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- Date:
- 2019-09-13
- Main contributors:
- Lloyd, Ida L. (narrator)
- Summary:
- Ida Lloyd was born and raised in East Chicago, Indiana, and moved to the Small Farms at age ten. In this excerpt, she contends that East Chicago was more inclusive than Gary. She says about Small Farms, "You come here and you're separated--all Blacks in this area...and whites in that area. And then you had, the schools...we were integrated, but you weren't really integrated." This was one of a group of excerpts gathered under the subject heading of Growing Up in Small Farms for a digital and in-person exhibit of the Spring at Small Farms Oral Histories. The digital exhibit can be seen at https://iusbarchives.omeka.net/exhibits/show/spring-at-small-farms/home.
- Date:
- 2019-09-13
- Main contributors:
- Hughes, Chuck (narrator)
- Summary:
- Gary Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Chuck Hughes shares a short history of his familial origins and what it was like for them to move from the South to the North. He compares the environment of Small Farms to that of rural Mississippi and Alabama, and describes the topography of the area, noting that it was wooded and had dirt roads. He also shares that he and other children had a "very creative childhood" because they used their imagination and surroundings in their play. This was one of a group of excerpts gathered under the subject heading of Growing Up in Small Farms for a digital and in-person exhibit of the Spring at Small Farms Oral Histories. The digital exhibit can be seen at https://iusbarchives.omeka.net/exhibits/show/spring-at-small-farms/home.
- Date:
- 2019-09-13
- Main contributors:
- Hughes, Chuck (narrator)
- Summary:
- Gary Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Chuck Hughes describes his childhood in Small Farms. He says that he and his siblings thought they were "living large" in a big house filled with extended family members. Hughes' family were avid fishermen and would sometimes host fish fries for the neighborhood. He says as children they had everything they needed in Small Farms, and that "we essentially didn't leave that area...until it was time to start school." This was one of a group of excerpts gathered under the subject heading of Growing Up in Small Farms for a digital and in-person exhibit of the Spring at Small Farms Oral Histories. The digital exhibit can be seen at https://iusbarchives.omeka.net/exhibits/show/spring-at-small-farms/home.
- Date:
- 2019-09-13
- Main contributors:
- Hughes, Chuck (narrator)
- Summary:
- Gary Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Chuck Hughes discusses life growing up in Small Farms. He shares stories of how he and other children were teased at school for where they came from. He attributes this treatment to the dirt and dust that settled on their clothing during their walk on dirt roads to get to school. Classmates called them "farmers from the Black Bottoms" (after a nickname used for Small Farms). But he says they were proud of their origins and the place they called home. As Hughes puts it, "We wore it as a badge of honor." This was one of a group of excerpts gathered under the subject heading of Growing Up in Small Farms for a digital and in-person exhibit of the Spring at Small Farms Oral Histories. The digital exhibit can be seen at https://iusbarchives.omeka.net/exhibits/show/spring-at-small-farms/home.
- Date:
- 2019-09-13
- Main contributors:
- Lloyd, Ida L. (narrator)
- Summary:
- Ida L. Lloyd discusses her memories of growing up in Small Farms, after moving there at age ten from East Chicago. She explains why she preferred East Chicago to Small Farms. She says, "We hated it in a sense that you didn't have the freedom. You didn't have the sidewalks, running water, like you should, like we had in East Chicago." Lloyd also shares a story about how residents of East Chicago would combat hot summer nights by spending the night on the Lake Michigan beach to keep cool. This was one of a group of excerpts gathered under the subject heading of Growing Up in Small Farms for a digital and in-person exhibit of the Spring at Small Farms Oral Histories. The digital exhibit can be seen at https://iusbarchives.omeka.net/exhibits/show/spring-at-small-farms/home.
