Thursday,September 2
7:30 p.m. in Gunderson Auditorium in Achatz Hall of Science off Leesburg Road.
Experts from two Fort Wayne universities will gather at the University of Saint Francis for a panel discussion about what is, and is not, considered art. "Novelty, Curiosity, and Absurdity End And Art Begins: The Dangers In Defining What Should Be Considered Art" will feature professors from Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne and the University of Saint Francis as they debate what constitutes a "work of art."
Charles Shepherd from the Fort Wayne Museum of Art will moderate the panel of Kenneth Bordens, professor of psychology at IPFW; Sufi Ahmad, professor of art emeritus from USF; Dr. Art Freeman, Dean of the School of Professional Studies at USF; Esperanca Camara, Assistant Professor of Art and Visual Communication at USF; and Cliff McMahon, Assistant Professor of Art and Visual Communication at USF.
"I have heard the argument that anything can be art and that there is good art and bad art," Professor Bordens suggests. "The distinction between good art and bad art is a valid one . . . the Mona Lisa next to a portrait of Elvis Presley done in shimmering colors on velvet illustrates this point well. However, to classify anything as art as long as it is also classified as bad art diminishes the meaning of art. If everything else is art, then nothing is art."
For more information, telephone the USF School of Creative Arts at 260-434-7591.
From: The News-Sentinel
Mike Dooley at mdooley@news-sentinel.com.
Well, almost. You can get a pair of pantyhose at a convenience store.
There was a time — and it wasn't all that long ago — when you could buy everything from a ham hock to a head of hair in downtown Fort Wayne.
Times have changed.
Fort Wayne's downtown has undergone a shift in the last several years from a retail center to one that focuses almost entirely on professional services and entertainment, similar to what has taken place in other communities. Long gone are the legendary stores like Wolf & Dessauer and the Grand Leader. Memories are all that's left of the Bon Ton, a bakery, and Tapp's Market.
In their places are an assortment of banks and offices occupying downtown's low-and-high-rises. Only 10 years ago, you could still go downtown to buy a car, try on a new pair of shoes, have a doll repaired or get a haircut. Today, if you're doing business there, it's more likely you're preparing a will, opening a bank account or having your taxes done.
The changes downtown have been documented and are a topic for not only newspaper stories, but academics who claim to have discovered the reason behind the changes. The fact that downtown isn't what it once was is well known. But take that reality to its more elemental level: With the shift in purpose, does downtown Fort Wayne still offer some of the goods it once did? Can you still buy a tie downtown? How about a pair of pantyhose?
The answer to both questions is yes, provided you're willing to look long and hard.
Given the absence of stores downtown specializing in women's and men's clothing, the intrepid shopper of 2004 must take his or her search in a different direction. No longer does a woman go to a woman's store to replace the hosiery that suddenly decided an inch-wide snag is a wonderful fashion statement.
Downtown, she goes to one of two convenience stores where she also can fill the car with gas and pick up a loaf of bread before heading back to the office with a fully intact pair of hose.
Men will find no such luck with ties, however. If the office clown decides this is the perfect day to take a pair of scissors and cut your tie in half, you won't find a suitable replacement at a convenience store. You have to head for one of two downtown museums to fix the problem.
Museums? That's right. Gift shops at the Lincoln Museum, 200 E. Berry St., and the Fort Wayne Museum of Art, 311 E. Main St., sell ties.
At the art museum, you'll find creations bearing names such as famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright. At the Lincoln, its wide selection of ties sporting political and historical themes, along with those bearing reminders of the museum's namesake, make it the downtown hub of the men's tie universe.
Be warned, however: Representatives of both shops said their ties are pricier than what you'll find at Wal-Mart.
The reasons behind the shift in downtown are many, including the obvious — customers go where the stores are, and when the stores discovered customers wanted them closer to their homes, they moved. Other reasons are less obvious — when men stopped wearing hats, stores specializing in men's hats went out of business.
The decisions to close or move largely spelled the end of retailing downtown, but while that's been bad news for prospective tie and pantyhose buyers, it hasn't been a total calamity.
No longer, for example, are corsets on sale in downtown Fort Wayne. Meaning everyone can breathe easier.
This column is the commentary of the writer and does not reflect the views or opinions of The News-Sentinel
University of Saint Francis
School of Creative Arts
August 28th - October 2nd
Opening Gala Aug 28th 6-9pm
at the Mimi and Ian Rolland Center, Leesburg Road
This event celebrates the work of one of Fort Wayne's finest photographer and digital artist. Thompson has exhibited in Europe and across the United States and is represented in major private collections as well as the Cincinnati Art Museum and the Indianapolis Museum of Art. >Link
Gallery hours: Monday - Friday 9-5 , Saturday 9-3
You know us as Cinema Center Downtown, We hope you’ll recognize us at our new location — Cinema Center at Indiana Tech!
You are cordially invited to the first screening.
Andorfer Student Commons - Indiana Institute of Technology (Indiana Tech)
1600 East Washington Blvd. - Just down the road from Cinema Center,
-Look for the Big Round Building!
The Big Sleep - Thursday, August 26th at 6:30 & 9PM at Indiana Tech
"You begin to interest me, vaguely."
So says Dorothy Malone to Humprey Bogart in film noir classic, "The Big Sleep."
We hope you’ll be very interested in our new, second home.
Join us for the premiere screening in the new theater in the Andorforer Commons at Indiana Tech for a special screening of the pre-release version of the film noir classic, "The Big Sleep."
Thursday, August 26th, 2004 at 6:30pm. and 9:00 pm.
Tickets are $4.00. Additional donations are always welcome.
Members can reserve seats if they choose, by calling 426-3456.
Why start with "The Big Sleep?"
We have lots of good reasons. "The Big Sleep" is the first movie Cinema Center ever presented back in 1976. Our film loving founders started with a film full of sparks directed by legendary film director Howard Hawks, who was born in Goshen, Indiana. We have shown it many times over the years, including a special screening for our 20th anniversary party at first permanent home, downtown in the Hall Center. We want honor their hard work and tenacity, and we’re a bit superstitious.
And, this is a special presentation of the recently discovered pre-release version of "The Big Sleep." Cinema Center audiences may think they know this film, but the film most audiences know is not the film as originally shot. "The Big Sleep" was in the can ready for theaters before "To Have and Have Not," was released. Once audiences sparked to the chemistry between Bogart and Bacall, Warner Brothers asked for reshoots to "The Big Sleep" which were duly made and added the famously coy dialogue about horse racing, making a sexier if somewhat less comprehensible.
