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Doing Local History in Indiana a Conversation with Linda Lou Rippy, Charlotte Sellers, and Joseph L Doing Local History in Indiana A Conversation with Linda Lou Rippy, Charlotte Sellers, and Joseph L. Skvarenina n 2003, when the Indiana Magazine of History surveyed its over 8,000 Isubscribers about their historical interests and reading habits, three out of every four respondents expressed a desire to know more about local history activities around the state. The following year we published David Vanderstel’s interview with Sal Cilella and Reid Williamson about the activities of the Indiana Historical Society (IHS) and Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana. In a letter to the editor published shortly thereafter, IUPUI history professor Robert Barrows pointed out that since Cilella (now chief operating officer of the Atlanta Historical Society) and Williamson (now retired) directed “the two largest and best-endowed historical organizations in Indiana, they are automatically unrepresentative of the state’s public history community writ large.”1 __________________________ Linda Lou Rippy directs the Marshall County Historical Society. Charlotte Sellers is the local history librarian at the Jackson County Public Library in Seymour. Joseph L. Skvarenina has worked in the nonprofit world for thirty years, is an author and the Hancock County historian. 1Keith A. Erekson, “Bringing Research to the General Public: Responses to the March 2003 Readers’ Survey,” Indiana Magazine of History 100 (March 2004), 56-70; “The State of Public History in Indiana: A Conversation with David Vanderstel, Reid Williamson, and Sal Cilella,” IMH 100 (June 2004), 155-72; Robert G. Barrows, “Letter to the Editor,” IMH 101 (March 2005), 101. County historians are listed by county at http://www.indianahistory.org/lhs/histori- anlist.html. Links to many Indiana local history museums, societies, and sites may be found at http://www.indiana.edu/~imaghist/online_content/indiana_history_links.html. John M. Harris, INDIANA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY, 103 (December 2007) ᭧ 2007, Trustees of Indiana University. 412 INDIANA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY This roundtable conversation seeks to follow up on readers’ interests, and to extend the conversation about public history begun at the state level, by hearing from Hoosiers practicing history on a local scale. In the fall of 2006, IMH assistant editor Keith Erekson hosted an online conversation with three local history practitioners from around the state—Linda Lou Rippy of Plymouth in Marshall County, Joseph Skvarenina of Greenfield in Hancock County, and Charlotte Sellers of Brownstown in Jackson County. An edited transcript of the conversation served as a jumping-off point for a discussion at a session held at the February 2007 meeting of the Indiana Association of Historians in Bloomington. The energy and enthusiasm proved impossible to tran- scribe, but some of the questions raised and solutions proposed in that setting were appended to the end of the transcript. The full transcript was then sent to three historians interested in local history who work in different places throughout the country: Rebecca Conard at Middle Tennessee State University, Jannelle Warren-Findley at Arizona State University, and David Glassberg at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. What follows here are the edited transcript of the conversation with local practitioners, and the subsequent reactions and reflections from those outside the region. We hope that these remarks will serve as another installment in an ongoing conversation about the varieties and significance of local history work in Indiana and the nation. PERSONAL AND AUDIENCE INTERESTS IMH: Why don’t you begin by describing what you do and why you are interested in history? JOSEPH SKVARENINA: I am a professional fundraiser at the Center for Leadership Development in Indianapolis as well as the official Hancock County Historian (since 1991), a former president of the Hancock Historical Society, vice president of the Riley Old Home Society, and a current member of the board of the Shirley Historical Society. I have written a great deal on Hancock County and Indiana history, including copy for Black History Notes and Traces, and a column on local history for the local newspapers since 1978. I have just finished writing a __________________________ former director of the IHS Local History Services, provided useful orientation and recommen- dations about local history work in the state. DOING LOCAL HISTORY 413 history of Emmaus Lutheran Church in Fountain Square, and I am cur- rently working on the history of Mt. Lebanon United Methodist church in Greenfield.2 I participate in many local festivals, and have also done presentations at Leadership Hancock County and for the Indiana Historical Society’s speakers bureau. I like local history because it is easier to get near primary sources. I used to hunt arrowheads and collect stamps with my dad. I guess that got me on the path. I am very interested in