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Tim Worstall, Contributor
I write about business and technology.
Editor's note: This post is from 2011. Click here to see the 2013 Billionaire list.
Different people will take this different ways, but Jeffrey Goldberg tells us that six members of the Walton family (the original owners of WalMart) have more wealth than the bottom 30 % of Americans. Here's where he says it:
In 2007, according to the labor economist Sylvia Allegretto, the six Walton family members on the Forbes 400 had a net worth equal to the bottom 30 percent of all Americans.
And given that he quotes us here at Forbes on the point, he's almost certainly right.
The question is, what are we to make of this point? I think we all know what Mr. Goldberg wants us to make of it, it's a telling indictment of American wealth inequality, the world's going to the dogs and something must be done about rising inequality.
The Waltons are now collectively worth about $93 billion, according to Forbes.
Well, yes, but. Total US household wealth is in the $50 trillion (yes, trillion) to $70 trillion range. The range is depending on whether you want to take before the housing crash or in the middle of it. So the statement is that these Waltons have, between the family, 0.13% of US wealth. Which, for the people who inherited the world's largest (well, certainly the country's) and most successful retailer doesn't sound like a particularly terrible concentration of wealth. It's certainly less than John D Rockefeller had all by his lonesome when he was in his pomp.
But I think it's possible that the comment is more revealing about Mr. Goldberg really, for as Felix Salmon points out, Mr. Goldberg himself has more wealth than the bottom 25% of Americans.
This sounds outrageous, until you stop for a second and take note of the fact that Jeffrey Goldberg, individually, has a net worth greater than the bottom 25% of all Americans.
In fact, given that I have equity in my home and no other debt than mortgage, I have, as is highly likely do all readers of these pages, more wealth than the bottom 25% of Americans added together. For as Felix points us to:
In 2009, roughly 1 in 4 (24.8%) of American households had zero or negative net worth, up from 18.6% in 2007, and 37.1% of households had net worth of less than $12,000, up from 30.0% in 2007.
Wealth is always more unequally distributed than income. By the way, it isn't even true that all of those households with zero or negative wealth are what we would call poor either. It's entirely possible to have no net assets while having a good income, even a high income. All you need to have is debts higher than your assets: something that will almost certainly be true of anyone with student debt and fresh out of college for example. Fresh out of grad school you might well have $100,000, $200,000 of debt, hey, possibly even from medical school you might be carrying $500,000. None of us are actually going to weep all that hard for you though, not you with that associates job at a Wall Street law firm on $100,000 or more, not a newly qualified doctor on hundreds of thousands a year.
I certainly don't mean that all those with negative net household value are in that situation: there are an awful lot of people who are "properly" poor in the way that we all usually understand it.
But this comparison of wealth desn't show us quite what Mr. Goldberg thinks it does. If you've no debts and have $10 in your pocket you have more wealth than 25% of Americans. More than that 25% of Americans have collectively that is.
That a family who have inherited the majority of one of the leading global retailers have more wealth than the bottom 30% of Americans, when compared with how high up the tree a single ten dollar bill gets you, is pretty much worthy of a heartfelt "Meh".
Update 12/15. A Doctor writes to remind me that fresh out of medical school a doctor does not in fact earn good money. Indeed, the one who wrote to me earns $45,000 a year for after that graduation comes residency. It is only after residency that the money starts to flow. I was sloppy in the above: I knew that residency came first and that it was only after full qualification that high incomes are earned. It wouldn't be unusual for a newly graduated doctor to be carrying $250,000 of debt (from medical school alone) and the interest on this could be another $100,000 through a three year residency (this accumulates but it is possible to defer it, payments do not have to be made during residency). Leading to that $500,000 or so total debt if, as with my correspondent, one was to become a neurosurgeon.
So I was at best sloppy and quite possibly wrong. Although, having looked it up, given that the starting salaries post residency for neurosurgeons seem to be around $400,000 I will admit to not being about to burst into tears over this.
It does raise two interesting points though. The first being that we can almost certainly put every single doctor in residency on our list of people with less than zero wealth. Those education debts are likely to swallow any assets they might have. But we don't normally think of doctors in training as being poor really, one of the points I was making.
The other is that, well, it takes 7 years to get an MD (3 years pre-med at college, four years medical school), then 3 to 7 years residency. So someone might be 32 or so before actually earning the big bucks: and have a perhaps 25 year career after that? How does that change income inequality? When some people only earn for 30 odd years, others for 40 odd?
This statistic hits home a lot more than the abstract percentile ones.
I wonder what wealth remains with the current generation of Rockefellers. They managed to give away the bulk of it within 3 generations, but there's still plenty left in heirs' hands I think.
Good analysis, Mr Worstall.
I would say to Mr Goldberg … So what? Sam Walton had a great business idea, and through hard work and innovation, built it into a great company that employs hundreds of thousands. He earned his success, and earned the right to do with those earning what he wishes, including passing it on to his own children and grandchildren. Any and every one of the "bottom 30% of Americans" is free to try to succeed through hard work and innovation in the same way Sam did.
The entire idea of the "gap (ratio) between rich and poor" as a horrible thing is a canard promulgated by the left to advance Omananistic / Marxist economic policies, which work really well. Oh, wait … no, they DON'T!
I'd suggest to those that might be inclined to agree with Mr Goldberg to read Steve Forbes' excellent book on capitalism to get a better understanding and education on America's awesome and yes, moral capitalistic system and the lame argument about the rich vs poor gap.
Also, I'd add lastly (as the author does as well) that being "poor" in America is vastly different than being truly poor in a place like Somalia, Afghanistan, etc.
Great comment!! This is America and the Walmart story is capitalism at its finest. The author wants to whip and berate the Waltons because they are so wealthy. Well, they were fortunate enough to have been born to a very smart and enterprising man and good luck to all of them!!! All the high school drops outs and the young women who got pregnant before they got an education or a life skill, are reaping what they sowed. You provide for yourself first, then you create a life and not the other way around. Go Waltons!! Show the world how it only takes a good idea to succeed in America.
good idea for who?
You are definitely right.
But you have to take your logic to conclusion.
When the moment comes that honest capitalism has produced a country where people who have made a mistake like having a baby too early, or have had accident of some sort, and due to wealth concentration can not recover from their situation (working hours needed for recovery are greater than number of hours being awake), they are often in effect slaves for the rest of their lives.
So we have to allow slavery in law again.
Those very few who do recover from that kind of situations can be made good examples, and let live free life again, so that the slaves have something to believe in. So that they will still work for us.
@ Eric T – the system in its current state is in no way "balanced." I as a hardworking middle class American, with 2 A.S. degrees, a B.S, and a veteran barely make a decent living. I have no political say or hand in matters beyond arm chair quarterbacking talking points from any said news channel. I have no inside stock information or money to make money.
I like many Americans, drive to work in a car that I owe money on – in order to pay for the car I just drove to work in, and put a roof over my families head. In a few years (about 2 hours after I actually pay the car off) – the car will break, and I will enter another debt for a new car.
To say I have the same power in terms of the course of country / economy & so on… is absolutely absurd and an outright lie, we all know it – some just don't admit it, some try to hide it. You are trying to hide it.
"somewhere else" and Made In America is getting very popular……
"There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else." -Sam Walton
At least John D. Rockefeller didn't destroy American manufacturing. The Waltons are beneficiaries of cheap foreign goods and put many of their customers out of a job.
Mr. Worstall,
Nobody really cares how wealthy the wealthy are. What people care about is how wealthy they are. If people are doing alright, then they do not care just how rich the Waltons are. The problem with the growing wealth of a few American is not that they own more than one third of all Americans combined, but that they got the wealthy by making other Americans poorer.
Consider how Gov. Romney became as wealthy as he is. Gov. Romney and his partners in Bain purchased a medical supply company called Dade International. Take the case of Gov. Mitt Romney. Prior to becoming governor of Massachusetts, he rain a private equity firm called Bain Capital. Bain Capital acquired a medical supply firm called Dade International for around 30 MUSD. Without going into too many details which are more plentiful in the NY Times article linked below, Bain withdrew 242 MUSD in profits from Dade, laid off 1,700 workers, and quadrupled its debt. Dade, and Gov. Romney made a fortune while the employees of Dade lost their jobs and income. About 17 people made out like bandits and 17 hundred lost everything.
There is your 1% and your 99%.
They made huge profits by shutting down large portions of a corporation and laying off hundreds and thousands of people. These people, in most cases, never get a job as good as the one they had. Multiply this over thousands of companies and factories and you have what has happened to the United States as a whole, a few wealthy people have become even wealthier while large numbers of people have become poorer. This is the "redistribution of wealth" in practice, from the bottom to the top.
The Waltons situation is, in and of itself, meaningless but in the context of what is happening to a very large number of Americans, it is symbolic a much greater problem.
I've got nothing for Mitt Romney, and polling would show that neither does anyone else, really, but your point is still errant.
You said that most of those people never got another job as good as the one they had. I don't know the details of Bain capital, and I don't doubt that they might be evil, but look here- if I lose my job and am unable to find another one that is as good, does that not mean that the first employer was over-paying me?
If the company I work for becomes a buy-out target, and the buyer makes the company profitable by slashing costs (including many jobs), doesn't that indicate that I and my fellow workers were not providing as much value as we were being compensated for?
No job is sustainable if I get paid more than I contribute in value. By definition, an employer only hires when the value they get from the employee (measured by a myriad of factors) is more than the value of what they are giving the employee. Similarly, I only take a job if the money I'm given for it is more valuable to me than the time I'm losing in doing the job.
Again, not defending Bain capital in particular here. They may have horribly mis-managed Dade International- I don't know. My bigger point is that in general the fact that you had to lay people off doesn't mean that you're a stupid or evil manager- it is quite expected that a company might have a lot of dead weight and by laying off a few hundred, you are maximizing shareholder return, which is the obligation of anyone running a company.
Hello djvanderhoeven,
You wrote:"You said that most of those people never got another job as good as the one they had. I don't know the details of Bain capital, and I don't doubt that they might be evil, but look here- if I lose my job and am unable to find another one that is as good, does that not mean that the first employer was over-paying me?"
In 1971 that might have been an interesting point. If I had been laid off from a job there were plenty of other jobs available and if I could not get as good a job, well perhaps I had indeed been over paid. However in 2011, the point is different. The problem lies in the fact that what happened to Dade International has happened to thousands of companies and factories. Who towns and regions have been denuded of their "Dades" by various "Bains". The City of Detroit is the most glaring example, it was once the envy of the world, the very embodiment of American industrial might. Today it is a dusty ghost town that has wild animals roaming where factories once stood. What happened in Detroit has happened all across the United States. There are simply far fewer jobs available, and those that are generally pay less and have fewer benefits.
If Gov. Romney and his associates at Bain had just pillaged one company in one place in an otherwise prosperous nation, no one would really notice. However what has happened is that there are dozens of "Bains" shutting down factories by the thousands. It is a microcosm for the de-industrialization and impoverishment of the United States.