The original edit of the film was discovered several years ago sitting on a shelf. True, the 1944 version sacrifices some very suggestive dialogue, but the chemistry between the stars is still undeniable. And the movie actually makes sense!
Bogart, Bacall, Malone, blackmail, gambling, murder, drinking, drugs, tough men, cool women…
What more do you need?
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Cinema Center at Indiana Tech Movies for 8/27-9/2
The Door in the Floor
"Extraordinary in every way, from the pitch-perfect performances to the delicate handling of explosive subject matter, The Door in the Floor is also a model of page-to-screen adaptation."—Rolling Stone. "A thoughtful, melancholy story of love, loss, pain, betrayal and the lingering after-effects of tragedy."—Variety. "[I]t's so strong and the performance by Basinger and by Bridges and this young actor, there's such good work and there are some quiet moments of grief that really hit you ..."—Richard Roeper. "It's easily the most robust and compelling movie ever spun off from Irving's work."—Entertainment Weekly. 111 min. Rated R for strong sexuality and graphic images, and language.
Friday at 6:30PM & 8:45PM, Saturday at 6:30 & 8:45PM, Sunday at 2PM & 4:15PM,
Monday at 7PM, Tuesday at 7PM, Wednesday at 7PM, Thursday at 7PM
The Door in the Floor
"The Door in the Floor" is a compelling, beautifully acted drama about a couple ill-equipped to deal with tragedy. Transposing one section of John Irving's novel "A Widow for One Year" from 1958 to the present, writer-director Tod Williams has crystallized the story's searing, darkly comic events through the prism of a haunted marriage. As the central couple, Jeff Bridges and Kim Basinger are variously charming, repellent and heartbreaking. Bridges' indelible portrayal of a dissolute children's book author could reap the major award this fine actor has yet to receive. Williams' adaptation shifts the focus from the little girl born into a shattered household to the coming-of-age of a teenage boy caught smack in its middle. It's been years since Ted and Marion Cole's two sons died in an accident--the details of which are not revealed until late in the film--but their memory maintains a terrible grip on the family. Four-year-old Ruth (Elle Fanning) ritualistically communes with photos of the dead brothers she never met, and seems to know them better than she does her emotionally absent parents. Into the chasm steps 16-year-old Eddie (Jon Foster), an aspiring writer hired as a summer assistant for Ted, a bestselling writer-illustrator who says with practiced disingenuousness, "I'm just an entertainer of children and I like to draw." (The film's title is the name of one of his books.) Though he's asked to type minor revisions, in truth Eddie's chief role is that of chauffeur for the hard-drinking, license-deprived Ted. Eddie falls hard for Marion, who finds respite from her paralyzing grief in their affair. Ted, meanwhile, indulges his taste for lonely women under the transparent cover of artist's modeling sessions. Mimi Rogers bares it all in a brave, harsh portrait of the desperate Hamptonite currently caught in a mutually exploitive entanglement with Ted. Widescreen camerawork underscores the divide between the serene Long Island setting, suffused with summer light, and the domestic chaos beneath the moneyed surface. "Extraordinary in every way, from the pitch-perfect performances to the delicate handling of explosive subject matter, The Door in the Floor is also a model of page-to-screen adaptation."—Rolling Stone. "A thoughtful, melancholy story of love, loss, pain, betrayal and the lingering after-effects of tragedy."—Variety. "[I]t's so strong and the performance by Basinger and by Bridges and this young actor, there's such good work and there are some quiet moments of grief that really hit you ..."—Richard Roeper. "It's easily the most robust and compelling movie ever spun off from Irving's work."—Entertainment Weekly. 111 min. Rated R for strong sexuality and graphic images, and language.
Firestone/McMahon Tire Building For Sale
The former Firestone/McMahon Tire building at 502 W. Jefferson Blvd. is now for sale. Built in 1929 for DeWald Service Stores, Inc. in the Art Deco style, it is an example of the L-shape type of service station and is about the only example left in Fort Wayne. It is a contributing structure to the West Central National Register District and is listed as an endangered structure by ARCH, Inc., Fort Wayne's local historic preservation organization.
Funding toward rehabilitating this building, for uses such as a restaurant, market, art gallery or other commercial space, is potentially available due to the fact that it is in an historic district. Also, the City of Fort Wayne has a Brownfield Assistance Program that may provide grants and low-interest loans to help encourage the redevelopment of properties such as this.
For more information, call CB Richard Ellis Sturges at 260-424-8448, or call Jill Downs at 260-385-9378. >Link
By Johon Markoff From The New York TimesMOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Aug. 12 - Raj Reddy was fed up debating the problem of the digital divide between the rich and the poor and decided to do something about it.
Mr. Reddy, a pioneering researcher in artificial intelligence and a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, plans to unveil at the end of this year his new project, called the PCtvt, a $250 wirelessly networked personal computer intended for the four billion people around the world who live on less than $2,000 a year. >Link
He says his device can find a market in developing countries, particularly those with large populations of people who cannot read, because it can be controlled by a simple TV remote control and can function as a television, telephone and videophone.
Mr. Reddy is hoping his project - with backing from Microsoft and TriGem, the Korean computer maker, and in partnership with the Indian Institute of Science, the Indian Institute of Information Technology and researchers at the University of California, Berkeley - can prove that it is possible to bring information technology to impoverished communities without depending on philanthropy.
Because his low-cost computer doubles as a TV and a DVD player, Mr. Reddy believes that he will be able to use it as a vehicle to take computing and communications to populations that until now have been excluded from the digital world.
What separates Mr. Reddy's approach from other efforts is his belief that even the world's poorest communities can become a profitable market for computers.
"I kept asking myself, 'what would the device have to do for someone on the other side of the digital divide to be desirable?' " Mr. Reddy said. The answer, he decided, was a simple device that would offer entertainment, making it something that even the world's poorest citizens might be willing to pay a sizable share - perhaps more than 5 percent - of their annual income to own.
"Entertainment is the killer app, and that will smuggle something that is a lot more sophisticated into the home," said Tom Kalil, special assistant to the chancellor for science and technology at Berkeley.
Earlier this year Mr. Reddy persuaded TriGem, South Korea's third-largest PC maker, to supply prototypes of a fully equipped computer and Microsoft to support the project with an inexpensive, stripped down version of its Windows operating system.
This November Mr. Reddy hopes to begin installing the first 100 prototypes of the PCtvt in India and possibly several other countries. The project will work in partnership with University of California researchers who are attempting to develop high-speed wireless digital networks for rural communities.
