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Poetry reading by Stephen S. Mills. Audio recording of Mills reciting his poem "You Don't Look Violent" from his published work "Not Everything Thrown Starts a Revolution."
We took a trip to Fort Collins, Colorado, for the annual Society of Environmental Journalists conference, and we want to tell you about it. Between the Rocky Mountains and the short-grass prairie, topics surrounding public lands flowed easily — as did connections with journalists, researchers and other attendees. In this episode, we dig into the conversations, moods, and trends that emerge when environmental journalists converge. Special guests this episode include Meera Subramanian and Lyndsie Bourgon.
Sydney Stutsman, Institute for Digital Arts & Humanities
Summary:
My project focuses on societal trends and changes surrounding homosexuality as expressed in the Indiana Daily Student (IDS). The paper is an ideal source to track change over time because it has been running with weekly publications since 1867. It also represents a unique perspective on events as it is both written for and by college students. After digitizing issues of the IDS, I will perform a text analysis in order to track how articles portray the LGBT community. Those articles will then be used to create a timeline that visualizes key moments in gay rights history and the public perspective of homosexuality.
Marriage Equality: Stories from the Heartland is an on-going project dedicated to recording stories from same-sex couples about their journeys into marriage. Sponsored by the Indiana University’s Department of Gender Studies, the Office for Vice President for Research New Frontiers program, and the IU Bloomington Arts and Humanities Council. - WFHB Marriage Equality Stories from the Heartland
Panel Participants are Lisa Marling (Ally, Nurse), JR Ridgeway (Army, Law Enforcement), Scott Tucker (Business Owner), Benjamin Guard (Student, Co-founder of SAGA at IVY Tech), Sue King (Navy Vet, Archivist), and Brent Walsh (Administrator, Earlham School of Religion). All participants identify as LGBTQ+ and currently live or is originally from Wayne County, Indiana and surrounding areas.
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: a massive field of gladiolas. He says, "When I was small, the field where the well is was full of gladiolas ... 40 acres of gladiolas."
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.
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 sewers were installed in the area. "All of those houses in there lost their water," he says, "and the Chase Street well quit running."
This was one of a group of excerpts gathered under the subject heading of Environmental Impacts 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.
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 Ave. near Chase St. His family moved there in 1950 and he grew up in that neighborhood, and his neighbors included several of the families who farmed near the spring. He described a second nearby spring, a period when the spring stopped running, and what the area looked like during the 1950s-60s. He talked about the practice of hunting and foraging in the surrounding woods. He also discussed how the spring and the surrounding land was impacted by drainage projects and Lake Sandy Jo. 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
In a career spanning four decades, Craig Van Sickle has written, produced and directed more than 200 hours of prime-time television, including scripts for “Murder, She Wrote,” “NCIS,” “24” and George Lucas’s “The Clone Wars.”
Van Sickle graduated from IU in 1979 with a degree in telecommunications and soon moved to Los Angeles, where he eventually met up with his writing partner of 30-plus years, Steve Mitchell.
In 1985, after nearly six years in Hollywood, Van Sickle sold his first script to “The Love Boat.” Two years later, he landed his first staff writing job at the “Murder She Wrote” spinoff “The Law & Harry McGraw.” In the years following, Van Sickle moved up the ranks from story editor to executive producer/showrunner under the guidance of mentors Peter S. Fischer (“Murder, She Wrote”), Kenneth Johnson (“Alien Nation”) and the late Stephen J. Cannell (“Rockford Files,” “Wiseguy”) as he continued writing scripts for all three TV giants.
In 1996, Van Sickle achieved his lifelong dream when his original series, “The Pretender,” was picked up by NBC.
“That was my big leap,” Van Sickle recalled. “Ever since fifth grade when I decided to become a writer, my career goal was to get my own series on television.”
“The Pretender,” written and created by Van Sickle and Mitchell, ran for four seasons and launched two feature-length films. They recently published two novels set in the “Pretender” universe: “Rebirth” and “Saving Luke.”
Since “The Pretender,” Van Sickle created the series “She Spies,” became showrunner for NBC’s “Medical Investigations” in 2005 and wrote about 30 television pilot scripts.
In 2008, Van Sickle saw another dream project come to life when he wrote and produced his reimagining of “The Wizard of Oz” titled, “Tin Man,” which aired on The SyFy Channel. To this day, “Tin Man” remains the network’s highest-rated mini-series of all time and garnered nine Emmy nominations, winning multiple awards that year.
In addition to his mentors, Van Sickle credits his family, who he said made it all worthwhile.
“My wife Wendy was there for me from the very beginning, before success. Along with our two great children, Aridae and Wills, family love kept me very grounded,” he said.
In 2017, Van Sickle launched scripTVisions.com, a script mentoring site that helps unproduced writers improve their scripts and launch their professional careers in Hollywood. Each year, he selects one protégé’s work to submit to his agents and take out into the marketplace to get the show on the air.
“Ninety percent of my clients are pro bono,” he said. “In an era where novice writers are being taken advantage of by fly-by-night script services, I just felt they deserved legitimate feedback from a professional – the kind of notes that will truly help them break into the TV business.”
Since 1985, Van Sickle has been an active member of the Writers Guild of America West, for which he has participated in numerous panels and workshops throughout the years.
He is working on a new series called “Veil” for Starling Entertainment, which he hopes will premiere next year.
The Sample: On April Fools' Day 1975, IU grad Leon Varjian held the first annual Banana Olympics in Dunn Meadow. To honor the original event's spirit of absurdity and fun, the producers of The Sample held their own version of the games 44 years later.