Returning to the main point, the Romney's and Walton's of America are not just getting wealthier, they are getting wealthier by making a great many other Americans poorer.
Wow..what an heresy you write up there dude..saying: "If the company I work for becomes a buy-out target, and the buyer makes the company profitable by slashing costs (including many jobs), doesn't that indicate that I and my fellow workers were not providing as much value as we were being compensated for?"
In a world where cost cutting for short term gain that will ensure the death of the company long term is the game? Are you serious? You think because Bain saved on my salary for 2 years while living off my excess work in those years before nemesis catch up with them means I was over paid before I got laid off?
Silly..Silly. Labor is not a liability, it is an asset for an economy. It is high time your likes that think human beings are burdens on companies, and whose labor can really be quantified and paid for need to get educated. Wonder why companies that treat their folks right are the ones winning.
Go to school.
I was under the impression that the purpose behind any company that produces a product or service was to please its customers, not its shareholders. Hmmmmm…..learned something new!
John D. Rockefeller
Industrialist and philanthropist who played an important role in the establishment of the oil industry.
Industry: Oil
Wealth at death: $1,400,000,000
Wealth/GDP: 1/65
Roughly the same as all of the Waltons combined. Not much has changed in 70 years but the US forged on to become the mightiest in the world. Keep business and innovation strong in this country. Entitlements and incentives to lay down and pacify will not make us strong.
A philanthropist is a person who seeks to promote the welfare of others, esp. By the generous donations of money to good. Both Rockefeller and Walton were both Industrialist and Philanthropist realizing that promoting the welfare of those less fortunate than themselves makes us stronger. That fact has been lost on many of us.
and who do you think made the Waltons so wealthy? The bottom 30% who have fallen for the "save money/live better" slogan.
Those that shop at Walmart have saved money to spend other places. Walmart has saved people so much money through the years.
I hope that Mr. Worstall would be amenable to fixing a statement made in this article, as it portrays medical education and medical school debt in a significantly incorrect light. Mr. Worstall states this:
"Fresh out of grad school you might well have $100,000, $200,000 of debt, hey, possibly even from medical school you might be carrying $500,000. None of us are actually going to weep all that hard for you though, not you with that associates job at a Wall Street law firm on $100,000 or more, not a newly qualified doctor on hundreds of thousands a year."
Mr. Worstall seems unaware of the fact that medical school graduates cannot practice as attending physicians for anywhere from three to eight years of residency and fellowship training, after graduating medical school. As a current neurosurgical resident, I work on average over 100 hours a week and earn less than $45,000 a year, which nears the rate of being paid minimum wage. This is a condition shared by the vast majority of medical residents across the country. Though I graduated medical school two years ago, it will not be until the year 2017 that I earn a wage over $100,000 a year. Until that time, my student debt interest continues to accumulate.
It is a significant problem for those of us in the medical community, when uninformed writers make unrealistic claims regarding our perceived bounty in life. The simple fact is that no residency program in the United States pays anywhere near $100,000 a year, and no medical school graduate (sporting the fresh title of "Dr." before his name) can practice without having first completed a residency program.
Hello alexanderb,
You are entirely correct but extend this model outside of the medical profession. At least a freshly minted MD has a fairly good chance of even finding a job. However other recent graduates cannot get a job at all, much less one that is full time, permanent, and pays enough to start a family and pay off those debts.
Mr. Worstall:
I, and many of my colleagues, take offense to your erroneous, and frankly, rather snarky comment, "None of us are actually going to weep all that hard for you though, not you with that associates job at a Wall Street law firm on $100,000 or more…"
In fact, new attorneys in particular are either completely unemployed, or bouncing between thankless, low paying temporary jobs, or having to take much lower paying secretarial or paralegal jobs, because they are now competing with the vast numbers of lawyers with 5-10 years of experience, who were all laid off in 2008/2009.
Meanwhile, many of us are carrying anywhere from $100k to 250k in student loan debt. Due to several years of little to no income, many young lawyers are in fact in dire financial straits, a consequence of which, is the very real possibility of losing one's license to practice law, and through no fault of their own.
And yes, while government student loans may be deferred due to unemployment and/or economic hardship, private loans, many of which are through banks that have recently received government bailouts, offer no such protections. Thus, young lawyers are forced to make the terrible decision of choosing whether to spend what little money they have on basic life necessities, or on paying back their loans. Young lawyers are starving, while private banks are profiting.
Furthermore, in what appears to be a growing trend, many young lawyers have no health insurance, and could never afford to pay the premiums for individual policies.
As an editor myself, I implore you to better check your facts before dumping such groundless nonsense on an unsuspecting audience who may not know any better.
Here's a link for you: Census shows 1 in 2 people are poor or low-income
when he says the US has $50-70 Trillion in net worth…does that include the $15 Trillion in debt the US government and the $3 Trillion Ben at the Fed have borrowed on the account of these people?
There's a serious logical flaw here.
The point is that these six people have more wealth than the bottom 30% of Americans COMBINED. The author points out astutely that $10 in your pocket and no debt puts you ahead of 25% of Americans (which, by the way, is pretty scary! If you think those are all "doctors just out of grad school you're kidding yourself…) combined. But that means these six people together have more wealth than a combined 5% of Americans?!
Assuming that these wealth totals are taken from households using IRS or Census data (pretty standard usage), we can do some quick math. This means six people near the top own more than 5,630,551 households in the middle COMBINED (remember — 25% are below them) (total households taken from census).
I don't know what you're smoking if you think that's not an indictment of our system.
Mr. Worstall: Thank you for a clear, concise understanding of this breakdown of wealth. So many people think the term wealth is a dirty word. The Waltons are wealthy because of a visionary who knew how to put a business together that appeals to his customers and stockholders. By reading and understanding your article, hopefully, people will be able to discern what wealth really means.
One can always count on Forbes to defend their super rich friends, from whom perspective and table we are supposed to be offered "business" news.
Oh well.. your doctor analogy is actually a very small minority of the 25% with zero or less net worth. Most of them are just hard working Americans, thrown out of job and seeking to live off their cards until your rich friends smile upon them. That is if your magazines advocacy have not shipped their job overseas or ensured they earn minimum wage when they finally earn it. Evidence? It rose from 18% to 25% in the last few years. I bet that 7% rise is the unemployed and folks whose home is now worth nothing! Thank you Wall Street.
This editorial misinterprets and misguides with comparisons of apples to oranges. The original statement made is that 1 family has wealth that is worth the same as the COMBINED wealth of the bottom 30%. This means dollar for dollar, if every single person in the lowest 30% put their money in a pile, it is less than the pile of money the Waltons have.
This in no way is is a valid analogy to the fact that Americans such as the writer and Mr. Goldberg have more money than any 1 family or person in the lower 30%. There is a difference between being wealthier than 30% of any single individual or household, and being wealthier than the combined wealth of 30% of the nation,.
Tim Worstall adds: But that's not what we're saying. If 25% of all American families have negative wealth individually then add up all of the wealth of those 25% of American families and you still have a negative number. Which means that anyone who has positive wealth, even positive wealth of only $10, has more wealth than all of those 25% of American families put together.
I would wager that no other family in the history of the world has done more to raise the standard of living for low-income people than the Waltons.
Hello oldolie,
You would lose that bet. They have relentlessly driven down wages of both their own employees and of the employees of companies that they sell products for. Their constant demand for "low prices" mean that there is constant pressure on suppliers to lower their costs. For a manufacturer, in most cases the easiest, even the only way is to lower wages.
Consider this piece from CNN just last year. It is about wages in China. "Zhang has witnessed firsthand the labor changes in Foshan. His company, Jiaofu Leather Products, has had to pay wages 15 to 20 percent higher since the start of the year; he also pays more for raw materials and charges less for the goods he sells to stay competitive. *Salaries are 70 percent of his production costs*."
Now labor being 70% of costs might be at the high end of manufacturing, leather is perhaps not the most mechanized industry, but even at 50% or 40%, a manufacturer has an enormous incentive to cut labor costs. In any event, it is the only variable over which he or she has some control. The price of leather is what it is whether one is in China or the US, and the same is true most other costs. Wages are the one thing that can be changed and in a big way. If a manufacturer moves from the US to China, his or her labor costs drop dramatically, which means that prices can be low while allowing for greater profits.
So if manufacturer is under pressure from Walmart to lower prices, they are under pressure to cut labor costs. That can mean cutting wages here in the US or shutting down the entire operation and moving it to some other country.
That it the legacy the Waltons and Romneys.
In other words…if someone takes a huge risk and starts a business despite that risk…if he/she are successful we should take what they make and give it to the person(s) that did not and would not take the same risk. CAPITALISM: an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private decision, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market. The key truisms being free market and private decision. In 2008 Wal-Mart gave $423-million, $320.5-million of which was cash. That amount was enough to make Wal-Mart the largest donor of cash on The Chronicle's annual list of corporate donors. Because of our free market system we don't have to buy from them if we don't agree with their business practices.
So the figure of a gang of six holding as much net wealth as the bottom 30% wasn't a better argument demonstration the hideous striation of society after all. Isn't it great what one can do with numbers. OK, let me try: If it is true that the Waltons hold as much net worth as the lowest 30% of the US population, then it's also true by the same numbers that they would be able to get several million people out of poverty immediately by simply forgiving them or paying off their debt for them. Or another one of those simple calculations, the wealth the Waltons hold would double on average the wealth of the bottom 100 millions, if the Walton's would actually "trickle down" and let it pour.
But this is not about the misely 900 bucks that this would make for each of those 100 Million people. It's about the economical and political power.
In a drastic oversimplification, consider Congress to be a big messy organism with a bunch of brains (doesn't mean they have to be smart). It's together a system of trillions of neurons, which as an ensemble has learned that if it carries out what their sponsors want that they are more likely to get even more of same: sponsorship, money for campaigning, recognition for entry into the clubs where the Waltons socialize, and so forth. And, even though for neural systems this is probably a complete understatement, let's assume that the amount of influence is a direct linear function of the amount of money being spent for reelection circus.
Assuming linearity, it means that these six guys can buy as much influence on who is in Congress and what they decide as 30% of the American population could.
Almost certainly it is much worse: Nothing ever is linear. In real neural systems, if there is too little of any type of stimulus, it is going to be completely ignored eventually, to the point that even the sensory system that could receive the stimulus will fade away, just like in "Lazy Eye" or the disappearance of vision in mole rats. For the situation here, one can expect that the "big messy scatterbrain" called Congress which always gets fired up talking about the "middleclass" doesn't even know that there is now a probably bigger underclass, which btw constitutes the main source of Walton's wealth. That's simply because those 30% are not in the business of buying members of Congress.
An Alternative to Capitalism (since we cannot legislate morality)
Several decades ago, Margaret Thatcher claimed: "There is no alternative".
She was referring to capitalism. Today, this negative attitude still persists.