The philosophy behind the PCtvt grew from ideas explored in the early 1980's by Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, the founder of the World Center for Computing and Human Resources, which is based in Paris. The center was built on the idea that developing countries could use biological and microelectronic technologies to leapfrog the industrial stage of economic development.
Mr. Reddy was among dozens of leading international researchers working on design projects at the center, including Alan Kay, Nicholas Negroponte and Seymour Papert. Mr. Kay was the creator of the Xerox Alto, an early PC. Mr. Negroponte had designed a pioneering videodisc system at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Mr. Papert was the inventor of the LOGO programming language.
The French center established a pilot project in Senegal that experimented with adapting the LOGO language for a Third World population. But that project failed years later because of politics and because the computers involved were too expensive.
"We needed three decades," Mr. Reddy said, for those technologies to help developing nations. He noted that in the early 1980's, computing was more focused on data processing, while today the focus is communications.
Coincidentally, he said that designing a system largely for people who cannot read will require more wireless network bandwidth than is currently required for most modern computer networks since communication will rely more heavily on audio and video transmissions than on text messages.
With a small team of students and faculty here at Carnegie Mellon University's West Coast campus, Mr. Reddy has built a simple control screen that allows the PCtvt to be used for audio and video conferencing, electronic mail and viewing local newspapers on the Web through a TV remote control. The designers have intentionally limited the computer's functions because they are struggling to simplify what the users see and experience.
One challenge Mr. Reddy faced was in persuading Microsoft to offer a version of its Windows software for the project for far less than its commercial price. But Mr. Reddy said he eventually won the support of Craig Mundie, the chief technical officer and a senior strategist at Microsoft.
Meanwhile, Mr. Reddy's team is also working with social scientists to determine the effect that access to this technology has on communities. "If we can do these experiments" and show that people living in poverty are a market for computers, Mr. Reddy said, "we will have proved something."
Copyright 2004 The New York Times Company
This special report was adapted from Life 2.0: How People Across America Are Transforming Their Lives by Finding the Where of Their Happiness (Crown Business, $24.95), a new book by Rich Karlgaard, the Forbes publisher and Digital Rules columnist.In these 60 small towns, medium-sized cities and larger metro regions, you can live well and your dollar will go far. Of course, the "live well" half our claim is shot through with subjectivity. It will be highly dependent on who you are, and what you want out of life. There are plenty of folks who will steadfastly refuse to suffer even one more day of subfreezing temperatures--period, end of story. Others may be bored to the point of madness by living in a small town. They crave big-city stimulation. Their hope is to find such a lifestyle devoid of Manhattan-like expenses and pressures. Our hope is that this special report will help you find the where of your happiness. Click on a type of community--Porch-Swing, Happy Hootervilles, IQ Campuses, Steroid Cities, Bohemian Bargains, or Telecommuting Heavens--for a short description and our ten picks in that category. >Link
More on Jane Jacobs: Wikipedia, Jane Jacobs Page, Citzine, Amazon.Her activism permanently altered urban planning
From Business Week OnlineJane Jacobs had no formal training in city planning or architecture, or even a college degree. But when this daughter of a doctor and a schoolteacher moved from Scranton, Pa., to New York City in 1938, a job at Architectural Forum and marriage to an architect soon blossomed into a lifelong passion for understanding how cities are built and lived in. From her home in Manhattan's bustling Greenwich Village, the opinionated young woman watched with growing disgust as the urban renewal movement that had swept the U.S. after World War II cleared whole neighborhoods in New York and other cities. >Link
You're Invited to the Party:
"FIESTA FORT WAYNE"- The 30th Annual Fort Wayne Hispanic Heritage Festival is scheduled for Friday & Saturday September 3 & 4th, 2004
The FREE Festival will take place in downtown Fort Wayne.
The Fort Wayne Performing Art Center Plaza, the Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Freimann Square and Main Street will be transformed into FIESTA FORT WAYNE.
Tribute to Carlos Santana, Friday, September 3rd.
Come enjoy the Mexican, South & Central American and Caribbean focused movies, music and food that will be highlighted at this annual festival. Additionally, there will be a car show and talent showcase.
Volunteer and sponsor opportunities are still available, call 260-426-3000 for more information.
This event is presented by DeSoto Translation & Marketing
WE WOULD LIKE TO THANK OUR 2003 & 2004 SPONSORS: Midwest Federal Credit Union, Arts United, Comcast, St. Joseph Hospital, Lutheran Health Network, Citilink, Science Central, American Family Insurance, Bank One, State Farm Insurance, International Truck and Engine, Lebamoff Law Offices, National City Bank, OmniSource, Ink Newspapers, Wells Fargo and Parkview Health
Submitted by: Alan Billings
Edy's want to buy the old railway bed. I think that it would be better served making into a walking and biking trail such as the trails in Indianpolis. It could connect downtown with Glenbrook and other attractions. Families with children could use it along with commuters. It would increase ther property values of that lane near it. Plus give incentive to develop much of the vacant property near it. If you have been to Indianapolis you can see how areas that once were ran down are now areas the city is proud of and they advertise. The following is from The Indianapolis Star:
The Monon Trail is attracting more than nature-lovers, joggers and bikers these days: Developers also are trying to lay their hands on adjacent lots to build as many homes and condominiums as possible.Upscale condos in Broad Ripple and single-family homes in Carmel are sprouting along the Monon, thanks to an increase in property values brought on by the trail. >Link
"Since Indianapolis does not have any mountains or oceans, the Monon has become an important natural feature," said Steve Pittman, who's developing 148 condos in Broad Ripple adjacent to the trail. "If developers find any property along the trail, they'll purchase and develop it."
Pittman said he paid 50 percent more for the 12-acre site than he'd have if the property had not been on the trail. Likewise, condos close to the trail would be priced 10 percent to 15 percent more than similar homes farther away.
"It's hard to quantify demand for the trail," he said, "but we know it's very high."
A joint study by the city and Indiana University estimates that property values along the trail will jump 5 percent once it's completed, said Ray Irvin, administrator of Indy Greenways.
"There's huge interest among developers for property along the trail," he said. "We recently announced grants to develop the South Monon; I've had real estate people wanting to know how soon they can do it.
"People see proximity to the trail as a real value to their property."
To attract more people to its Far Southside housing communities, developer CP Morgan paved nearly two miles of trail -- north of Southport Road near Banta Road -- and donated it to the city.
"We find prospective buyers are interested in amenities such as bike routes and trails," said Scott Bowers of CP Morgan, which is developing communities in Perry, Decatur and Franklin townships along another trail being developed to connect to the Monon.
"The city identified a need for a trail in the Southside. So we worked in conjunction with the city to build the trail, and at the same time made our communities more attractive."
