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Fall 2002
Hands and Heart is Where it Starts
World On The Square Family Festival 2002 was a very festive community celebration! Young and old were treated to 30 brightly colorful exhibits representing many cultural heritages. The young and young-at-heart sought and found answers to questions in their World On The Square "passports" as they traveled through the "world" that had come to the Square in downtown Corydon. They were also awarded prizes from cultures they had just been learning about. Festival-goers experienced food from other cultures at the international food tasting sample buffet. The Lanesville High School Renaissance group, sold baked items and drinks that would be found in Mexico. There were music and dancing from Middle Eastern, Celtic and Latino cultures as well as Tae Kwon Do demonstrations. Children participated in international games and activities, including the breaking of pinatas.
This year we had more youth than ever helping with the festival. Young people helped make publicity signs and banners as well as large festive Hispanic tissue paper flowers that were given out at the festival. Youth helped set up, tear down, and clean up. They helped the musical entertainment with the loading and unloading of instruments and equipment. They helped exhibitors with children's games and the passports and prizes. Corydon Central High School art teacher, Mrs. Ellett, was there with a crew of her students doing theatrical face painting. Other volunteers included youth from Gerdon Youth Center, Lanesville and Corydon Renaissance clubs and a group of students from Radcliff, Kentucky.
World On The Square is a wonderful opportunity for youth to participate in meaningful community service while having a lot of fun. If you would like a group of youth that you work with to become involved, please contact either Ila Cornett at 364-4048 or at mimi4ne@aol.com, or Kirby Bachman at 738-7225 or at kirbybachman@hotmail.com.
"Where after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home--so close and so small they cannot be seen on any maps of the world.... Such are the places where every man, woman and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere."
-- Eleanor Roosevelt, Challenges in a Changing World, 1958
Have YOU applied for a Teaching Tolerance grant?
According to the July 2002 Southern Poverty Law Center REPORT, reading facilitator Angela Broome of Moss Point, Mississippi, was awarded a grant for a unit she developed on peaceful conflict resolution. Students of Orange Lake Elementary School made a chart of "hateful" and "peaceful" things and a list of things that made them angry, such as making fun of people because they're different. The next day, the students had age-appropriate discussions on peaceful solutions to hateful, hurtful situations. Each of the school's 240 students colored his/her peaceful solution onto a large puzzle piece that was assembled into one huge puzzle and displayed in the school.
Teaching Tolerance has funded more than 600 projects since it began in 1997. Click here to apply online.
Global Education Network
G.E.N.
Global Education Network "promotes global understanding through education, professional development of educators, diversity, exchanges, and teamwork." Check out the website to learn more about programming focussing on global issues and relations, Cultural Resource Kits, e-mail/e-pal class projects, distance learning, kits and workshops on diversity in art and music, and more.
Why Are We Called Hoosiers?
The first settlers who moved from Appalachia to Indiana brought the word with them as an insult, but by the middle of the eighteen-hundreds Indiana citizens had transformed it to a proud term of identity.
Many scholars believe the most logical source of the nickname is an itinerant Methodist preacher named Harry Hoosier, born a slave around 1750. By 1780, he had been freed and was accompanying American Methodist leaders on preaching circuits. Although he was illiterate, Hoosier was called "The African Wonder" and "the greatest orator in America." It was said announcing that Hoosier would preach was a sure way to draw a crowd. When he died in 1806, his funeral was attended by many admirers, both black and white.
Originally, "Hoosier" was slang for people who were so "ignorant" they would admire someone who wasn't white, who wasn't formally educated, who worshiped in a different way. Because of the large number of Methodists in Indiana, "Hoosier" came to mean someone from Indiana.
According to Stephen H. Webb, associate professor of religion and philosophy at Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana, "Harry Hoosier was able to transcend racial barriers when he preached. Those who resented his influence used his name to express scorn and derision, but the people of Indiana shook off negative connotations and wore 'Hoosier' with pride. Without even knowing it, Indiana has preserved Harry Hoosier's name; it is one that does them honor."
