October 12, 2009 Volume III Issue 1

The Mosaic The Newsletter of the Carnegie Museum of Montgomery County

Museum Hours:

Wednesday through Saturday: 10 am-5 pm Closed January and February

Additional tours by appointment

Invention Convention

Upcoming Events at the Carnegie Museum First Friday November November 10th 10 am to 5 pm Hoosier Salon Exhibit opens December 4, 2009 Last day the museum is open December 30, 2009 Museum Grand Reopening March 2, 2010

The Carnegie Museum of Montgomery County was recently awarded grant money from the Montgomery County Community Foundation and Vectren to fund an Invention Convention. The Carnegie Museum thanks the Montgomery County Community Foundation and Vectren for their support. Vectren will also help to judge the final stage of the competition. The theme of the Invention Convention is Green Energy and it is open to ALL Montgomery County students in grades 6-12. Topics of green energy include: solar, wind, geothermal, hydroelectric and human power. The Guidelines for the invention convention are on page three of this newsletter. Visit www.cmmcevents.org for more information or stop by the museum to pick up a packet. Finalists’ projects will be on display at the Carnegie Museum from March through the end of the school year and prizes and trophies will be awarded to the top inventors.

Think inventing is too difficult for Middle and High school students? Read the book: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope. Learn about the 14-year-old boy who built a windmill out of scraps to power his home in Africa. If he could do it, so can you!

Thank You Friends!

The Friends of the Carnegie Museum have been active for over one calendar year now

and are starting year two!

Your support of the Friends helps the Carnegie Museum to better serve the

community by collecting and preserving our shared past and by creating interesting, interactive

and interdisciplinary

opportunities for local residents and visitors alike.

2009 Membership Levels: • Student - $ 7 Quarterly newsletter, membership card, and invitation for one person to special events and previews.

• Individual - $ 15 Quarterly newsletter, membership card, gift shop discount of 10%, and invitations for two people to special events and previews.

• Household - $ 25 Quarterly newsletter, membership card, gift shop discount of 10%, and invitations for five people to special events and previews.

• Industrialist - $50 Quarterly newsletter, membership card, gift shop discount of 10%, and invitations for ten people to special events and previews. Membership listed in Montgomery County “WOW” Gallery.

• Steel Baron - $100 Quarterly newsletter, membership card, gift shop discount of 10%, and invitations for fifteen people to special events and previews and priority option for tours on Mondays and Tuesdays. Membership listed in Montgomery County “WOW” Gallery.

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Make check payable to: Friends of CMMC Mail to: 205 South Washington Street Crawfordsville, IN 47933

““““Medicine, Maladies, and Marvels:

A History of

Montgomery County Medicine”

will continue through December 2009. The exhibit discusses medical history in Montgomery County from its earli-est days through today and covers a wide variety of professions and disci-plines. Medicine, Maladies, and Marvels is the latest in a series of exhibits created by Tuttle Middle School students at the Carnegie Museum. The students research the topics, interview experts, write the text, and finally design and install the exhibit.

Created in conjunction

with Tuttle Middle School

Funded in part by:

Invention Convention Guidelines The following guidelines will be observed for the Invention Conven-tion Exhibition. The competition will be open to ALL Montgomery County students in grades 6-12.

Each school will determine 5 finalists from a school-wide competition. Finalists will be required to be at the Carnegie and have their project assembled by 5 pm on February 12th for final judging by a panel of judges on Saturday, February 13th. All finalists will need to be at the Carnegie Museum by 9:30 am, Saturday, February 13th to begin the final judging process, which will begin promptly at 10 am. Montgomery County Schools include: Tuttle Middle School, Northridge Middle School, South Montgomery Junior High (this will include all 6th graders from the Southmont Elementary schools), Southmont High School, North Montgomery High School, and Crawfordsville High School. Home-schooled students will compete at the school in which their home would dictate them being enrolled if they attended public school.

Sources that could be appropriate to providing for Indiana’s energy needs: geothermal, solar, wind, hydroelectric, human-driven energy.

The entries will be judged on the following criteria on a scale of 1-20 (20 being the highest): ◊ Uniqueness/Novelty of the invention ◊ Marketability of the invention ◊ Design/Engineering of the invention ◊ The invention’s potential market size ◊ Overall impression and presentation by the inventor

The project presentation is required to have the following two parts: ◊ One poster explaining the invention for all to understand. This poster should be no larger than 30” by 40” and must be mounted on foam board of any color. ◊ A small model of the alternate energy process must be built. It can be no smaller than 2’ by 2’ and no larger than 5’ by 5’. It must work for a brief amount of time during the judging contest.

One overall winner will be determined and awarded a plaque and an $800 savings bond. Six additional winners will receive $300 savings bonds. Finalists will be awarded a trophy and their projects will be displayed in the Carnegie Museum gallery through the end of the school year. All entered projects from all schools will be awarded a certificate of completion. Applications will be distributed to all schools and will be available on the Invention Convention’s official website www.cmmcevents.org For more information, contact: Carnegie Museum of Montgomery County, carnegie@cdpl.lib.in.us, 765-362-4618

Friends receive 10% off in the gift shop!