Matt McLaughlin, a real estate agent with F.C. Tucker who sells homes in Carmel and Fishers, concedes proximity to the trail makes it easier to sell homes.
"I can't give you an exact dollar value," he said, "but it's easier to sell homes on the Monon."
Some observers, however, are worried at the mushrooming growth along the Monon.
"The trail is planned to be a recreational facility with the intent of providing passive relaxation," said community activist Clarke Kahlo. "If the trail becomes crowded with over-intense commercial and residential uses, it loses its recreational value."
Kahlo said plots along the trail were being converted into housing developments -- a trend that could endanger the environment and quality of air.
For instance, he said, the land in Broad Ripple where Pittman is developing the condos was supposed to be a park, according to the city's master plan. But the land was rezoned to develop the condos instead.
"We've got a comprehensive land-use plan," Kahlo said, "but these plans are not effective."
Pittman counters that the Broad Ripple land was originally a dump site.
"We cleaned out the property," he said. "What we are doing is promoting economic development, creating a stronger tax base and bringing more business to the merchants."
Michael A. McKay, AIA, Partner Morrison Kattman Menze, Inc. Architecture Planning Interiors, and a Member of the U.S. Green Building Council
119 W. Wayne Street, Fort Wayne, Indiana, 46802-2503
Phone: 260-422-0783, Fax: 260-426-4561, E-mail: mmckay@MKMdesign.com
Simply put, buildings have a fundamental impact on humans and the health of our planet. While consuming our natural resources, these buildings are also occupying more and more of our land, land that once provided valuable ecological services. How long can we continue on this path before our 'progress' leads to a rapid decline for all people on this Earth, including those of us who call Fort Wayne and Allen County home? We need to design toward a more sustainable future, and we need to begin building it today. >Link
MORRISON KATTMAN MENZE, INC INC.
A R C H I T E C T U R E P L A N N I N G I N T E R I O R S
119 West Wayne Street
Fort Wayne, IN 46802
Phone 260/422-0783 Fax 260/426-4561
www.MKMdesign.com
January 13, 2003
Designing toward a sustainable future, and Why we must build it today.
The building design and construction industry is one of the largest in our nation, if not the largest when compared as a percentage of the gross national product. In Allen County and Fort Wayne, it is the overall largest employer and one of the few that has continued growth, all be it small, through this recession. The products are buildings of all types: residential, commercial and institutional – both private and public.
Buildings also consume an incredible amount of our natural resources, both for their construction by using our natural resources and their occupancy through the large amounts of energy needed to heat and cool their interiors. The U.S. Department of Energy reports that buildings (both residential and commercial) consume over 65% of the generated electricity and 12% of potable water in the United States. Buildings represent over 36% of primary energy use in the U.S. and they are responsible for 30% of the total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. Buildings generate over 136 million tons of construction and demolition waste while consuming more than 40% (over 3 billion tons) annually of the Earth’s raw materials. Simply put, buildings have a fundamental impact on humans and the health of our planet. While consuming our natural resources, these buildings are also occupying more and more of our land, land that once provided valuable ecological services. How long can we continue on this path before our “progress” leads to a rapid decline for all people on this Earth, including those of us who call Fort Wayne and Allen County home?
We need to design toward a more sustainable future, and we need to begin building it today. Sustainable design or green design and green architecture as it is often referred to is an emerging response to our over consumption within the building industry. Green design includes design and construction practices that significantly reduce or eliminate the negative impact of buildings on the environment and their occupants. How? By focusing the planning, design and construction of a building on five broad areas: 1. Sustainable site planning; 2. Safeguarding water and the efficient use of water; 3. Maximizing energy efficiency and using renewable energy; 4. Conservation of materials and resources; and 5. Indoor environmental quality. What are the benefits? There are several, both environmental and economic, and both local and global. The local and global environment benefits from protecting air quality, water quality, overall bio-diversity and Eco-system health. Economic benefits are experienced in lower utility and building operation costs, increased asset value, and higher worker productivity, which in turn benefits the local economy. Building occupants benefit from better health and safety features, which in turn alleviates the upward trend of risk management concerns. (The average American spends more than 90% of their time indoors according to the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology. The U.S. EPA concurs, and adds that indoor air quality can be two to five times worse than outdoor air quality.) Community and municipal benefits include a lessened demand for large-scale infrastructure such as landfills, water supply, storm water and sanitary sewers, and their related development and operational costs (i.e. taxes). Locally, a building that integrates green design can expect lower utility cost (i.e. $0.60 to $1.20 per square foot versus $1.50 or more per square foot.)
Green building projects that are well planned, designed, integrated, and are comprehensive in their scope, can and do result in lower or neutral project development costs. Some examples of this approach include: Energy efficient building envelopes that reduce heating and cooling equipment needs – downsizing some equipment such as chillers or eliminating equipment, such as perimeter heating (the cost savings of which pay for the integrated green design). Using pervious paving combined with run-off prevention strategies can reduce the size and cost of storm water management structures or eliminate them entirely by allowing the building and the site to process all storm water on site. Building sewage can also be processed on site through ecological engines and constructed wetlands, with water as the outsource, which in turn can be used back in the building to flush toilets and water the landscape. Day-lighting strategies can reduce the use of artificial lighting (a huge consumer of power) for building interiors, and combined with other green technologies such as photovoltaic panels could eliminate the use of power from the grid for lighting of the building, even at night.
The result is a healthy building and site, one that does not harm its occupants or the environment. Employees in healthy building interiors have less absenteeism and tend to stay in their jobs, and that has a healthy impact on the bottom line. One example as reported through the U.S. Green Building Council, the Internationale Nederlanden (ING) Bank Headquarters in Amsterdam uses only 10% of the energy its predecessor and has cut worker absenteeism by 15%. The combined savings equal over 3.4 million dollars per year. Another example, the corporate headquarters for AT&T in suburban Chicago used their annual site maintenance budget (watering, fertilizing, mowing, and grooming) to replace their traditional green lawn and asphalt parking lots with a restored prairie landscape, pervious paving and on-site storm water management system. The result has been a landscape that is natural and beautiful, requiring very little maintenance other than an annual burn, and the complete elimination of storm water run-off infrastructure from their site. The yearly maintenance budget is now reflected in the company’s bottom line as profit rather than expense, with the initial capital cost paid from what was already budgeted for maintenance. Sustainable design and construction is entirely possible, and it is entirely affordable. To make it so with its successful application to the building process, sustainable design must be through an integrated approach to design and construction, where the full extent and possibility of sustainable design can be merged with the project’s goals, mission, and budget. Green design and construction is not a trend, nor an application, but it is necessary for a sustainable future. Michael A. McKay, AIA, Partner
Morrison Kattman Menze, Inc.
