In July of 2006, a diverse group gathered at Corydon’s historic Leora Brown School to hear the remembrances of a special nonagenarian named Ethel Porter. The location was appropriate, for Ethel was there to speak about her experiences growing up in Indiana’s segregated school systems.
The library staff was there to capture these stories and the recently uncovered video is now available to share. You are invited to rediscover this program each Saturday during Black History Month.
Viewings will run on the hour between 10 am and 4 pm each remaining Saturday during February. Stop in to learn more about Ethel, the Leora Brown School, Harrison County’s rich Black history, and more!
(Don’t worry if you can’t make it in person, the videos will be added to the library programming page on the website at the end of the month.)
Memories & Memoirs Book Club members were thrilled to have author Tori Murden McClure attend their discussion of her book, A Pearl in the Storm, Tuesday, August 2. She recounted her first attempt to row alone across the Northern Atlantic and demonstrated how her 23-foot boat, The American Pearl, capsized 15 times during Hurricane Danielle using a model of the Pearl (11 times in one day).
McClure, now president of Spalding University in Louisville, also talked about her family relationships and life in Louisville.
Gary Pope, retired South Harrison Community School administrator and teacher, was asked to revamp HCPL’s history and biography book club by Tiffany Thieneman, public services manager. He reached out to McClure using his connections as a musical accompanist and adjunct professor at Bellarmine University thinking she may do a presentation in the future. McClure surprised him by agreeing to come to yesterday’s meeting. McClure also told the group that her book has been made into a musical Row which is downloadable from audible and her boat is currently on display at the Frazier History Museum.
The Memories & Memoirs Book Club meets the first Tuesday each month from 3:00-4:30 PM at the Main Branch in Corydon. If interested in joining Memories & Memoirs, please call Tiffany at 812-738-4110 or click here to register online.
September’s selection is Home Again: Essays and Memoirs from Indiana, edited by Tom Watson and Jim McGarrah.
Harrison County Public Library Director, Alisa Burch, and Youth Services Manager, Diana Lasky, present Tyson Plant Manager, Chris Jennings-Allen, and Lisa Dunaway, Plant Production Planner, with a Certificate of Appreciation for outstanding community service.
Submitted by Diana Lasky
For the 2nd year in a row, Tyson has been a generous donor and partner with Harrison County Public Library (HCPL) for the Feed Harrison County Winter Reading Challenge. This year, the library challenged the community to read and log 9,400 books during the month of January. Tyson agreed to donate 100 cases of chicken to Harrison County Community Services if the goal was met. Harrison County read a whopping 16,699 books.
Harrison County Community Services has received 100 cases, 20 lbs. each, of Tyson chicken that will help feed Harrison County’s 600 families in need. The library is grateful to have a such a generous community sponsor!
During Together We Read from OverDrive, borrow The Five Wounds for free with no waitlists and no holds from February 7 through February 21!
Download Libby or visit OverDrive to borrow the eBook or audiobook from HCPL using your phone or tablet.
The Five Wounds by Kirstin Valdez Quade
It’s Holy Week in the small town of Las Penas, New Mexico, and thirty-three-year-old unemployed Amadeo Padilla has been given the part of Jesus in the Good Friday procession. He is preparing feverishly for this role when his fifteen-year-old daughter Angel shows up pregnant on his doorstep and disrupts his plans for personal redemption. With weeks to go until her due date, tough, ebullient Angel has fled her mother’s house, setting her life on a startling new path.
Vivid, tender, funny, and beautifully rendered, The Five Wounds spans the baby’s first year as five generations of the Padilla family converge: Amadeo’s mother, Yolanda, reeling from a recent discovery; Angel’s mother, Marissa, whom Angel isn’t speaking to; and disapproving Tíve, Yolanda’s uncle and keeper of the family’s history. Each brings expectations that Amadeo, who often solves his problems with a beer in his hand, doesn’t think he can live up to.
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Kirstin Valdez Quade is the author of The Five Wounds, which is currently shortlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize and the Carnegie Medal for Excellence, and is longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize. Her story collection, Night at the Fiestas, won the John Leonard Prize from the National Book Critics Circle, the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a “5 Under 35” award from the National Book Foundation, and was a finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Award. It was named a New York Times Notable Book and a best book of 2015 by the San Francisco Chronicle and the American Library Association. Kirstin is the recipient of the John Guare Writer’s Fund Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award, a grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation, and a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize Stories, The New York Times, and elsewhere. She is an assistant professor at Princeton.
Harrison County Public Library recently added more new and exciting subscriptions to its public digital collection. If you do not currently have an HCPL card, or your library card has expired, you may apply online for a Digital Access Card, or apply for/renew a resident library card.
CLICK HERE to download a brief step-by-step guide to accessing these streaming services and databases.
New databases
iNdieFlix streams classic and contemporary features, award-winning shorts, film festival favorites and documentaries from around the world. Explore thought-provoking, well-known and undiscovered content. iNdieFlix works directly with young up-and-coming filmmakers from all walks of life to seasoned professionals paying them for every minute watched.