I would like to offer an alternative to capitalism for the American people to consider. Please click on the following link. It will take you to an essay titled: "Home of the Brave?" which was published by the Athenaeum Library of Philosophy:
John Steinsvold
"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result."~ Albert Einstein
What a way to turn up the omelette . Typical of right wingers. The almighty is the only savior of those in poverty or those unemployed.
Many news media outlets have discussed the wealth of the Walton Family, but none have talked about the relatives who have been made billionaires by that relationship. Nancy Laurie, is the daughter of the late Bud Walton and thus her wealth has been amassed by being a Walton offspring but she may go unnoticed since she is married to a Laurie. How many others are out there that have billions but do not bear the Walton name?
This unequallity is causing anger amongs the lower & middle class.
Good for them and anyone who makes it … dont we all want it ? im all for Capitalism..its worked very well for 200 and some odd yrs till this Idiot Savant decided to destroy it
I am horrified. I thought it would only take 4 of them.
I'm 14 months removed from college and broke zero net worth with my paycheck on February 28th. High fives all around for being wealthier that 25% of Americans at 23 years old and 14 months out of school.
If only tax paid by waltons exceeds the total tax paid by those 30% of population, it would be a good thing, at least for the IRS ,due to efficiency in tax administration
Whenever I see columns and lists like these, I wonder why is Forbes so obsessed with billionaires, other than the fact that the magazine/company owes its founding to a billionaire, Malcolm Forbes.
One does not have to be a billionaire, or even wealthy at all, to make decent livin and to make a difference in this world, to make the world a better place.
Nice try. The government has stolen and spent most of the wealth of the bottom 30%.
If you assign the current and future value of promised government benefits to the bottom 30% the wealth of the bottom 30% would overwhelm the 6 Walton's. Had our benevolent government not stolen 15% of everyone's earnings and instead left the retirement funds in our hands the bottom 30% wealth would overwhelm the top 10%.
Next the bottom 30% changes every year as people move through various stages of their working lives.
We have no one but ourselves to blame. For decades the democrat party has designed and touted various government programs… buying votes and creating dependency with other peoples money. Read LBJ's comments about the "Great Society" programs. That is why we are here.
You assume that all taxes are redistributed to the bottom tears but ignore the never ending funding of the military industrial complex. Perhaps you hate Pell Grants that give the U.S. a fighting advantage and a unspoken asset to business today. Don't believe me, ever read a want add that states "On the job training" anymore. Oh my mistake, unpaid internships are popular. Hate your taxes but love your roads, bridges, air and sea ports right? Very childish of you to use the word "democrat" instead of the true word Democratic.
That's the way it's always been in America. The fewer upperclass whites will always have more wealth than all the lower-class minorities combined and they have the power to keep it that way for all eternity. All persons are created equal? BS. Not when it comes to wealth in America. Any Walton offsprings will be born wealthy and they will die wealthy. Let's all go out and wave the American flag in the land of equality. Rah, rah, rah.
"How does that change income inequality? When some people only earn for 30 odd years, others for 40 odd?"
Please remember the significant number of 20-somethings jobless and living in their parent's basements.
I was one of them. I had crap jobs during that period, but didn't have an anyway decent job until 29 – a year and a half after I had moved out and moved to another part of the country. How rare is that experience?
And what's the gain? None. I have life experience and understanding from that period. But you know it seriously hurts professionally.
Mr. Worstall, can you be serious in rationalizing your bios so blatantly absurd? Attacking the messenger is not attacking facts. A anecdotal comparison of today's wealth as compared to John D Rockefeller, a Robbin Barron during the gilded age can be not a defense but an example of just how close we are to oligopoly rule in this country. But the most absurd of your gibberish is carrying on about a doctors wealth, your point being what? That there are so many resident doctors in this country that is distorts the numbers to an significance of what the wealth gap really is? You cannot be serious. More Outlandish Rubbish!


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Spirits crop up in garden, museums
Editor's Note: This is the fourth and final story in a series about ghosts of Henrico.
In addition to having a haunted highway (the Pocahontas Parkway), haunted historical park (Henricus), and haunted houses such as Whichello and Twin Oaks, Henrico County can also claim to be the home of a few spirits in its shops, museums, and gardens.
Spirits have been reported at the Virginia Aviation Museum (VAM), for example, which was built on a Civil War battlefield near the airport and displays vintage planes and pilot artifacts from the World War II era. According to the website The Shadowlands, which reports on mysterious happenings around the world, there have been reports of occurrences at VAM such as the sound of footsteps leading to a particular plane, and a very old stopwatch that suddenly started up ticking again.
At the Glen Allen museum known as Meadow Farm – the home of the Sheppard family during the mid-19th century – spirits have long been rumored to roam the area as well.
In an October 2001 story about Meadow Farm Museum in the Citizen, interpreters who spent time in the old homestead recounted numerous stories that suggest the spirits of Dr. and Mrs. Mosby Sheppard and their nine children still linger in the house. From rearranged toys on the mantel of the children's room, to mussed slipcovers on the parlor furniture, unexplained incidents alternately puzzled and delighted historical interpreters.
When interpreters at the museum originally arranged the Sheppard girls' and boys' bedrooms to reflect what they guessed to be the 1850s layout, for instance, they began to notice a flurry of activity around the period toys on the mantel. After the house had been secured for the night, they would open it up in the morning to find the toys out of place.
Eventually, deciding that they may have been mistaken in their placement of the bedrooms, staff members switched the two – and the movement of the toys stopped.
A reenactor who once spent the night on premises also recounted sounds and signs of a mysterious visitor; and an interpreter entered an upstairs room one day to be greeted by the overpowering scent of old roses.
"It smelled so good!" she recalled with a wistful smile, wondering aloud if the spirit of Mrs. Sheppard left the scent. "I keep hoping it will happen again."
Giggling girls and stressed-out cats
The ghosts of the Lakeside shops are most likely from a different era from those at Meadow Farm – perhaps hailing from the first half of the 20th century, when homes stood on the site that now features stores and the Lakeside Farmer's Market.
Tony Turner, co-owner of Feathernesters tea room and home store, said that he began noticing mysterious happenings almost the moment he moved into the shop in January 2004.
"Within days I heard knocking and creaking," he said, adding that he initially dismissed the noises as the heating system, or attributed them to his unfamiliarity with the building. But then he began hearing what sounded like a little girl laughing.
"I have children," Turner said, "but they weren't there. And [the giggling and laughing] were coming from the rear of the store, but on the other side of the wall. That area of the building was still vacant."
Again, he dismissed the voices, rationalizing that they were coming from the radio. Then, after about a month, Turner's partner Mark Goswick asked him, "This is going to sound crazy – but have you ever heard children laughing?"
Turner had a key to the vacant space next door so that he could use it for storage; but when he went in to explore, he found only emptiness. He noticed, however, that the laughter always seemed to come from the bathrooms in the rear of the store. "If I had to pinpoint it," he said, "it's in the ladies' room."
As Feathernesters acquired new employees, the staff members noticed the sounds as well. "Have you heard a little girl?" they would ask Turner.
In 2010, Dee Shue moved into the vacant space next to Feathernesters and began painting and preparing to open her shop, Pass It On Consignments. Like Turner, she noticed strange noises almost immediately.
"I heard a door close, but I was the only one in there," she recalled. On another occasion she thought she heard children in the bathroom, which backs up to the Feathernesters bathrooms. "It sounded like girls giggling," she said. "I knocked on the door, and when I opened it, no one was there. It freaked me out."
Shue also noticed that when she left her kitten overnight in the store, she would find him in the morning looking distressed. "He'd be at the front door, wanting to be let out," she said.
"We took him home after he quit eating for three days."
But the strangest experience at Pass It On centered around a ceramic pig lamp Shue acquired and put out for display in a booth. It had only been there a day or two when a customer came in and said, "Where's that pig lamp? I want that pig lamp."
Shue could not find the lamp where she had put it, but after an extensive search of the store, she found it in an armoire. No one could explain how it got there. Although that customer decided not to buy the lamp, another customer later expressed interest – and Shue found the lamp had been moved again. "I put it up front then," she said. "I thought, 'I'm really losing my mind.'"
Both Shue and Turner believe the spirits in their shops are friendly, playful ones. Shue speculated that the girl spirits probably liked the lamp, and imagined them "running and giggling" as they played their prank.
Turner agreed, saying that the giggling he has heard sounded like a girl playing with her friends or her dolls.
"She's a playful spirit, there's no doubt about that," said Turner, noting that he hasn't heard any noises in about two years. "But it's eerie. . . My [teenage] daughter is so scared she won't go in the bathroom."
Ghost of the Garden
Just across Hilliard Road from the Lakeside Town Center, at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden (LGBG), employees of the Garden often speak of the "ghost of Grace." At a recent Lakeside Business Association social, a few business owners wondered whether the spirit playing in the shops might be a long-ago resident of the homes that were once on the site – or perhaps the young Grace Arents, Lewis Ginter's niece.
Beth Monroe, LGBG director of public relations and marketing, noted that Arents – who lived as an adult in the Bloemendaal House and possibly played on the grounds as a child – had a generous nature and was known for her philanthropic efforts, such as establishing a convalescent home for children and founding Richmond's first public library.
Arents was especially concerned with the plight of urban children, who would often be brought out from Oregon Hill to Bloemendaal Farm so that they could enjoy fresh air and eat healthy foods. "The site of the Children's Garden is where she grew her vegetables," Monroe pointed out.
Noting that "places like Lewis Ginter often have a patron saint of sorts," Monroe said that Arents clearly fits the profile of the affectionate, benevolent, and playful spirit that seems to show up at the Bloemendaal House from time to time. While "Grace's ghost" has not been heard to giggle, staff members and volunteers have occasionally reported feeling a rush of air when no one else was around, said Monroe. Others have caught a glimpse of a vision in white.
And like the spirit that frequents the Lakeside Town Center, the Garden's ghost seems to be an especially mischievous one.
"Whenever something odd happens at the house," said Monroe, "like the lights blink, or a door that was closed is left open, we say, "Ahhh, there's Grace again!"
Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden raises admission $1
Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden's admission has increased by $1 across all categories. Admission is now $12 for adults; $11 for seniors ages 55 and older; and $8 for children ages 3–12. Admission remains free for children ages 3 and younger and for members.
The last price increase was in 2011, before the Garden consistently hosted Butterflies LIVE! (which is included with admission). > Read more.
Garden tails
The threat of bad weather didn't keep visitors away from Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden July 10 for the facility's weekly Flowers After 5 event (which pairs music and food with a chance to stroll the garden) and its monthly Fidos After 5 (which allows dog owners to bring their pets with them to enjoy the evening). > Read more.
Western Henrico Rotary helps fund Midwives For Haiti Jeep
Thanks in part to a $10,000 gift from the Western Henrico Rotary Club, another bright pink Jeep modified to travel extremely rough terrain has been delivered to Midwives For Haiti so that more pregnant women in the quake-ravaged country will have access to prenatal care and a greater chance of surviving childbirth.
