WEBVTT 00:00:00.354 --> 00:00:07.149 - Welcome to my lovely wife Paulette and my cousins and my brother Steve over there came to see us. I 00:00:07.149 --> 00:00:14.556 - left some sheets on the paper on all the tables and it lists all the upcoming programs barring cancellations 00:00:14.556 --> 00:00:21.962 - of course that happens sometimes. Many thanks to the American Legion for allowing us to have these programs. 00:00:21.962 --> 00:00:27.806 - We've been partners in presenting and preserving local history for over 13 years now. 00:00:28.642 --> 00:00:35.748 - And thanks so much to the wait staff and the kitchen staff. We do such a great job every time. Amanda 00:00:35.748 --> 00:00:42.925 - is here again. She's got Misty helping her. Misty will be here from now on, I think, helping out. It's 00:00:42.925 --> 00:00:49.892 - great that we have such excellent people to service. Please be generous. I would also like to thank 00:00:49.892 --> 00:00:55.326 - Cats TV and Dave back there for recording our programs for over 10 years now. 00:00:59.266 --> 00:01:06.342 - So we have a bunch of them on YouTube, over 100. Yeah, Dave Walters, the one that does the recording, 00:01:06.342 --> 00:01:13.280 - he helped us set up the program today when we had a few problems. So he's doing double duty for us. 00:01:13.280 --> 00:01:20.356 - And thanks to those who watch our YouTube programs, we like to put those out there so a lot of people 00:01:20.356 --> 00:01:27.294 - can see them who can't attend and they are seen by thousands of people throughout over the country. 00:01:29.250 --> 00:01:34.696 - The programs represented here are diverse. Some of these different subjects we've covered, and in my 00:01:34.696 --> 00:01:40.249 - opinion, we're all helping preserve our local history. It's fun, but at the same time, very rewarding. 00:01:40.249 --> 00:01:45.641 - How many new attendees today? Having some new people? If you want to leave your email addresses for 00:01:45.641 --> 00:01:51.141 - us for our direct mailing list, feel free to leave them with me. George wanted me to tell you, George 00:01:51.141 --> 00:01:56.695 - Carpenter, my old buddy from high school who helped set this place up, won't be able to do the sending 00:01:56.695 --> 00:01:58.366 - out the announcements anymore. 00:01:58.530 --> 00:02:04.746 - He's having a lot of physical problems, and he lives in Oklahoma now. So Steve Brewer has been doing 00:02:04.746 --> 00:02:11.084 - some here in the past. We'll keep doing that for us in the future. He does a great job. And let's see. 00:02:11.084 --> 00:02:16.254 - So right now, the director of the History Center, Daniel Schlegel, has a few words. 00:02:26.114 --> 00:02:32.301 - All right. Good afternoon, everybody. I'm excited to be here again. We have lots of great things happening 00:02:32.301 --> 00:02:38.083 - at the History Center. One of our volunteers, Penny Matheson, wrote a book about the Worley Mansion 00:02:38.083 --> 00:02:43.922 - that was in Ellitsville. She just published it maybe a month ago. So I highly, highly doubt anyone's 00:02:43.922 --> 00:02:49.878 - read it. It was at the Caffeinated Cook. So if you go there in Ellitsville, you might have a copy. But 00:02:49.878 --> 00:02:55.486 - if you want to read a great story that Penny wrote with lots of historical photographs included, 00:02:55.714 --> 00:03:01.440 - I have that for sale over here. And then Susan also very kindly gave me a heads up about one of the 00:03:01.440 --> 00:03:07.280 - books she's going to be referencing throughout her presentation. And so I took that as a challenge to 00:03:07.280 --> 00:03:13.177 - see how many of those we could sell. So I have a big stack of those over there. So if you are inspired 00:03:13.177 --> 00:03:17.758 - by her, oh, you have one right here. She has one right here for me to show off. 00:03:17.922 --> 00:03:24.126 - So if you are inspired after Susan's talk today, please come see me. We'll have these for sale. And 00:03:24.126 --> 00:03:30.516 - then as usual, as a reminder, we have our garage sale extravaganza coming up in June. If you are doing 00:03:30.516 --> 00:03:36.720 - spring cleaning between the storms or when you're bored and stuck inside from the rain, please come 00:03:36.720 --> 00:03:43.110 - see me. I have more of these quarter sheets. I know a few people had questions. I finally dug them out 00:03:43.110 --> 00:03:46.398 - of the suitcase, so I do have those out for you now. 00:03:46.690 --> 00:03:53.117 - But please come see me, I'm happy to hand these out, or if you know of folks, I will give you extra 00:03:53.117 --> 00:03:59.609 - copies to help hand out. And then our educator, Luke, cannot be here today, but we are doing another 00:03:59.609 --> 00:04:06.037 - history walking tour. For anyone that has gone to our dearly departed tours in October, this is not 00:04:06.037 --> 00:04:12.657 - a spooky tour like that. This is very family friendly, but it's called History in Bloom, a walkthrough 00:04:12.657 --> 00:04:15.742 - history tour. It will be at Rose Hill Cemetery, 00:04:15.842 --> 00:04:21.557 - on Saturday, May 16th. So I have some little flyers that have some more information for you. So please 00:04:21.557 --> 00:04:27.272 - feel free, enjoy Susan's presentation. And then just I'll be right here to my left where I'm pointing, 00:04:27.272 --> 00:04:33.043 - just beyond her setup. And I will be happy to be there to sell you some books or talk to you more about 00:04:33.043 --> 00:04:38.703 - any of the stuff going on. And we have some amazing exhibits up. I had somebody the other day come to 00:04:38.703 --> 00:04:44.362 - me at the History Center and say, oh, I was upstairs a few years ago. I don't need to go see anything 00:04:44.362 --> 00:04:45.694 - up there. I saw it all. 00:04:47.042 --> 00:04:54.146 - I will tell you, Michael Carter has been an awesome board member for us. He can vouch. We have a rotating 00:04:54.146 --> 00:05:00.848 - cast of exhibits upstairs that are constantly changing. Hilary Fleck has done some amazing exhibits 00:05:00.848 --> 00:05:07.550 - for us. And two or three years later, people will come back and say, oh, is that restaurant exhibit 00:05:07.550 --> 00:05:12.510 - still upstairs? Unfortunately, no. It's popular, and she did a great job. 00:05:13.250 --> 00:05:19.841 - but the exhibits are on rotation. They do have a limited lifespan. So think of them as limited edition 00:05:19.841 --> 00:05:26.240 - engagements. So make sure to come out, visit us, see all the new exhibits, because there's a lot of 00:05:26.240 --> 00:05:32.703 - new stuff going. I promise, it is well worth $2 unless you're a member, then it's free. So hopefully 00:05:32.703 --> 00:05:39.934 - we'll see you at least over here at the table, if not downtown at the History Center. Thank you. Thanks, Daniel. 00:05:43.554 --> 00:05:54.522 - turn it on. Now we get to today's program. A lot of us are townies here, I think. We all grew up in 00:05:54.522 --> 00:06:05.271 - old neighborhoods in Bloomington. Me included on West Second Street. Susan grew up in a different 00:06:05.271 --> 00:06:13.278 - neighborhood, and she's going to talk about that as well as some others. 00:06:13.378 --> 00:06:22.893 - Take a few photos before I turn the lights down back there, so bear with us. And Susan has laryngitis, 00:06:22.893 --> 00:06:32.131 - so listen real close. Keep it quiet in here. What? Okay. Sally? This is a brief announcement. Here, 00:06:32.131 --> 00:06:33.886 - you can have this. 00:07:00.834 --> 00:07:11.199 - Okay. Okay. Can everybody hear me? Because what I have to say is really important. My name is Sally 00:07:11.199 --> 00:07:21.565 - Jones, and I'm here today with one of my childhood friends. Her name is Lynn Cochran. And Susan and 00:07:21.565 --> 00:07:30.686 - I go way back, too. And there's a number of people in the room that I go way back with. 00:07:31.234 --> 00:07:39.730 - I have grown up and lived in Bloomington my whole life and loved being here. When Lynn and I start, 00:07:39.730 --> 00:07:48.735 - we get together for coffee or tea or lunch, you know, every month and we started talking about how things 00:07:48.735 --> 00:07:57.401 - have changed in Bloomington so much since the time that we grew up. And we talked about how important 00:07:57.401 --> 00:08:01.054 - we think it is to preserve those memories. 00:08:01.378 --> 00:08:10.386 - But we didn't want to write a story about that. What we want to do is collect your stories, your memories 00:08:10.386 --> 00:08:19.054 - of Bloomington in the 60s and 70s. For example, I'm going to write about my childhood home. I grew up 00:08:19.054 --> 00:08:25.598 - on Eastside Drive near Maxwell Lane, and that home has great meaning for me. 00:08:25.762 --> 00:08:33.376 - I've seen fireflies come up in my backyard in the summertime and riding my bike all over the neighborhood 00:08:33.376 --> 00:08:40.774 - and knowing what the boundaries were. All of those are really important memories for me. But you could 00:08:40.774 --> 00:08:48.244 - have a memory about growing up in Bloomington that has to do with a school. It may be school that isn't 00:08:48.244 --> 00:08:53.918 - here anymore. It could be your first job. It could be out of business that you 00:08:54.018 --> 00:09:02.559 - here anymore, or it could be a place that's still here and has changed quite a bit. But we really felt 00:09:02.559 --> 00:09:10.933 - like people who have grown up in Bloomington in the 60s and 70s have wonderful, important stories to 00:09:10.933 --> 00:09:19.474 - tell about our town, and they deserve to be shared and saved. We're working with Megan from the Monroe 00:09:19.474 --> 00:09:23.454 - County History Center to collect these stories. 00:09:23.554 --> 00:09:31.930 - collect these stories and then save them at the History Center and the Indiana Room at the Monroe County 00:09:31.930 --> 00:09:39.907 - Library as a digital copy. If there's enough interest, we may end up printing a copy as a book, but 00:09:39.907 --> 00:09:48.044 - we really feel like we all can tell the story of Bloomington during that time period much better than 00:09:48.044 --> 00:09:52.830 - somebody who comes in and writes about it from the outside. 