August 30, 2009, 1:00 p.m.
Vintage Base Ball Game
The Indianapolis Blues will travel to Rising Sun to challenge our own Belle River Ball Club. The August 22 doubleheader will be played at the soccer fields by Grand Victoria Casino and Resort. This is a free event. Come and cheer the local boys onto victory.

On August 30, the Lumbermen of Batesville will visit Rising Sun to take on the Belle River Ball Club.

We are looking for additional ball players. A team of 20 players would make for a nice team allowing for vacations and work schedules. Vintage Base Ball is a lot of fun and if you are interested give Bill a call 812-438-4915 for details and when the team practices.

On July 11 the Rising Sun Belle River Ball Club played a doubleheader against the Kentucky Dukes from Elizabeth Town, Kentucky.  This was the first official games for the Dukes.   The Belle River Ball Club playing with only nine players played to a 7-7 seven-inning tie and won the second game 8-7.

September 18, 2009, 6:00 p.m.

A Conversation with Mr. Jefferson Dinner Program

Featured at this dinner program at Heritage Hall on Main Street will be David Best portraying Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States and author of the Declaration of Independence. The title of his reenactment will be A Conversation with Mr. Jefferson.

Mr. Best is a 1950 graduate of Harvard University. He was a member of the adjunct faculty at Indiana University-Purdue University in Indianapolis for 17 years before retiring in 1999 as an associate professor. He is a fellow of the American Congress of Surveying and Mapping and is a life member of the National Society of Professional Surveyors.

As an avocation he presents one-man shows as Thomas Jefferson and as George Washington. He is known locally and nationally for these presentations before groups ranging from kindergarteners to attendees of national conventions. In his portrayal of Thomas Jefferson at the age of 82 the setting is in Mr. Jefferson’s Monticello study. For members and guests of the Ohio County Historical Society Mr. Jefferson will reminisce about his life from age three to his retirement years at Monticello.

Cost of the dinner program is $12.00 for members and $15.00 for nonmembers Program only (7:30) is $4.00 for members and $5.00 for nonmembers.

Registration deadline is September 16.

September 21-October 25, 2009

The Golden Age: Indiana Literature, 1880-1920 Exhibit

The 19th state’s rich literary heritage at the turn of the century is highlighted in this Indiana Historical Society exhibition

Drawn from collections at the IHS, Indiana State Library, and Indiana University’s Lilly Library, the exhibition explores what came to be known as the “golden Age of Indiana Literature,” a time period in which Hoosier authors achieved both national prominence and popular acclaim. The exhibition examines some of the many writers who contributed to the state’s literary golden age, but concentrates on the lives and careers of four individuals who loomed large during this period–George Ade, Meriedith Nicholson, Booth Tarkington, and James Whitcomb Riley.

Indiana writers in the late 19th and early 20th catered to readers who preferred writing that idealized traditional values or offered escape from an ever-changing world. A 1947 study found that Hoosier authors ranked second to New York in the number of best-sellers produced in the previous 40 years.

From the local color poetry of Riley; the historical romances of Lew Wallace, Maurice Thompson and Charles Major; the humor of Ade and Kin Hubbard; the fantasy of George Barr McCutcheon; the nature writing of Gene Stratton-Porter; the grim realism of Theodore Dreiser; and the mild realism of Tarkington and Nicholson, Hoosier authors worked in a variety of writing styles. Many of these writers’ works were printed by an Indianapolis publishing firm, the Bobbs-Merrill company. By 1915 the firm had produced 26 titles that made the annual lists of top ten best-sellers, a mark surpassing any other publisher in the country during this period.

The lustrous Golden Age of Indiana literature began to fade as changes in America’s economic and social order accelerated after World War I. Traditional values, simple pleasures, nostalgia and romance were less important to a postwar society preoccupied with business prosperity and such technological advances as the automobile, radio, and motion pictures. Through the years, however, Indiana authors like Kurt Vonnegut, Jean Sheperd, Dan Wakefield and others have kept alive the Hoosier state’s literary tradition.

Since 1830, the Indiana Historical Society has been Indiana’s Storyteller, connecting people to the past by collecting, preserving, interpreting, and disseminating the state’s history. A private, nonprofit membership organization, IHS maintains the nation’s premier research library and archives on the history of Indiana and the Old Northwest. IHS also provides support and assistance to local museums and historical groups, publishes books and periodicals; sponsors teacher workshop; and provides youth , adult and family programming. www.indianahistory.org

September 23, 2009, 7:00-9:00 p.m.

Antique Appraisal Robert Hill, certified appraiser will be at the museum to look at your antique treasures. Bring your antiques to find out what they are worth. Besides giving you a value, Bob will also give you some historical information about the piece. Each antique appraised will cost $5 and three antiques will cost $10. The fundraising event for the Historical Society is for entertainment purposes. If you are interested in a detailed evaluation of your antiques ask Bob for details. Please do not bring any jewelry.

Numbers will be handed out and called when it is time for the your appraisal. While waiting you can view the museum and enjoy refreshments