- Date:
- 2019-09-13
- Main contributors:
- Chuck Hughes (narrator)
- Summary:
- 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 former resident of Small Farms. The Fresh County Market on 25th Ave is in the vicinity of his childhood home. Chuck shares remembrances of growing up in the Small Farms community, his memories of getting water from the spring. He also talks about why people may have moved from the community, and his support of the Fresh Market development when he served as a Gary City Councilperson. Part of the Spring at Small Farms Oral History Project. See the full exhibit here: https://iusbarchives.omeka.net/exhibits/show/spring-at-small-farms/home
- Date:
- 2019-09-13
- Main contributors:
- Chuck Hughes (narrator)
- Summary:
- 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 a former resident of Small Farms. The Fresh County Market on 25th Ave is in the vicinity of his childhood home. Chuck shares remembrances of growing up in the Small Farms community, his memories of getting water from the spring. He also talks about why people may have moved from the community, and his support of the Fresh Market development when he served as a Gary City Councilperson. Part of the Spring at Small Farms Oral History Project. See the full exhibit here: https://iusbarchives.omeka.net/exhibits/show/spring-at-small-farms/home
- Date:
- 2019-09-13
- Main contributors:
- Lloyd, Ida L. (narrator)
- Summary:
- 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 1950, when she was a child. Her family drew water from the spring in the winter, when the pump at their house would freeze. She describes and contrasts her memories of life in East Chicago and Small Farms. She talks about her family's roots in Alabama and her grandfather, who was in the first graduating class at Tuskegee University. Part of the Spring at Small Farms Oral History Project. See the full exhibit here: https://iusbarchives.omeka.net/exhibits/show/spring-at-small-farms/home
- Date:
- 2019-09-13
- Main contributors:
- Hess, Mary, Emmert, Rock, Blair, John, Vaal, Randy, McCabe, Janet, Hawkins, David, Nolen, Janice, Greenbaum, Dan
- Summary:
- The billowing black factory smoke may be gone, but there remains much work to be done in U.S. and global air quality. As the earth warms, ozone worsens and wildfire particulate matter threatens communities. Janet, Jim and Emily delve into these issues and more with a host of seasoned air quality experts and one community group fighting for quality of life. 7:00 - Dale, Indiana coal to diesel refinery story, featuring Mary Hess, Rock Emmert, John Blair and Randy Vaal 13:15 - interview between Janet McCabe and David Hawkins of the National Resources Defense Council, with contributions from Janice Nolen of the American Lung Association 28:15 - interview between Janet McCabe and Dan Greenbaum of the Health Effects Institute, with contributions from Janice Nolen
- Date:
- 2019-09-12
- Main contributors:
- Kalani L. Craig, Michelle Dalmau, Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities
- Summary:
- Digital image manipulation, social network analysis and data mining can change our perceptions of the world around us, but they also require careful critical use. This presentation will take arts & humanities practitioners through mapping, data mining, network analysis, data visualization, 3D rendering, computationally aided vision and other digital methods in a variety of disciplines and tachle some of the critical issues for digital arts & humanities practitioners. We'll also provide a clear list of IU resources that can support these efforts. Finally, we'll all engage in a practical white-board-based activity that doesn't require digital tools to demonstrate how analog methods can enhance understanding of some of these digital-methods applications in a variety of environments (including the classroom).
- Date:
- 2019-09-06
- Main contributors:
- Parrington, Mark, Davydova, Angelina, Birdy, Kate, McCabe, Janet, Clement, Joel, Alexander, Edward, Shanahan, James, Fresco, Nancy
- Summary:
- The World Meteorological Organization labeled summer 2019's arctic and boreal wildland fires "unprecedented." In the first episode of In This Climate, Janet, Jim and Emily explore with scientists and policy experts how and why this circumpolar fire season was so significant and what we can do moving forward. 7:00 - Siberian wildfire story, featuring Mark Parrington, Angelina Davydova and Kate Birdy 13:15 - interview between Janet McCabe and Joel Clement, with contributions from Edward Alexander 28:15 - interview between Jim Shanahan and Nancy Fresco
- Date:
- 2019-09-06
- Main contributors:
- Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities, Kathryn Tomasek
- Summary:
- When students transcribe and mark up primary sources, they learn the kind of close reading that is necessary for historical interpretation. When their professors teach transcription and markup, they can discover new research projects and make an impact on their fields. In 2004, Tomasek began to work with colleagues in the Wheaton College Archives and in Library and Information Services to build transcription and markup into an undergraduate course in nineteenth-century U.S. Women’s History. They used a scaffolded assignment that allowed students to build on skills developed throughout the semester, and students reported real investment in the life of the daughter of a Baptist minister whose journal they transcribed and marked up. Summer interns who did similar work with the pocket diaries and travel journal of Eliza Baylies Wheaton, a member of the institution’s founding family, did extra unassigned work tracking down the graves of people mentioned in the documents in town cemeteries. By 2009, the Wheaton team had developed a successful model for teaching students close reading, but they had run out of “easy” documents like journals and pocket diaries. So Tomasek and her colleagues turned to the daybook kept by a member of the institution’s founding family. A student research assistant who attended DHSI and took the Introduction to TEI course with Tomasek became the local expert and assisted in teaching a module focused on transcription and markup of the daybook. As is always the case, some students took to the assignment more readily than others. Pairing students to work on a page spread worked better than asking individual students to take on the work themselves. Successful students found stories in their page spreads and wrote real historical depictions of the facts and their significance. Tomasek, her library partners, and the student assistant taught the module for two years before receiving a Start-Up award for further investigation of markup for account books from the Office of Digital Humanities at the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2011. This award marked a transition in Tomasek’s research agenda to a focus on account books as humanities sources and the value of digital scholarly editions for reuse by other researchers. The small community of practice that began in summer 2011 expanded with the help of a Bilateral Digital Humanities award from the German Research Foundation and the NEH in 2015. Tomasek found the use of the classroom module to be slower than ideal for producing a full edition of the day book, and she transitioned to more intensive work with summer interns in 2015. A group of those interns completed a first-run transcription and markup of the daybook in 2016, and an alpha version is part of a data set that includes excerpts from the Financial Papers of George Washington, accounts from the Stagville plantation in North Carolina, Matthew Carey’s Printers File, and accounts of the Uihlein family, founders of the Schlitz brewing company.