00:09:53.218 --> 00:10:00.057 - What we've done is we printed up these invitations. We're very we're still very really back room here. 00:10:00.057 --> 00:10:06.963 - This is Lynn and I getting together for coffee there. We have a Gmail address where you can communicate 00:10:06.963 --> 00:10:14.334 - with us and my phone number. My phone number is also on the invitation and I invite you to text me or call me. 00:10:14.626 --> 00:10:25.680 - if you have any questions or if you're interested, we would love to hear from you and we would love 00:10:25.680 --> 00:10:36.071 - to add your story about Bloomington during the 60s and 70s to our collection of essays. Okay? 00:10:36.071 --> 00:10:42.814 - As Mike said, my voice took a trip and hasn't come back yet. 00:10:43.714 --> 00:10:51.652 - So turn up your hearing aids and I'll do my best to project as well as I can and apologize going into 00:10:51.652 --> 00:10:59.590 - this. That was commercial number one. Here's commercial number two. Bloomington Restorations is doing 00:10:59.590 --> 00:11:07.762 - a book on Daisy Garden. How many of you took classes from her? Yeah. They are very interested in hearing 00:11:07.762 --> 00:11:13.054 - from you as well. Stories about Daisy. They'll be publishing a book 00:11:13.346 --> 00:11:22.119 - in December. So once they get that all together, they need more stories. If you're interested, you contact 00:11:22.119 --> 00:11:30.892 - Luanne at this number. And if you don't remember, just call and get in touch with Bloomington Restorations 00:11:30.892 --> 00:11:39.254 - and you'll get to the right people. Okay, so over the backyard fence, a visit to historic communities 00:11:39.254 --> 00:11:42.206 - and an exploration of neighborhoods 00:11:43.042 --> 00:11:50.786 - with some random personal autobiographical. Now I'm not gonna read through all this, it's just sort 00:11:50.786 --> 00:11:59.071 - of a thank you and a notation that in a presentation, one cannot really give all the citations. If there's 00:11:59.071 --> 00:12:07.434 - anything in particular that you want a citation for, contact me personally and I'll give you that resource. 00:12:07.434 --> 00:12:12.158 - Just too much to put into a presentation. But in particular, 00:12:12.642 --> 00:12:19.917 - The Bryant Park History is a pamphlet that was published in 2010 by Mary Lou Mitchell and Jeanette Reichard. 00:12:19.917 --> 00:12:26.725 - And it's available at the Monroe County History Center. You can go there and get a copy of it. And it 00:12:26.725 --> 00:12:33.599 - has firsthand witnesses that inspired a lot of the stories I'm going to tell. I grew up there as well. 00:12:33.599 --> 00:12:40.340 - Some of my neighborhood friends are here. Charlie Beaker even showed up. He grew up there, too. It's 00:12:40.340 --> 00:12:42.142 - where I first met Charlie. 00:12:42.434 --> 00:12:50.750 - And you may know him. Now he's famous in underwater archaeology. Who knew he grew up at the pool and 00:12:50.750 --> 00:12:58.985 - became a scuba diver? So the background is really enhanced by the memories of Luanne, Mary Lou, and 00:12:58.985 --> 00:13:07.466 - Dick Mitchell, who grew up right in the middle of the Bryant Park area. The name for this presentation 00:13:07.466 --> 00:13:10.430 - is really inspired by Jenny Fiscus. 00:13:11.138 --> 00:13:18.885 - How many of you grew up listening to WTTS, the radio? That was the place to be. Jenny was the person 00:13:18.885 --> 00:13:26.786 - who told these stories. She told us what was happening in the community. Later, she wrote a column for 00:13:26.786 --> 00:13:34.457 - the Herald Times. And she literally was my backyard neighbor when we lived at First and Washington. 00:13:34.457 --> 00:13:40.670 - And that house that you see is my house on Dunn Street, when it still had trees. 00:13:43.042 --> 00:13:50.643 - To get us started, I want to look at what is historic preservation. And I'm not going to read word for 00:13:50.643 --> 00:13:58.245 - word, so these are up there for you just to kind of look at. But basically, in 1966, our country said, 00:13:58.245 --> 00:14:06.289 - wait a minute. We're losing a lot. Let's find a way to save it. Let's find a way to safeguard our buildings. 00:14:06.289 --> 00:14:12.414 - It happened when Penn Station got leveled in New York, just disappeared overnight. 00:14:13.474 --> 00:14:21.434 - And from that, the groundswell said, we need something that will help us preserve our past. 1966, that 00:14:21.434 --> 00:14:29.238 - law was passed, and it started a groundswell of preservation movement. And some of you have heard of 00:14:29.238 --> 00:14:37.043 - the National Register of Historic Places. We've got a lot of places that are listed, and it's a very 00:14:37.043 --> 00:14:40.830 - grueling process to go through to become listed. 00:14:41.506 --> 00:14:50.261 - It doesn't just happen because you want it to. It happens because there's a lot of work that goes into 00:14:50.261 --> 00:14:58.931 - proving that it's worthy. So I'm going to show you what worthy looks like. How many of you know these 00:14:58.931 --> 00:15:07.601 - landmarks? Recognize anything? West Payton? Finkle Field House? And what's the thing down here on the 00:15:07.601 --> 00:15:09.726 - left? That's a speedway. 00:15:10.434 --> 00:15:18.799 - These are all national historic landmarks. And those get to be landmarks because the Secretary of the 00:15:18.799 --> 00:15:27.081 - Interior says so. It's not the same process, but it's the same outcome. They're protected and for us 00:15:27.081 --> 00:15:35.282 - to have and treasure. So what are historic neighborhoods and districts? It gets a little confusing. 00:15:35.282 --> 00:15:39.710 - There's county, there's city, there's national state. 00:15:40.002 --> 00:15:47.156 - I'm not going to go into all those details. I'm kind of going to skirt that. But in the background, 00:15:47.156 --> 00:15:54.453 - understand what's going on is lots of people, lots of decisions, lots of paperwork. Now, this is from 00:15:54.453 --> 00:16:01.678 - the City of Bloomington website and very verbosely discusses the fact that once you're listed, we're 00:16:01.678 --> 00:16:07.902 - going to protect that property because you know why you're not always going to own it. 00:16:08.578 --> 00:16:16.179 - somebody knew was going to come along. And we want to be sure that that next person, that next owner, 00:16:16.179 --> 00:16:23.779 - and the community retain that history. So it's about preservation for the future. You may not realize 00:16:23.779 --> 00:16:31.305 - it, but there are this many historic districts in Monroe County. Some of them you may recognize, and 00:16:31.305 --> 00:16:36.894 - some of them you may not. If you want to know more about this, just Google 00:16:38.434 --> 00:16:47.226 - County National Register and they'll all pop up. The Matthews Stone Company District is one where the 00:16:47.226 --> 00:16:55.933 - Worthy Mansion that Daniel mentioned, that's within the Matthews Stone Company Historic District. It 00:16:55.933 --> 00:17:04.553 - includes the mill and the grounds as well as the Worthy House. I know, in fact some of you may live 00:17:04.553 --> 00:17:07.742 - in some of these areas now, but also 00:17:08.162 --> 00:17:15.096 - There are Bloomington historic districts. They operate a little bit differently, and they're focused 00:17:15.096 --> 00:17:21.961 - right here in Bloomington and approved through a local process. And once again, you'll know some of 00:17:21.961 --> 00:17:29.100 - them. I love Restaurant Row is there. It's one of my favorites. And of course, Maple Heights is another 00:17:29.100 --> 00:17:36.446 - one where I find very fascinating just to drive around and look at those houses and think about the people 00:17:38.114 --> 00:17:48.040 - and lived there, raised their families there. It brings a whole other layer of interpretation to historic 00:17:48.040 --> 00:17:57.592 - preservation, the people. Now the criteria are very detailed. It's written into federal code and into 00:17:57.592 --> 00:18:04.990 - that law from 1966. So there's a whole layer of, it's gotta have significance. 00:18:05.538 --> 00:18:13.266 - My daughter lives in North Carolina near Wilmington. And Wilmington, the houses have all these little 00:18:13.266 --> 00:18:20.993 - plaques everywhere. And they say, this happened here, and this happened here. This is on the National 00:18:20.993 --> 00:18:28.570 - Register. We drive by and see a house with no plaque. And she laughs, and she says, I guess nothing 00:18:28.570 --> 00:18:34.782 - ever happened there. This is kind of what we're talking about. Something happens. 00:18:35.234 --> 00:18:44.129 - everywhere. Those are the stories Sally and Lynn are collecting. Those are the stories that mean a lot 00:18:44.129 --> 00:18:52.851 - to me. So in addition to all of these things, this focuses on the architecture. Now you may not know 00:18:52.851 --> 00:19:01.487 - a Victorian from a Pennsylvania Dutch from a California bungalow. It doesn't matter. This is a list 00:19:01.487 --> 00:19:04.510 - of the criteria that an individual 00:19:05.314 --> 00:19:14.107 - The area goes through to document what happened, who built, what's there. And as all of this is assembled, 00:19:14.107 --> 00:19:22.572 - an application is made in the terms that you start at the local level, gets approved by the state, and 00:19:22.572 --> 00:19:31.201 - then the federal national park system approves the final national register nominations. That all happens 00:19:31.201 --> 00:19:33.502 - over a long period of time. 00:19:34.498 --> 00:19:43.104 - I know a lot of you have driven through the Maple Grove area. That is an actual rural historic district. 00:19:43.104 --> 00:19:51.463 - And you'll see the signs, those little brown signs. That tells you, whoa, I'm there. But did you know 00:19:51.463 --> 00:19:59.823 - that Maple Grove and Maple Grove, which is a very important 1800 transport route before the railroads 00:19:59.823 --> 00:20:01.790 - up to the Gosport area, 00:20:02.658 --> 00:20:11.545 - There are farmstead clusters, a former school, a church, cemetery, lots of my dry stack stone walls. 