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6. Figure, Perception & Authentic in Media, & Abstraction (50:09)

Date:
2025
Main contributors:
Somerville, Natasha.
Summary:
My work is about the exploration of the figure in visually textured and layered surfaces. I create paintings and mixed pieces that investigate the combination of representational imagery from socia...

13. COVID-19 Stories: Buck, Brenda (43:59)

Date:
August 11, 2020
Main contributors:
Buck, Brenda
Summary:
Tyler Davis interviews Brenda Buck, a custodian at Indiana University South Bend and officer in AFSCME (American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees) Council 962. This oral histo...

14. COVID-19 Stories: Cwidak, Claire (1:08:00)

Date:
August 11, 2020
Main contributors:
Cwidak, Claire
Summary:
Rachel and Zach Schrank interview Claire Cwidak, an undergraduate student in the School of Nursing at Indiana University South Bend and Patient Care Assistant at Memorial Hospital (South Bend) work...

15. COVID-19 Stories: Kennedy, Maureen (56:15)

Date:
August 11, 2020
Main contributors:
Kennedy, Maureen
Summary:
Catherine Behan interviews Maureen Kennedy, Interlibrary Loan Supervisor at the Schurz Library at Indiana University South Bend. This oral history was conducted through COVID-19 Stories, an oral h...

16. COVID-19 Stories: Davis, Hope (48:45)

Date:
August 7, 2020
Main contributors:
Davis, Hope
Summary:
Scott Shoger interviews Hope Smith Davis, the Dean of the School of Education and Associate Professor of Secondary Education/Reading & Literacy at Indiana University South Bend. The following inf...

17. COVID-19 Stories: Haithcox, Susan (53:32)

Date:
August 7, 2020
Main contributors:
Haithcox, Susan
Summary:
Zach and Rachel Schrank interview Susan Haithcox, an Assistant Clinical Professor with the Vera Z. Dwyer College School of Nursing at Indiana University South Bend. The following information was ...

22. Oral History with Tyrell Anderson (Part 1) (09:28)

Date:
January 22, 2020
Main contributors:
Anderson, Tyrell (narrator)
Summary:
Kay Westhues interviews Tyrell Anderson at Anna’s Kombucha Café in Gary, Indiana, on January 22, 2020. Anderson is a photographer, videographer, and historic conservationist who co-founded the Deca...

23. Oral History with Tyrell Anderson (Part 2) (16:03)

Date:
January 22, 2020
Main contributors:
Anderson, Tyrell (narrator)
Summary:
Kay Westhues interviews Tyrell Anderson at Anna’s Kombucha Café in Gary, Indiana, on January 22, 2020. Anderson is a photographer, videographer, and historic conservationist who co-founded the Deca...

24. Oral History excerpt: "It's got a lot of minerals in it" (00:39)

Date:
January 14, 2020
Main contributors:
Ledbetter, Andrea (narrator)
Summary:
Andrea Ledbetter, historic conservationist and co-founder of the Decay Devils, discusses the mineral content of the Chase Street spring water. "If you're a person who likes to have their bright pea...

25. Oral History excerpt: Creative placemaking and urban farming (02:31)

Date:
January 14, 2020
Main contributors:
Ledbetter, Andrea (narrator)
Summary:
Andrea Ledbetter, co-founder of the Decay Devils, discusses the potential for urban farming around the Chase Street Spring. She says, "we're thinking about doing a lot of creative placemaking proje...

26. Oral History excerpt: Sledding on Chase Street (00:27)

Date:
January 14, 2020
Main contributors:
Ledbetter, Judy (narrator); Ledbetter, Andrea (narrator)
Summary:
Judy Ledbetter, who has lived north of the Chase St. spring for 54 years, describes the sandhills that used to exist in the area. "This was all like sand dunes. It looked just like the beach," her ...

27. Oral History with Judy and Andrea Ledbetter (57:58)

Date:
January 14, 2020
Main contributors:
Ledbetter, Judy (narrator); Ledbetter, Andrea (narrator)
Summary:
Kay Westhues interviews Judy and Andrea Ledbetter at their home on Chase St., Gary Indiana, on January 14, 2020. Judy Ledbetter is a community activist who has lived in her home on Chase St. for 54...

29. Oral History excerpt: Watercress in January (00:56)

Date:
January 10, 2020
Main contributors:
Wilkes, Alma (narrator)
Summary:
Alma Wilkes, retired Gary School System teacher and nutritionist, discusses the vegetation around the Chase Street Spring. She notes that watercress grows around the well, and that it is still thri...

30. Oral History with Alma Wilkes (33:45)

Date:
January 10, 2020
Main contributors:
Wilkes, Alma (narrator)
Summary:
Kay Westhues interviews Alma Wilkes at her home in Gary, Indiana, on January 10, 2020. Wilkes is a retired high school teacher for the Gary School System. She taught Home Economics (Family and Cons...

31. Oral History excerpt: "He would sell for $1 a bottle" (02:13)

Date:
December 7, 2019
Main contributors:
Waters, Dorothy (narrator); Waters, Robert (narrator)
Summary:
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...