Architecture – Planning – Interiors, and a Member of the U.S. Green Building Council
119 W. Wayne Street, Fort Wayne, Indiana, 46802-2503
Phone: 260-422-0783, Fax: 260-426-4561, E-mail: mmckay@MKMdesign.com
It is FREE to Start a New I-Neighbors Community for Your Neighborhood!Use I-Neighbors to:
- Meet and communicate with your neighbors.
- Find neighbors with similar interests.
- Share information on local companies and services.
- Organize and advertise local events.
- Vocalize local concerns and ideas.
Who is I-Neighbors for?
- Individuals
- Families
- Local Governments
- Tenants Groups
- Community Organizers
- Neighborhood Associations
Networking to Build Safer, Stronger Communities! >Link
Upcoming.org is a collaborative event calendar, completely driven by people like you. Enter in the events you're attending, comment on events entered by others, and syndicate event listings to your own weblog.As Upcoming.org learns more about the events you enjoy, it will suggest new events you never would have heard about. >Link
Saturday, August 14th, 8 PM-2 AM, 300 block Main St.
The crescendo of City Prototype week, Pop Filter is our incredible, all-ages multimedia art event — bigger and better than ever before. We're taking over the Fort Wayne Museum of Art, the Performing Arts Center, the FourthWave building (formerly NIPSCO), and, yes, even Main Street itself. Entertainment by local and national performers are headlined by singer-actress Eszter Balint (NYC) and writer Jonathan Goldstein of NPR's 'This American Life.' Admission at FWMOA: $10 advance, $15 DOS. >Link
Invent Tomorrow, a local civic organization dedicated to implementing a strategic Action Plan for the Fort Wayne community, announces the appointment of their new Executive Director, Cheri Becker. A native of Fort Wayne, Cheri's experience includes program and community development. Cheri will begin immediately and is replacing Jeanne Shaheen who is retiring.
Since its beginnings Invent Tomorrow has coordinated several projects starting with the Millennium Celebration and including the annual Riverview Restoration projects along the Saint Mary's River, the Allen County Invent Tomorrow Education Consortium, which recently announced the formation of a countywide education broadband network. Invent Tomorrow also helped to ensure Fort Wayne's place on the map for the Midwest Regional Passenger Rail Initiative.
Through collaborative efforts with other community organizations Invent Tomorrow hosted author and economist, Richard Florida in 2003 and in January of this year hosted Deputy Mayor Joan Riehm of Louisville Metro, Kentucky to discuss how their local governments merged their executive branches.
Working with volunteers throughout the community, Invent Tomorrow works to support, connect and create community organizations, and groups with similar community driven interests as exampled by the Education Consortium. The goal of the Education Corsortium is to act as the clearinghouse for continious quality improvement of education that will ensure academic excellence aligned with State and National goals for all Allen County Children as outlined in the citizen-derived Action Plan. For additrional information on The Action Plan and Invent Tomorrow projects visit the website.
Mayor Richard calls for Greenway Summit
Thursday, August 12, 2004
John Perlich, Public Information, 260-427-6957
Fort Wayne, Ind. - Mayor Graham Richard today led a ribbon cutting ceremony to mark the opening of the West Jefferson Trail Project. The new trail links Rockhill and Swinney parks.
The trail begins in Rockhill Park and connects with the rivergreenway in Swinney Park. Landscaping features include several varieties of tree species and perennial plants. A limestone wall was constructed to identify Rockhill Park, and historical markers were installed to reflect back when the area was part of the Wabash and Erie canals.
"We are pleased that our residents have another trail to use for walking and biking," said Mayor Richard. West Jefferson Boulevard serves as a gateway to downtown Fort Wayne, and the new trail enhances the area surrounding Rockhill and Swinney parks.
Bonar Group designed the project improvements, which were constructed by Brooks Construction. The Federal Highway Administrations Transportation Enhancement Program funded 90 percent of the project. The City also provided matching funds.
Mayor Richard also announced the City will host a Greenway Summit at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, September 22 at Franke Park Pavilion #1, 3411 Sherman Blvd. The Summit is open to the public. Citizens interested in trails and greenways are invited to attend.
The Summit will bring together elected officials, greenway and trail advocates, and the community to discuss the current trail system and plans for how trails will be improved and added in the City.
"We need to work together as a community to make our greenway and trail system a success," said Mayor Richard. "We're in this together to build a better city and retain and gain jobs."
Friday, August 13th, 12-10 PM, Landing on Columbia St. & Midtowne Crossing
We shine an enormous spotlight on downtown revitalization. Digital AV transforms the vacant retail space on Columbia Street into a dynamic, thriving digital storefront. Meanwhile at Midtowne Crossing, we?re creating a virtual gallery & studio space. There?s nothing virtual about the artists at work though. And oh, yes: again with the free food and entertainment. >Link
Thursday, August 12th, 7-10 PM, 1301 Lafayette St. at Douglas Ave.
Northeast Indiana Innovation Center sponsors the launch party and unveiling of Kinosynth, a brain imaging device by Resistors. Kinosynth's features will be showcased with live visuals, digital imaging and digital projection — really, it's the greatest thing you've never seen. What's more: free food and entertainment at the Avant-Garde Gallery in the DeSoto Building. >Link
Wednesday, August 11th, 12-6 PM, Higher Grounds Coffee, 101 W. Wayne St.
Area high school students come together with our unique video project.
In this highly collaborative setting, the future of Fort Wayne shares voice & vision as the students offer their perceptions of the city. The afternoon includes a special trip to the Summit Club for a whole new perspective on downtown ?not to mention free lunch. >Link
Fri., August 6 & Sat., August 7 at Headwaters Park
Featuring top jazz and blues performers, fine dining and elegant atmosphere, tickets to Northeast Indiana's premier music festival are going fast!
Friday: Denny Jiosa, Better Than Chocolate, The Freak Brothers, Troolee Dangerous Blues Revue Saturday: Peter White, Big James & The Chicago Playboys, Ty Causey, Sounds of Essence
TICKETS are available at the Scottish Rite Box Office (or visit http://www.fwjbf.org) Friday, August 6 - $10 advance, $12 at the gate. Saturday, August 7 - $20 advance, $25 at the gate, $30 Golden Circle reserved seating
Gates open at 3:00 p.m. both days. Fine dining and beer & wine available. Food by Don Hall's Gas House & Biaggis
For more information, please visit http://www.fwjbf.org
Fort Wayne Jazz & Blues Festival, inc. is a non-profit corporation. 110 West Berry Street, suite 2000, Fort Wayne, Indiana 46802 Telephone 260.422.1235
By Mark Clayton | Staff writer of The Christian Science MonitorSo, you're thinking of buying one of those gas-electric hybrid cars like the Toyota Prius or Honda Insight. They're trendy, conserve fuel, and reduce pollution. But to really go "green," some entrepreneurs and academics say, you should try a Volkswagen Jetta.