00:20:11.545 --> 00:20:20.432 - 69 contributing homes and agricultural outbuildings. Eight other structures, which include the walls 00:20:20.432 --> 00:20:29.406 - and the church and those things. 30 contributing objects that include the limestone posts and various 00:20:29.406 --> 00:20:31.166 - other outbuildings. 00:20:32.610 --> 00:20:41.068 - seven sites associated with the history. A lot of work went into documenting all of that to build the 00:20:41.068 --> 00:20:49.940 - application for the Maple Grove area. Now I had to pick one. So I picked the Vinegar Hill district because 00:20:49.940 --> 00:20:58.978 - I knew people that lived there and lived there. And it was the smell of the rotting fruit from the abandoned 00:20:58.978 --> 00:21:00.222 - apple orchards 00:21:00.834 --> 00:21:08.182 - That was to give the neighborhood its name. Did you know that? Pretty cool deal, huh? So Vinegar Hill, 00:21:08.182 --> 00:21:15.315 - we're going to focus on that for just a minute. The hill was then the east of downtown Bloomington. 00:21:15.315 --> 00:21:22.948 - It's called Vinegar Hill now, if you know it. A lot of people think of it as near Elm Heights. Elm Heights 00:21:22.948 --> 00:21:28.798 - wasn't constructed until 1926, and that's the same year the first home was built. 00:21:29.410 --> 00:21:37.978 - It is listed on the National Register. Now, I happened to talk to Joanne Raid-Stutgen, who's a friend 00:21:37.978 --> 00:21:46.378 - of mine, who does these for a living. And she is just full. She's a folklorist, got her degree here 00:21:46.378 --> 00:21:54.946 - at IU. She's an artist and a folklorist and a bicyclist. But she told me that this particular project 00:21:54.946 --> 00:21:57.886 - was the most fun she had ever had. 00:21:58.914 --> 00:22:08.131 - extraordinary, made extraordinary. Our limestone, our very limestone, expressed with craft embellishments, 00:22:08.131 --> 00:22:16.918 - even to the level of sidewalks, porches, trim, railings, could have been made simple. But the artists 00:22:16.918 --> 00:22:25.618 - that created this area made them extraordinary. And when they built their own houses, we're going to 00:22:25.618 --> 00:22:28.030 - look at one really closely. 00:22:29.122 --> 00:22:38.176 - They wanted the world to know they were artists, not just Italian immigrants. So these are the outstanding 00:22:38.176 --> 00:22:47.061 - homes. In a National Register nomination, you have outstanding, you have notable, you have contributing, 00:22:47.061 --> 00:22:56.030 - and you have everything else. These are the ones that are outstanding. How many of you recognize a house? 00:22:58.626 --> 00:23:06.498 - These were obviously all taken in the winter. Vinegar Hill, by the decades, as Joanne wrote 00:23:06.498 --> 00:23:15.141 - in her nomination, was in the 1920s. That period was colonial revival, including Georgian and Dutch, 00:23:15.141 --> 00:23:24.040 - Spanish, Tudor, Mediterranean, and French provincial. The next decade, we get into Italian Renaissance. 00:23:24.040 --> 00:23:28.318 - A number of American prairie-styled four squares, 00:23:29.442 --> 00:23:38.304 - Three are deco carvings in the front. 1950s, we move into the ranches. The ones that you go, oh, it's 00:23:38.304 --> 00:23:46.993 - a ranch house. But those are extraordinarily cool as well. And there's also one late inspired Tudor 00:23:46.993 --> 00:23:56.029 - in that, that's decades. The very last house was in 1974. Very modern, very functional. Not necessarily 00:23:56.029 --> 00:23:58.462 - one that you would consider 00:23:59.458 --> 00:24:07.932 - 50 years is what it takes to be considered historic. Now from the Vinegar Hill website, there's this 00:24:07.932 --> 00:24:16.741 - list of qualities and how the time passed and how some limestone carvers who worked all over the country 00:24:16.741 --> 00:24:25.718 - chose to build their homes in this area. Here's some of their artwork. You may not have seen these because 00:24:25.718 --> 00:24:28.990 - they're hidden. Sometimes they're on a 00:24:30.690 --> 00:24:39.174 - on a walkway, but these are all made... Chris Donato and his brother were very active in this area, 00:24:39.174 --> 00:24:48.336 - as well as other Italian immigrants. Anybody ever seen any of these? Aren't they amazing? They've weathered 00:24:48.336 --> 00:24:56.990 - over the years. So the district is obviously close to our limestone heart. It's right next to Indiana 00:24:56.990 --> 00:25:00.638 - University. The highest point on the hill, 00:25:01.186 --> 00:25:08.548 - is right there where the little circle drive is that curves back around. The very first folks to build 00:25:08.548 --> 00:25:15.696 - were up there in the 1300 block, the top of the hill, the choice sites where the wealthy built. And 00:25:15.696 --> 00:25:23.344 - as you go downhill to the base, that's where the carvers chose to build their houses, a little bit further 00:25:23.344 --> 00:25:28.062 - downhill. The whole neighborhood was populated with random people 00:25:29.154 --> 00:25:37.738 - lots of administrators and faculty from the university, and lots of people that were known internationally. 00:25:37.738 --> 00:25:45.765 - This was home. This is the map. The main line is First Street. And as you can see where it curves up 00:25:45.765 --> 00:25:53.872 - Sheridan Hill, you can all see the limestone houses there that were built by the people who owned the 00:25:53.872 --> 00:25:59.038 - stone quarries and the people who were somebody. At the far end, 00:26:00.290 --> 00:26:08.529 - left side there is where the worker bees built their houses. The architecture is different through the 00:26:08.529 --> 00:26:16.048 - decades. It's different by the block. But as Joanne said, the details are intimate, humorous, 00:26:16.048 --> 00:26:24.047 - or transcendent. Downspouts are interpreted with delicately carved gargoyles. Portraits of children 00:26:24.047 --> 00:26:28.286 - now grown and absent, a bracket at a front entrance. 00:26:29.090 --> 00:26:36.851 - In short, there's no place that better conveys the spectacle of Bloomington's history and the limestone 00:26:36.851 --> 00:26:44.464 - and the trades. Kind of why I picked it. And because I knew Clara Kinsey. How many of you knew Clara? 00:26:44.464 --> 00:26:51.926 - I was 30 before... Oh, there's my voice. I was 30 before I knew she was married to Alfred Kinsey. I 00:26:51.926 --> 00:26:58.046 - didn't even know who he was. She was my mentor in Girl Scouts. I loved that lady. 00:27:00.066 --> 00:27:07.387 - Their house was apparently, they designed it themselves and rusticated by these really cool bricks. 00:27:07.387 --> 00:27:14.929 - And the mortar comes dripping out like it's sort of left over. And it's a Tudor revival kind of house. 00:27:14.929 --> 00:27:22.689 - Here's a 1926 where they're living there. This is the house. And I grabbed everything I could from Monroe 00:27:22.689 --> 00:27:28.766 - County GIS. Thank you, Beacon. This is the Kinsey House. It's deemed only notable. 00:27:29.474 --> 00:27:37.603 - contributing or outstanding. But apparently Clara didn't want to chop down their cemetery, so they built 00:27:37.603 --> 00:27:45.810 - around it. And later she and I helped save lots of trees for Tulip Tree Girl Scouts. The overburnt bricks 00:27:45.810 --> 00:27:53.629 - were perfectly laid unevenly at the border oozing out. These are the kind of words that describe the 00:27:53.629 --> 00:27:59.358 - houses in those nominations. Think about how carefully written these are. 00:28:00.194 --> 00:28:08.333 - And here's Clara because I knew her as a Girl Scout and that's why I picked her house. Now we're gonna 00:28:08.333 --> 00:28:16.472 - go downhill. And today I've invited Michelle and David Coleman over here and we're gonna look at their 00:28:16.472 --> 00:28:24.690 - house. Michelle's done extensive research on her Donato house and has charming stories about newspapers 00:28:24.690 --> 00:28:30.142 - stuck in the walls when they redecorated. A story about Ralph Rogers 00:28:30.338 --> 00:28:39.397 - who has identical bathroom fixtures to this house, a prior owner who you may have heard of, Otto Hanthorn, 00:28:39.397 --> 00:28:48.540 - and a wood bar that's now at the Crazy Horse, a pink Cadillac, and a visit from Dot Spore in 2007. Michelle 00:28:48.540 --> 00:28:57.429 - and Dave are up here if you want to come see them later. This is their house. Harry, it says Harry Anne, 00:28:57.429 --> 00:28:59.038 - but it should say, 00:28:59.170 --> 00:29:07.449 - Harriet Christina Donato House, circa 1928, give or take a few months. Look right in front. You see 00:29:07.449 --> 00:29:16.307 - that big urn? That's limestone. That's the art they were talking about. This is the only historic district 00:29:16.307 --> 00:29:24.668 - in Indiana where yard art is a part of the nomination because of things like this. And of course, in 00:29:24.668 --> 00:29:28.062 - the spring, the front yard is garnished. 00:29:30.946 --> 00:29:39.019 - years ago in 2005, we've got copies of this up here. The home was spotlighted and Michelle talks about 00:29:39.019 --> 00:29:46.857 - indoor sledding and bats in her belfry. More stories. But this is the one that matters. This is the 00:29:46.857 --> 00:29:54.774 - group from 1927. These are the workers that built that house. Now we're going to put that picture up 00:29:54.774 --> 00:30:00.574 - on the Monroe County History Center page. I'd love for you to look at it. 00:30:01.154 --> 00:30:07.842 - see if you can identify anybody that you might know. And we'll make sure the History Center gets that, 00:30:07.842 --> 00:30:14.661 - because they're going to get a copy of this too. So this is, I want you to also look to the left. That's 00:30:14.661 --> 00:30:21.804 - a Dutch colonial right next door. Looks a little like a barn. That Dutch colonial, get it? Kind of barn-like. 00:30:21.804 --> 00:30:27.518 - It's kind of a thing. Park that in your mind for a second as we move to the next slide. 