The funds were raised at the annual casino night held in February, club president Adam Cherry said. The Rotary Club also helped purchase the Virginia-based charity's first pink jeep three years ago. > Read more.
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Take in a show at several locations this weekend! West End Comedy will provide laughs at HATTheatre; the production of "Pump Boys and Dinettes" will close Sunday; and the youth theatre company CharacterWorks will present "Footloose" at The Steward School. Another show perfect for the kids – "Despicable Me 2" is playing at the Eastern Henrico Recreation Center tonight. For all our top picks this weekend, click here! > Read more.
Is there an Echo in here?
'Earth to Echo' aims to become this generation's 'ET'
It's no secret that all found-footage genre movies are the same. Grab a couple of characters, give one of them a camera, and expose them to something supernatural that's content to lurk just off-screen until the last five minutes. Everything else will just fall into place.
But that formula isn't particularly family friendly, if only because that thing waiting a few feet to the left of the cast is usually plotting their violent doom.
That's what sets Earth to Echo apart from the pack. It, too, follows a group of characters armed with a camera and a tendency to encounter unknown life forms. But all those familiar parts have been rearranged just enough to make it suitable for a much younger audience. > Read more.
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An eclectic array of events are taking place this weekend throughout the county. In the West End, we have the Richmond Wedding Expo, the Under the Stars Family Film Series and Henrico Theatre Company's production of "Pump Boys and Dinettes." In the eastern part of the county, we have a blood drive at the Eastern Henrico Recreation Center, Gallmeyer Farm's annual Sweet Corn Festival and an origami workshop at Fairfield Library. For all our top picks this weekend, click here! > Read more.
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Upcoming author signings in area
TRAVERSE CITY — Horizon Books will host book signings by the following authors on Saturday, Oct. 19:
• Artist Glenn Wolff, illustrator of "A Child's Christmas in New England," 4 p.m.
• Sue Merrell, author of "One Shoe Off," 2-4 p.m.
• Judy Brice, author of "Renditions In a Palette," will be reading her poetry at 2 p.m.
New Hannah book
TRAVERSE CITY — Peg Jonkhoff and Fred Hoisington, both of Traverse City, will unveil their new book on Traverse City founder Perry Hannah, during as part of the Successful Aging Series, beginning at 2 p.m., Monday, Oct. 28, at Grand Traverse Pavilions.
"Perry Hannah's Gifts - Then & Now" is a series of short stories about Traverse City's founder and his many gifts of land and buildings to the city. A large section of the book will highlight Hannah's retirement home that celebrates its 120th anniversary this year.
Light snacks and beverages will be served. The new book will be available for purchase and signing.


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WASHINGTON, Sept. 26, 2013 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today visited Jackson, Miss., and announced new investments to support producers and rural communities throughout Mississippi. The Secretary announced funding for renewable energy projects, projects to improve public health in the Mississippi Delta region and awards to support small, socially-disadvantaged agriculture producers. Today's announcement is one part of the Department's efforts to strengthen the rural economy.
"Rural Americans contribute a great deal to our nation, and today's investments will help strengthen rural businesses and communities in Mississippi," Vilsack said. "These awards will help improve rural health facilities in the Delta Region, help socially-disadvantaged business owners expand markets across the nation, and help small businesses save energy and grow their bottom line."
Funding is being provided through USDA's Small Socially Disadvantaged Producer (SSDP) Grant program, the Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) and the Delta Health Care Services Grant Program.
Under the Small Socially Disadvantaged Producer Grant Program, five grants were awarded in Mississippi totaling nearly $1 million in investment. The objective of this program is to provide technical assistance to qualified producers to help expand and improve their operation. For example, a Mississippi organization is receiving a grant to conduct seven training sessions for small meat goat producers that will focus on risk management.
Additionally, Secretary Vilsack announced funding for seven Rural Energy for America Program projects that will help agriculture producers and small businesses in rural Mississippi reduce energy consumption and adopt renewable energy tools. REAP is authorized under the soon-to-expire 2008 Farm Bill. Since the start of the Obama Administration, REAP has helped fund nearly 8,000 renewable energy and energy efficiency projects nationwide.
Vilsack also announced the award of grants for three projects in Mississippi to meet the healthcare needs of residents living in the Delta region. More than $1.8 million in healthcare grants is being provided through the Delta Health Care Services Grant Program. This program was established in the 2008 Farm Bill to address the unmet health needs of Delta residents. The program is a collaborative effort among healthcare professionals, institutions of higher education, research institutions and other entities.
The funding announced today is contingent upon the recipient meeting the terms of the grant agreement.
Small Socially Disadvantage Producer Grant Program
Rural Energy for America Program – Mississippi Recipients
Delta Health Care Services Grant Program
Secretary Vilsack noted that today's funding announcements are another reminder of the importance of USDA programs for rural America. A comprehensive new Food, Farm and Jobs Bill would further expand the rural economy – and he said that's just one reason why Congress must get a Food, Farm and Jobs Bill done as soon as possible.
President Obama's plan for rural America has brought about historic investment and resulted in stronger rural communities. Under the President's leadership, these investments in housing, community facilities, businesses and infrastructure have empowered rural America to continue leading the way – strengthening America's economy, small towns and rural communities. President Obama and Secretary Vilsack are committed to a smarter use of federal resources to foster sustainable economic prosperity and ensure the government is a strong partner for businesses, entrepreneurs and working families in rural communities.
USDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer. To file a complaint of discrimination, write: USDA, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, Office of Adjudication, 1400 Independence Ave., SW, Washington, DC 20250-9410 or call (866) 632-9992 (Toll-free Customer Service), (800) 877-8339 (Local or Federal relay), (866) 377-8642 (Relay voice users)


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With eight freshmen on this season's Jacksonville College women's basketball roster, nothing can take the place of actual game experience.
The Lady Jags spent much of last weekend getting used to playing together while taking on a wide array of opponents.
On Friday the Lady Jags scrimmaged a trio of junior college teams that included Southwest Christian, Northeast Oklahoma and Frank Phillips at the Dave Neely Shalin Hoops Showcase in Frisco.
JC head coach Leasa Ailshie then had her ladies to take on a pair of NAIA four-year teams, Texas College's Lady Steers and the Lady Wildcats of Wiley College Saturday in Tyler, for even more experience.
"We beat Texas College and then lost to a real good Wiley team," Ailshie said. "The game was close and it could have gone either way at the end.
"After playing three games the day before, I was proud of the mental toughness that the team showed Saturday when they physically (tired)."
Ailshie, who is in her first year as head coach of the JC women, said that molding this year's team is a work-in-progress.
"We are very young and we're working with our freshmen on a daily basis on preparing them to play basketball at the college level," she said. "It's a lot of trial-by-fire, and we are slowly finding out who can do what and what happens when various combinations of players are on the court at the same time."
Ailshie, who will be assisted by Rocio Medrano this year, said that her club appears to be on schedule in their preparation for the regular season opener scheduled for Nov. 1 (vs. Southern-Shreveport in Panola Classic).
"In some areas we are ahead and in others we are behind," she said. "We have plenty to work on."


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Is Rod BrindAmour worthy of inclusion in the Hockey Hall of Fame? Without question. It just wont be this year.
BrindAmour, who waited 16 seasons to win his first Stanley Cup, captaining the Carolina Hurricanes to the feat in 2006, will have to wait at least one more year for induction into the Hall after being left out of Tuesdays Class of 2013.
There were two gimmes in this first-year class Chris Chelios and Scott Niedermayer, two of the greatest defensemen of their generation, or in the ageless Chelios case, multiple generations and one notable holdover from last year in Brendan Shanahan. In the fourth and final spot for a player, the Hall of Fame elected Canadian womens hockey pioneer Geraldine Heaney.
That left out BrindAmour, now an assistant coach with the Hurricanes. Like Shanahan last year, BrindAmour will have to wait. And like Shanahan last year, BrindAmours turn should come. Emphasis on should.
He might not be a first-ballot Hall of Famer, but the long-term prognosis of his Hall of Fame chances is good he ranks among the top 20 in games played, top 50 in points, won two Selke Trophies and captained a team to the Stanley Cup, as good a two-way resume of any player who didnt go in on the first ballot.
(Its fair to wonder whether winning the Conn Smythe Trophy in 2006 might have burnished his candidacy. BrindAmour probably should have won that award, which goes to the postseason MVP, but many national voters werent aware of his contributions in the earlier Montreal and Buffalo series. Cam Ward, while equally deserving of the honor, was a bigger star in the Final, when more voters were paying close attention.)
Still, there are no guarantees. Eric Lindros and Dave Andreychuk, whose resumes compare interestingly to BrindAmours, continue to float around as well.
The Hall of Fame voting pool is as secretive as any price-fixing cabal and has more than a few fossilized reactionary members whose decisions are as inscrutable as they are illogical. The failure to admit deserving coaches Pat Burns and Fred Shero was a blot on its reputation for years, rectified in part this year by the admission of Shero although the inexcusable snub of Burns while on his deathbed will linger for decades, long after hes eventually honored.
BrindAmour wasnt the only former Hurricanes player passed over Tuesday. Tom Barrasso, a pioneer among American goalies who won the Vezina Trophy as a rookie straight out of high school in 1984 along with two Stanley Cups and is a member of the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame, has been eligible since 2006.
Next years first-year class includes one mortal lock Dominik Hasek as well as contenders in Peter Forsberg and Mike Modano and two of BrindAmours Cup teammates, Doug Weight and Mark Recchi. Oh, and Sandis Ozolinsh, too, for the record.
Thatll be stiff competition, but the same was true last year when Shanahan lost out to two first-year players, Joe Sakic and Mats Sundin, and two repeat candidates, Pavel Bure and Adam Oates. Like Bure and Oates, Shanahan had to wait, but his turn came this year. BrindAmour will have to wait as well. (Both have better resumes than Sundin, but thats a debate for a different day.)
The only question is how long it will take. Not this year, maybe not next year, but someday BrindAmour will get the call.
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SHELDON SWOPE ART MUSEUM, 25 S. Seventh St., swope.org
April 5-May 10 — 47th annual Student Art Exhibition; reception, awards ceremony 1 to 3 p.m. April 5.
Hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday-Friday; noon to 5 p.m. Saturday. Closed Sunday, Monday and national holidays. Admission free. Call 812-238-1676.
RIVERTOWN ART GALLERY, Historic Newburgh Inc. offices, 517 W. Main St., Newburgh.
April 5 — Open house and spring exhibit, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY & MUSEUM, Springfield, Ill., presidentlincoln.org.
April 3 — Historian Shawn Michelle Smith to discuss her book, "Pictures and Progress: Early Photography and the Making of African American Identity," book signing, 6 p.m., discussion, 6:30; reservations required, 217-558-8934.
Colleges and universities
Gallery Lounge, Hulman Memorial Student Union.
