Pioneer Times
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Ancestors: 8,501 THE SOCIETY Total Members: OF 933 Pioneer This includes: INDIANA Life Members: 124 Junior Members: 21 PIONEERS Associate Members: 26 Times TO HONOR THE MEMORY Volume 1 Issue 8 Newsletter Date: Summer 2013 AND THE WORK OF THE PIONEERS OF INDIANA Brownsburg History Club receives the ORGANIZED 1916 Society’s John H. Holliday Award INCORPORATED 1922 The Society of Indiana Pio- hands-on understanding of Office: 140 North Senate Ave. neers John H. Holliday Award local and Indiana history. Indianapolis, IN 46204-2207 was established in 1970 by the They accomplished this by www.indianapioneers.com Society to honor Mr. Holliday, doing a number of small fund- societyofindianapioneers its founding president. The raisers to provide funds to @yahoo.com cash award of $300 is given allow Club members to attend annually to an Indiana Junior 317-233-6588 the Presidential Inauguration Historical Society club. To be in Washington in January. considered for the Holliday Over 40 students were able to Inside this issue: Award, clubs must participate attend, and local field trips in a project, program or activi- also were held to historic sites. ty related to early Indiana his- The Club also played a key tory in the current school year. Pioneers Board member William role in supporting other history The competition is adminis- Rhodehamel, great-grandson of Marketing & projects for Club members, the Award’s namesake, makes the tered by the Indiana Historical 2 such as a mural painted on the presentation to Benjamin Fouch, Advertising Society. B&O trail and the Wounded President of the winning club. This year’s winner was the Warrior Project. By the end of Speakers Bureau 2 Brownsburg History Club at its first year, the Club had over held on Friday, May 24, at the Brownsburg High School. The 120 members! Indiana Historical Society's head- 2013 Fall Pilgrim- Club, in its first year, created a 2 This year’s ceremony was quarters building ages project to give students a John Hampden 3 President’s Message: Michael Miller Holliday Prize As the State of Indiana clergy, blacksmiths, grain mil- work together that made the Indi- New Members 3 approaches its 200th year of lers, general merchants, bank- ana experience (experiment) a statehood, its people and or- ers, artists, writers, musicians reality. ganizations are beginning the etc. in order to build the com- In the weeks and months Photos from the munities and settle the territo- ahead, please consider reaching 3 motions and formulating plans Spring Pilgrimage to take part in a meaningful ry. While it may be noted out to a small or flourishing his- way. Many organizations there are few if any of those torical society. Ask how you might not clearly be perceived original businesses still in exist- might help them. Remember Pioneer Founders as having had a part in the ence, their trades still endure. your talents and help them be- 4 So, as we begin to formulate come aware of them. Consider development or growth of our th state, but should you reflect on and plan our 200 birthday – giving of your time and talent to The Joseph Frick- remember the importance of their cause. Further, if there are 4 each enterprise and their con- er Story tribution to today’s society, the work done by these people. any younger generations of Hoos- you might be surprised. If nothing else, consider under- iers looking for something new to standing the contribution your immerse themselves into, bring 1816 and 1850 Every Pioneer that made his/her way to Indiana was Indiana pioneer family mem- them along. Convention Dele- 6 blessed with certain skills that bers provided to the communi- The State has already begun gates allowed them to survive and ty as a whole. Sure times were gearing up for our 2016 Bicenten- thrive. By the end of the tough, but imagine not having nial. Every town and city has a “Pioneer Period,” not every- the resource of a skilled crafts- story to tell related to the growth one in Indiana was engaged man, perhaps a neighbor, to and development of our state. solely in agricultural pursuits. assist on a job you were not The time is now to get energized The many settlers that made equipped to handle. It was the as the time to tell your communi- Indiana their home needed people and their willingness to ty’s story as part of the statewide celebration will pass quickly. Page 2 Marketing and Advertising The Society has successfully first press release to all news- tion Chapters. completed the newspaper ads for papers in Indiana. If you belong to an organi- 2013 and has sent a second press On June 15, the Board of zation that needs or would release to the newspapers of the Governors voted to allocate like a 13 minute program on 18 counties featured in this year's money for ordering more of DVD, please contact the Soci- Pioneer Founders of Indiana the new Society DVDs for program. The content of the distribution statewide to or- ety office. press release was to remind read- ganizations such as genealogy ers of the opportunity to partici- -historical clubs and perhaps pate in the honoring of their to the Daughters of the Amer- Indiana ancestor. A special ican Revolution and to the thanks to the anonymous donor Sons of the American Revolu- of $125.00 for sponsoring the Speakers Bureau Two presentations were given in Flora Indiana by Carolyn Rose and Stanley Evans. 