00:30:30.114 --> 00:30:37.993 - County History Center has a photograph library. And they have a whole team of people that identified 00:30:37.993 --> 00:30:46.106 - what's going on with those photos. But a lot of them need a lot more storytelling. They need a lot more 00:30:46.106 --> 00:30:54.063 - history. Some of you knew Dodd. Some of you may know her children. Jenny used to come here regularly. 00:30:54.063 --> 00:30:59.134 - But she was born Amor. She was born in 1923. She passed in 2015. 00:31:00.322 --> 00:31:09.212 - What if she did that? She went to Michelle's open house and she told her a story. She said she was in 00:31:09.212 --> 00:31:18.015 - that house where she lived and watched the builders build her house. She sat with Mrs. Donato in her 00:31:18.015 --> 00:31:26.819 - kitchen and watched her bake pastries. Those are the stories that matter. Those are the stories that 00:31:26.819 --> 00:31:28.126 - build history. 00:31:30.274 --> 00:31:38.037 - She may know Todd because she's related to the Feltus family that's very big in the 1800s and built 00:31:38.037 --> 00:31:46.033 - up a newspaper industry here. Now this is an example of the story that the History Center has for that 00:31:46.033 --> 00:31:53.795 - photograph. If you ever have nothing to do, you can go online and look or you can go to the History 00:31:53.795 --> 00:31:58.686 - Center and you can look and see if you can add to the stories. 00:31:59.746 --> 00:32:08.941 - part of our history, one photo at a time. Here's the house where Dodd obviously had to watch being built. 00:32:08.941 --> 00:32:17.789 - Now the bookstay was built in 1940, but this was 1926, 1927. So just remember everything is relative. 00:32:17.789 --> 00:32:26.464 - The details, sometimes they get botched with time. But that house was there because she watched the 00:32:26.464 --> 00:32:27.678 - Donato house. 00:32:29.890 --> 00:32:36.778 - And just because she's a cool lady, this is a picture of four generations. That's the baby. 00:32:36.778 --> 00:32:44.490 - And a four-generation picture. She was a neat lady. So historic preservation is more than architecture 00:32:44.490 --> 00:32:52.276 - to me. It's about preserving memories. So we're going to now jump into the Bryan Parks. There's several 00:32:52.276 --> 00:32:59.838 - of them. Before becoming a park, it was a bunch of green fields in an underdeveloped area, southeast 00:33:03.138 --> 00:33:14.586 - of the land, we're going to look at the historic study area, the neighborhood association, look at some 00:33:14.586 --> 00:33:26.254 - local lore, and finally look at the city park. So a study area, back in the early 2000s, the state issued 00:33:26.254 --> 00:33:32.638 - several compounded books that documented historic houses, 00:33:33.282 --> 00:33:41.454 - in Monroe County. We have one for the city, and we have one for the county. Now some of these are in 00:33:41.454 --> 00:33:49.950 - print, some aren't. If you're interested in either book, let me know. I'll tell you how to acquire them. 00:33:49.950 --> 00:33:58.122 - Now we're not quite sure why the following area was chosen with the name Bryant Park, but it was. So 00:33:58.122 --> 00:33:59.902 - that's why it's here. 00:34:02.818 --> 00:34:12.575 - So in that book, the Bryant Park study area is, think of your grid, Washington and Lincoln from First 00:34:12.575 --> 00:34:22.522 - to Allen, going to the East to the Anderson area. This area is, and the church, the Presbyterian church 00:34:22.522 --> 00:34:30.366 - is there on the corner of Lincoln and First. This area was platted several times, 00:34:31.042 --> 00:34:41.807 - And it was a cross-section of workers that chose to build here. The church was a compounding presence. 00:34:41.807 --> 00:34:52.991 - How many of you recognize this first house? Know what it is? That's the breaking away house. Unremarkable. 00:34:52.991 --> 00:35:00.830 - It's just notable. But it's a Victorian from 1890. The producers liked it. 00:35:01.282 --> 00:35:08.726 - So it got picked to be in the movie. But then there's some other houses in that Lincoln and Washington, 00:35:08.726 --> 00:35:15.883 - those two streets, that are quite entertaining. There are a lot of kid homes, California bungalows. 00:35:15.883 --> 00:35:23.041 - There's a couple of very rare duplexes. And the neat thing about this area is it still has a lot of 00:35:23.041 --> 00:35:30.270 - the laid out alleyways. There are supposed to be alleyways in every block. We've lost a lot of that. 00:35:30.594 --> 00:35:38.193 - I used to go ripping through those on my bike. And you hope that there wasn't a car coming. Narrow side 00:35:38.193 --> 00:35:45.645 - yards and those ginormous front porches and mature trees. I used to love going down Washington Street 00:35:45.645 --> 00:35:53.024 - just to drive under the canopy. And the trees were, maple trees were all out in the summer. So maybe 00:35:53.024 --> 00:35:59.454 - an odd choice of a name, because it's not far from the park, but it's fitting, it fits. 00:36:00.930 --> 00:36:09.883 - And in 2005, the Bryant Park Neighborhood Association started. Dick and Mary Lou Mitchell were instrumental, 00:36:09.883 --> 00:36:18.590 - along with other people. And they said, wait a minute. We are losing our neighborhood. We've got rentals. 00:36:18.590 --> 00:36:26.886 - We've got people building eight stories onto a two little room house. We're losing our neighborhood. 00:36:26.886 --> 00:36:29.022 - Let's try to preserve it. 00:36:30.082 --> 00:36:37.431 - They started a grassroots movement. They tried to organize, did a lot of neighborhood activities. They 00:36:37.431 --> 00:36:44.638 - were able to build in storm water and drainage advocacy. They were able to collect a lot of historic 00:36:44.638 --> 00:36:52.272 - stories, some of which I'm going to tell you. And the idea was to encourage homeowners and rental property 00:36:52.272 --> 00:36:59.550 - owners to maintain and improve the value. You can see right next to this little house what was built. 00:37:02.626 --> 00:37:10.752 - nature and still is in this neighborhood. Here's what the neighborhood looks like. For that neighborhood 00:37:10.752 --> 00:37:18.645 - association, they want you to chop off there on the upper right corner, go through the park. That top 00:37:18.645 --> 00:37:26.462 - corner is close to Vinegar Hill, so we're gonna kick it out of there, but everything else was in the 00:37:26.462 --> 00:37:30.718 - Bryant Park conservation area that was being developed 00:37:31.650 --> 00:37:39.095 - If you read through here, your eyes get dizzy, mind you, trying to figure it out. So I'm trying to give 00:37:39.095 --> 00:37:46.254 - you a map to say this is the area they were trying to protect and try to involve. They did a lot of 00:37:46.254 --> 00:37:53.555 - really good work. So I want to thank them for those early, ambitious efforts. But the important thing 00:37:53.555 --> 00:37:59.998 - to get to Bryant Park is we have to look at what came before. So the early people scapes. 00:38:06.722 --> 00:38:17.224 - The orchards came, and that was not at the orchards of Finaker Hill. It was the family of the orchards. 00:38:17.224 --> 00:38:27.423 - They came in the early 1800s, one of the first here. This is where Dan comes in. Pop Hall wrote this 00:38:27.423 --> 00:38:35.198 - book telling stories in the late 1800s, and it picks up all kinds of things. 00:38:36.834 --> 00:38:44.268 - I've read this book a hundred times. I never noticed the orchards until I needed them. And then they 00:38:44.268 --> 00:38:51.776 - popped right out at me. They were there, but I'd never noticed them before. They were irrelevant. Now 00:38:51.776 --> 00:38:59.431 - they're relevant. And these people were amazing. They came up from Kentucky, they stopped in Washington 00:38:59.431 --> 00:39:04.510 - and got prides. They discovered Bloomington by accident, as many do. 00:39:05.986 --> 00:39:14.175 - And they said, wait a minute. People need to make clothes. We need to bring a wool carting business 00:39:14.175 --> 00:39:22.446 - here. So they did. Now, if you don't know, when you have wool, you have to cart it to get it smooth, 00:39:22.446 --> 00:39:30.881 - get machines. You got flax, same thing. You got to cart it to make flax linen. And that makes clothes. 00:39:30.881 --> 00:39:34.238 - Everybody was sending all of their stuff 00:39:36.034 --> 00:39:44.431 - be processed into cloth to come back. Well, the orchards said, ha, we'll just do our own mill. And they 00:39:44.431 --> 00:39:52.586 - created their own. So they brought everything up from Kentucky. They created a mill to turn flax and 00:39:52.586 --> 00:40:00.903 - cotton and grow it so that people could have linen and cotton materials until 1836 when they sold out. 00:40:00.903 --> 00:40:05.182 - These were entrepreneurs. They did some crazy stuff. 00:40:06.210 --> 00:40:15.717 - They kept improving Bloomington's early economy. In 1836, they must have taken that money, and they 00:40:15.717 --> 00:40:25.984 - built a stage line from Indianapolis to Leavenworth, Kansas, and from Louisville to New Orleans, Louisiana. 00:40:25.984 --> 00:40:32.734 - Can you imagine the stage what's involved in putting all that together 00:40:36.098 --> 00:40:43.502 - And they double tipped. Because you know what? The college was growing. And there were students. And 00:40:43.502 --> 00:40:50.906 - they needed to get to and from. And faculty needed to get here. And people were coming. So they were 00:40:50.906 --> 00:40:58.384 - able to get them here back and forth as well. This is about that process of the carding business. And 00:40:58.384 --> 00:41:00.510 - that was a historic step for 00:41:05.346 --> 00:41:12.960 - People said, wait a minute. We need a place for people to stay. So will you please build a hotel? 