The Sample: In this episode, Emily visits the closet of Paige Venturi, editor in chief of IU's only fashion magazine. She and Arjun Madhavan have been a part of Season Magazine since Sharon Hsu founded it in 2018. Season opens a door for students passionate about fusing art and utility into content that fellow students can connect with.
Dean Shanahan sits down with journalist and documentarian Elena Volochine to discuss Russian politics, her experiences reporting in Moscow, and her film Oleg's Choice, which follows Russian fighters in Eastern Ukraine.
Wagner, Gerald, Wolf, Ray, Thomas, Ben, Miles, Emily, Shanahan, James
Summary:
Late September in the U.S. saw a host of abnormal weather events: record heat in the Southeast, a Category 5 hurricane in an odd location, and five feet of snow in Montana. This episode, the team zeroes in on the early, heavy snows that could have a long-term effect on farmers in the Northern Plains.
2:00 - Gerald Wagner, director of the Blackfeet Environmental Office
14:00 - Ray Wolf, science and operations officer, NOAA/NWS Quad Cities
20:45 - Ben Thomas, director of the Montana Department of Agriculture
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 fields at night and quenched their thirst by drinking from the well on Chase Street. "We would pull weeds, we'd run up and down that big sand hill. And then we walked down and we get a drink at that spring. ... I just loved drinking from that spring."
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.
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 pennies on a tree stump to thank the family for providing the water to the public.
This was one of a group of excerpts gathered under the subject heading of Black Oak 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.
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 there at the spring." Dorothy shares an anecdote about the man who lived there, who used its cold waters as his refrigerator.
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.
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 with a Bottling Company in Chicago in exchange for a new shed.
This was one of a group of excerpts gathered under the subject heading of Black Oak 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.
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 fields at night and quenched their thirst by drinking from the well on Chase Street. "We would pull weeds, we'd run up and down that big sand hill. And then we walked down and we get a drink at that spring. ... I just loved drinking from that spring."
This was one of a group of excerpts gathered under the subject heading of Black Oak 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.
Waters, Dorothy (narrator), Waters, Robert (narrator)
Summary:
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 wanted to come and get water from in front of the house was welcome to do that." She says that this reflects the generous nature of her community.
This was one of a group of excerpts gathered under the subject heading of Black Oak 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.
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 two springs, and was used to move farm machinery between fields.
This was one of a group of excerpts gathered under the subject heading of Black Oak 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.
Waters, Dorothy (narrator), Waters, Robert (narrator)
Summary:
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 in the 1800s and farmed the land surrounding the Chase Street Spring. Her family home on Calhoun Street was the site of another spring, called the Black Oak Spring, which was open to the public and bottled and sold in the early 1900s. The spring was capped sometime in the 1960s. Waters and her husband, Robert Waters grew up in the Black Oak area and discuss the springs, the neighborhood, and farming during that time. 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
Waters, Dorothy (narrator), Waters, Robert (narrator)
Summary:
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 in the 1800s and farmed the land surrounding the Chase Street Spring. Her family home on Calhoun Street was the site of another spring, called the Black Oak Spring, which was open to the public and bottled and sold in the early 1900s. The spring was capped sometime in the 1960s. Waters and her husband, Robert, grew up in the Black oak area, and discuss the springs, the neighborhood, and farming during that time. 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
This presentation is the first step in an answer to Emily Drabinski’s 2013 challenge to library and information science (LIS) professionals to think about ways in which to ‘queer the library catalog,’ and to represent identity as historically constructed and described. Beginning with a brief outline of the troubled history between marginalized groups and LIS classifications, I examine some of the proposals suggested over the past half-decade by researchers—and their limitations. Instead of starting anew, or using ‘uninformed’ social tagging/folksonomies, I propose a ‘turn’ to the catalogs and controlled vocabularies of archives and special collections, which frequently reckon with unclassifiable material.
Following through on that turn, I will discuss how linked data and linked data vocabularies are currently being used by several digital archives—along with some possible lessons for the LIS field as a whole. The radical and subversive use of linked data by queer digital archives offers a partial solution to the conundrum of minoritized and historical representation in the catalog. Finally, I will conclude by describing my own experiences and considerations in the construction of a new linked data vocabulary.
Bruce Western is Professor of Sociology and co-director of the Justice Lab at Columbia University. He received his BA from the University of Queensland, Australia, and his PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Los Angeles. Western's research examines trends in American economic inequality and the growth of the US penal population. These topics are joined by an interest in the shifting landscape of American poverty over the last 40 years. He is the author of Punishment and Inequality in America (2007) and served as Vice-Chair of a consensus panel of the National Academy of Sciences on the causes and consequences of high rates of incarceration in the United States. His new book is called Homeward: Life in the Year After Prison (2018). Western is a Guggenheim Fellow, a Radcliffe Fellow, and an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Science and the National Academies of Science.
Indiana University announced the Media Digitization Preservation Initiative (MDPI) in October 2013 with the goal of digitally preserving and providing access to all significant audio, video, and film recordings on all IU campuses by the IU Bicentennial in 2020. Digitization began in mid-2015 and has now digitized more than 320,000 objects using more than 10 petabytes of storage. After digitization, every object in MDPI has to be verified to be stored correctly, checked for format conformance, processed into derivatives, and finally, distributed to a streaming video server. Conceptually, the process is straightforward, but like many things, the devil is in the details. The post-digitization processing has continually evolved since its inception in early 2015. Initially implemented to handle a couple of audio formats and processing a few terabytes of data per day, over the last few years it has been enhanced to handle peak transfers of more than 35 terabytes daily with more than 20 formats across audio, video, and film. This presentation details how some of the implementation decisions have held up over time, such as using a tape library as primary storage and using an object state machine for object tracking, as well as some of the growing pains encountered as the system was scaled up. In addition, there is a discussion covering some of the surprises that have been encountered along the way.