Thousands of full length feature films, shorts, documentaries and series from around the world
Diverse voices, pop culture favorites and box office hits
Award-winning feature films, documentaries, and shorts
Thousands of hours of commercial free programming
Academy Award winning animation
Please note that some iNdieFlix content may include mature themes and language.
Stream the world’s largest collection of on-demand full-length music performances, concert films, and music documentaries. Qello Concerts transforms your connected devices into the ultimate live music concert film experience. Give your favorite headliners a standing ovation from the best seat in the house anywhere, anytime!
Please note that some Qello content may include mature themes and language.
The Great Courses Library Collection video streaming service is brought to you by The Great Courses—the leading global media brand for lifelong learning and personal enrichment. This collection includes more than 250 courses, led by the world’s top experts, covering a broad range of subjects, such as science, mathematics, philosophy, history, literature, fine arts and music, travel, business, and personal development.
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3,000+ hours of carefully curated and commercial-free, entertaining and engaging content
Courses taught by brilliant, award-winning, and trusted experts in their fields
Twelve categories for all types of patrons with new content monthly
Guidebooks for each course to supplement course material
New streaming services
(Available October 22, 2021) ArtistWorks provides players world-class instruction from Grammy Award-winning music professionals. ArtistWorks for Libraries offers users a guided path of video lessons containing everything they need to reach their musical goals. All levels of player are welcome!
Hundreds of hours of high quality video instruction
Studio quality play-along tracks
Downloadable written materials, tablature and sheet music
Supported languages: English
(Available October 22) LawDepot’s extensive library of documents and legal resources provides easy-to-use assistance with a wide range of legal needs empowering patrons to create legal documents specific to their personal situation.
(Available October 19) Learn It Live is a place to find and attend live online classes on 200+ topics in health, wellness, and personal development. At LiL, you can join a live yoga, pilates, or meditation class and interact with an expert on the other side of the globe. Can’t make it live? Watch one of the 1,000+ recorded classes at any time.
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Video and audio lessons and explanations. Students learn best when they can see/hear the instruction
Supported languages: English
(Available October 19) Universal Class is the place to continue your education online and fulfill all your lifelong learning goals.
On August 26, 1920, Hoosier women won the right to vote.
At first glance, the meaning behind that statement is simple enough, but the real story goes much deeper. In Indiana, almost seventy years passed between the first calls for women’s voting rights and the passage of the 19th Amendment. Though momentous, 1920 is just one milestone in a long and ongoing journey, and access to the voting booth is just one part of what it means to be an equal part of the democratic process.
Explore this chronological history of women’s suffrage in Indiana on April 20, 2021, at 12:30 pm virtually from your favorite device with access to Facebook! Join in on HCPL’s Facebook page to view the live virtual presentation “From Amanda to Zerelda: Hoosier Suffragists Who Raised a Ruckus” by Marsha Miller, a member of the Indiana Women’s Suffrage Centennial’s Speaker’s Bureau.
Dressed in historical costume and carrying a suffragist song (or two), special guest speaker Marsha Miller introduces Hoosier women who helped shape the movement, including:
Amanda Way, “mother of Indiana suffrage”
Helen Gougar, a feisty publisher and lawyer based in Lafayette
Zerelda Wallace, one of the founders of Indiana’s Equal Suffrage Society
Women who moved into the national suffragist sphere including May Wright Sewall (educator and civic organizer) and Ida Husted Harper (journalist and close friend and biographer of Susan B. Anthony).
Marsha Miller
Marsha Miller has taught more than 4,800 information literacy sessions at Indiana State University from 1985-present and coordinates library social media. Her degrees are from Central Michigan University (History) and the University of Michigan (Library Science). Since 2012, as a member of the League of Women Voters of Vigo County, she has served on the steering committee for the annual celebration of Women’s Equality Day. She has created biographical badges of suffragists and collected the songs that they sang when they gathered and marched. She currently serves as the Indiana president of the American Association of University Women, which was founded in 1881. She plays the clarinet and is known as the “Purple Librarian.”
This virtual program was made possible through a grant from the Indiana Women’s Suffrage Centennial, Lilly Endowment, Inc., and Hillenbrand, Inc.
If you cannot make the live event or do not have a Facebook account, it will be recorded and made available on HCPL’s Program Videos page for future viewing. Click here to view and share the Facebook event.
For more information, call the the Frederick Porter Griffin Center (FPGC) for Local History and Genealogy at 812-738-5412.
Click image to see the Story of Women’s Suffrage in Indiana.
Did you know that HCPL offers fun and creative Crafts to Go for both adults and youth? Many of the crafts are accompanied by a video recorded by HCPL staff who guide you through the steps to make your craft.
To see all available Crafts to Go, please visit the library Adultand Youthcalendars. The library also posts new crafts to the HCPL Facebook page.
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