was right ther...
Kay Westhues interviews Arianne Campbell at Griffith Public Library in Griffith, Indiana, on October 11, 2019. Campbell first learned of the spring while employed by the AmeriCorps VISTA Program at...
Kay Westhues interviews Chuck Hughes at Hughes' office in the Gary Chamber of Commerce in Gary, Indiana, on September 13, 2019. Hughes is the Executive Director of the Gary Chamber of Commerce and ...
Kay Westhues interviews David Castellanos at Little Calumet River Basin Development Commission office in Munster, IN, on October 25, 2019. Castellanos is a board member on the Little Calumet River...
Waters, Dorothy (narrator); Waters, Robert (narrator)
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Kay Westhues interviews Dorothy and Robert Waters at their home in Schererville, Indiana, on December 7, 2019. Dorothy Waters is a descendent of the Nimetz family, who settled in the Black Oak area...
Waters, Dorothy (narrator); Waters, Robert (narrator)
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Kay Westhues interviews Dorothy and Robert Waters at their home in Schererville, Indiana, on December 7, 2019. Dorothy Waters is a descendent of the Nimetz family, who settled in the Black Oak area...
Kay Westhues interviews Chuck Hughes at his office in the Gary Chamber of Commerce in Gary, Indiana, on September 13, 2019. Hughes is the Executive Director of the Gary Chamber of Commerce and a fo...
Kay Westhues interviews Betty Earlene Jordan at the Lake County Library, Merrillville Branch, in Merrillville, IN, on October 31, 2019. Jordan grew up in the Black Oak neighborhood of Calumet Towns...
Kay Westhues interviews Ida L. Lloyd at her home in the Glen Park neighborhood in Gary, Indiana, on September 13, 2019. Lloyd shares her experience of moving to Small Farms from East Chicago in 195...
Kay Westhues interviews Steve Truchan at his office at the Gary Bridge and Iron Company in Gary, Indiana, on December 6, 2019. Truchan is the owner of Gary Bridge and Iron Company, located on 37th ...
Kay Westhues interviews Terence and Connie Standifer at Macomb Community College in Macomb County, Michigan, on November 8, 2019. Reverend Standifer was the pastor at Pleasant Valley, Missionary B...
Kay Westhues interviews Kristin Huysken at Professor Hysken’s lab in Marram Hall, Indiana University in Gary, Indiana, on October 4, 2019. Professor Huysken is an Associate Professor of Geology and...
Kay Westhues interviews Pam Powers at the Lake County Public Library, Merillville branch, in Merillville, Indiana, on October 25, 2019. Powers grew up in the Small Farms and is currently a member o...
Burt, Johnny (narrator); McIntosh-Burt, Exnar (narrator)
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Kay Westhues interviews Johnny Burt and Exnar McIntosh-Burt at Exnar Burt’s home in Gary, Indiana, on September 6, 2019. The Burts grew up in Small Farms in a family of eighteen children. They depe...
Burt, Johnny (narrator); McIntosh-Burt, Exnar (narrator)
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Johnny Burt recalls how as a boy, he once found a large nest of snakes at the edge of his yard in the Small Farms. He recounts, "They were coming up on our fence! I had to get on the fence, and gra...
Reverend Terence Standifer, the former pastor of the Pleasant Valley Missionary Baptist Church in Small Farms, discusses how pollution affected the Little Calumet River and the surrounding area. He...
Griffith resident Arianne Campbell describes the illegal dumping at the spring that inspired a 2016 community clean-up at the site. "...there's an area where we have a natural running spring," Camp...
Burt, Johnny (narrator); McIntosh-Burt, Exnar (narrator)
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Siblings Johnny Burt and Exnar McIntosh-Burt describe community life around the Chase Street Spring when they grew up in Small Farms. Exnar discusses how people met there while getting water, and J...
Griffith resident Arianne Campbell discusses the impact of pollution on Gary's waterways and how it has affected her life and hobbies. She describes fishing on the Little Calumet River on the same ...
Steve Truchan details life growing up in the Small Farms community in Lake County, Indiana. He says that "everybody was a farmer." He describes a beautiful scene surrounding the Chase Street Spring...