00:41:12.960 --> 00:41:20.729 - So they did. They built a hotel. They built two hotels. The first one was the Temperance House. And 00:41:20.729 --> 00:41:28.731 - it was somewhere on College. It was called the Temperance House because no liquor. Can you believe it? 00:41:28.731 --> 00:41:34.014 - No liquor. Who would do that? In 1828, John called about his friend 00:41:34.402 --> 00:41:42.477 - Austin Seward, somebody you also know, to paint him a sign for the Tempers Inn. And it hung there until 00:41:42.477 --> 00:41:50.319 - it faded to time. We don't know what it'll look like, but you can imagine it. Now, I've heard that a 00:41:50.319 --> 00:41:58.238 - railroad comes to town. My friend George Carpenter, my actual stepbrother, George Carpenter, loves to 00:41:58.238 --> 00:42:03.518 - talk about the Monon. And the Monon was going right down the levee. 00:42:04.770 --> 00:42:13.367 - You know what those orchard brothers did? They said, we've got land. We'll give you land. And the railroad 00:42:13.367 --> 00:42:21.562 - said, we'll take your land, and then we'll stop and let everybody dine at your restaurant and stay at 00:42:21.562 --> 00:42:29.837 - your hotel. I love the way that all quid pro quo comes together. So the railroad made that happen, and 00:42:29.837 --> 00:42:33.694 - they made the railroad happen. And then Samuel, 00:42:34.018 --> 00:42:41.903 - Had a 60-acre farm south where they grew produce and raised animals to feed people. I'm still looking 00:42:41.903 --> 00:42:49.788 - for that acreage. I think I know where it might have gone. There's a picture of Samuel. Also, there's 00:42:49.788 --> 00:42:57.673 - another historic reference from the 1880s written by a man named Blanchard. Well, he put it together. 00:42:57.673 --> 00:43:03.934 - Other people wrote it. But it also says they had a blacksmith shop. So add that. 00:43:04.450 --> 00:43:12.225 - to the growing list of endeavors for the orchards. So here's a picture of the railroad depot. These 00:43:12.225 --> 00:43:20.078 - are two full city blocks for the orchard house. This is one of the Sanborn maps. And it lays out the 00:43:20.078 --> 00:43:28.165 - hotel and where people stayed. Oddly enough, the night before an election, the whole place burned down. 00:43:28.165 --> 00:43:33.374 - Everything. That's a story that has yet to be told. We don't know. 00:43:35.842 --> 00:43:44.114 - The Orchard family has an interesting future. This is the layout of the Orchards, the second generation, 00:43:44.114 --> 00:43:52.072 - Samuel and John came to Bloomington, and then Samuel's children are in the next line. I don't expect 00:43:52.072 --> 00:44:00.187 - you to get all that. What's important is you see there are a lot of them. John, who had the temperance 00:44:00.187 --> 00:44:04.126 - in after he and his brothers split, had children. 00:44:07.234 --> 00:44:16.286 - Unfortunately, back then, they were called deaf and dumb. But in a US special census, they did an evaluation. 00:44:16.286 --> 00:44:24.514 - None of the children lived past early adulthood. So we have no one left of that line. They just all 00:44:24.514 --> 00:44:32.990 - disappeared, which is kind of a sad thing. But Samuel, on the other hand, a few of his children became 00:44:32.990 --> 00:44:35.294 - very active. His son Harry, 00:44:37.378 --> 00:44:45.407 - a lot of industry to Bloomington, supported that. Two of his sons served in the Civil War, 00:44:45.407 --> 00:44:54.406 - John and James. And then Harry Jr., you know where YoHo is over in Greene County, right? Those YoHos. 00:44:54.406 --> 00:45:03.494 - Mom was a YoHo. He helped start the Ox Club. And in 18, I'm sorry, 1982, a Herald Times article stated 00:45:03.494 --> 00:45:06.494 - that he was the last of the three 00:45:07.938 --> 00:45:16.040 - He didn't know about or forgot about the youngs. They're coming up. Nevertheless, Harry was the last 00:45:16.040 --> 00:45:24.141 - of the line to live out his life in Bloomington. And you know what? They're all in. Most of them are 00:45:24.141 --> 00:45:32.404 - up on the hill in the cemetery. So you can go with Luke, and maybe you'll have them on the tour. We're 00:45:32.404 --> 00:45:36.254 - going to follow the line of Emily for a minute. 00:45:42.082 --> 00:45:51.173 - 1850. At the top you see Sam, Martha, Elizabeth, Emily, John, Baynard, James, and Isaac. That's the 00:45:51.173 --> 00:46:00.354 - generation in that genealogy chart I showed you. Down below are the full-time tenants. Those are not 00:46:00.354 --> 00:46:06.718 - the ones that are just staying for the night. Look at the professions 00:46:13.634 --> 00:46:21.986 - substantive people in Bloomington. Now, we're going to look at that again. Go back up and look at Emily. 00:46:21.986 --> 00:46:30.100 - She's 14. Look at the very bottom. There's a guy named John W. Young. He's a physician. These are the 00:46:30.100 --> 00:46:38.134 - two that get married, and that's the line we're going to follow. Now, note he was born in Ohio. He's 00:46:38.134 --> 00:46:42.430 - not a Unionville young. We'll add one of those later. 00:46:44.002 --> 00:46:53.224 - John and Emily's generation, John served in the Civil War. And for a while, I don't know why, he settled 00:46:53.224 --> 00:47:02.182 - in Natchez, Mississippi. This is a copy of his pension. That gives you some dates. He passes in 1875. 00:47:02.182 --> 00:47:11.140 - Emily stays there. She's got children born there. But in 1880-something, she comes back. Daddy Samuel 00:47:11.140 --> 00:47:13.950 - and Uncle Isaac, remember them? 00:47:15.938 --> 00:47:25.910 - her land and that land is Bryant Park. Grant to Anderson to hillside and south to Grimes. Butts up what 00:47:25.910 --> 00:47:35.690 - against what we call Bryant Park now. Built their homes dead on Grimes Lane and a windmill from up on 00:47:35.690 --> 00:47:45.854 - the hill pumped water down. Emily dies in 1899. That's when things turn odd. So they had several children 00:47:47.010 --> 00:47:57.449 - for good adulthood. Adelbert, or Burt, is the only child born in Mississippi to reach adulthood. Burt 00:47:57.449 --> 00:48:07.785 - is a character. That's a story I wish I could find more about. Maybe it's out there. Emily dies. Her 00:48:07.785 --> 00:48:15.358 - will is probated. Burt gets it all. Why? We don't know. The others get it 00:48:19.522 --> 00:48:29.707 - liked his home in Mississippi. He had property there, too, which he promptly sold. And somehow, he and 00:48:29.707 --> 00:48:40.486 - his wife, who was a Unionville young, had two sons and one daughter. Bird goes back and forth to Mississippi 00:48:40.486 --> 00:48:48.990 - and comes to town twice a year, maybe. What's going on there? Don't you want to know? 00:48:51.170 --> 00:49:00.782 - figured it out. But through it all, Burt's official residence remains with his wife May in Bloomington. 00:49:00.782 --> 00:49:10.024 - A story I have yet to figure out. I asked GPT chat to take this description of Burt from Mary Lou's 00:49:10.024 --> 00:49:20.190 - memoir and create a picture. I think that's pretty good. Shows the spats, shows the hat, shows the gold cane. 00:49:20.802 --> 00:49:29.182 - And Mary Glue's description says he'd come up from the train, knock on the door with his cane, and she'd 00:49:29.182 --> 00:49:37.323 - let him in. Shoot, I want to shut the door in his face. But there he was with his cane. And he'd stay 00:49:37.323 --> 00:49:45.464 - a day or two and turn around and go back to Mississippi. Don't you want to know more? That's a story. 00:49:45.464 --> 00:49:49.534 - So their children are growing up without a father, 00:49:50.274 --> 00:50:01.502 - Here's some statistics. They move around on crimes. Henderson, where Templeton School is now, that whole 00:50:01.502 --> 00:50:12.301 - acreage was just an open field until I was an adult. When the last sun passes in 1991, Bob, the land 00:50:12.301 --> 00:50:19.038 - gets hung up in lots of legal issues. Eventually it's sold for 00:50:21.346 --> 00:50:30.475 - Park Association steps in and says, no housing complexes, no apartment complexes. We're going to go 00:50:30.475 --> 00:50:40.517 - with single family homes. And they won. So eventually, we now have what's known as the South Town development 00:50:40.517 --> 00:50:48.094 - with those very attractive, colorful, craftsman-like homes. Historic preservation. 00:51:02.082 --> 00:51:10.135 - She ended up in California with her uncle Tully. They remembered to have a bank, rob a bank. I found 00:51:10.135 --> 00:51:18.267 - they didn't rob a bank. They committed manslaughter. This is their parole record at the bottom. Those 00:51:18.267 --> 00:51:26.240 - dirty little youngs. They apparently, I think it must have been Shirley. Yes, his name was Shirley. 00:51:26.240 --> 00:51:31.422 - He ratted on his brother. And they never spoke again, literally. 00:51:32.578 --> 00:51:40.791 - And that has consequences coming up. So the boys were back in town, 1950, hanging around with mom. Neither 00:51:40.791 --> 00:51:48.697 - one ever got married. They didn't have a dad to show them how, I guess. I don't know. Shirley, you can 00:51:48.697 --> 00:51:56.526 - imagine, was a stonecutter throughout his life. He worked in the business. And when his deceased body 00:51:56.526 --> 00:52:02.206 - was found, it had been there a while. And Bob had seen him cutting grass. 00:52:06.658 --> 00:52:15.064 - to go. Now, Bob Sobitt states that he was in the construction business. I can't find any record of those. 00:52:15.064 --> 00:52:23.153 - He had a few issues with the police over his life. Now, fast forward to 1960, the next decade. I used 00:52:23.153 --> 00:52:31.084 - to see the fields burning. I didn't know why. I was pretty young. Men in black suits, driving black 00:52:31.084 --> 00:52:36.318 - cars, carrying clipboards, setting the field on fire. Guess what? 00:52:39.906 --> 00:52:48.428 - I don't know who reported it. I don't know who planted it. But every once in a while, they'd come by 00:52:48.428 --> 00:52:57.456 - and clear it out. But you didn't know that, did you? And I used to take cuts coming from Templeton walking 00:52:57.456 --> 00:53:06.316 - home. It was just these gravel roads by the windmill that eventually just passed the time. Heard rumors. 00:53:06.316 --> 00:53:09.438 - I thought they were a little creepy. 