The Montgomery County deck of cards is well on its way to becoming a reality. Thank you to those who have already chosen and sponsored a card. There are still cards left to sponsor! This is a great way to commemorate a special event or dedicate a card to someone. The Friends are developing this souvenir deck of cards commemorating significant people, places, and items of the past and present of Montgom-ery county. All proceeds from sales of the cards will support upcoming exhibits, programming, community outreach and promotion of the mu-seum. 1,000 of these decks will be printed and sold in this premier edition. Each card sponsorship is $95.00 and you may sponsor up to 10 cards. All sponsors names will be listed on all promotional posters and materials. Because the Carnegie Museum is a designated 501c(3) organization, all con-tributions are tax deductible. If you are interested in sponsoring a card, please contact the museum at 765-362-4618.

Would you be interested in volunteering at the museum and /or serving on the Friends Board of Directors ? The Friends Board of Directors meet at minimum quarterly, but more often if needed. The Friends assist in fundraising, marketing, and the planning of programs and exhibits at the Carnegie Museum. If you are in-terested, please contact the mu-seum at 765-362-4618.

Internet Helpers The Carnegie Museum has received financial contributions from both Good Search and Shop for Museums because of your use of these websites. Thank you very much for your support of the Carnegie Museum through these Internet sites. Every little bit makes a difference! Remember to use www.Goodsearch.com when browsing the internet and use www.ShopforMuseums.com when shopping online! The Carnegie Museum does benefit from each time you use either of these services. Thank you! * These are examples and not the actual cards.

Hoosier Salon Exhibit 2009 This year marks the 85th annual Hoosier Salon Exhibition. After the exhibition concludes at the Indiana State Museum the exhibition is divided into sections and those sections travel around the state. The Carnegie Museum will be host-ing a portion of the exhibition. Last year’s exhibition brought outstanding examples of Indiana artists to Crawfordsville. This year brings more artistic talent to the Carnegie Museum. The exhibit will officially open at the Carnegie Museum on Friday, December 4th, and remain on display through the month of December. The Museum will be open through 8 pm on that Friday.

Future Exhibits Topics

Invention Convention 2010 Inside Peanuts: The Life and Art of Charles M. Shultz 2010 Montgomery County Prom 2010 Bricks 2010 Montgomery County Basketball 2011 Agriculture 2012

Did You Know… Where Shades State Park got its name ?

Crossword Puzzles,

Archery, and

New York Fashion Week all have ties to Crawfordsville?

How about

Jazz Musicians, the movie Chicago,

and Abraham Lincoln?

Montgomery County has a lot to be proud of !

Upcoming Exhibit Items — We need your help! Do you remember your High School Prom preparations? Do you still have pictures from Prom? Is there anything that you put away after Prom because it was such a special time and you didn’t want to get rid of that memento? Do you still have it? The Carnegie Museum is looking for additional Prom items, such as photos, dresses, other prom attire, favors, programs, and anything else that went with Prom. All Montgomery County high schools of any era are welcome! Items can be donated to the museum or loaned. Senior cords, letter jackets, and sweaters are also welcome for both Prom and Basketball. The museum is also always looking for Mont-gomery County Basketball items, from any decade and for Montgomery County Business items, past or present.

This Place Matters, in Collaboration with Crawfordsville Main Street You may have seen it in the papers or heard it on the radio; Crawfordsville Main Street’s newest initiative endeavors to get people talking. Main Street asks Montgomery County residents local history trivia questions. Downtown Crawfordsville: This Place Matters is a promotional program aimed at sharing all the things that make our town a unique and important place. “Downtown districts like Crawfordsville are rare, and disappearing all too quickly,” said Kara Edie, Main Street board member and administrator of the This Place Matters program. “With this program, we want to remind people of all that Crawfordsville is famous for, and help them to appreciate—and fight to protect—the heart of this terrific small town.” Central to the This Place Matters program is an area-wide trivia contest featuring little-known historical facts about Crawfordsville’s history. Some of the answers to the questions are gained by traveling around down-town Crawfordsville and some by visiting the local museums. Stop by the Carnegie Museum to brush up on your trivia and to impress your family and friends. To enter the contest, and answer some trivia questions, visit

www.crawfordsvillemainstreet.com. Good luck!

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The mural is progressing very nicely, and we are beginning to see the fruits of Kent Rushing's hard work. He started with a blank wall, and today we now have 18 wonderfully painted pictures of architectural aspects of our culturally rich county. It is amazing to think that Kent is nearly one fourth of the way complete with his fascinating mosaic, shedding light on some possibly over-looked details of our county. So please come by the museum and see for yourself the wonderful individual masterpieces Kent has created, and witness the mosaic's progression as it grows and makes its way onto the wall of our lobby.

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