American Indian history, and it seems that I have started to develop some specialties in social, reli- gious, and African American history. I collect history books and I own more books than anything else. I have a bachelor’s degree in secondary education (with emphases in history, government, and geography), a master’s degree in educational administration from Kent State University, and am a commissioned minister in the Lutheran Church- Missouri Synod. I currently teach adjunct courses in historical meth- ods, world history, cross-cultural studies, writing, and literature for Concordia University and Oakland University. CHARLOTTE SELLERS: I am a reference and local history librarian at the main public library in Seymour—an 1850s railroad junction that quickly grew into the county’s largest city, provoking more than 150 years of conflict over the courthouse location that has since translated into a high school athletics rivalry with the county seat of Brownstown. Not knowing that, I moved to Brownstown (after editing regional news at The Republic in Columbus) because I had always wanted to edit a small-town newspaper. Then newspapers changed, I changed, and after starting part-time at the library to support my freelancing, I found myself commuting to Bloomington to earn a master of library science degree. This is a long way of saying I should have been a history major at Franklin College, but watching my roommate struggle to memorize all those dates, I opted for English. Shortly after leaving the Brownstown paper, I started to work on the family history I’d always wanted to know, leading me to believe that history should be taught from the present backward and from micro- __________________________ 2Black Buggies and Bonnets: Memories of an Amish Life (Milroy, Ind., 2006); The Road to Emmaus: Historical Highlights of Emmaus Lutheran Church (Indianapolis, 2005); Memoirs of World War II: NBA Robin Run Retirement Village Remembers (Indianapolis, 2003); Hancock County, with Larry L. Fox (Chicago, Ill., 2001); Great: Stories of the Famous and Not-so-Famous of Hancock County (Greenfield, Ind., 2000); and History of the Riley Old Home Society (Greenfield, Ind., 1999). 414 INDIANA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY cosm to macro. I have enjoyed the history-related learning opportunities that have fueled my passion for “nearby” history as well as family research. Appointment as Jackson County Historian a few years ago let me dig into the local past. I am trying to develop a history roundtable among folks working on projects in this county which has not been very friendly to its rich history. I have been indexing local history for several years and worked as a resource person with Leadership Jackson County’s history projects last spring. I am on the newly incorporated Seymour Museum board. Through the library I arrange some history program- ming that does not draw a large crowd. For the past four years I have edited The Indiana Genealogist and am a member of the long-range plan- ning committee of the Indiana Genealogical Society. LINDA RIPPY: In 1992, after 29 years of working as a medical assistant, I was hired at the Marshall County Historical Society in Plymouth and became the executive director in 1997. I have been the Marshall County Historian since 1992 and belong to many history-related organizations, including terms as president of Kiwanis Club, Plymouth Public Library, and the Chamber of Commerce. I am married with three grown sons and five grandchildren and have lived in Plymouth since 1957. I graduated from Ancilla, a junior college in Marshall County. My whole life is now entwined in history because of my position in the county. Every September, I present a PowerPoint program to Leadership of Marshall County that incorporates local photos. Having just received a grant from the Community Foundation for a laptop and projector, I can now take my shows on the road. History was not on my priority list when I was in high school, but my work at the museum has given me a broader sense of what exists in our own backyards. That is what makes history interesting. I enjoy school tours because children quickly connect to their own surroundings which expands their minds on the bigger picture of history. IMH: Let’s talk about your audiences. Who are they? Why are they inter- ested in the past and in history? SKVARENINA: I find that more individuals want to know about their families and their homes—their individual circumstances. I believe as society becomes more technological, people want to go back to the sim- pler times. I don’t do high-tech presentations but I do bring artifacts. People like something that they can touch and see. They also seem less interested in battles and more interested in the persons behind the scenes. More and more people are showing interest in oral history efforts. DOING LOCAL HISTORY 415 I am surprised at the distance folks will travel if something inter- ests. I once participated in a “Riley Weekend” to which folks traveled many miles in order to visit sites related to poet James Whitcomb Riley.
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