Not just any Jetta. A dark blue one that a California electric-car company has modified so that it not only uses electricity but generates it for other purposes. So, once it's parked, you plug it in and sell excess electricity to a utility.
It sounds like a good way to meet car payments. But don't start counting the cash just yet. >Link
Neither big auto-makers nor utility companies have yet seized on the idea, known as "vehicle-to-grid," or V2G. Still, V2G is an idea waiting to happen - and the push toward hybrids today is making it ever more likely, say scientists, entrepreneurs, and economists.
"As electric-drive hybrids begin to penetrate the auto market, you now have distributed power generation on wheels," says Stephen Letendre, an economist at Green Mountain College in Poultney, Vt. "You also have an asset that's sitting idle most of the time - just waiting to be connected."
Of the more than 235 million vehicles in the United States today, only a few thousand are hybrids. And these lack the extra internal circuitry and external plug necessary to give electricity back.
But if automakers were to make 1 million next-generation V2G vehicles by 2020, they could generate up to 10,000 megawatts of electricity - about the capacity of 20 average-size power plants, according to a 2001 study by AC Propulsion, the electric vehicle maker in San Dimas, Calif., that created the V2G Jetta.
While vehicles could generate plenty of power - studies show they sit idle 90 percent of the time - it would be far too costly to use as simple "base-load" power. Their main value would be in supplying spurts of peak and other specialty "ancillary" power for which utilities pay premium prices. It would be far cheaper for utilities to tap the batteries of thousands of cars, say, than the current practice of keeping huge turbines constantly spinning just to supply power at a moment's notice, studies show.
And there would be little risk of leaving the office to discover a car with a dead battery. That's because V2G cars would have on-board controls to prevent their batteries from being drawn below minimum travel needs set by the owner - say, a 50-mile trip.
There are signs V2G is beginning to generate more than just academic buzz.
- In Toronto, a V2G fuel-cell bus is to be in service in March.
- Power company PG&E is working with the electric industry's research arm and a contractor to develop a fleet of V2G "trouble trucks" that could generate and deliver power to entire neighborhoods when a storm knocks out power.
- DaimlerChrysler has reported it is working on a version of its popular pickup truck with V2G capability for supplying power at a work site.
- AC Propulsion has plans to make as many as 1,000 V2G electric-drive vehicles starting as soon as next year.
- A major Florida city is on the verge of buying more than 50 battery-powered buses, including several that are V2G capable.
But it's the idea of V2G on a larger scale that most awes Howard Ross, president of Ross Transportation Technology, which is getting set to build the Florida buses.
"There's enough wind power in three Plains states to provide power to the entire country - but there's no way today to store that power," Dr. Ross says. "If you have V2G auto storage, you can tap into renewables."
Wide use of V2G electric-drive vehicles could generate enough power to cut the requirement for central generating station capacity by as much as 20 percent by the year 2050, says the Electric Power Research Institute, a utility industry research center in Palo Alto, Calif.
But "if you asked 20 different utilities today what they thought of vehicles putting power back into the grid, you wouldn't get a very positive response," says Mark Duvall, EPRI's manager of technology development for electric transportation. "It took a long time to assure the utility industry that it was worthwhile just to plug solar and other items into the grid. It's going to make them very nervous."
Today's Toyota Prius battery pack is too small to make it a viable V2G option, says V2G pioneer Willett Kempton, who estimates it would add roughly $400 to a car's overall cost. In the long run, fuel-cell cars will far exceed hybrids in their electric generating potential, he adds.
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Downtown
437 E. Berry St.
(260) 426-3456
Super Size Me & Before Sunset
(Also, Coming Soon)
Super Size Me
Americans are fat. Two out of three Americans are overweight or obese, but where does personal responsibility end and corporate responsibility take over? On the heels of two teenage girls suing McDonald?s for making them obese, director Morgan Spurlock sets out to discover what has made people in our country so fat. The result is "Super Size Me," a hilarious and often terrifying look at the effects of fast food on the human body.
Before Sunset
Writer/director Richard Linklater takes the concept of real-time seriously. This sequel to 1995?s "Before Sunrise" not only documents the protagonists' every exchange, every movement, minute for minute; it also is set nine years later, which is the exactly how long it?s been between the two films. The effect is elegiac for anyone who related to the first cinema verite Gen-X romantic drama, which starred Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy as Jesse and Celine, two hitchhikers in Europe who meandered around Vienna discoursing intelligently and passionately with idealistic college-student fervor on every conceivable subject for just one evening before going their separate ways, failing to exchange phone numbers, presumably trusting in fate to reunite them.
Coming Soon
Coffee & Cigarettes
Opens August 13
Baadasssss!
Opens August 20
The Door in the Floor
Opens August 27
The Life of Brian
coming soon
Metallica: Some Kind
of Monster
coming soon
Napoleon Dynamite
coming soon
Cinema Center is delighted to be part of an exciting new venture with the Indiana Institute of Technology.
Indiana Tech, located about a mile east of Cinema Center at 1600 East Washington Blvd., is growing and Cinema Center is going to be part of that growth.
Under construction now is the Andorfer Commons, Tech's new library and student center. Included in this building is a movie theater that will be a second home for Cinema Center.
Scheduled to open in September, 2004, the new theater will boast a big screen, stadium seating for 200, digital sound and many other amenities.
Cinema Center at Indiana Tech will be open Friday through Monday throughout the school year. The theater will be open to the general public as well as students of Indiana Tech. Member discounts will apply at both locations.
At Tech, we will place a special emphasis on programming that serves student interests. We will present a diverse mix of films--not the same films we're showing downtown--but films that fit our mission.
What's Cinema Center's mission you ask? Read on. The mission of Cinema Center is to present the best in independent, foreign, documentary, classic and specialty films enhanced by special events, educational programs, and community outreach.
We'll have some fun events to kick off the opening of the new theater. Watch the site for further updates and get ready to join us for more great films at a great new location. >Link
Skate Park Update
For more info call (260) 427-6000
Concrete is flowing or spaying which ever you prefer at the Skatepark. The crew from California Skatepark has been working hard. R.E. Crosby is continuing laying out, forming, and pouring the Fun Boxes across the streetscape in the middle of the park. The skate park is about 60-70% complete. Weather depending, we are hoping for a September opening.