00:53:10.434 --> 00:53:19.340 - Didn't quite know, my brain wasn't, it did not understand all the nuances. But this is what was going 00:53:19.340 --> 00:53:28.071 - on in my neighborhood, right next to my house, right next to Bryant Park. Okay, so let's get there, 00:53:28.071 --> 00:53:37.239 - finally. Did you know it was William Lowe Bryant Park? Yes, it was named William Lowe Bryant. Boundaries 00:53:37.239 --> 00:53:40.382 - south of Maxwell, west of Woodlawn, 00:53:40.770 --> 00:53:48.080 - East of Anderson and north of the line that would be Davis Street. This is what it looks like from above. 00:53:48.080 --> 00:53:55.322 - You can kind of recognize the tennis courts, the pool, some of the playgrounds. For the linear thinkers, 00:53:55.322 --> 00:54:02.563 - here's another picture. And I want to show you this because you can see, the circus already had a spool. 00:54:02.563 --> 00:54:09.598 - How many swam in that pool? I know I did. Those little things you had to step on that hurt your feet. 00:54:11.362 --> 00:54:20.540 - seats. So Sark has already had his shop up. I already have swimming pools. This is 1956. But if you're 00:54:20.540 --> 00:54:30.163 - in, into Topo and the different layered gradients of land, you can see all of this washes down. So Sheridan 00:54:30.163 --> 00:54:39.251 - Creek, which feeds Bryant Park, would have fed all of the land and given out water for the farms that 00:54:39.251 --> 00:54:40.766 - the young family 00:54:41.154 --> 00:54:50.785 - and the orchard family had. This is a great watershed dropping everything. I also love that you can 00:54:50.785 --> 00:55:00.706 - see that the WTTV tower is there. This was 1956. So the purchase of the park. If you read the website, 00:55:00.706 --> 00:55:09.374 - you'll see the park was purchased for a dollar. No, didn't happen that way. Back in 1949, 00:55:10.434 --> 00:55:17.847 - City Recreation, I'm sorry, that should say Parks Director. Jerry Fimmel went to the Lions Club and 00:55:17.847 --> 00:55:25.333 - said, give me money, help me raise money. We need a community center and we need a swimming pool and 00:55:25.333 --> 00:55:33.265 - a snack bar and a gym and other places to recreate. He was a real fan of outdoor recreation, real strength 00:55:33.265 --> 00:55:38.750 - center for the time. He didn't like the idea of an outdoor swimming pool. 00:55:39.458 --> 00:55:48.231 - because there were only 34 days in the season when you could swim outside. I don't know what his thermostat 00:55:48.231 --> 00:55:56.517 - was set at, but I used to swim from the middle of May to the end of September. He suggested an indoor 00:55:56.517 --> 00:56:04.803 - swimming pool, which didn't happen. But all of the activity also at this time, the planning went into 00:56:04.803 --> 00:56:06.590 - creating the jukebox. 00:56:07.810 --> 00:56:15.027 - which maybe you want to write a story about for Sally and Lynn, if you went to the jukebox, because 00:56:15.027 --> 00:56:21.810 - that has some great stories. There's a lot going on back and forth. Femo says, give me money. 00:56:21.810 --> 00:56:29.171 - We need $15,000 to buy the land. The city recreation council says, OK, let's do it. Mayor Lemon says, 00:56:29.171 --> 00:56:36.676 - OK, let's do it. City council says, wait a minute. We don't have that kind of money. We just had a loss 00:56:36.676 --> 00:56:37.470 - in income. 00:56:38.434 --> 00:56:47.450 - So they fight back and forth, back and forth. Then in July of 1950, Fimmel says, too late. Ralph Rogers 00:56:47.450 --> 00:56:56.552 - and I bought it. Three families bought the land that was to become Bryant Park. Who they bought it from? 00:56:56.552 --> 00:57:06.174 - I don't know yet. I'm still working on that. But it was purchased as an interim step. So the city tightens up. 00:57:06.818 --> 00:57:15.025 - Park Superintendent Gilbert says, dead talk, we're not doing it. By the end of the year, the city land 00:57:15.025 --> 00:57:23.073 - transfer books document the land was transferred by the three families. I want you to look up there, 00:57:23.073 --> 00:57:31.041 - you see the name Garrett Epley. You've heard that name. Got the Epley Institute at IU. This guy had 00:57:31.041 --> 00:57:35.902 - a practical brain. He said, hey, get together, make it work, 00:57:36.258 --> 00:57:47.102 - stop fighting like your two-year-olds on the playground. Get it done. So the end of 1950, that land 00:57:47.102 --> 00:57:58.487 - was sold. This is the record of the Ralph Rogers, the Mills family, and the Femel family buying, passing 00:57:58.487 --> 00:58:06.078 - the land to the city. We don't know how much they paid. We don't know 00:58:06.274 --> 00:58:15.842 - where all the land came from, when it was purchased. The references say a dollar. It can't be. And you'll 00:58:15.842 --> 00:58:25.140 - see why we have some more details coming. I think more likely is once it passed through all the layers 00:58:25.140 --> 00:58:34.166 - of city politics and city departments, then when it passed finally to the parks level, the city had 00:58:34.166 --> 00:58:36.062 - the parks department 00:58:36.546 --> 00:58:44.687 - There was an interim step there with water works. That one is a whole other mystery. I think the Parks 00:58:44.687 --> 00:58:52.592 - Department paid a dollar at that time. Thus, the story that it was given for a dollar. If anything, 00:58:52.592 --> 00:59:00.496 - it was $15,000 to $18,000. I'll track it down eventually, but for now, we just have to say, ah, oh, 00:59:00.496 --> 00:59:04.606 - well. Before we look on, let's look at the details. 00:59:05.698 --> 00:59:15.980 - If you've ever bought land, you know it gets a name. You've got a county. You've got individual townships. 00:59:15.980 --> 00:59:25.973 - Perry Township is where we are. Those townships have ranges. They have sections. Those are divided into 00:59:25.973 --> 00:59:35.198 - parcels and lots. And on your deed, there's a lot of gobbledygook that breaks all of this down. 00:59:35.426 --> 00:59:44.375 - you with the details. Bryant Park is in Perry 4. Notice the line at the bottom. That's Sheridan Creek. 00:59:44.375 --> 00:59:53.325 - That's what goes through Bryant Park. Part of that watershed. And this was the area where the orchards 00:59:53.325 --> 01:00:02.708 - had their land. So everything falls inside section 4. You break it down to the next level. You see Sheridan 01:00:02.708 --> 01:00:03.838 - Creek again. 01:00:04.706 --> 01:00:13.123 - Just above that, you see a subdivision called Cummings, which was one of dozens and dozens. They changed 01:00:13.123 --> 01:00:21.380 - these overnight, I think. It's crazy the number of subdivisions. You can see names all the way around. 01:00:21.380 --> 01:00:29.476 - Heights, Rogers, Park. If you look at this up close, it's just dozens of different subdivisions. The 01:00:29.476 --> 01:00:34.206 - lower half of Bryant Park, which is that main big section, 01:00:35.938 --> 01:00:45.212 - together as a bundle and combined with a bundle off screen, which is the Tarzian Barbary. I found in 01:00:45.212 --> 01:00:54.946 - 1942, Mary Tarzian bought both of these lots. She was nerfing up land early. And I think maybe she bought 01:00:54.946 --> 01:01:04.404 - it from the Youngs. But I'm proving it yet. That's my hypothesis. Now, the people that gifted, however 01:01:04.404 --> 01:01:05.598 - it happened, 01:01:06.210 --> 01:01:13.775 - money happened to change hands, those three families gifted that land at some configuration. 01:01:13.775 --> 01:01:21.992 - And at one time, there was a plaque up by the tennis courts. If anybody knows what happened to that, 01:01:21.992 --> 01:01:30.208 - we're trying to find it. If you know anything about it or ever saw it, let me know. Now, Bryant Park 01:01:30.208 --> 01:01:35.902 - today, I think it's the first, it is the first public park in Indiana 01:01:37.346 --> 01:01:47.455 - a credited arboretum status. That is amazing. Don't underestimate that. They've taken that empty field 01:01:47.455 --> 01:01:57.465 - and turned it into a walking arboretum. Just an amazing achievement in just 70-some years. But before 01:01:57.465 --> 01:02:05.022 - there was a park, the land to the north of the creek was farmed by one owned 01:02:08.034 --> 01:02:16.037 - house was down on Grant Street. So he'd take his two white horses, he'd walk over to the park, 01:02:16.037 --> 01:02:24.629 - and he'd plow. I found a picture of a farmer plowing with two white horses. So this is how I envision 01:02:24.629 --> 01:02:33.474 - Oni plowing the upper section of the park. Now, as it turns out, nobody ever built anything on the south 01:02:33.474 --> 01:02:37.854 - side of the creek. It was just empty. You know why? 01:02:45.666 --> 01:02:53.565 - for parks, said it's not suitable, not suitable for a park. I wonder why. This is what it must have 01:02:53.565 --> 01:03:01.780 - looked like. That's a typical southern Indiana sinkhole. So they must have been all over that property. 01:03:01.780 --> 01:03:09.838 - They had to fill them in to make the ballparks, right? So there you go. At the far south end, there's 01:03:09.838 --> 01:03:14.814 - also a wagon trail that went right from Davis all the way over 01:03:15.618 --> 01:03:24.285 - Tarsian, then David Maxwell on the property. And that's where the local people in the area went to get 01:03:24.285 --> 01:03:32.867 - their dairy and their eggs. They cut across those singles to go my dairy and eggs. I think that is so 01:03:32.867 --> 01:03:41.702 - cool. So here's William L. O'Brien accepting the award. It was called Southeast Park at that time. Young 01:03:41.702 --> 01:03:43.806 - lady named Sharon Bruce. 01:03:44.482 --> 01:03:53.472 - school at BHS won a prize. She felt that Brian should be thanked for all he had done for Plummington. 01:03:53.472 --> 01:04:02.285 - Dr. Brian accepted. He was a local boy, by the way. He actually went to Phillips School as a child. 