Indiana Humanities Announces Winners Of Poetry Out Loud State Competition
Indiana Humanities recently announced the winners of the state contest of Poetry Out Loud.
Read MoreIndiana Humanities recently announced the winners of the state contest of Poetry Out Loud.
Read MoreMore than 50 cultural institutions, libraries, universities and other nonprofit organizations across the state have received grants from Indiana Humanities to provide public humanities programs in their communities this year.
Read MoreIndiana Humanities and the Indiana Center for the Book recently announced the awardees for the 2023-2025 “One State/One Story” statewide reading program.
Read MoreIndiana Humanities and Indiana Center for the Book announced their selections for the 2023-2025 One State/One Story statewide reading program.
Read MoreNorth Webster Community Public Library, in partnership with The Watershed Foundation, has been selected by Indiana Humanities to host a Smithsonian-curated traveling exhibit called “Water/Ways” as part of the “Museum on Main Street” program, which brings exhibitions and programs to rural communities.The exhibition, which dives into water — an essential component of life on planet, environmentally, culturally, and historically — will be on display at the library in North Webster from June 26 to Aug. 8.
Read MoreTo celebrate the centennial anniversary of Congress ratifying the right of women to vote, many programs have and will take place in Syracuse jointly sponsored by Chautauqua-Wawasee, the Syracuse-Wawasee Historical Museum, Syracuse Public Library, Syracuse-Wawasee Chamber and Indiana Humanities. To bring children into the fold, the Syracuse Public Library will host a special children’s program from 10-11 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 29.
Read MoreThe women’s suffrage movement spanned decades. In 1911, the Woman’s Franchise League of Indiana was formed and became the propelling force for the right to vote. Women from all walks of life participated in the many marches, campaigns and demonstrations that finally resulted in the passage of the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote.
Read MoreHelen Mar Jackson Gougar (1843-1907) was an advocate for women’s suffrage as a lawyer, writer and lecturer.
Read MoreThe power and the enticement of the right to vote brought over three hundred men and women to the tiny hamlet of Seneca Falls, N.Y., in the summer of 1848 to attend the first women’s rights convention organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, two abolitionists who had met at the 1840 Anti-Slavery Convention in London. These women realized early that to achieve reform, women needed to win the right to vote.
Read MoreAKRON — Tippecanoe Valley School Corporation has been awarded a Community Read grant of $1,000 from Indiana Humanities to participate in a statewide read of the classic novel “Frankenstein.” More than 60 other communities will be reading the book as part of a program called One State / … Read More
KOSCIUSKO — With funding from The Dekko Foundation and Indiana Humanities, Kosciusko Literacy Services is offering a read-alike book to each third grader in Kosciusko County. While adults and teens may read A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway as a part of Plant the Seed, Read! Community … Read More
SYRACUSE — While the weather at first threatened a soaking walk, the slight drizzle lessened and eventually ceased as about 25 walkers set off on the Next Indiana Campfires walk Thursday, June 9, along the Syracuse Lake portion of the Syracuse-Wawasee Trail. The goal? To connect nature, literature and Indiana’s bicentennial.
Read MoreSYRACUSE — Syracuse-Wawasee Park Foundation and Indiana Humanities are hosting a Next Indiana Campfires sunset walk around Syracuse Lake from 6-9 p.m. Thursday, June 9. The outing is part of “Next Indiana Campfires,” Indiana Humanities’ new series that pairs literature and nature to help Hoosiers explore Indiana’s wild … Read More