Betty Earlene Jordan describes the Small Farms community's use of the Chase Street spring when she was a child. She says that the spring was "all [she] ever knew, growing up." Because she saw so ma...
Waters, Dorothy (narrator); Waters, Robert (narrator)
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The Black Oak spring was located on the property of Dorothy Waters' childhood home in Black Oak. Waters says that her grandfather (who built the house in 1926) sold the water from the well to a man...
Betty Earlene Jordan, who grew up in the community of Black Oak in Lake County, Indiana, talks about how, at a physical therapy appointment earlier that day, she spoke with two people who had very ...
Chuck Hughes, executive director of the Gary Chamber of Commerce, describes how the Chase Street spring water was like a treat for him and other children.
This was one of a group of excerpts gath...
Professor Kristin Huysken, an Associate Professor of Geology and Chairperson in the Department of Geosciences at Indiana University Northwest, discusses the science of artesian wells. She says that...
Burt, Johnny (narrator); McIntosh-Burt, Exnar (narrator)
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Exnar McIntosh-Burt and her brother, Johnny Burt, talk about the community's use of the Chase Street Spring when they were growing up. Exnar describes the artesian well as "like food for us," as ma...
Professor Kristin Huysken explains the proper conditions necessary for an artesian well to flow. "It has to be like...a sandwich," she says. "You have to have an impermeable layer...with a permeabl...
Waters, Dorothy (narrator); Waters, Robert (narrator)
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Dorothy Waters' childhood home in the Black Oak neighborhood was located on the same property as the Black Oak spring, an artesian well that was open to the public. Waters says, "Anybody that wante...
Ida Lloyd shares her memory of gathering water from the Chase Street Spring in the wintertime. She discusses the ever-flowing, never-freezing nature of the artesian well and describes the difficult...
Reverend Terence Standifer, the former pastor of the Pleasant Valley Missionary Baptist Church in Small Farms, shares his experience doing community outreach for an Environmental Protection Agency ...
Pam Powers discusses the flooding that regularly occurred on the south side of Highway 80/90 and the creative methods residents -- her aunt, in particular -- employed to deal with them. She elabora...
Pam Powers shares a childhood memory of her neighbors in Small Farms who cultivated a large garden and shared the produce with her family. From her bedroom window, she could see the sunflowers they...
Reverend Terence Standifer, the former pastor of the Pleasant Valley Missionary Baptist Church in Small Farms, describes a dispute between the Gary-Hobart Water Corporation and the Environmental Pr...
Steve Truchan's family business, the Gary Bridge and Iron Company is located near the Chase Street spring. He recalls a time when the spring stopped flowing. It happened in the early 1980s when new...
Are you ready to audition? Voice faculty from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music’s College Audition Preparation program, both past and present, provide guidance on what to anticipate whe...
Monaghan, Elaine; Shackleford, Scott; McGinnis, Mike
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In this episode of Through The Gates, our host Elaine Monaghan sits down with Scott Shackleford and Mike McGinnis to reflect on the life and work of Elinor Ostrom. Elinor was a member of the facult...
With the anniversary of Indiana University's Bicentennial just around the corner, it makes sense to talk with someone who has expertise on the subject of the history of IU. In this week's episode, ...
This collection of videos to accompany the book, Styling Blackness in Chile: Music and Dance in the African Diaspora, provides examples of the different ways of styling Blackness as described in th...
People sometimes asked sportswriter Tracy Dodds how she could cover sports if she’d never been an athlete.
"How can you cover a murder trial if you've never murdered anybody?" she replied.
Often ...
Marilyn R. Schultz was a pioneer in broadcast journalism, dedicating herself to the fight for women's rights in the industry and, later, to educating future journalists as a college professor.
Sch...
The In This Climate team is thankful for a lot this year. Since our first episode at the beginning of September, we've covered wildfires as they relate to the Arctic, air quality, and wine. We've e...
From the peaks of the Appalachians to a wave of Belgian plantations and the Louisiana shoreline, we explore how the age-old holiday tradition of tree decoration intertwines with the environment.
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