32. 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...

33. Oral History excerpt: "It was there for people to come and use" (01:08)

Date:
December 7, 2019
Main contributors:
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 wante...

35. 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 ...

37. Oral History excerpt: The Spring House (00:41)

Date:
December 7, 2019
Main contributors:
Waters, Dorothy (narrator)
Summary:
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...

38. Oral History with Dorothy and Robert Waters (Part 1) (1:02:00)

Date:
December 7, 2019
Main contributors:
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...

39. Oral History with Dorothy and Robert Waters (Part 2) (11:20)

Date:
December 7, 2019
Main contributors:
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...

40. Oral History excerpt: "Everybody was a farmer" (00:42)

Date:
December 6, 2019
Main contributors:
Truchan, Steve (narrator)
Summary:
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...

41. Oral History excerpt: "The Chase Street well quit running" (01:27)

Date:
December 6, 2019
Main contributors:
Truchan, Steve (narrator)
Summary:
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...

42. Oral History with Steve Truchan (40:10)

Date:
December 6, 2019
Main contributors:
Truchan, Steve (narrator)
Summary:
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 ...

43. Steve Truchan excerpt 1 (03:04)

Date:
December 6, 2019
Main contributors:
Truchan, Steve (narrator)
Summary:
Steve Truchan describes how modifications to the Little Calumet River and its watershed impacted the neighborhoods near the spring.

47. 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...

48. Oral History with Reverend Terence and Connie Standifer (38:48)

Date:
November 8, 2019
Main contributors:
Standifer, Terence (narrator); Standifer, Connie (narrator)
Summary:
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...

51. Oral History excerpt: "They would just...throw it" (01:24)

Date:
October 31, 2019
Main contributors:
Jordan, Betty Earlene (narrator)
Summary:
Betty Earlene Jordan discusses how the use of plastic increased the amount of littering at the Chase Street spring. "I think that if people were out there and they had a container that maybe wasn't...

52. Oral History excerpt: "We would fill the car up with those jugs" (00:30)

Date:
October 31, 2019
Main contributors:
Jordan, Betty Earlene (narrator)
Summary:
Betty Earlene Jordan describes the amount of work involved with using a spring as a primary water source. "It was a lot of work," she says. "Because we would fill the car up with those jugs and tha...

53. Oral History with Betty Earlene Jordan (37:00)

Date:
October 31, 2019
Main contributors:
Jordan, Betty Earlene (narrator)
Summary:
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...

54. Oral History excerpt: "Make lemonade out of lemons" (01:47)

Date:
October 25, 2019
Main contributors:
Powers, Pam (narrator)
Summary:
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...

55. Oral History excerpt: "Sunflowers" (01:28)

Date:
October 25, 2019
Main contributors:
Powers, Pam (narrator)
Summary:
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...

56. 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...

57. Oral History excerpt: Making the spring more accessible (01:02)

Date:
October 25, 2019
Main contributors:
Castellanos, David (narrator)
Summary:
Little Calumet River Basin Development Commissioner David Castellanos discusses current use of the Chase Street spring. He aspires to make the area surrounding the artesian well more accessible to ...

59. Oral History with David Castellanos (25:59)

Date:
October 25, 2019
Main contributors:
Castellanos, David (narrator)
Summary:
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...

60. Oral History with Pam Powers (30:58)

Date:
October 25, 2019
Main contributors:
Powers, Pam (narrator)
Summary:
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...

63. Oral History excerpt: Connecting to Gary's history (00:57)

Date:
October 11, 2019
Main contributors:
Campbell, Arianne (narrator)
Summary:
Griffith resident Arianne Campbell explains how the dilapidation within her hometown of Gary makes it difficult for her to fully appreciate its history. "So much of [Gary] is completely unrecogniza...

64. Oral History with Arianne Campbell (53:20)

Date:
October 11, 2019
Main contributors:
Campbell, Arianne (narrator)
Summary:
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...

66. Oral History excerpt: "It has to be like...a sandwich" (01:23)

Date:
October 4, 2019
Main contributors:
Huysken, Kristin (narrator)
Summary:
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...

68. Oral History excerpt: Understanding artesian wells (01:19)

Date:
October 4, 2019
Main contributors:
Huysken, Kristin (narrator)
Summary:
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 ...

69. Oral History with Kristin Huysken (27:16)

Date:
October 4, 2019
Main contributors:
Huysken, Kristin
Summary:
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...

70. Oral History excerpt: "Hey, let's go get spring water" (00:19)

Date:
September 13, 2019
Main contributors:
Hughes, Chuck (narrator)
Summary:
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...

73. Oral History excerpt: "We had a very creative childhood" (01:07)

Date:
September 13, 2019
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 environmen...

74. Oral History excerpt: "We thought we were living large" (02:20)

Date:
September 13, 2019
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 extende...

75. Oral History excerpt: "We wore it as a badge of honor" (00:54)

Date:
September 13, 2019
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 ...

77. Oral History with Chuck Hughes (Part 1) (24:46)

Date:
September 13, 2019
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 fo...

