State Historic Site Featured on “Jeopardy” show

“Underground Railroad” category on Thursday, 2/26/09  Jeopardy show…….Here’s the question:
“Levi Coffin’s house in  Indiana, a national historic landmark, was known as THIS in the Underground Railroad….for $400. do you know what it is?”  (see below or here for answer)

Angel Mounds says goodbye to weeds!

Yesterday we conducted our annual/biannual burn of the mounds at Angel Mounds State Historic Site. We were able to take care of three of the mounds (A, E and G) with great success on a total wipeout of the “bad” plants (we hope). While they were at it, DNR Fire Headquarters staff burned about five acres of [...]

Enhancing the Visit (not the visitor)

As visitor program specialist for the Indiana State Museum, I get to coordinate live demonstrations as part of our Visitation Enhancement program. Often mistakenly called the “Visitor Enhancement” program, (which is entirely unnecessary as our visitors are just fine already, thank you very much) this program helps provide our guests with a little something extra [...]

What’s In A Name?

The time has almost arrived. The Indiana Art Fair is right round the corner! And with that, the Signature Artist piece has been revealed and will be on display in the museum’s Frank O’Bannon Great Hall leading up to the event. Though plans for the event are pretty much finalized there is one last point [...]

Indoor Birdwatching

 
Who would’ve thought that inside the Indiana State Museum would be a good place for bird watching?  Well, turns out the museum’s Curator of Biology, Damon Lowe has “planted” various native bird specimens around the Grand Hall as part of the soon-to-open Footprints: Balancing Nature’s Diversity exhibit.  Binoculars not necessarily needed!