AUTHORS’ BOOK SIGNING AND DISCUSSION – SATURDAY, MARCH 27 AT 1 PM

Come hear authors Gladys Harvey and Ron Woodward discuss their new book, Wabash County Chronicles: Raucous Quirky and Essential Tales. This event will be held in the multipurpose room of the museum. Admission is free to the book signing and discussion. (Regular admission rates apply to the museum.)

Please spread the word that admission to the book signing and discussion is FREE. The article in the paper made it sound as if there is a charge, and there isn’t. Regular admission rates apply to the museum, but the book signing is FREE!

From The History Press: “Just about fifty years before lights atop the courthouse put Wabash in the record books, a gang of squirrels came marauding through the area, denuding the trees and crops. Of course, the farmers fought back with guns; the kids with clubs. This happened just about the time of the Irish canal worker infighting; those boys attacked one another with everything they had. Oh, and there are the unexplained monster sightings and things of that nature. But really, it's not all bizarre. After all, Wabash was the first electrically lighted city, and there are scores of heroes and important businesses. There's just so much to hear about. Come along with authors Ron Woodward and Gladys Harvey as they share the strange and important history of this old Indiana county.”


THE AUTHORS

Ron Woodward was born and raised in New Albany, Indiana. He has taught in the Greater Clark County school system, Muncie schools system and Wabash City Schools. He has also taught at the Upper Wabash Vocational School and a methods class at Manchester College. He has served as president of the Wabash County Historical Society and Wabash County Genealogical Society, which he helped to form. He has served as Wabash County historian since 1981 and was a sponsor of the Indiana Junior Historical Society club for twenty-five years.

Gladys Dove Harvey was born on a farm in Daviess County, Indiana. Receiving a county scholarship, she attended and graduated from Indiana State Teachers College. After the war, she obtained a master's degree at Indiana University. She then taught in LaPorte County and West Lafayette. She became the Wabash High School librarian, a position she held for forty years. For a brief time, she served as interim librarian at the Wabash Carnegie Public Library and taught English at Ivy Tech College in Wabash.


ANOTHER INTERESTING EVENT COMING UP IN WABASH COUNTY!

Our friends at the Wabash County Genealogical Society are taking a road trip to the North Manchester museum (Center for History) on Monday, April 19, at 6 pm. There is no charge for admission. If you would like to carpool, please meet at Grandstaff Hentgen parking lot at 5:15 pm. This is a great chance to see what our friends in North Manchester have done to preserve the heritage of North Manchester!