Additional information (including updated photos) will be shared as it becomes available. >Link
Tuesday August 10th 11:30AM - 1:30PM - FREE!
Who says there's no such thing as a free meal? Join the History Center staff at the Barr Street Market for lunch Tuesday, August 10th from 11:30AM - 1:30PM. There will be fun activities for the entire family, including face painting, balloons, food sampling and musical entertainment! Meet members of the Fort Wayne Fire Department and tour a fire truck, win gift certificates courtesy of area hotels and restaurants and tour the History Center museum next door! Plus, fresh produce and fruits will be available for purchase!
The Market is located downtown on Barr Street, in between Berry and Wayne Streets. In case of inclement weather the event will be held on Tuesday, August 17th.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them, Mark Twain has been credited with saying.A new study takes that principle a step further, ranking the USA's "most literate" cities not by how many residents can read, but by various measures of how many do. And by those measures, Minneapolis is the most literate, El Paso, the least. >Link
The oft-forgotten story of how a hip town came to be that way.Though the developers are in the spotlight these days, cute and trendy Saratoga Springs, NY, was brought back from the brink by citizen activists--and important history for those addressing the new challenges of growth.
In 1973, Saratoga Springs was more than a little worse for wear: Sidewalks were crumbling, the few remaining elm trees on Broadway were dying, flophouses and shuttered buildings were not uncommon. Strip malls sprouted up in spots where glorious buildings from the city's golden age had been razed. Visitors — what few there were — would have been hard-pressed to detect any promise of the distinctive landscaping, cleanliness and well-kept buildings that Saratoga boasts today. >Link
Here is some information on up-coming events at The Lincoln Museum
Contact: Mary E. Clements
Public Relations/Marketing Manager or visit TheLincolnMuseum.org
ART EXHIBIT - The Lincoln Museum Store presents a new art exhibit, An Increased Devotion: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln- Wendy Allen, contemporary artist
Exhibit Opening, Sunday, August 8, 2004, 2 p.m.
Connecticut artist Wendy Allen will be at The Lincoln Museum Sunday August 8, at 2 p.m. to open an exhibition of her Abraham Lincoln paintings. All paintings will be available for sale to the public through The Lincoln Museum store. She will present a program and will be available to discuss her work following the presentation. Admission is free to this program. The exhibit will be available through Spring 2005.
The Lincoln Museum is located at the corner of Clinton and Berry Streets in downtown Fort Wayne. The Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., and Sunday, 1 p.m.-5 p.m. General admission is $3.99, seniors and children (5-12 years old), $2.99. Parking is free in front of the Museum. Phone 260-455-3864 for additional information. www.TheLincolnMuseum.org
Author Brian R. Dirck, Ph.D. to Speak at The Lincoln Museum
Tuesday, August 24, 2004, 7 p.m.
General admission. Museum members admitted free of charge.
Friends of The Lincoln Museum welcome Brian R. Dirck, Ph.D., author of Lincoln and Davis: Imagining America, 1809-1865. Dirck, an assistant professor of history at Anderson University, will speak at the museum, Tuesday, August 24, 2004, at 7 p.m. General admission will be charged. Members of The Lincoln Museum are admitted free of charge.
In his book, Lincoln and Davis: Imagining America, 1809-1865, Dirck discusses the two key leaders during the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln: the Great Emancipator, savior of the Union, and revered national hero. Jefferson Davis: defender of slavery, leader of a lost cause, and forlorn object of scorn. Both Lincoln and Davis remain locked in the American psyche as iconic symbols of victory and defeat. They presided over a terrible war that decided the fate of slavery and severely tested each man's resolve and potential for greatness. But, as Brian Dirck shows in the book, such images tend to obscure the larger visions that compelled both men to pursue policies and actions that resulted in such a devastating national tragedy.
Michael Burlingame, author of The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln, who recently spoke at The Lincoln Museum, has this to say about Dirck’s book, "A psychologically sophisticated, novel analysis not only of the two Civil War presidents but also of American nationalism broadly conceived.”
Dirck’s book is available in the Museum Store. He will be available to sign his book and talk to visitors following the program.
The Lincoln Museum is located at the corner of Clinton and Berry Streets in downtown Fort Wayne. The Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., and Sunday, 1 p.m.-5 p.m. General admission is $3.99, seniors and children (5-12 years old), $2.99. Parking is free in front of the Museum. Phone 260-455-3864 for additional information. www.TheLincolnMuseum.org
Be A Tourist in Your Own Hometown
September 12, 2004. Join residents of Fort Wayne as they become tourists in their own city. Many local attractions, including The Lincoln Museum will be open free of charge. Tour the award-winning permanent exhibit Abraham Lincoln and the American Experiment. The Fort Wayne Dance Collective will present a program in the Museum auditorium at 3 p.m.
The Lincoln Museum is located at the corner of Clinton and Berry Streets in downtown Fort Wayne. The Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., and Sunday, 1 p.m.-5 p.m. General admission is $3.99, seniors and children (5-12 years old), $2.99. Parking is free in front of the Museum. Phone 260-455-3864 for additional information. www.TheLincolnMuseum.org
Constitution Week - September 12-25, 2004.
Participate in the museum's annual "I Signed the Constitution" event. Receive a button and a copy of the constitution to take home.
The Lincoln Museum is located at the corner of Clinton and Berry Streets in downtown Fort Wayne. The Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., and Sunday, 1 p.m.-5 p.m. General admission is $3.99, seniors and children (5-12 years old), $2.99. Parking is free in front of the Museum. Phone 260-455-3864 for additional information. www.TheLincolnMuseum.org
The Nineteenth Annual Lincoln Colloquium, Abraham Lincoln: Politics as the National Pastime-The Presidential Years
September 17-18, 2004.