March 27 — Exhibit "Aging in America" by Dr. Jeffrey M. Levine, geriatrician in New York City; announcement and exhibit of winners in "Aging in the Wabash Valley" photo competition, 4:30 p.m.; artist talk by Levine, 5:20; reception until 7:30.
For information, call 812-237-3814.
Tarble Arts Center, Ninth Street at Cleveland Avenue, Charleston, Ill.
Through May 18 — Global Threads: International Folk Art Textiles exhibit.
Hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday, closed Mondays; 217-581-2787.
VIGO COUNTY COURTHOUSE, Third Street and U.S. 41.
Permanent — Four murals by Terre Haute artist Bill Wolfe, first floor rotunda.
Hours: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
CLABBER GIRL HULMAN & CO. MUSEUM, The Gallery, former first floor lobby, Hulman & Co. building, 900 Wabash Ave.
Through March — Artwork by photographer Debbie Goodin.
Currently — Showcase of the company's history as well as the family history of founder Herman Hulman.
Hours: museum, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday; bakeshop, 6:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday and 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. Admission free. Call 812-232-9446.
HIPPODROME THEATRE, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite Temple, Eighth and Ohio streets.
Currently — Exhibition of pen and ink drawings by Terre Haute artist Mike Bender.
ART SPACES INC., Wabash Valley Outdoor Sculpture Collection Inc., 669 Ohio St., firstname.lastname@example.com
"Max Ehrmann at the Crossroads," a bronze life-size work by Bill Wolfe with excerpts of "Desiderata" embedded in walkway and entire poem mounted nearby, at Crossroads of America, Seventh Street and Wabash Avenue.
"Composite House for Terre Haute," sculpture by Lauren Ewing, in Gilbert Park, 14 1/2 Street and Wabash Avenue.
"Spirit of Space," sculpture by Bob Emser, in front of Swope Art Gallery, 25 S. Seventh St.
"Gatekeeper," sculpture by Sally Rogers, Vigo County Public Library grounds, Seventh and Poplar streets.
"Free Fly," sculpture by Bob Evans, in front of 113 S. Seventh St.
"A Chorus of Trumpets," sculpture by Howard Kalish, Rankin Plaza, Indiana State University.
Call 812-235-2801.
TERRE HAUTE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM, 727 Wabash Ave.
Currently — Imagination Station, including Imagination Playground, ZOOB, K'NEX building tables.
Currently — Bigger WTHCM television studio, expanded construction area, re-themed Flight Deck, all-new Critter Corner featuring live animals, and a third book nook, third floor.
Currently — Indiana Soybean Alliance adds four large soybean displays to "Agciting" exhibit.
Currently — Bee hive exhibit, Lunar Arm, interactive treehouse, fossil dig, agricultural and science exhibits and more.
Hours: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday; 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. Sunday.
Call 812-235-5548.
ARTS ILLIANA, 23 N. Sixth St., firstname.lastname@example.com
Through April 16 — "What Does Kindness Look Like" Exhibition, in observance of February as National Random Acts of Kindness Month.
Through April 16 — Exhibition of other artwork by regional artists.
Hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday; 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. Call 812-235-5007.
SHELDON SWOPE ART MUSEUM, 25 S. Seventh St., swope.org
April 5-May 10 — 47th annual Student Art Exhibition; reception, awards ceremony 1 to 3 p.m. April 5.
Permanent Arts Spaces Inc. outdoor sculpture, "Spirit of Space" by Bob Emser, in front of building.
Hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday-Friday; noon to 5 p.m. Saturday. Closed Sunday, Monday and national holidays. Admission free. Call 812-238-1676.
HALCYON CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY, Swope Art Museum Education Center, 25 S. Seventh St.
Through March 28 — Halcyon Days 2014, ninth annual juried art exhibition.
Hours: Noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Call 812-841-2884; www.artathalcyon.com.
VIGO COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY, 1 Library Square, Seventh and Poplar streets.
"Gatekeeper," permanent Arts Spaces Inc. outdoor sculpture by Sally Rogers.
Through March 28 — Artwork by Jo Anne Perigo Fiscus, Judith Lynn Smith, Jan Skipo, Don Turner and Sheila K. Ter Meer, members of Wabash Valley Art Guild and River City Art Association inspired by the 2014 Wabash Valley Big Read book selection, "The Magnificent Ambersons."
Hours: 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday; 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. Open Sundays 1 to 5 p.m., Labor Day through Memorial Day. Call 812-232-1113.
COX, ZWERNER, GAMBILL & SULLIVAN LAW OFFICE, 511 Wabash Ave.
Permanent — 2013 Year of the River Mural by artists Michael Neary and Amy MacLennan, sponsored by ISU's Gilbert Wilson Memorial Mural Project, on the side of the building.
Vigo County
FAIRBANKS PARK, west of First Street, on the east bank of the Wabash River.
Permanent — Watermark Landing, public art project, 30 mozaic stepping stones by 16 area artists, along the riverbank just south of the playground.
CORPORATE SQUARE, 2901 Ohio Blvd.
Currently — Photography and glass etchings by Terre Haute artist Todd Stokes.
VALLEY GROUP, Dollar General strip mall, Riley.
Permanent — Pen, ink and mixed media display by Terre Haute artist Mike Bender.
Permanent — "Old Masters" oil paintings by Della Bender of Terre Haute.
EDUCATIONAL HERITAGE ASSOCIATION MUSEUM, at Consolidated Elementary School.
Permanent collection — Vigo County school memorabilia.
Hours: By appointment with Pat Breault, 812-299-5281 or Sandy Billing, 812-466-2187.
EUGENE V. DEBS MUSEUM, 451 N. Eighth St.; debsfoundation.org
Hours: 1 to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, except for holidays and Christmas Eve through New Year's Day; 812-232-2163.
THE GOLDEN FRAME, 509 E. Voorhees St.
Currently — Work by River City Art Association members.
THE LANDING AT FORT HARRISON, 3350 N. Fourth St.
Call 812-460-4000.
SONGBIRD INSPIRATIONS ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY GALLERY, Suite 7-A, Lower Level, The Meadows shopping center.
Currently — Works by Ed and Kathy Cook; Photography of all types, pen and ink sketches, one-of-a-kind "light grafitti" photography.
Currently — Mixed media artwork by Ruthann Brady.
Hours: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, by appointment only on Sunday. Call 812-243-3176; edandkathycookphotography.smugmug.com
CANDLES HOLOCAUST MUSEUM AND EDUCATION CENTER, 1532 S. Third St., www.candlesholocaustmuseum.org
Permanent — Intertwined Lives: Dr. Mengele, Eugenics, and the Mozes Twins.
Hours: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday. Docents available 1 to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday; 812-234-7881.
VIGO COUNTY HISTORICAL MUSEUM, 1411 S. Sixth St.
Currently — "That Old Time Religion," a retrospect of early church history in Vigo County.
Hours: 1 to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday. Visit vigohistory.org or call 812-235-9717.
SISTERS OF PROVIDENCE, Providence Spirituality & Conference Center, St. Mary-of-the-Woods.
Outdoor sculpture — Bronze statue of Saint Mother Theodore Theodore Guerin, foundress of the Sisters of Providence, near Church of the Immaculate Conception.
Permanent structure — Log Cabin Chapel, a 1840s replica of the one visited by Saint Mother Theodore Guerin and the Sisters of Providence who arrived from France, located between Grotto Road and the Church of the Immaculate Conception on the site where the first Mass was offered on the motherhouse grounds.
Hours: 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday; 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Sunday. Call 812-535-4531.
TITZER ART STUDIO, BACK GALLERY, 3124 Wallace Ave.
Currently — Sculpture, decorative metals, glass bead jewelry by Patrick and Karen Titzer as well as works by 20 local and regional artists.
Hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday; 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday; or by appointment. Call 812-478-1313; titzer.com
DOBBS PARK NATIVE AMERICAN MUSEUM, 5170 Poplar St.
Permanent — Carvings by Ron Parker.
Hours: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Closed Sunday and Monday. Call 812-877-6007.
JAVA HAUTE, 3805 E. Wabash Ave.
Currently — Paintings by Peter Bruning.
COMMUNITY THEATRE OF TERRE HAUTE, 1431 S. 25th St.
Hours: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday; 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and 7 to 8 p.m. Friday; 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 7 to 8 p.m. Saturday; 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. Sunday. Call 812-232-7172.
FOWLER PARK, Oregon Church Road, east of U.S. 41 South.
Hours: Call ahead for operating hours, 812-462-3392.
Wabash Valley
SULLIVAN AREA ART GUILD gallery, 16 S. Court St., Sullivan.
Hours: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday through Sunday. Call 812-243-1039.
KNOX COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY, 502 N. Seventh St., Vincennes.
Hours: kcpl.lib.in.us or 812-886-4380.
CARNEGIE HERITAGE & ARTS CENTER OF GREENE COUNTY, 110 E. Vincennes St., Linton.
LEGRAND ART STUDIO & GALLERY, 2015 W. Indiana 54, Bloomfield; legrandartstudio.com.
Hours: 812-384-6505 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
PARKE COUNTY 4-H FAIRGROUNDS, U.S. 41, one mile north of U.S. 36, Rockville.
GALLERY NORTH, 116 W. Sixth St., north side of courthouse square, Bloomington.
Hours: Wednesday through Saturday.
MANSFIELD CIVIC CENTER, Old Mansfield Village, Parke County.
Hours: mansfieldartisangallery.com or 812-877-9831.
BRIDGETON, in southern Parke County, nine miles south of Rockville; or six miles east of Rosedale
Permanent — 1822 Case Log Cabin, 1878 Barn and House, Collom's General Store, Mill Snackshop, Bridgeton Grist Mill, Ye Olde Covered Bridge Shoppe, and Bridgeton Covered Bridge.
Call 765-548-2136 or 548-0114.
THE ARTISAN GALLERY, south edge of Mansfield Village, Parke County.
Hours: www.mansfieldguestinn.com or 812-208-2137.
CASA DEL MUSE ART GALLERY AND STUDIO, 32 E. Main St., Bloomfield.
Hours: 812-322-8986.
SULLIVAN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY, 100 S. Crowder St., Sullivan.
Hours: Call 812-268-4957.
D'ARLIER CULTURAL CENTER, 405 N. Mill St., Veedersburg.
Hours: 765-294-4824.
COVERED BRIDGE ART ASSOCIATION GALLERY, 124 W. Ohio St., north side of square, Rockville.
Hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays except Tuesday; 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday. Closed Tuesdays.
Call 765-569-9422. No admission fee.
ROCKVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY, 106 N. Market St., Rockville, IN.
Hours: 765-569-5544.
CLAY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY MUSEUM, 100 E. National Ave., Brazil.
Currently — Open through fall. For school tours, contact museum office.
Hours: 1 to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday, 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Saturday; 812-446-4036.