--information gathered from Stephen H. Webb's "INTRODUCING BLACK HARRY HOOSIER: THE HISTORY BEHIND INDIANA'S NAMESAKE," INDIANA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY, XCVIII (March 2002), ©2002, Trustees of Indiana University, pages 30-41
We Care About Kids
Founded by character actor Allan Rich, this non-profit company uses creative filmmaking to help educate children and teens about the dangers of tobacco use and the devastating effects of racism, prejudice, and abuse of power. The company also brings positive activities into schools, such as a group art project and Shakespeare For Kids. For more information, visit their website, call (323) 465-4007, or
e-mail wecareaboutkids@mail.com.
World On The Square Family Festival 2002 was a very festive community celebration! Young and old were treated to 30 brightly colorful exhibits representing many cultural heritages. The young and young-at-heart sought and found answers to questions in their World On The Square "passports" as they traveled through the "world" that had come to the Square in downtown Corydon. They were also awarded prizes from cultures they had just been learning about. Festival-goers experienced food from other cultures at the international food tasting sample buffet. The Lanesville High School Renaissance group, sold baked items and drinks that would be found in Mexico. There were music and dancing from Middle Eastern, Celtic and Latino cultures as well as Tae Kwon Do demonstrations. Children participated in international games and activities, including the breaking of pinatas.
This year we had more youth than ever helping with the festival. Young people helped make publicity signs and banners as well as large festive Hispanic tissue paper flowers that were given out at the festival. Youth helped set up, tear down, and clean up. They helped the musical entertainment with the loading and unloading of instruments and equipment. They helped exhibitors with children's games and the passports and prizes. Corydon Central High School art teacher, Mrs. Ellett, was there with a crew of her students doing theatrical face painting. Other volunteers included youth from Gerdon Youth Center, Lanesville and Corydon Renaissance clubs and a group of students from Radcliff, Kentucky.
World On The Square is a wonderful opportunity for youth to participate in meaningful community service while having a lot of fun. If you would like a group of youth that you work with to become involved, please contact either Ila Cornett at 364-4048 or at mimi4ne@aol.com, or Kirby Bachman at 738-7225 or at kirbybachman@hotmail.com.
"Where after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home--so close and so small they cannot be seen on any maps of the world.... Such are the places where every man, woman and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere."
-- Eleanor Roosevelt, Challenges in a Changing World, 1958
According to the July 2002 Southern Poverty Law Center REPORT, reading facilitator Angela Broome of Moss Point, Mississippi, was awarded a grant for a unit she developed on peaceful conflict resolution. Students of Orange Lake Elementary School made a chart of "hateful" and "peaceful" things and a list of things that made them angry, such as making fun of people because they're different. The next day, the students had age-appropriate discussions on peaceful solutions to hateful, hurtful situations. Each of the school's 240 students colored his/her peaceful solution onto a large puzzle piece that was assembled into one huge puzzle and displayed in the school.
Teaching Tolerance has funded more than 600 projects since it began in 1997. Click here to apply online.
The first settlers who moved from Appalachia to Indiana brought the word with them as an insult, but by the middle of the eighteen-hundreds Indiana citizens had transformed it to a proud term of identity.
Many scholars believe the most logical source of the nickname is an itinerant Methodist preacher named Harry Hoosier, born a slave around 1750. By 1780, he had been freed and was accompanying American Methodist leaders on preaching circuits. Although he was illiterate, Hoosier was called "The African Wonder" and "the greatest orator in America." It was said announcing that Hoosier would preach was a sure way to draw a crowd. When he died in 1806, his funeral was attended by many admirers, both black and white.
Originally, "Hoosier" was slang for people who were so "ignorant" they would admire someone who wasn't white, who wasn't formally educated, who worshiped in a different way. Because of the large number of Methodists in Indiana, "Hoosier" came to mean someone from Indiana.
According to Stephen H. Webb, associate professor of religion and philosophy at Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana, "Harry Hoosier was able to transcend racial barriers when he preached. Those who resented his influence used his name to express scorn and derision, but the people of Indiana shook off negative connotations and wore 'Hoosier' with pride. Without even knowing it, Indiana has preserved Harry Hoosier's name; it is one that does them honor."
--information gathered from Stephen H. Webb's "INTRODUCING BLACK HARRY HOOSIER: THE HISTORY BEHIND INDIANA'S NAMESAKE," INDIANA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY, XCVIII (March 2002), ©2002, Trustees of Indiana University, pages 30-41