01:04:02.285 --> 01:04:11.627 - And he said that he'd like to see a monument with the names of the three representatives, say the earlier 01:04:11.627 --> 01:04:13.566 - landowners, Tecumseh, 01:04:14.402 --> 01:04:22.087 - James Monroe, and David Maxwell. I think that's pretty darn cool. I like this guy. Here's a proposal 01:04:22.087 --> 01:04:29.240 - for what the park would look like. You can see the pool area down here. Look just above that. 01:04:29.240 --> 01:04:36.925 - Going uphill, you can see an amphitheater. That was on their early list, but no ball diamonds. Femal 01:04:36.925 --> 01:04:44.382 - did not think about ball diamonds. But soon enough, there they came. Here's a picture of a worker 01:04:45.698 --> 01:04:54.002 - That could actually be my sister-in-law's dad. I don't know. You know who this is? You recognize him? 01:04:54.002 --> 01:05:02.550 - This is one of those photos you can help to identify at the History Center. But this is looking directly 01:05:02.550 --> 01:05:11.016 - west. You can see Allen. And just north of that block would have been the Beaker House. Right, Charlie? 01:05:11.016 --> 01:05:14.110 - So this is before there was anything. 01:05:16.354 --> 01:05:23.778 - Where's the baby park? We called it the baby park. First picture when they first opened, look at all 01:05:23.778 --> 01:05:31.789 - that safety equipment. And then down here, look at all that safety equipment. The bubbles in the background, 01:05:31.789 --> 01:05:39.360 - so you know that was into the 80s. And then I just had to tell you two stories. We drank from a garden 01:05:39.360 --> 01:05:45.534 - hose. No, from the water spigot. Maybe there were some snacks. There were no trees. 01:05:45.986 --> 01:05:56.521 - We used wax paper to make the slides slick. And for many summers in the 1960s, two mother ducks, Jean 01:05:56.521 --> 01:06:07.055 - Hooker from South Jones, walked her brood. Elaine Snyder, my mother, walked her brood. These two sets 01:06:07.055 --> 01:06:14.078 - of daycare children came to the park, played together, co-mingling. 01:06:15.458 --> 01:06:25.151 - the water out of those. And then they all turned around and went back. It was quite a sight. And everybody 01:06:25.151 --> 01:06:34.391 - knew when the kids were there. Now funds were tight. They went around the community. Kids pitched in. 01:06:34.391 --> 01:06:44.990 - The civil groups and the Lions Club and the Rotary, everybody raised funds to build a pool. And we finally got money 01:06:45.378 --> 01:06:53.594 - to build a pool. Who took lessons there? Who swam? Anybody on the swim team? Swam for dock councilman? 01:06:53.594 --> 01:07:01.650 - Yeah? Bloomington Swim Club? I remember this one. Look at that car. Isn't that great? Another Monroe 01:07:01.650 --> 01:07:09.626 - County history photo to identify. No water at this point. I managed that pool for five years with a 01:07:09.626 --> 01:07:13.854 - bubble on it. Crazy times. Remember supervised play? 01:07:16.194 --> 01:07:25.644 - like Carter does, because supervised play was also at Building and Trades, 17th Street, and up on 8th 01:07:25.644 --> 01:07:35.466 - Street. This is the program that FEMAL started to bring educators in for the summer to give kids a chance 01:07:35.466 --> 01:07:44.638 - to learn and grow in a safe space. My dad was great at watermelon seed spinning every 4th of July. 01:07:45.922 --> 01:07:53.627 - Knock hockey, volleyball, tetherball, checkers, chess, crafts, rain or shine. In Bryant Park, we had 01:07:53.627 --> 01:08:01.636 - a huge sycamore tree. And they'd bring a big outhouse. No, it was actually a storage shed, but it looked 01:08:01.636 --> 01:08:09.722 - like an outhouse with all of our equipment in it. These are the people that made that happen. Bill Melny, 01:08:09.722 --> 01:08:12.926 - some of you may know. He was an educator. 01:08:14.210 --> 01:08:24.703 - Isabelle Hutchinson was an educator, and then Vernon Grounds did the program at Bryan in the 1960s. 01:08:24.703 --> 01:08:35.195 - He taught at Binford. Now there are lots of people in that picture, lots of names. And then in 1952 01:08:35.195 --> 01:08:42.750 - they said, wait a minute, we need baseball diamonds. So we got baseball 01:08:43.970 --> 01:08:52.994 - started working on them. By 1966, we had quite the tournaments, and a lot of people grew up there playing 01:08:52.994 --> 01:09:01.848 - baseball. Big part all over those singles. Now, this is just sort of my summary of my growing up. There 01:09:01.848 --> 01:09:10.532 - was the official Bryant Park, and then there was the unofficial Bryant Park. You get George Carpenter 01:09:10.532 --> 01:09:13.086 - and me talking about Carodaz. 01:09:17.410 --> 01:09:27.562 - getting your shoes wet and getting into trouble. This was the place, the real rite of passage, when 01:09:27.562 --> 01:09:37.815 - you could on your own go wading through that creek and under the roads. A lot went on in that place, 01:09:37.815 --> 01:09:47.358 - coming of age in Bryant Park. Okay, so when a circus is a circus. Early 1940s, Dick Mitchell, 01:09:47.554 --> 01:09:55.982 - Growing up here, it was about eight or nine. Circus was coming to town. This is when they'd get off 01:09:55.982 --> 01:10:04.831 - the railroad and come right up the hill. This was called Allen Field in this area, roughly looking first 01:10:04.831 --> 01:10:13.511 - to Allen, Lincoln, to Anderson. I guess I should go that way. After the boys in the area had different 01:10:13.511 --> 01:10:16.798 - doing odd jobs, they got free tickets. 01:10:17.154 --> 01:10:25.780 - It was cool. Dick was going home after the circus, found a little bandana stuffed under a bush full 01:10:25.780 --> 01:10:34.406 - of loot. The police assumed that maybe somebody got caught and they hid it and they never came back 01:10:34.406 --> 01:10:42.429 - for it. That's his story of the loot from the first circus in that area. Now let's go to 56. 01:10:42.429 --> 01:10:45.534 - Big to do, big arguments, new park, 01:10:46.306 --> 01:10:53.713 - We don't want a circus in the park. Yes, we do. We want a circus. Circus brings money to town. 01:10:53.713 --> 01:11:01.509 - Back and forth. Have arguments for months. Back and forth. Details gut bungled. Where did I go back 01:11:01.509 --> 01:11:09.462 - and forth? We got to have it at Bryant Park. Whoops. Let me get back there. I want to get a shout out 01:11:09.462 --> 01:11:13.438 - to U School. Couldn't have it there. You know why? 01:11:18.818 --> 01:11:26.402 - can't get under the bridge. So they had to have it at Bryant Park. Fights, fights, fights, 01:11:26.402 --> 01:11:35.318 - back and forth, back and forth. Two weeks, circus is going to be here. Guess what? They close permanently. 01:11:35.318 --> 01:11:43.735 - Oops, we were just kidding. It didn't really happen. It was supposed to be there just two weeks from 01:11:43.735 --> 01:11:47.902 - this date. But wait, there's more. Go back, 1951. 01:11:48.258 --> 01:11:55.657 - Really was a circus. Really was. Now, they must have still had seagulls, so I don't know where those 01:11:55.657 --> 01:12:02.984 - elephants are. But the Kelly Circus was there. They were a frequent visitor. There were other times 01:12:02.984 --> 01:12:10.676 - they were there in town. But the story is how much income and economy was brought to town by the circus. 01:12:10.676 --> 01:12:16.830 - So it was a big thing. And I want you to look really closely at this box over here. 01:12:18.658 --> 01:12:26.752 - City officials said, wait a minute. We need to make sure that we're very careful here and not like we 01:12:26.752 --> 01:12:34.925 - have insurance. Because what if something happened? We could be sued and possibly lose more than Brian 01:12:34.925 --> 01:12:42.939 - Park cost us. Certainly more than a dollar. There's another piece of evidence that that 15 to 18,000 01:12:42.939 --> 01:12:48.414 - was real. And here are the elephants. You saw that in Mike's promos. 01:12:49.314 --> 01:12:58.842 - What happened? They were here. 1951. The cleanup did not go well. Remember Director Fimmel? They didn't 01:12:58.842 --> 01:13:08.186 - talk to him. They didn't set him up in advance. And no one picked up the trash. And I'm assuming that 01:13:08.186 --> 01:13:16.798 - included the elephant trash. The city went bunkers. There was an outcry. Everybody got upset. 01:13:18.498 --> 01:13:27.463 - And maybe that's in 1956 when they pushed for a cleanup fee and a bond. Maybe they remembered a few 01:13:27.463 --> 01:13:36.248 - years earlier. That's my story. And then there were the fox hunts. Yes, 100 years ago, this year, 01:13:36.248 --> 01:13:45.302 - fox hunts. The Southern Indiana Fox Hunter Association had a week-long event. Now mind you, no foxes 01:13:45.302 --> 01:13:48.350 - were armed. They were just in it. 01:13:49.282 --> 01:14:03.346 - Fox Park, Big Cookington, Townwide Hospitality, Church Services, and waited for it. This is the official 01:14:03.346 --> 01:14:17.009 - portrait. This can be yours. It's being sold at the History Center yard sale. You can buy it today if 01:14:17.009 --> 01:14:18.750 - you want it. 01:14:20.386 --> 01:14:30.092 - thing ever. This picture is coming, this part of this picture is coming up. This is the grounds for 01:14:30.092 --> 01:14:40.380 - the Fox Homes. Look at that. That was all open field. A lot happened right after 1926 we started growing. 01:14:40.380 --> 01:14:49.310 - But here's where the Fox Home was. And you can see Brian Park is just a small part of that. 01:14:52.162 --> 01:15:00.468 - to Lincoln, to Allen, all the way to High Street. Now we know there were houses along High, but Bryant 01:15:00.468 --> 01:15:08.532 - Park is the green space right there in the sort of lower left. And this is this picture that, not a 01:15:08.532 --> 01:15:16.999 - very good one, but I wanted you to be able to kind of capture the event. And if you look at this, you'll 01:15:16.999 --> 01:15:17.886 - see houses 01:15:21.378 --> 01:15:30.922 - Mike actually had a really good picture on the promo that was enhanced. All right, so Hobo's at a block 01:15:30.922 --> 01:15:40.099 - party. Now, it turns out that Roy and Thelma Newton had five children. They lived on Walnut because 01:15:40.099 --> 01:15:49.918 - he worked for the railroad. And then he became a detective on the railroad. They moved up the hill to 501. 