GENERAL LEW WALLACE STUDY AND MUSEUM, Crawfordsville; firstname.lastname@example.com or 765-362-5769.
Through mid-December — Exhibit "Vindication: Lew Wallace in 1864."
Hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.
HUTSON VILLAGE, CABINS, Outer South Rose Street, 1 1/2 miles south of Hutsonville, Ill.
Permanent — Seven log cabins
Call Hutsonville Historical Society, 618-563-4531.
CRAWFORD COUNTY HISTORICAL AND ARCHAEOLOGY MUSEUM, 408 S. Cross St., Robinson, Ill.
BICENTENNIAL ART CENTER & MUSEUM, 132 S. Central Ave., Paris, Ill.
Hours: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday. Admission free. For information call 217-466-8130. Website: parisartcenter.com
EDGAR COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ANNEX, 408 N. Main St., Paris, Ill.
Currently — Military artifacts.
Hours: 1 to 4 p.m. Wednesday through Friday.
MARSHALL PUBLIC LIBRARY, 612 Archer Ave., Marshall, Ill.; www.marshallillibrary.com.
Through March — Display on Indiana author Booth Tarkington, in conjunction with the 2014 Wabash Valley Big Read book selection, "The Magnificent Ambersons."
Hours: 217-826-2535.
GASLIGHT ART COLONY, 516 Archer Ave., Marshall, Ill., www.gaslightartcolony.com or call 217-808-2115.
Through April 12 — Members Only Show.
Hours: 1 to 5 p.m. Wednesday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday, 1 to 5 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday. Closed Sunday and Monday.
PARIS CARNEGIE PUBLIC LIBRARY, 207 S. Main St., Paris, Ill.
Hours: 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday; 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday-Friday; 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. Call 217-463-3950.
PALESTINE ART CENTER, 110 S. Main St., Palestine, Ill.
Hours or more information: 618-586-5532 or 586-2701.
DAVID FIFE OPERA HOUSE, 123 S. Main St., Palestine Ill.
Hours: Labor Day weekend; first weekend in December; and by appointment. Call 618-586-9418 or 586-5177. Free Admission.
CHARLESTON CARNEGIE PUBLIC LIBRARY, Charleston, Ill.
Call 217-549-3972.
Colleges and universities
HULMAN CENTER, 200 N. Eighth St.
Permanent — Outdoor sculpture of Larry Bird in bronze by artist Bill Wolfe.
RECITAL HALL, Richard Landini Center for the Performing and Fine Arts
ISU Foundation/Barnes & Noble
Outdoor sculpture — "Renewal" by artist Tim Upham of Colorado, made of white steel and blue glass marbles.
University Art Gallery, Richard G. Landini Center for Performing and Fine Arts.
Hours: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday; 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday. Admission free. For information, call 812-237-3720.
Cunningham Memorial Library.
Bayh College of Education.
Currently — Emeritus faculty art on display.
Student Recreation Center.
Indoor Sculpture, "The Fire Within," acrylic and steel sculpture by Jack Fox, inside south entrance.
The Land of Misfit Toys, 1024 N. Seventh St.
Hours: Noon to 4 p.m. Wednesday through Friday; or by appointment. Call 812-232-6706.
John Hook Memorial Observatory, roof of Science Building.
Hours: 8 to 10 p.m. Tuesdays and Fridays.
Sculpture Corridor
Outdoor sculpture, "Helix," functional wind turbine made by environmental sciences students, between Rhoads and Mills residence halls.
Outdoor sculpture, "ISU Sphere," by Seattle artist Brandon Zebold, south side of Holmstedt Hall.
Outdoor sculpture, "A Chorus of Trumpets," by Howard Kalish, Rankin Plaza.
Outdoor sculpture, "3 Elements," steel and neon light sculptures by Dutch artists Frans and Marja de boer Lichtveld, in front of Stalker Hall.
Outdoor Arts Spaces Inc. sculpture, "Emanating Connections," recycled tires, by Chakaia Booker, in front of New Theater.
Outdoor Arts Spaces Inc. sculpture, "Runner," in stainless steel by Boston artist Doug Kornfeld, in front of Student Recreation Center.
Outdoor sculpture, "Arthur's Odyssey," stainless steel piece by Michael Dunbar of Springfield, Ill., northeast corner of University Hall, formerly Laboratory School.
Outdoor Arts Spaces Inc. sculpture, "TREE," by Mark Wallis, in front of Memorial Stadium.
Gallery Lounge, Hulman Memorial Student Union.
March 27 — Exhibit "Aging in America" by Dr. Jeffrey M. Levine, geriatrician in New York City; announcement and exhibit of winners in "Aging in the Wabash Valley" photo competition, 4:30 p.m.; artist talk by Levine, 5:20; reception until 7:30.
Hours: 7 a.m. to midnight Monday through Friday; 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday, Sunday; closed through winter recess. For information, call 812-237-3814.
Bare-Montgomery Memorial Gallery, Fairbanks Hall.
Hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Call for hours and information: 812-237-3720.
Turman Art Gallery, Center for Performing and Fine Arts, 649 Chestnut St.
Hours: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Memorial Stadium, Brown and Wabash avenues.
Arts Spaces outdoor sculpture at the Indiana Mile, TREE by Mark Wallis of Spencer.
IVY TECH COMMUNITY COLLEGE, 8000 S. Education Drive.
Center for Information Technology, first and second floors.
Oakley Auditorium Art Gallery
Hours: 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 8 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. Friday, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.
ROSE-HULMAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, 5500 E. Wabash Ave.
Currently — Spring Art Exhibit of works by Peter Bruning, Pat Grigg, Elizabeth Petrulis and Don Monroe, Moench and Myers halls.
Outdoor Arts Spaces Inc. sculpture, "Flame of the Millennium," by Leonardo Nierman, near entrance off U.S. 40.
Outdoor sculptures by Phil Dees of Terre Haute.
Outdoor sculpture "The Self-Made Man," front steps of Sports & Recreation Center.
Hours: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Admission free. Call Steve Letsinger, 812-877-8452 for guided tour and information on permanent exhibits at the college.
SMWC Art Gallery, 132 Hulman Hall, St. Mary-of-the-Woods. Call 812-535-5265.
Hours: Noon to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday.
Hayes Auditorium, 100 Hulman Hall.
Rooney Library
Eagleton Learning Resource Center, 11220 Illinois 1, Robinson, Ill.
LTC Library
Hours: Call 618-544-8657, ext. 1123; 544-8657, ext. 1460.
Richard E. Peeler Art Center, 10 W. Hanna St., Greencastle.
Hours: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday.
KURT VONNEGUT MEMORIAL LIBRARY, Emelie Building, 340 N. Senate Ave., Indianapolis; vonnegutlibrary.org
Hours: noon to 5 p.m. daily except Wednesdays; closed all major holidays. Admission free, donations accepted.
INDIANA INTERCHURCH CENTER ART GALLERY, 1100 W. 42nd St., Indianapolis; indianainterchurch.org.
Hours: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
DOWNTOWN INDIANAPOLIS, along Georgia Street and Capitol Avenue.
Permanent — Monument pillars honoring 10 Hoosiers: Benjamin Harrison, Abraham Lincoln, Tecumseh, Lew Wallace, Ernie Pyle, Booth Tarkington, J.L. "Wes" Montgomery, May Wright Sewell, Madame C.J. Walker and the Lilly Family; 20 others to be honored at later dates.
INDIANA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, museum at New Castle facility.
Permanent — History of the IDOC; includes displays of Indiana's most notorious inmates John Dillinger and Charles Manson, and the IDOC electric chair used from 1913-1995.
BENJAMIN HARRISON PRESIDENTIAL HOME SITE, Indianapolis; (317) 631-1888.
Currently — Daily tours on the hour and half-hour of the 16-room Italianate style house constructed by Harrison in 1874.
Currently — Women's suffrage artifacts in the restored carriage house.
Hours: 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Monday through Friday; adult tickets, $10, student tickets, $5.
FORT HARRISON STATE PARK, 59th and Post Road, Lawrence, Ind.; (317) 591-0122.
Programs free with $5 in-state admission or $7 out-of-state admission.
Call 317-591-0122.
VINCENNES STATE HISTORIC SITES, Fort Knox II, three miles north of Vincennes on Lower Fort Knox Road, next to Ouabache Trails Park.
Hours: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. Email firstname.lastname@example.com or call 812-882-7422.
WHITE RIVER CANAL, downtown Indianapolis.
Permanent — Project 9/11 Indianapolis dedication of two 22-foot steel beams recovered from the ruins of the World Trade Center.
PERCUSSIVE ARTS SOCIETY AND RHYTHM! DISCOVERY CENTER, Indianapolis, www.pas.org
Hours: (317) 974-4488.
INDIANA STATEHOUSE, 200 W. Washington St., Indianapolis.
Currently — Portraits of Ernest T. "Ernie" Pyle, World War II journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist from Dana, Ind.; St. Mother Theodore Guerin, foundress of the Sisters of Providence of St. Mary-of-the-Woods, Ind.; and Col. Richard Lieber, founder of Indiana's state parks.
JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY MUSEUM HOME, 528 Lockerbie St., Indianapolis.
Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.; closed Sunday, Monday, holidays and first two weeks of January. Call (317) 631-5885.
THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF INDIANAPOLIS, 3000 N. Meridian St., Indianapolis.
Currently — Leonardo, the world's largest mummified dinosaur in the Dinosphere exhibit.
Permanent — Playscape exhibit.
Permanent — National Geographic Treasures of the Earth.
Hours: Call (317) 334-3322. Closed Mondays.
PUTNAM COUNTY MUSEUM, 1105 N. Jackson St., Greencastle, email@example.com.
Currently — John J. Baughman book, "Our Past, Their Present: Historical Essays on Putnam County, Indiana," on sale.
Currently — Museum's second book released, "Peeler Pottery: A Retrospective," by Marj Peeler, available in soft and hard cover.
Hours: 1 to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday; 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, by appointment. Call 765-653-8419.
NCAA HALL OF CHAMPIONS, White River State Park, Indianapolis, ncaahallofchampions.org
Hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. Sunday; (317) 916-HALL.
WONDERLAB, 308 W. Fourth St., Bloomington. Website: wonderlab.org
Hours: Call 812-337-1337.
INDIANAPOLIS ZOO/WHITE RIVER GARDENS, HILBERT CONSERVATORY, 1200 W. Washington St., Indianapolis.
GENERAL LEW WALLACE STUDY & MUSEUM, Crawfordsville, Ind.
Hours: Call 765-362-5769.
CONNER PRAIRIE INTERACTIVE HISTORY PARK, 13400 Allisonville Road, Fishers. Website: www.connerprairie.org
Hours: Closed Easter. Call (317) 776-6006 or 1-800-966-1836.
BROWN COUNTY ART GALLERY & MUSEUM, Main Street and Artist Drive, Nashville, Ind.