78. Oral History with Chuck Hughes (Part 2) (06:25)

Date:
September 13, 2019
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 ...

79. Oral History with Ida L. Lloyd (44:08)

Date:
September 13, 2019
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 195...

80. Oral History excerpt: "A nest of snakes" (02:17)

Date:
September 6, 2019
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 gra...

82. Oral history excerpt: "It was just like food for us" (01:43)

Date:
September 6, 2019
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 ma...

83. Oral History excerpt: "We raised each other" (01:50)

Date:
September 6, 2019
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...

85. Oral History with Johnny Burt and Exnar McIntosh-Burt (50:03)

Date:
September 6, 2019
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 depe...

86. Hurdy-Gurdy Man (06:06)

Date:
2019
Main contributors:
Lasater, Michael (artist)
Summary:
A boy with a brass instrument stands watching a hurdy-gurdy (barrel organ) man as he turns the handle of his instrument. Although they occupy the same frame, they are separated by a flickering, nea...

87. Oral History excerpt: "It was so smooth and good" (00:54)

Date:
August 11, 2018
Main contributors:
Brooks, Geraldine (narrator); Monroe, Shirley (narrator)
Summary:
Geraldine Brooks discusses the taste and quality of the Chase Street spring water. "It was so smooth and good," she says. She compares it to the "healing waters" featured in The Song of Bernadette,...

88. Oral History with Geraldine Brooks and Shirley Monroe (11:47)

Date:
August 11, 2018
Main contributors:
Brooks, Geraldine (narrator); Monroe, Shirley (narrator)
Summary:
Kay Westhues interviews Geraldine Brooks and Shirley Monroe at the Small Farms Annual Reunion at Lake Etta Park in Gary, Indiana, on August 11, 2018. Brooks and Monroe share memories of using the ...

89. Annunciation (05:00)

Date:
2016
Main contributors:
Lasater, Michael (artist)
Summary:
Annunciation is a video object operating within the aesthetic of painting. Each panel's background cycles through images sampled from an original digital abstract composition. One sees this composi...

90. One, Two (09:38)

Date:
2016
Main contributors:
Lasater, Michael (artist)
Summary:
One, Two is a self-portrait. The image of me as a boy is split left and right, one side the echo of the other. In the audio, a single claves strike, doubled at the octave, mirrors the visual motif....

91. Mise-en-scène ... (05:59)

Date:
2015
Main contributors:
Lasater, Michael (artist)
Summary:
The genesis of Mise-en-scène is the Stravinsky/Cocteau treatment of Oedipus Rex, first performed in 1927. I have been familiar with this composition from many encounters, including performances as ...

92. Act II (05:19)

Date:
2009
Main contributors:
Lasater, Michael (artist)
Summary:
Geometric slashes of white accent a spattered abstract image of yellows, golds and blues. In the foreground an animated wire swings in a narrow arc. In the audio, a mixture of indistinct, abstracte...

93. Crossing, Berlin 1927 (05:46)

Date:
2008
Main contributors:
Lasater, Michael (artist)
Summary:
Crossing references memory and narrative. With its multiple, time-scattered views of a young woman crossing a Berlin street just ahead of a thunderstorm, the piece also touches on the connection be...

94. Epiphany (05:18)

Date:
2006
Main contributors:
Lasater, Michael (artist)
Summary:
Single-channel HD video animation, stereo, riffing on Marshall McLuhan’s famous line about medium being the message. In Epiphany, I take medium to be the entire text of American advertising and ent...

95. Flight (04:03)

Date:
2006
Main contributors:
Lasater, Michael (artist)
Summary:
For Flight, I 3-D wrapped digital soup cans with images from my family and flew the cans over a river cityscape. The visual rhythm of the soup cans provides an ostinato over which I composed a musi...

96. Statement in Defense of the Goddess lecture (1:34:38)

Date:
19XX
Main contributors:
Kaufman, Gloria J., 1929-2004
Summary:
Gloria Kaufman lectures on goddess worship. Date and location unknown. Kaufman's lecture begins two minutes into first side, following a fragment of a lecture by Madeline Pabis on the fear of lesbi...

97. Five Modernist Essays (02:55)

Date:
1998
Main contributors:
Lasater, Michael (artist)
Summary:
Five Modernist Essays was my first exhibited work in art video, produced immediately following my participation in the TIMARA (Technology in Music and Related Arts) summer 1998 workshop taught by c...

99. 1997 IU South Bend advertisements (01:37)

Date:
1997
Main contributors:
Richard Harrison Bailey/The Agency
Summary:
Three 1997 advertisements for IU South Bend. The first shows an animated character with a red box for a torso attempting to cross a busy street. A vehicle runs over the logo, leaving tire marks on ...

100. Excerpt: IUSB: Realizing the Vision (03:06)

Date:
February 15, 1993
Summary:
Excerpts from "IUSB: Realizing the Vision," a 1993 development and fundraising video produced by the Edie Haskin Agency. The slate title reads "Development; Visionary." The on-screen title reads "I...