1. The Flora Rotary Club May 2nd to 10 members 2. The Carroll County/ White County joint meeting May 20th of the DAR with 18 members present. David Cook spoke to a Marion County PEO group on July 17. Please call the office if you are in need of a speaker for an organization. Flora Rotary Club presentation: Jane and Dick Bishop , Carolyn Rose and Stanley Evans. 2013 Fall Pilgrimage: Friday, September 6, 2013 way of life. Limberlost, Amish and Berne Also included is the historic Geneva and Berne, Indiana town of Berne, which was Following the popular Spring founded by Mennonites in the Pilgrimage last year to the 1850s & designed to resemble a Rome City/Wildflower Woods Swiss village. The town has a (second) cabin of acclaimed new, 160-foot glockenspiel, the naturalist Gene Stratton- Muensterberg Clock Tower. Porter, this tour will visit her The contractor who built it will cherished home, the original greet and address the tour. Limberlost cabin in Geneva. For additional information During her 25 years and/or reservations, please go to in Geneva, she burst to fame the EVENTS tab on the home and wrote thirteen books about page of the website. the Hoosier region that in- spired her, including the inter- Offered by: Sue Thomson Travel national bestseller “A Girl of Price: $119 per person the Limberlost” (1909). Other highlights of the trip to northeastern Indiana will in- clude visits to an Amish school & home; a local expert will share insights about the faith community & their distinctive John Hampden Holliday Prize Page 3 In anticipated celebration of the Prize will be awarded to up to The prize will be awarded at Society's centennial and the upcom- three individuals who make the a Centennial-Bicentennial Ban- ing bicentennial of the State of Indi- most significant contribution to quet in December of 2016, ana in December of 2016, the Socie- the field of Indiana pioneer his- along with appropriate trophies. ty of Indiana Pioneers has launched tory in works published in the Nominations must be submitted an award for the promotion of the years 2013, 2014, 2015 or 2016. on or before February 1, 2016. John highest quality of scholarship, re- The top prize will be the sum search and writing about Indiana of five thousand dollars ($5,000), For additional information, Hampden Pioneer History from pre-history to with second and third prizes please go to the 2016 and including the year 1851. being awarded in lesser CENTENNIAL tab on the The John Hampden Holliday amounts. home page of the website. Holliday Welcome New Members: Prize The Society of Indiana Pio- Clark, Amanda Kaye Ford Schweitzer, Stephanie Myers neers would like to welcome the New Castle, IN McCordsville, IN following new members who Drexler, Louis Paul Sons, Jeaneen Terry Greenwood, IN Bedford, IN have joined since March 15, $5,000 2012: Haywood, Helen Thom Storm, Arlen Ray Indianapolis, IN Puyallup, WA Regular: Hutchinson, Mary Foster Troyer, David Lloyd Boyd, Susan Jean Mayer Gay Northglenn, CO Odessa, FL McComb, MS Larsen, Carmen Patricia Troyer, John Jacob II Carpenter, John Christopher Los Angeles, CA Clearwater, FL Wagner, Linda Thatcher Iowa City, IA Maddix, Linda Wagner Carpenter, Rachel Woodrow Sedalia, MO Sun City, AZ Modoc, IN McCammon, Mobie L Carpenter, Sam Clark Bloomington, IN Indianapolis, IN Riddle, Martha Kilgore Carpenter, Wendy Fairborn, OH Modoc, IN 2013 Spring Pilgrimage—Great Fun! Another successful and fun pil- Church, designed in 1960 by grimage was had this past May. Eero Saarinen; and Zahara- Pictured are: a view of the Irwin kos, an ice cream parlor and House and Gardens from the museum . Tea House; the North Christian Page 4 Attention All Pioneers!! The Pioneer Founders of sent via mail or email to the women who built the founda- Indiana program is moving Society's office. tion of this great State of Indi- rapidly along. Remember we If you have any ques- ana. have just one more year and tions, please call Sally on then all 92 counties will have Monday or Wednesday from been covered. So let's get those 9 o'clock until 2 o'clock or leave a message on our phone.