Currently — Collection of 30 paintings by early Indiana artists added to permanent collection, including "Daisy," by T.C. Steele.
Hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday; noon to 5 p.m. Sunday; 812-988-4609.
T.C. STEELE STATE HISTORIC SITE, 4220 TC Steele Road, Nashville, IN.
INDIANA STATE MUSEUM, Wilbur E. and Florence Jeup Ford Gallery, White River State Park, 650 W. Washington St., Indianapolis.
Currently — Fred the 3-ton mastodon skeleton, Age of Ice Exhibit, Nina Mason Pulliam Gallery.
Currently — Exhibit "Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination."
Through Aug. 17 — The Big Chill exhibit titled Ice Age Giants: The Mystery of Mammoths and Mastodons.
Hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. Call 317-232-1637 for admission information.
INDIANAPOLIS ART CENTER, 820 E. 67th St., Indianapolis; indplsartcenter.org
Hours: 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. weekdays, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, noon to 6 p.m. Sunday; call (317) 255-2464.
EUGENE AND MARILYN GLICK INDIANA HISTORY CENTER, 450 W. Ohio St., Indianapolis; indianahistory.org
Through Aug. 9 — The Indiana Experience, You Are There 1913: A City Under Water, historical articles, photos and personal accounts of the devastating Great Flood of 1913 in Indianapolis, as well as other cities in Indiana.
Currently — Journeys in Destination Indiana interactive experience.
Currently — The Indiana Experience, including You Are There, three-dimensionally recreated historic photographs, Destination Indiana "time travel" using digital technology, The Fortune History Lab with hands-on demonstrations on conservation and preservation, and The Cole Porter Room with multimedia and original materials dedicated to the interpretation of Porter's life and work.
Hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Call 1-800-447-1830 or (317) 232-1882.
USS INDIANAPOLIS MUSEUM, INDIANA WAR MEMORIAL, 431 N. Meridian St., Indianapolis.
Currently — Permanent exhibit of the USS Indianapolis, the most famous ship in U.S. history.
Currently — Sterling silver service from the USS Indiana, later used aboard the USS Indianapolis.
Hours: 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.
INDIANA MILITARY MUSEUM, Vincennes.
Permanent — F-4 Phantom fighter jet, the main combat jet in the Vietnam War.
Hours: www.indianamilitarymuseum.org or call 1-800-886-6443.
THE GALLERY, STUTZ II BUILDING, 217 W. 10th St., Suite 125, Indianapolis.
Call (317) 955-2450.
White River State Park, Indianapolis.
WALDRON GALLERY OF BROWN COUNTY, The Main Street Shoppes Complex, Old School Way, Nashville, Ind.; waldrongallery.com
Currently — New location directly behind former location.
Hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. Call 812-988-1844.
WHITEWATER VALLEY RAILROAD, 455 Market St., Connersville, Ind.; whitewatervalleyrr.org.
Hours: Call 765-825-2054.
EITELJORG MUSEUM OF AMERICAN INDIANS AND WESTERN ART, in White River State Park, 500 W. Washington St., Indianapolis, www.eiteljorg.org
Through July 13 — Blake Little: Photographs from the Gay Rodeo, black and white images of cowboys and cowgirls from the gay rodeo circuit by the Los Angeles-based photographer.
Through Aug. 3 — "Ansel Adams - A Lifetime Portfolio," includes 80 images of his personally-chosen photographs.
Currently — "R.B. Annis Western Family Experience," erect a totem pole, build a sod house, climb aboard true to life stagecoach.
Currently — "Ansel Adams in Yosemite" and "Our People, Our Land, Our Images."
Currently — "Facing West: 20 Years of the Eiteljorg Museum" and "A Gesture of Kinship: Photographs by Bruce Hucko."
Hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday; noon to 5 p.m. Sunday. Call (317) 636-9378; 1-800-633-2024. Admission: $7-$4.
INDIANAPOLIS MUSEUM OF ART, 1200 W. 38th St., Indianapolis, www.imamuseum.org
Through May 4 — Indiana By The Numbers exhibit, Elma D. and Orville A. Wilkinson Gallery.
Through Aug. 24 — Sopheap Pich: A Room, Efroymson Family Entrance Pavilion.
Through Sept. 28 — For America: Prints of the American Art-Union, Golden Gallery.
Hours: Call (317) 923-1331.
HARRISON CENTER FOR THE ARTS, 1505 N. Delaware St., Indianapolis.
Hours: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday; noon to 4 Sunday. Call (317) 396-3886.
MONROE COUNTY HISTORY CENTER, 202 E. Sixth St., Bloomington.
Hours: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.
IVY TECH JOHN WALDRON ARTS CENTER, Rosemary P. Miller Gallery and the Flashlight Gallery, 122 S. Walnut St., Bloomington.
Hours: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Thursday; 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. Call 812-334-3100.
SOUTHERN INDIANA CENTER FOR THE ARTS, 2001 N. Ewing St., Seymour.
Hours: www.soinart.com
DOWNTOWN VINCENNES, Permanent sculpture — "Tecumseh," by humanitarian artist Peter Wolf Toth, the 74th giant sculpture in Toth's "Trail of the Whispering Giants."
MINNETRISTA CULTURAL CENTER, 1200 N. Minnestrista Parkway, Muncie.
Hours: Call 765-282-4848.
BLUE MOON GALLERY, 416 Main St., Vincennes.
GEORGE ROGERS CLARK NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK, 401 S. Second St., Vincennes.
Hours: 812-882-1776. No entrance fee.
GEORGE ROGERS CLARK HOME SITE, 1102 W. Harrison Ave., Clarksville.
Call 812-280-9970.
REITZ HOME PRESERVATION SOCIETY, 224 S.E. First St., Evansville; email@example.com.
Hours: 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday; 1 to 3:30 p.m. Sunday. Closed Mondays. Call 812-426-1871.
J.E. SMITH GALLERY, 56 Adams Ave., Evansville.
Hours: 812-455-8982.
NEW HARMONY GALLERY OF CONTEMPORARY ART, 506 Main St., New Harmony; www.nhgallery.com.
Hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, noon to 4 p.m. Sunday. Call 812-682-3156.
NEW HARMONY, plein air event, Holy Angels Community Center and Ribeyre Center.
WOMEN'S INSTITUTE AND GALLERY, 916 E. Granary St., New Harmony; 812-682-3799.
Hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. Sunday, or by appointment.
WARRICK COUNTY MUSEUM, 217 S. First St., Boonville.
Hours: 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday through Wednesday; 812-897-3100.
RIVERTOWN ART GALLERY, Historic Newburgh Inc. offices, 517 W. Main St., Newburgh.
April 5 — Open house and spring exhibit, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Hours: www.fwmoa.org
EAGLE CREEK PARK, 7840 W. 56th St., Indianapolis.
Hours: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Call Nature Center, (317) 327-7148.
ECKERT & ROSS FINE ART gallery, 5627 N. Illinois St., Indianapolis.
Hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday, or by appointment, (317) 255-4561.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY & MUSEUM, Springfield, Ill., presidentlincoln.org.
April 3 — Historian Shawn Michelle Smith to discuss her book, "Pictures and Progress: Early Photography and the Making of African American Identity," book signing, 6 p.m., discussion, 6:30; reservations required, 217-558-8934.
Through Aug. 31 — Annie Leibovitz Pilgrimage, more than 70 photographs from the Smithsonian American Art Museum's collection.
Permanent — Historic Union Station.
Hours: Call 217-558-8939.
VERMILION COUNTY MUSEUM, 116 N. Gilbert St., Danville, Ill.; www.vermilioncountymuseum.org
Hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Call 217-442-2922.
DANVILLE ART LEAGUE, 320 N. Franklin, Danville, Ill.; danvilleartleague.com
Hours: 9 a.m. to noon Tuesday through Saturday; 6 to 9 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays. Call 217-442-9264.
Colleges and universities
IU Art Museum, 107 S. Indiana Ave., Bloomington.
Currently — 16 Thomas Benton mural panels, IU Auditorium lobby; two panels in Woodburn Hall, two panels in old University Theatre building.
Hours: Call 812-855-8978.
Memorial Stadium
Permanent — Prow section of World War II battleship USS Indiana joins two guns and the ships' main mast, outside stadium.
Herman B. Wells Library lobby.
Mathers Museum of World Cultures, 416 N. Indiana Ave., Bloomington.
Grunwald Gallery, Fine Arts 123, 1201 E. Seventh St., Bloomington; 812-855-8490.
Through April 5 — MFA Thesis 1 exhibition.
April 8-19 — MFA Thesis 2; gallery talk, noon, reception, 6 to 8 p.m. April 11.
Hours: noon to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday; closed Sunday, Monday.
Jordan Hall, Indianapolis campus.
Clowes Memorial Hall, Indianapolis campus.
Hours: 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.
IUPUI University Library, Level One Lobby, 755 W. Michigan St., Indianapolis.
Hours: 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday; 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday, Saturday; noon to 6 p.m. Sunday. Call (317) 274-8278.
National Art Museum of Sport, University Place Conference Center and Hotel, 850 W. Michigan St.
Hours: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Free admission. For weekend hours or group tours, call (317) 274-3627.
Herron School of Art and Design, 1701 N. Pennsylvania St.
Permanent exhibit — Job sculpture in bronze by Judith Shea, in Allen Whitehill Clowes Pavilion, main entrance, New York Street, Herron Gallery.
Hours: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday; 10 a.m. to 8 p.m Thursdays.
Shircliff Gallery of Art, Shircliff Humanities Building, First and Harrison streets, campus.
Hours: 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday; 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday; noon to 3 p.m. Sunday. Call 812-888-4316.
Red Skelton Museum and Education Center
Currently — Vast collection of Red Skelton's career memorabilia: costumes, scripts, tapes, diaries, makeup, props, jokes, plans for songs and symphonies, original paintings and prints.
Red Skelton Museum of American Comedy
Permanent — Interactive exhibit "Red Skelton: A Legacy of Laughter."
Tarble Arts Center, Ninth Street at Cleveland Avenue, Charleston, Ill.
Outdoor sculpture — Collection includes Landspan East and Landspan West by Jeffrey G. Boshart.
Through March 30 — EIU Student Art Exhibit, main galleries and eGallery.
Through May 18 — Global Threads: International Folk Art Textiles exhibit.
Currently — "Art in Architecture" exhibit of 100 years of Charleston's architectural history.
Hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday, closed Mondays; 217-581-2787.
Brubeck Arts Center Gallery, 2200 College Drive, Mount Carmel, Ill.
Permanent sculpture — "Cinquenta," Spanish for 50, by Robert Zasadny of Oakland City, Ind., in lobby.
Through April 10 — "Be Still," work by artist Hattie Phillips.
Hours: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. Call 618-262-8641.
Museums/Exhibitions: March 27, 2014
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Children's Museum to host police dogs
The Terre Haute Children's Museum is hosting two programs Friday, Aug. 1, where kids can experiment with musical instruments and learn all about police dogs all for a discounted admission of $5.