- Date:
- 2019-09-06
- Main contributors:
- Burt, Johnny (narrator), McIntosh-Burt, Exnar (narrator)
- Summary:
- 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 grab them, and throw them...We had about 50 snakes." His grandfather told him to burn the snakes because he and other family members believed they were bad omens. This was one of a group of excerpts gathered under the subject heading of Growing Up in Small Farms for a digital and in-person exhibit of the Spring at Small Farms Oral Histories. The digital exhibit can be seen at https://iusbarchives.omeka.net/exhibits/show/spring-at-small-farms/home.
- Date:
- 2019-09-06
- Main contributors:
- Burt, Johnny (narrator), McIntosh-Burt, Exnar (narrator)
- Summary:
- 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 Johnny highlights the spirit of generosity around the spring. He says, "When I wasn't having fun myself, you know, I helped somebody else...But that's how we were...we'd help each other out there." This was one of a group of excerpts gathered under the subject heading of Community Use of the Spring for a digital and in-person exhibit of the Spring at Small Farms Oral Histories. The digital exhibit can be seen at https://iusbarchives.omeka.net/exhibits/show/spring-at-small-farms/home.
- Date:
- 2019-09-06
- Main contributors:
- Burt, Johnny (narrator), McIntosh-Burt, Exnar (narrator)
- Summary:
- 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 many citizens of the area used it as their primary source of the most essential resource: water. This was one of a group of excerpts gathered under the subject heading of Community Use of the Spring for a digital and in-person exhibit of the Spring at Small Farms Oral Histories. The digital exhibit can be seen at https://iusbarchives.omeka.net/exhibits/show/spring-at-small-farms/home.
- Date:
- 2019-09-06
- Main contributors:
- McIntosh-Burt, Exnar (narrator)
- Summary:
- Exnar McIntosh-Burt discusses her upbringing in Small Farms, highlighting specific schools that she attended. She describes her childhood as "many years of wonderful growing up." McIntosh-Burt came from a family of 18 children. She shares that the neighborhood was a very tight-knit community, stating, "We raised each other... A very close-knitted family on the Small Farm." This was one of a group of excerpts gathered under the subject heading of Growing Up in Small Farms for a digital and in-person exhibit of the Spring at Small Farms Oral Histories. The digital exhibit can be seen at https://iusbarchives.omeka.net/exhibits/show/spring-at-small-farms/home.
- Date:
- 2019-09-06
- Main contributors:
- Burt, Johnny (narrator); McIntosh-Burt, Exnar (narrator)
- Summary:
- Johnny Burt describes how passways (footpaths) allowed people to walk from their neighborhoods near Lake Sandy Jo to the spring. He recalls stopping at the spring with other children to quench his thirst after walks to the Village, a shopping center located on Grant Street. This was one of a group of excerpts gathered under the subject heading of Community Use of the Spring for a digital and in-person exhibit of the Spring at Small Farms Oral Histories. The digital exhibit can be seen at https://iusbarchives.omeka.net/exhibits/show/spring-at-small-farms/home.
- Date:
- 2019-09-06
- Main contributors:
- Burt, Johnny (narrator), McIntosh-Burt, Exnar (narrator)
- Summary:
- 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 depended on the spring for their drinking water in the 1960s, and describe its significance in their lives. They talk about what life was like in Small Farms during that time, and how people accessed the spring water. They also discuss the history of Lake Sandy Jo.
- Date:
- 2019-09-05
- Main contributors:
- Brondizio, Eduardo
- Summary:
- The Amazon catches fire every year, but 2019 is different. Eduardo Brondizio, an expert on rural and urban populations and landscapes in the Amazon, knows why. In this bonus episode, he explains the political trajectory that brought a group of land-grabbers and farmers to coordinate a day of coordinated fires — the same trajectory that's now bringing indigenous groups, researchers and people across the globe to push back.