The 2004 Lincoln Colloquium will be a stimulating day of scholarship as The Lincoln Museum presents an impressive program of speakers including Michael Bishop, Harold Holzer, Darrel Bigham, Joseph Fornieri, and Kenneth Winkle. The Honorable Frank Williams will chair a question and discussion period. Dr. Allen Guelzo will round out the activities that evening by presenting the R.Gerald McMurtry Lecture. An optional dinner and discussion session is offered Friday evening September 17th. The weekend’s events will close with the opening of the Museum’s latest temporary exhibition, The National Pastime in Black and White: The Negro Baseball Leagues, 1867-1955. Registration includes the McMurtry Lecture. Colloquium registration, $40, non-members, $35 members of The Lincoln Museum. Registration for the R.Gerald McMurtry Lecture only is $10 for Museum members. $15 for non-members. Registration deadline, September 10, 2004. Phone 260-455-6087. For a complete schedule of events and registration information, visit our Website at www.TheLincolnMuseum.org
Sponsors of The Nineteenth Annual Lincoln Colloquium are: Friends of The Lincoln Museum; Dunsire Family Foundation; Leland and LaRita Boren; Lincoln Financial Group Foundation; Morrill Charitable Foundation; Gilder Lehrman Insitute of American History; and the Abraham Lincoln Association.
Sponsor of The Twenty-Fifth Annual R. Gerald McMurtry Lecture is: Indiana Historical Society
The Lincoln Museum is located at the corner of Clinton and Berry Streets in downtown Fort Wayne. The Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., and Sunday, 1 p.m.-5 p.m. General admission is $3.99, seniors and children (5-12 years old), $2.99. Parking is free in front of the Museum. Phone 260-455-3864 for additional information. www.TheLincolnMuseum.org
The National Pastime in Black and White: The Negro Baseball Leagues, 1867-1955
The National Pastime in Black and White: The Negro Baseball Leagues, 1867-1955 tells the story of the Negro leagues during segregation. The exhibition acquaints visitors with great athletes who were good enough, but not white enough, to play in the major leagues. These athletes didn’t wait for the door to “organized” baseball to open; they formed their own leagues and played the game with as much skill and enthusiasm as white players.
The Negro leagues provided a venue for black ball players and heroes for black fans, prior to the desegregation of major league baseball, which preceded the entire major civil rights landmarks of the 1950s and 1960s. This and other social aspects of the Negro leagues will be examined, such as the roles of teams and players in the communities, the importance of weekly black newspapers, barnstorming, and the impact of traveling black teams on rural, mostly white communities.
The National Pastime in Black and White will appeal to both baseball fans and museum visitors who are interested in this important chapter of American history.
Sponsors of The National Pastime exhibit are: Leland and LaRita Boren, Dunsire Family Foundation; English Bonter Mitchell; Morrill Charitable Foundation; Ian and Miriam Rolland Foundation; and Friends of The Lincoln Museum.
The Lincoln Museum is located at the corner of Clinton and Berry Streets in downtown Fort Wayne. The Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., and Sunday, 1 p.m.-5 p.m. General admission is $3.99, seniors and children (5-12 years old), $2.99. Parking is free in front of the Museum. Phone 260-455-3864 for additional information. www.TheLincolnMuseum.org
Friends of The Lincoln Museum welcome Al Zacher, who will present The Presidential Second Term: The Campaign and the Challenge of Office
Tuesday, October 5, 2004, 7 p.m.
Alfred J. Zacher is the author of “Trail and Triumph – Presidential Power in the Second Term”, the only book written on the subject. It was published during Bill Clinton’s second term campaign, and received significant national recognition. Clinton referred to the book in his first press conference after his reelection which resulted in Zacher being on The Today Show and on C-Span’s Booknotes for the Inaugural. He also appeared on Chris Mathew’s Hard Ball for the campaign and on the night before Clinton’s impeachment trial. He has been interviewed on over 100 radio talk shows on the presidency. Zacher holds a bachelor degree from Antioch College and a masters degree in Economics from The University of Michigan. He is active in his real estate profession as chairman of the company which bears his name.
The Lincoln Museum is located at the corner of Clinton and Berry Streets in downtown Fort Wayne. The Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., and Sunday, 1 p.m.-5 p.m. General admission is $3.99, seniors and children (5-12 years old), $2.99. Parking is free in front of the Museum. Phone 260-455-3864 for additional information. www.TheLincolnMuseum.org
Scott Bushnell to present, Making History at Second Base: Sol White in Fort Wayne
Sunday, October 17, 2004, 2 p.m., at The Lincoln Museum
General admission. Museum members admitted free of charge.
Fort Wayne has a prestigious baseball history, including being a member of the forerunner of the National League. The city's minor league teams included many future Major League stars and the community hosted the legendary women's team, the
Fort Wayne Daisies. But few know the history that was made in 1895 when a young African-American was recruited to play second base for the Fort Wayne team in the Western Interstate League. The young man was Sol White who went on to become one of the greatest players in Colored Base Ball, as it was called then. But White was more than a player. He later was a manager and historian. His History of Colored Base Ball, published in 1907, offers an important perspective on America and its National Pastime.
Scott Bushnell has researched White's career, particularly his season in Fort Wayne as segregation clamped down on baseball. In conjunction with The Lincoln Museum’s current temporary exhibit, The National Pastime in Black and White: A History of the Negro Baseball Leagues, 1867-1955, The Friends of The Lincoln Museum are pleased to welcome Bushnell, who will present Making History at Second Base: Sol White in Fort Wayne, Sunday, October 17, 2004, at 2 p.m., in The Lincoln Museum auditorium.
Scott M. Bushnell is a writer and member of the Society for American Baseball Research. He spent nearly 20 years as a reporter and editor, beginning his career as a sports writer in his hometown of Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Bushnell later was a reporter and state news editor for The Associated Press. He is now senior vice president-corporate communications for American Specialty Companies in Roanoke, Indiana. He is the co-author of Roanoke: The Renaissance of a Hoosier Village and has edited three other books.
The Lincoln Museum is located at the corner of Clinton and Berry Streets in downtown Fort Wayne. The Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., and Sunday, 1 p.m.-5 p.m. General admission is $3.99, seniors and children (5-12 years old), $2.99. Parking is free in front of the Museum.
Phone 260-455-3864 for additional information. www.TheLincolnMuseum.org
The History Center's newest exhibit, "How We Learned: 100 Years of Education in Allen County (1820 - 1920)" opens Tuesday, August 3rd at 10AM. In celebration of the opening, the museum will be free to the public all day.
"How We Learned. . ." traces the history of education in Allen County from the first log school house to the schools of today. The exhibit highlights life in early classrooms, the first private, religious and township schools and the struggle to establish a free public school system. Visitors will see a recreation of a 1900's one-room school complete with period furniture, books and artifacts as well as photographs and early films of students, teachers and schools.
The exhibit and will be on display through November 7th. The History Center is open Tuesday - Friday, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. and Saturday, Sunday from noon - 5:00 p.m. Private and group tours are available by appointment. Adult admission is $5, seniors and students $3, members of the Allen County-Fort Wayne Historical Society admitted free.
For more information contact: Julie Morrison 260-426-2882 ext. 307