Bobbie Parvin selected as guild's artist of the month
Acrylic paintings by Bobbie Parvin are on display in the Vigo County Public Library as she is honored as the Wabash Valley Art Guild's featured artist.
- Museums/Exhibitions: July 31, 2014
Visit musical 'petting zoo' at Children's Museum
The theme for downtown Terre Haute's First Friday on Aug. 1 will be "Dog Days of Summer." What better time for children to visit a petting zoo? The Wabash Valley Musicians Hall of Fame is planning a petting zoo of a different kind, though: a musical instrument menagerie.
River City adds 2 Artist of the Month galleries
River City Art Association Inc. in Terre Haute now has three Artist of the Month galleries to showcase artwork by its members.
- Museums/Exhibitions: July 24, 2014
All aboard for Train Day at Children's Museum
Model trains will make a stop at the Terre Haute Children's Museum as it transforms into a train station for Train Day. Explore the museum to see trains of all types and sizes from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, July 19.
Gaslight Art Colony to feature recycled art July 19-Aug. 9
Gaslight Art Colony is featuring the artwork of Palestine, Ill., artist Steve Meadows.
The exhibit is scheduled to be at the gallery from Saturday through Aug. 9. An artist's reception is planned for 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday.
- Museums/Exhibitions: July 17, 2014
Arts Illiana seeking entries July 17-19 for Wildlife & Wilderness Wonders of the World
Arts Illiana invites area artists to enter artwork in its Wildlife & Wilderness Wonders of the World exhibition. An opening reception is planned from 7 to 9 p.m. Aug. 1.
Swope announces winners in annual juried exhibition
Award winners for the Swope Art Museum's "70th Annual Wabash Valley Juried Exhibition" were announced June 28 during the exhibition's opening reception.
Korean War weekend coming to Fort Harrison State Park July 12-13
The Museum of 20th Century Warfare and the staff at Fort Harrison State Park will honor Korean War veterans with Korean War exhibits on Saturday and Sunday. The museum and the exhibit will be open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. both days.
- Museums/Exhibitions: July 10, 2014
- Museums/Exhibitions: July 3, 2014
Solo show in July features framed oil paintings
The solo show "the journey continues … " by Judith Lynn Smith will be on display July 2 to 30 in Clabber Girl Art Gallery in Hulman & Co. at Ninth Street and Wabash Avenue.
Swope celebrates 70 years of Wabash Valley Juried Exhibition
This summer, the Swope Art Museum will present the 70th annual Wabash Valley Juried Exhibition, one of the oldest and best-known juried shows in the nation.
- Museums/Exhibitions: June 26, 2014
RCAA members showcase 'River of Art'
"River of Art" is the theme of the July exhibit in the Art Sanctuary at Martinsville, Ind.
River City to feature artist's fused glass pieces in July
Each month the River City Arts Association of Terre Haute selects one of its members to display work in the Vigo County Public Library. During the month of July, that display will be several of Edith Acton's fused glass wall hangings.
Zumba, Fitness Fun at Children's Museum June 21
Throughout the month of June, the Terre Haute Children's Museum is featuring classes and activities that showcase fun ways for kids to stay active during the summer months. On Saturday, the museum will continue its "Jump Into June" activities with discounted admission, a Zumba Kids class, and Fitness Fun with New York Giants punter Steve Weatherford.
Terre Haute Children's Museum celebrates summer with special birthday party rate
The summer months are always filled with outdoor parties and gatherings, but anyone who lives in the Midwest knows that those parties can be ruined in an instant by a hot or rainy day.
- Museums/Exhibitions: June 19, 2014
View Community School of the Arts' steel sculpture exhibition through June 19
Indiana State University's Community School of the Arts presents an art exhibition in Turman Art Gallery through June 19.
The exhibition features the work of CSA's Metal Sculpture for Adults class participants Pam Anshutz, April Badger, John Edwards, Bruce Fiscus, Jo Anne Fiscus, John MacDonald, Shelley MacDonald, Edie Richards and Mike Swagerle.
- Museums/Exhibitions: June 12, 2014
'Learning to bend rules': River City features photographer
River City Art Association and the Vigo County Public Library will showcase the photographic works of Sheila Ter Meer throughout June in the library at Seventh and Poplar streets.
Community School of the Arts presents Steel Sculpture Art Exhibition
Indiana State University's Community School of the Arts presents an art exhibition at the Turman Art Gallery, June 6-19, with an opening reception from 4:30 to 6 p.m. on June 6.
Clabber Girl to display fused glass art
Fused glass artwork by Edith Acton of Terre Haute will be featured throughout June in The Gallery at Clabber Girl Hulman & Co. Museum at 900 Wabash Ave.
- Museums/Exhibitions: June 5, 2014
German museum shows live replica of van Gogh's ear
BERLIN (AP) — A German museum has put on display a copy of Vincent van Gogh's ear that was grown using some of the Dutch artist's genetic material.
Ernie Pyle museum to observe D-Day anniversary June 9
The 70th Anniversary of D-Day will be observed Friday with a special commemoration at the Ernie Pyle World War II Museum in Dana.
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The Rose-Hulman baseball team has rescheduled its non-conference game with DePauw to Thursday night.
The start time remains 7 p.m. for the single nine-inning game that was originally scheduled for today. Tuesday's scheduled Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference game at Anderson was moved to Sunday because of rain.
The Engineers also have added one home game to their baseball schedule. Rose will host Wabash College on May 6 in a makeup for the contest rained out earlier this month.
n Today's game canceled — Indiana State's game against Butler today has been canceled due to Atlantic-10 Conference makeup games scheduled that day, the Sycamores announced Monday.
Next action for ISU is a 2 p.m. home doubleheader Thursday against Illinois State.
• Sycamores sign three — Indiana State has signed three players to national letters-of-intent, coach Shane Bouman announced this week.
The new players are Aubre Carpenter, a middle infielder from Sabino High School in Tucson, Ariz.; and Pima Community College; Kaitlyn Wolken, a player projected to hit in the middle of the lineup from Tonganoxie High School in Lawrence, Kan., and top-ranked Butler Community College; and Yvette Alvarez, a pitcher and slugger from Sahuarita, Ariz., High School and Pima Community College.
• Swing for a Cure results — At Terre Haute Miss Softball America, the weekend Swing for a Cure tournament raised $22,000, an $8,000 improvement over the 2012 event.
Tournament winners were Demand Command in 8u, with the Indiana Force the runner-up; Indiana Terror (Sacket) in 10u, with the Edgewood Blaze in second; the Indiana Terror in 12u, with Indiana Matrix second; and Indiana Terror (Ellis) in 14u, with Indiana Terror (Hadley) the runner-up.
• Stallings honored — Rose-Hulman's Travis Stallings has been named Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference Men's Track Athlete of the Week, the conference announced Monday.
Competing at the Engineer Twilight Meet on Friday, Stallings won the 400-meter hurdles in 54.55 seconds and ran legs on Rose-Hulman's winning 4x400 relay team and its second-place 4x100 team.
The Engineers compete this coming weekend at the HCAC outdoor championships at Manchester.


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The state has partnered with the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association to produce and distribute brief radio address from Gov. Scott Walker once a week. Audio files and a written transcript of this radio address can be accessed online. To download an mp3 file you can visit Walker's website, right click the radio address link and click "save link as."
Here is the transcript from this Thursday's radio address, which is titled For the Next Generation.
Hi. I'm Scott Walker.
My two sons play football at our local high school. Last season, Matt got a slight concussion. The trainer had him sit out a week and get checked out by a doctor. That was good.
On Monday, I went to Lambeau Field and signed into law a bill that requires student athletes who have a possible concussion playing in school and club sports to be sidelined until they are cleared by a health care professional. We want safe sports for our kids in Wisconsin.
I want to thank the Green Bay Packers and the NFL—as well as many health care organizations for their support of this measure.
We also went to Franklin Elementary School in Wausau where I signed a law that advances many of the reforms in reading and educator effectiveness I worked on with State Superintendent Tony Evers and a diverse group from around the state. Last year, I was at the same school and sat down with the staff to talk about ways to improve education. We listened and incorporated their ideas into our work.
Overall, we are creating a safer state for our kids and a better learning environment for our students.


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This dorm room is so sweet, I may never go home (just kidding mom).
Boring beige walls (yawn) mean bright pillows are a must.
Dear mom, please send clean sheets (and peanut butter cookies).
Looks all-nighter-ready to me.
Sometimes the cafeteria just doesn't cut it.
Knowing where my socks are just might help me make that 8AM.
It goes everywhere with me, so it's got to look good.
Vacuuming makes me feel like an actual adult (shudder).
With a rug this cute, I'll make sure my clothes don't (always) end up on the floor.
I'm making that communal bathroom thing totally work.


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This ballet by Bengt Jörgen is an innovative take on the classic fairy tale. Jörgen's choreography takes us through the misfortunes and fortunes of Cinderella and her stepsisters. Cinderella is tormented by her sisters until her life is changed by the appearance of an old woman, a seed and magical fairies. When Cinderella wins the hand of her prince, her stepsisters find their world turned upside down. Framing the action are sets by Glenn Davidson that create a fantastical environment based on the idea of the natural world reclaiming man-made structures. Costume designs by Robert Doyle playfully echo each character's personality.
"This is a honey of a production - one that brings magic back to the ballet stage."
"Destined to live happily ever after."
"A classic refreshed."
"Ballet Jörgen makes Cinderella sparkle."


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Bollywood Film Industry is huge empire. Numerous films of different genres are developed and released under the Bollywood trademark in India and worldwide and from the last 20 years or so Indian films have gathered great recognition around the world especially in USA and UK. Actors like Shahrukh Khan, Aamir Khan and Salman Khan are a strong figure of Indian cinema and they are popularity have grown worldwide. Together they are also known as the Khan Trio or the Khans Factor. Other popular stars in the Indian cinema are Hrithik Roshan, Sanjay Dutt, Saif Ali Khan, Akshay Kumar and Sunny Deol who also have a powerful reputation among the audiences. Notable actresses in Indian cinema who have gained worldwide fame are Aishwariya Rai, Kajol, Kareena Kapoor, Preity Zinta, Rani Mukherjee and Katrina Kaif. But hey don't get this wrong because this article is not about the history or success story of Bollywood. This article is about the top ten dream pairs to have never appeared onscreen. To make it simple you will the information about the top 10 Bollywood couples who have been never paired on-screen. So let's start with number 10.
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10. Shahid Kapoor and Katrina Kaif
9. John Abraham and Kareena Kapoor
8. Sunny Deol and Kajol
7. Hrithik Roshan and Kajol
6. Akshay Kumar and Rani Mukherjee
5. Salman Khan and Deepika Padukone
4. Saif Ali Khan and Aishwariya Rai
3. Sanjay Dutt and Preity Zinta
2. Aamir Khan and Aishwariya Rai