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		<title>Hitting the ground running</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:47:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Bruce Williams, Director of Multicultural Audiences Okay, so this is my first blog as a new employee at the Indiana State Museum. This is such a perfect job for me that I am pinching myself to make sure I’m not dreaming. But if I were, I’d ask that you not wake me. As Director [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=indianastatemuseum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3954039&amp;post=2467&amp;subd=indianastatemuseum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Becky Skillman visits Amazing Maize!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:13:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by guest blogger Becky Skillman, Lieutenant Governor of Indiana Do you have the strength it takes to pull someone out of a silo of corn? While visiting the Amazing Maize exhibit recently, my staff and I took the challenge to see if we had the muscle it takes to save someone if they were to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=indianastatemuseum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3954039&amp;post=2459&amp;subd=indianastatemuseum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mr. Irsay pays a visit</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 20:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Dale Ogden, Senior Curator of Cultural History You may recall from a previous blog post that the Indiana State Museum will host Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay’s NFL Owner&#8217;s Party during the week of Super Bowl XLVI in Indy in January. We’re also producing the exhibition, Chaos is a Friend of Mine: Cultural Icons [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=indianastatemuseum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3954039&amp;post=2445&amp;subd=indianastatemuseum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Just for the fun of it!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 17:35:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Dale Ogden, Senior Curator of Cultural History I’ve dealt with some pretty heavy business in the exhibitions I’ve curated at the Indiana State Museum during the course of my career. Years ago, we produced Indiana at War, which chronicled the state’s involvement in America’s military conflicts. One of my favorites, Objects of Desire: Cars [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=indianastatemuseum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3954039&amp;post=2436&amp;subd=indianastatemuseum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A few of our favorite things</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:24:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Katy Creagh, Art &#38; Culture Program Developer, and Eric Todd, Program Specialist  Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens, brown paper packages tied up with strings, these are a few of my favorite things. ERIC: I don’t know about you, but that list does not resemble my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=indianastatemuseum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3954039&amp;post=2423&amp;subd=indianastatemuseum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>From Toyland to Celebration Crossing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 20:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Mary Jane Teeters-Eichacker, Curator of Social History It all started with a train. When L.S. Ayres closed its downtown flagship store in 1990, it donated its iconic Santa Claus Express miniature train to the Indiana State Museum along with the L.S. Ayres animated window and Tea Room memorabilia. The train had been the centerpiece [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=indianastatemuseum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3954039&amp;post=2414&amp;subd=indianastatemuseum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Witch’s Brew</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:39:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Gaby Kienitz, Head Conservator Conservators have all the trappings of a magical enterprise — a stock of arcane ingredients, “potions” that we mix up ourselves, tongue twisting phrases that we use and transformative powers on objects. Don’t believe me? Well, I might not have eye of newt or puppy dog tails, but I sometimes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=indianastatemuseum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3954039&amp;post=2405&amp;subd=indianastatemuseum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Things that go bump in the night!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 20:22:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Mike Linderman, Angel Mounds Site Manager Last Friday night we hosted our first paranormal investigation of the Angel Mounds State Historic Site Interpretive Center, thanks to the Paranormal Investigators of Henderson Kentucky (PIHK), who led the “hunt.” For years, the staff at Angel Mounds have encountered all sorts of strange things in the building, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=indianastatemuseum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3954039&amp;post=2394&amp;subd=indianastatemuseum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Time on their hands …</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 20:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are only 12 steam clocks in the world, and the Indiana State Museumis lucky enough to have one of them. No one else had even imagined a clock powered by steam before Raymond Saunders of Vancouver, British Columbia, had the idea to build one in 1977 for the Gastown area of Vancouver. That one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=indianastatemuseum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3954039&amp;post=2378&amp;subd=indianastatemuseum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>From corn to car parts?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 20:49:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by guest blogger Angela Harris, Research Engineer at Ford Motor Company This past year, I had the incredible opportunity to work with the Indiana State Museum to help develop an exhibit called Amazing Maize, which highlights the history and many uses of corn. Throughout the development of the exhibit, I was able to share with them [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=indianastatemuseum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3954039&amp;post=2380&amp;subd=indianastatemuseum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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