01:15:51.106 --> 01:15:59.501 - my block, far into my block, and I knew Thelma. I didn't know Ray. During the Great Depression, when 01:15:59.501 --> 01:16:08.062 - the railroad riders would get off, the story is told that Ray would shoe them up the hill. This is GPT 01:16:08.062 --> 01:16:16.457 - chat again. Ray would shoe them up the hill and Thelma would feed them. And they would get, maybe do 01:16:16.457 --> 01:16:20.862 - an odd job or two. And later in the 60s and the 70s, 01:16:21.602 --> 01:16:29.141 - The Newtons would organize block parties for our neighborhood and our area, kind of feed the 01:16:29.141 --> 01:16:37.571 - whole neighborhood. So it was a thing with them. Then come 1970, I was a student at Central Junior High 01:16:37.571 --> 01:16:46.163 - School. And I needed a dress. And I didn't sew yet. And my mother was horrible. She couldn't sew a thing. 01:16:46.163 --> 01:16:48.190 - Oh, another story there. 01:16:51.234 --> 01:17:02.189 - for Alden's. She worked on wedding gowns, and she worked downtown for Alden's. So we said, Delma, can 01:17:02.189 --> 01:17:12.928 - you make me a dress? So she did. Maybe he recognized my date. Are you here, Jeff? This was the best 01:17:12.928 --> 01:17:20.446 - picture, and I said, Jeff, can you come? This is too good to pass up. 01:17:21.410 --> 01:17:28.877 - Now, when I was checking some facts, I went back to double check some biographical information on Ray 01:17:28.877 --> 01:17:36.490 - and Thelma, because I didn't really know their story. I knew their son, Charlie, because he worked with 01:17:36.490 --> 01:17:43.883 - my dad. They were photographers together at the Tribune, another one of Sarkis Tarzan's enterprises. 01:17:43.883 --> 01:17:49.886 - And then I looked and I saw their daughter, Mary, married somebody named Freddie. 01:17:50.946 --> 01:18:02.703 - Salmon. I know that name. I know of Freddie Salmon. So I went looking. Well, Freddie was the brother 01:18:02.703 --> 01:18:14.460 - of my husband's grandfather. And that Freddie had a child named Dan. And Dan married Mary Beth Coles 01:18:14.460 --> 01:18:20.862 - from Tennessee. And Dan and Mary moved to Barnesville. 01:18:21.698 --> 01:18:29.758 - Glenn and I lived at the Gaines State Fish Addery. And our kids went to preschool together. And we discovered 01:18:29.758 --> 01:18:37.158 - another generation of Salmons. You're all connected. You can't hide from it. I never knew. It's just 01:18:37.158 --> 01:18:44.632 - the coolest connection ever. Thanks for making that work, Jeff. All right, so our last sequence here. 01:18:44.632 --> 01:18:50.494 - Thanks for bearing with my voice. We're going to go through this last sequence. 01:18:51.106 --> 01:19:00.150 - going to give you a taste of what was going on just down another block. The best house. 1902, the university 01:19:00.150 --> 01:19:08.696 - bought this house with five acres, an eighth of a mile from anybody else, a mile south of campus. Why? 01:19:08.696 --> 01:19:17.242 - Because President Lowe said, we got sickness coming, and we need to get them off campus. Pretty bright 01:19:17.242 --> 01:19:20.478 - guy. So he decides we're going to move 01:19:20.578 --> 01:19:27.572 - people into this location until they get better. And this butts right up against all of the acreage 01:19:27.572 --> 01:19:34.705 - that the orchards owned that went to the youngs. Anybody that came and was sick, they put them in the 01:19:34.705 --> 01:19:41.769 - pest house. It was actually called the IU Hospital, but they called it the pest house locally. After 01:19:41.769 --> 01:19:49.182 - the university was done with it, Harry Pryor was the first guy. You know, they picked him. He didn't seem 01:19:49.986 --> 01:19:58.117 - the disease. He didn't get smallpox. Lucky Harvey. President Brian said, we're growing. They closed 01:19:58.117 --> 01:20:06.573 - in a lot of people. A lot of people came back. Some people didn't go back to the university. 1939, they 01:20:06.573 --> 01:20:14.785 - closed it. And they built real health centers. The house went into sort of disrepair. It was rented. 01:20:14.785 --> 01:20:19.582 - The same property is where Pleasant View School was built. 01:20:21.410 --> 01:20:29.927 - It was a rental and it was an animal shelter at one point, pretty quiet. Once that was all done, that 01:20:29.927 --> 01:20:38.527 - land was then turned into Hillcrest Trailer Port. Following 1944 GI Bill, these must have been horrid, 01:20:38.527 --> 01:20:47.294 - horridly hot in the summer. One, two, three-bedroom, they all shared central bath facilities, no running 01:20:47.294 --> 01:20:49.214 - water, 25, 35 a month. 01:20:49.954 --> 01:20:57.507 - You were one of the lucky people to have a phone. You had to share it and let other people use it. But 01:20:57.507 --> 01:21:05.133 - they took off your rent if you shared it. Now, you might remember 17th Street and those green trailers. 01:21:05.133 --> 01:21:12.686 - Now it's worth the Korean vets. This was for the GI Bill in 44. Now, here's an overview of it. And I'm 01:21:12.686 --> 01:21:18.846 - pretty sure up in that corner is the Pest House. And that butts up along Henderson. 01:21:19.810 --> 01:21:28.321 - up against the orchard property. Next to come was Templeton. The city picked it up pretty cheap. Nobody 01:21:28.321 --> 01:21:36.913 - wanted it, can you believe it? Nobody wanted the best house. So the city got it. Pleasant View was there 01:21:36.913 --> 01:21:45.342 - in 35. In 38, they built a stone building, renamed it Hillside. This is a copy of the Phillips School. 01:21:46.722 --> 01:21:55.537 - which was a two-room, just like the two-room pleasant school. That's where William Lowe Bryan went to 01:21:55.537 --> 01:22:04.353 - school. Templeton opened in 61, and by 63, there were 334 enrolled. Muriel Bennett taught 35 years in 01:22:04.353 --> 01:22:13.082 - all versions of that school. She talked about the frame building, which rocked and swayed, flat roof 01:22:13.082 --> 01:22:15.934 - leaked. My room was overcrowded. 01:22:16.226 --> 01:22:25.028 - with 41 to 50 pupils, which she had been a hoot to talk to. And this was her story. Templeton was named 01:22:25.028 --> 01:22:33.745 - for an educator, Frank Templeton, studied at IU, taught, and then was assistant superintendent. He was 01:22:33.745 --> 01:22:42.208 - one of the first to foster what we then called Slow Learners. So once again, an early educator with 01:22:42.208 --> 01:22:45.086 - some forethought into the future. 01:22:45.986 --> 01:22:54.731 - In 1961, Edwin C. Edwin Smith. And I think he's the same Smith family that on the land that IU purchased 01:22:54.731 --> 01:23:03.392 - that was across from what is now the music school. I think that's the same family. But here's Templeton 01:23:03.392 --> 01:23:11.804 - getting his photo picture. And then I couldn't resist a 1962 fundraiser. We called him Carnivals. My 01:23:11.804 --> 01:23:13.886 - dad was head of the PTA. 01:23:14.594 --> 01:23:22.626 - Phil Harris just passed away this last year. He was quite the teacher. People mentioned in the article, 01:23:22.626 --> 01:23:30.349 - I love this, George Cox, Mrs. Robert Easterday, Mrs. Melvin Jennings, Charles Minnett, John Snyder, 01:23:30.349 --> 01:23:38.613 - Bob Wells, how we've changed over the years. So you can find all sorts of tidbits like this in newspapers. 01:23:38.613 --> 01:23:43.710 - And then I found one of Mrs. Vaughn, one of my favorite teachers. 01:23:44.386 --> 01:23:52.350 - All of her students are saying number one, because she was picked the number one educator. She was a 01:23:52.350 --> 01:24:00.394 - neat lady. And then some of you knew James Harrison. Mr. Garrison came around and gave us all hearing 01:24:00.394 --> 01:24:08.279 - tests. Wendell Brinson, go your chicken fat, go. The civic clubs donated those records. If you ever 01:24:08.279 --> 01:24:12.222 - want to thank them for those chicken fat records, 01:24:13.730 --> 01:24:20.520 - Daisy Carden in music. Don Neal was busy at the same time doing orchestra. Lots of people made our early 01:24:20.520 --> 01:24:26.986 - education years something very special. So in closing, I wanted to share with you the story. Didn't 01:24:26.986 --> 01:24:33.775 - go where I thought it was going to go when Mike and I first talked about it, but every piece kept giving 01:24:33.775 --> 01:24:40.241 - me back to the Brian Park theme. So that's what I wanted to kind of share with you. You know, Glenn 01:24:40.241 --> 01:24:41.470 - and I even had our 01:24:42.018 --> 01:24:50.398 - wedding rehearsal on the deck of Bryant Park Bowl. We had pizza and coke, no beer, pizza and coke, which 01:24:50.398 --> 01:24:58.378 - was pretty cool. And during the process of creating it, I'm reminded our memories need to be shared 01:24:58.378 --> 01:25:06.519 - to be remembered. Every family has layers. We got a few Shirley's and Bob's in our group. Families do 01:25:06.519 --> 01:25:10.110 - make friends. Some friends become neighbors. 01:25:10.754 --> 01:25:19.416 - Neighbors build neighborhoods. Human interaction becomes our history. And together, we give life to 01:25:19.416 --> 01:25:28.079 - memory and keep our history important. This is me with the Killingers. And if you look in that back 01:25:28.079 --> 01:25:32.670 - corner, you'll see Brian Bark just outside my house. 01:25:46.402 --> 01:25:53.694 - You know I do dry stack stone walls. It's one of my things. We're having an open house educational evening 01:25:53.694 --> 01:26:00.849 - hosted by Ivy Tech, June 10th. You're welcome to come. It's free and open. Ivy Tech's just opening their 01:26:00.849 --> 01:26:07.869 - doors for us. If you want to know more, reach out. We'll promote it, but thank you so much. Thanks for 01:26:07.869 --> 01:26:14.684 - putting through. I'll be glad to take questions as long as I can. Be really loud, though, if you've 01:26:14.684 --> 01:26:15.774 - got a question. 01:26:17.538 --> 01:26:29.153 - Questions? Comments? Which house is yours? 1112 South Dunn. 1112 South Dunn. My brother and Boy Scouts 01:26:29.153 --> 01:26:40.542 - in 1962 built a mailbox. It's still there. Yep, still in the house. Thank you. Have a wonderful day.