SMALL CITIES Past, Present, and Future September 14-15, 2001 Sponsored by the Center for Middletown Studies, Ball State University and the Minnetrista Cultural Center, Muncie, Indiana Conference Committee E. Bruce Geelhoed Director, Center for Middletown Studies, Ball State John B. Straw Friday, September 14, 2001 Director, Archives and Special Collections, Ball State Owen R. Glendening NOON-1:00 P.M. Moderator/Commentator: James Connolly, President, Minnetrista Cultural Center associate professor of history, Ball State Registration and Book Display, Carolyn M. Goffman Cantina, Minnetrista Cultural Center Instructor, Department of English, Ball State Session 2: The African-American J. Paul Mitchell Registration Fees: $45 advance registration Experience in Small Cities: Middletown as Chairperson, Department of Urban Planning, Ball State or $55 on-site registration: Includes a Case Study James J. Connolly attendance at all sessions, conference Indiana Room, Minnetrista Cultural Center Associate professor of history, Ball State reception at the home of Ball State President Stephen D. Johnson Blaine A. Brownell, continental breakfast, and Brian L. Fife, associate professor of public Professor of sociology, Ball State luncheon on Saturday. affairs, Indiana University-Purdue University, Sally Jo Vasicko Fort Wayne, “Toward Integrated Public Professor of political science, Ball State $30 single-day registration: Friday includes Schools in Middletown and Beyond” Michael C. Jarrell sessions and reception. Saturday includes Assistant director, Library Automated Services, sessions, continental breakfast, and luncheon. Jack S. Blocker, professor of history, Huron Bracken Library, Ball State College, University of Western Ontario, “Why Nancy K. Turner Ball State students may attend any of the Didn’t More African-Americans Settle in Director emerita, Archives and Special Collections, conference sessions for free by showing their Muncie, Indiana?” Ball State student identification cards. Hurley C. Goodall Moderator/Commentator: Dwight W. Former member, Indiana General Assembly and visiting Checks should be made payable to Ball State Hoover, director emeritus, Center for scholar, Center for Middletown Studies, Ball State University. Participants may also pay with Middletown Studies, Ball State Master Card or VISA. Session 3: Economic Development and the 1:00-2:30 P.M. Small City: A Roundtable Discussion Ball Room, third floor, E. B. and Bertha C. Ball Session 1: Creating Community in Center, Ball State University Co-sponsored by the Center for Urban Policy and Midwestern Small Cities Large Conference Room, Minnetrista Cultural the Environment, Indiana University-Purdue Moderator/Commentator: Hurley C. University-Indianapolis, Indiana Humanities Council, Center Goodall, former member, Indiana General Ball State University Foundation Assembly and visiting scholar, Center for and the Muncie Indiana Transit System (MITS) Craig Coenen, Lehigh University, “Civic Pride, Middletown Studies, Ball State Civic Boosterism, and Professional Football in Four Small Towns, 1920-1933” Panelists: Drew Klacik, policy analyst, Center for Urban Policy and the Environment, IUPUI Arthur Meyers, director, Russell Library, David Kaufman, program manager, Indiana Middletown, Connecticut, “The Striking of Association of Community and Economic Mind Upon Mind: Courage and Public Development Learning in Terre Haute and Hammond in Jamie Palmer, policy analyst, Center for the 1920s” Urban Policy and the Environment, IUPUI 2:45-4:15 P.M. 8:30-10:00 A.M. Mark D. O. Adams, University of Wisconsin, Christopher Jaffe, Northern Illinois Madison, “Preserving Community Identity University, “The Ku Klux Klan and Session 4: “The First Measured Century:” Bus tour of Muncie through Landscape Protection: The Evolution Middletown” Middletown Returns to PBS Bus leaves from the Minnetrista Cultural of Local Growth Control in Boulder, Colorado, Indiana Room, Minnetrista Cultural Center Center and Implications for the Mid-Size City in the Moderator/Commentator: Stephen Theodore Caplow, Commonwealth Professor Metropolitan Region” Johnson, professor of sociology, Ball State 8:30-10:00 A.M. of Sociology, University of Virginia Session 6: Imagining the City Moderator/Commentator: Greg Lindsey, NOON-1:00 P.M. Howard Bahr, professor of sociology, associate director, Center for Urban Policy Large Conference Room, Minnetrista Cultural Luncheon, Minnetrista Cultural Center Cantina Brigham Young University Center and the Environment, IUPUI Louis Hicks, associate professor of sociology, Session 9: Crisis in the Small City: 1:00 P.M. St. Mary’s College of Maryland German T. Cruz, assistant professor of landscape architecture, Ball State, “Getting Boosterism in the Gilded Age Keynote Address: “The Changing Shape of Moderator/Commentator: Bruce Geelhoed, There: Part Two/From Feudalism to Futility to Indiana Room, Minnetrista Cultural Center Small Town America,” Kenneth T. Jackson, director, Center for Middletown Studies, Fragmentation to Wholeness/Conceptual Jacques Barzun Professor of History and the Ball State Solutions for the Mending of the Muncie Kathleen A. Brosnan, University of Social Sciences, Columbia University Urban Fabric” Tennessee, “In the Shadow of a Metropolis: Indiana Room, Minnetrista Cultural Center Session 5: Law Enforcement in Small Cities: Colorado Springs, the Wealthy, Consumptive, A Roundtable Discussion Diane Shaw, Carnegie Mellon University, and a Directed Booster Strategy” Jackson is one of America’s leading urban Ball Room, third floor, E. B. and Bertha C. Ball “Sorting the Small City: Early 19th Century historians. He is the author of Crabgrass Center, Ball State Rochester, New York” Timothy R. Mahoney, University of Frontier: Suburbanization in the United Nebraska-Lincoln, “The Best City in the West: States (1985), and The Ku Klux Klan in the Panelists: Oatess E. Archey, sheriff, Grant Moderator/Commentator: Thomas A. The Crisis of the Booster Ethos in Lincoln, City, 1915-1930 (1972). He is the editor of County, Indiana Mason, director of publications, Indiana Nebraska, and Small Cities in the Midwest in several other studies, including The William C. Ervin, special agent in charge Historical Society 1880s and 1890s” Encyclopedia of New York City (1995), Cities (retired), Federal Bureau of Investigation and In American History, with Stanley K. Shultz adjunct professor of criminal justice, Butler Session 7: Community Variations in the Sharon E. Wood, University of Nebraska- (1972), and American Vistas, with Leonard University Size and Scope of the Nonprofit Sector Omaha, “The Wickedest City in America: Dinnerstein (1971). Indiana Room Commercial Vice and Urban Ambitions, 1880- 1910” Moderator/Commentator: Bryan D. Byers, Minnetrista Cultural Center 2:15-3:45 P.M. associate professor of criminal justice and criminology, Ball State Kirsten Grønbjerg, Efroymson Chair in Moderator/Commentator: Kathleen Neils Session 11: Planning in Small Cities: Philanthropy, Indiana University Conzen, professor of history, University of Challenges, Opportunities, Resources 4:30-6:00 P.M. Chicago Indiana Room, Minnetrista Cultural Center Laurie Paarlberg, School of Public and Conference reception at the home of Blaine Environmental Affairs, Indiana University Session 10: Religion and Politics in the Nancy Pekarek, director, Planning A. Brownell, president of Ball State University Small City Department, City of Valparaiso, Indiana and professor of history and urban planning Moderator/Commentator: Douglas A. Ball Room, third floor, E. B. and Bertha C. Ball Bakken, executive director, Ball Brothers EVENING Center, Ball State Larry Maggliozzi, Department of Community Foundation and Economic Development, South Bend, Dinner at local restaurants with conference Joseph Tamney, professor of sociology, Ball Indiana 10:15-11:45 A.M. hosts (sign-up at registration) State, “Church Growth in the Small City” Session 8: Urban Growth and the Small City Tom Higgins, director, Planning and Saturday, September 15, 2001 Large Conference Room, Minnetrista Cultural George Saunders, coordinator, Muncie Economic Development, Marion, Indiana 7:30-8:30 A.M. Center Interfaith Council, “Developing an Inter-racial Coalition of Churches in a Small City” Moderator/Commentator: J. Paul Mitchell, Registration and continental breakfast Hannah McKinney, Kalamazoo College, chairperson, Department of Urban Planning, Cantina, Minnetrista Cultural Center “Rocks and Hard Places: Industrial Ball State Development in the Land of the NIMBY” Session 12: Regionalism and the Small City Acknowledgements Transportation to and from the Context in Central Indiana: A Roundtable The Conference Committee wishes to Ball State campus Discussion acknowledge the support and Large Conference Room, Minnetrista Cultural cooperation of many offices at Ball State The Muncie Indiana Transit System (MITS) will The shuttle will also transport conference Center University and other organizations that run a shuttle from the Architecture Building to participants from the Minnetrista Cultural have contributed to this conference. the Minnetrista Cultural Center during the Center to the Bracken House for the Panelists: conference. The schedule for departures and reception at the president’s home on Friday. John J. Kirlin, director, Center for Urban Minnetrista Cultural Center arrivals is as follows: The shuttle will leave Minnetrista at 4:20 P.M. and arrive at the Bracken House at 4:30 P.M. Policy and the Environment, IUPUI Center for Urban Policy and the Friday,