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Non-Profit Organization U.S. Postage Monroe County Historian PAID Bloomington, IN Permit No. 171 Preserving the Past for Future Generations Newsletter of the Monroe County Historical Society, Inc. 31st31st AnnualAnnual GarageGarage SaleSale Extravaganza!Extravaganza! Our June garage sale is known not only as the largest in Monroe County (at 22,000 Monroe County sq. ft.) but as a source of high-quality merchandise. Historical Society’s April, 2012 We are currently accepting donations for the sale, and we accept them year round! Monroe County Vo l . 2 01 2 I ss ue 2 If you are donating items for this year’s sale we will need them by June 5th. If you Historian want to deliver them, you have two choices: from May 14-June 5, you can deliver Monroe County items to the site of the sale between 10am and 2pm, or you can bring items to the April 2012 History Center from 10am-4pm, Tuesday-Saturday. You can’t deliver them? We will History Center pick them up from you at your convenience. Donations are eligible for tax- Vol. 2012 Issue 2 deduction. Sorry, we cannot use clothing, outdated computers or TVs, broken furni- Museum ture, mattresss or non-working appliances. We can sell almost everything else, even Society established 1905 Genealogy Library cars! Museum established 1980 Museum Gift Store The sale will take place as usual in the former RCA warehouse behind Cook Pharmi- For subscription Educational Facility ca, our generous host. Please come enjoy the sale as a donor, volunteer, or buyer. information The sale kicks off on Friday, June 8, from 8am to 4pm and continues Saturday, contact the History Center June 9, from 8am to 2:30pm. Monroe County History Center at 202 East Sixth Street This year we have some wonderful antiques, furniture, jewelry, art work, a sail 812-332-2517, or Membership Form Bloomington, IN 47408 boat, and a number of other amazing items! You won’t want to miss this sale! Call monroehistory.org 812-332-2517 with questions. Please write your information as you would like it to appear. 812-332-2517 www.monroehistory.org Method of Payment Hours □ Visa □ MasterCard □ Check Tuesday — Saturday Annual Membership Levels □ Student/Teacher $20 10am — 4pm ___________________________________ Last year’s first Gayle Cook Junior Historian Summer Camp was received so positively □ Basic $35 Credit Card # Museum Admission by the community and the attendees that we are holding it again this summer. □ Family $60 □ Sustaining $100 Adult — $2 The first week (June 4th-8th) is titled Monroe County Nature Quest. We will explore April Cemetery of the Month: □ Patron $500 ___________________________________ Child (6-17 yrs.) — $1 how pioneers and Native Americans used nature to their advantage, as well as how we Pleasant View, A monument in the Expiration Date CVV Number Child (6-17 yrs.) — $1 presently use nature on a regular basis. Some of the activities for this week will include cemetery, located at 7700 Anderson 5 yrs. & Under — Free Road. The gravestone is for two Corporate - Service Organizations gardening, plant dissection, fossil cookies, and nature dioramas. brothers who died in 1919 in their □ Exhibit Supporter $100 ___________________________________ Members — Free The second week (July 23rd-27th) is titled Archaeology Adventures. We will learn about twenties; apparently one or both □ Gallery Benefactor $250 Signature the entire process of archaeology, beginning with choosing a site, doing excavation, put- served in World War I. □ History Patron $500 Issue Highlights ting the pieces together, and adding the items to a museum’s collection. The crafts and □ Monroe County History Maker $1000 2 - Events Calendar ___________________________________ 2 - Events Calendar activities this week will include excavating, puzzle piecing, drying fruit, and a special Print Name 3 - Message from the tour of our collections department. Check if you are interested in: Board President The third week (August 6th-10th) is titled Family History Mysteries. Attendees can □ Volunteering ___________________________________ □ Genealogy 4 - Whitecapping research the past of either the camper’s own family (if native to Monroe County) or an □ Civil War History assigned family. We will learn about how to research, records and methods that are 5 - Dance Standards and □ Planned Giving ___________________________________ Voting Precincts available, how to create family trees, and how these histories and stories were passed down. To better experience these lessons, some of the activities we have planned include Address 6 - What’s Happening May Cemetery of the Month: Send to: family tree creations, story quilts, recipe book arrangements, and cemetery exploration. Monroe County History Center 7 - Blue Springs Talk Brummett’s Creek, located on E ___________________________________ During each camp week, the entire group will take a field trip to a specified location to Fleener Road between Birdie Galyan 202 East Sixth Street 8 - Membership Form Phone better expand upon the week’s topics. This camp is a one of a kind opportunity for Road and N Brummetts Creek Road, Bloomington, IN 47408 Benton Township. children to learn about their own backyards. Historian Staff Cover painting by Dorothy Bain, courtesy ___________________________________ Editor: Diane Ballard Registration begins 4/2/12; call 812-332-2517, ext. 3, or visit www.monroehistory.org of the Arthur Clark Estate, from the E-mail Design: Hillary Detty for more information or to register. MCHC Collection Copywriter: Cory Burger Monroe County Historian P a g e 2 Monroe County Historian P a g e 7 A p r i l 2 0 1 2 A p r i l 2 0 1 2 Calendar of Events Blue Spring Community Talk at Lawrence County Museum Submitted by Randi Richardson All events held at the History Center unless otherwise stated. The Lawrence County Museum of History and Edward L. Hutton Research Library holds a meeting April SAT 14th—WFHB presents TUES 8th– Civil War at 6:30 p.m., followed by a speaker program at 7:00 p.m., on the second Monday of each month at Saturday’s Child, 10:00am- Roundtable , 7:00pm 929 15th Street, Bedford, Indiana. All meetings are free and open to the public. On 9 April 2012, FRI 6th– Exhibit Opening 1:00pm THUR 10th– Board Meeting, THUR 19th– Bloomington 4:30pm Dawn Bakken, Associate Editor of the Indiana Magazine of History, will give a talk on “The Owenite Reception for Garden Glam- Community of Blue Spring,” which was located in Monroe County. our: A Floral Fashion Frenzy. Classic Guitar Concert, SAT 12th—WFHB presents 7:30pm Saturday’s Child, 10:00am- While you are here, make Continued from Page 4 Continued from Page 5 your own flower (materials 1:00pm provided) 5:00pm-8:00pm May THUR 17th—3rd Thursday per account relates: THUR 12th– Board Meeting, Series, 7:00pm “He [McFarland] said he was in the hands of the No. 1—McNeely Barber Shop. SAT 19th– Bloomington men for two hours and that several times he was asked if 4:30pm WED 2nd– Genealogy Group, No. 2—Town Hall. THUR 12th– Annual Mem- 2:00pm Classic Guitar Concert, he would deed back the land to Mr. Snoddy. When he re- Van Buren Township. bership Meeting, 5:30pm SUN 6th– Historic Preserva- 5:30pm plied that he could not, as it was in his sister’s name, they TUES 10th - Civil War tion Association Reception, would resume their torture. He claims that after the whip- No. 1—Kirby School House. ping, one of the men stepped in front of him and, shaking Roundtable, 7:00pm 3:00pm-5:00pm his fist in his face, said ‘Now will you deed back the farm to No. 2—Harmony School House. Tobe Snoddy.’ McFarland alleges that he finally agreed to Perry Township. have his sister deed back the farm if she would do so. On Current & Upcoming Exhibits this promise he was released.” No. 1—Clarence Ison, 508 west No. Howe street. Also available at www.monroehistory.org McFarland and his sister, Martha Jane McFar- No. 2—Dobson residence, south Walnut street. land, identified the assailants, and arrest warrants were No. 3—Victor Netcott residence, 403 east Smith avenue. “What is your quilting story?” Monroe County Preservation Board in the issued. Tobe Snoddy was among those arrested. On May Opens: March 2 Closes: July 31 Community Voices Gallery 15, seven days after the first newspaper article about the No. 4—U. S. Hanna Garage, 828 east Atwater avenue. Opens: May 6 Closes: July 21 case, the Telephone ran a story stating that the deputy The theme for the annual quilt show is No. 5—Whitlow residence, 816 south Lincoln street. The Community Voices Gallery Celebrates prosecutor, Frank Regester, received a threatening letter, “The Quilter’s Story”. We are display- the Monroe County Preservation Board for signed by “The Harmony Regulators,” demanding that he No. 6—Gentry Home, South Rogers street. ing quilts from community members National Preservation Month. The drop prosecution in the case. After a two-week investiga- No. 7—School House, Clear Creek. along with the stories attached to the Preservation Board of Review was tion, a grand jury declined to return indictments, accord- quilts. We have gathered stories about established in 2001 to promote the ing to the Telephone (24 June 1911). No. 8—Sanders School House. where the quilts come from, why they were made, who were they educational, cultural, economic, aesthetic made for and many other fascinating details. Please come see this and general welfare of the public through Nonetheless, the investigation and prosecution No. 9—Charles Townsend residence, 1123 east First street. the preservation and protection of historic continued at the state level, with the direct participation of amazing show of color and memories. No.