Events

  • August 1, 2008 through mid-November

Indiana County's Greatest Generation

This exhibit is a display of over 100 photographs taken from 1940 to 1944 that show men leaving from the old Indiana County courthouse to serve in World War II military forces. From August 1 through the middle of November.

  • July 20, 2008 through August 30, 2008

Across the Blue

Robert Morris University senior Benjamin Loreno will display a selection of his photography titled Across the Blue, now through August 30. The photographs were taken by Loreno during a semester abroad in Europe.

  • May 30, 2008 through fall

Harry White, Civil War Hero

An exhibit about Harry White, Civil War Hero, who was also a member of a prominent Indiana County family, is now on display. This show was made possible with the help of the fifth grade classes at the Ben Franklin Elementary School in Indiana, whose annual donation is used for the preservation and display of Civil War artifacts and memorabilia.

  • Sunday, May 18, 2008
    "100 Years
    of Jimmy"

At 2 pm, the Historical Museum will host a reception sponsored by the Jimmy Stewart Museum to open a week of “100 Years of Jimmy,” which will celebrate what would have been Mr. Stewart’s 100th birthday.

 
 

  • May 10, 2008 to July 5, 2008
    The 67th Annual Spring Art Show of the Indiana Art Association

This exhibit will be on display at the Historical Museum. Opening reception will be on Saturday, May 10, 2008, 7 pm to 9 pm at the Museum. Prizes will be awarded and the reception is open to the public.

 

  • April 12, 2008, 11 am to noon
    Book signing, Denise Dusza Weber

Author Denise Dusza Weber will be at the Indiana County Historical Museum to sign copies of her book "Vintondale." The book was recently published by Arcadia Publishing Company as part of its Images of America series and includes 128 pages of historical photographs of Vintondale-from the first coal shipment in 1894 until the No. 6 mine closed in 1968. The event will be held on Saturday, April 12, from 11 am to noon at the Indiana County Historical Museum, 621 Wayne Avenue.

  • Through April 2008
    Indiana County’s Greatest Generation

This exhibit is a display of 110 photographs of Indiana County draftees taken before they left to serve in World War II military forces. Hours are 9 am to 4 pm Tuesday through Friday and 10 am to 3 pm Saturdays. (Exhibit will end April 29, 2008)

  • Through March 2008
    A display of glass made in Indiana.

    The exhibit is presented with the Rainbow Diamond Glass Club. In the Historical Museum on 621 Wayne Avenue. Hours are 9 am to 4 pm Tuesday through Friday and 10 am to 3 pm Saturdays (Exhibit will end March 29, 2008)

  • Through January 11, 2008
    The Fourth Annual Indiana County Open Arts Exhibit

    The exhibit is presented with the the Indiana Art Association. In the Historical Museum on 621 Wayne Avenue. Hours are 9 am to 4 pm Tuesday through Friday and 10 am to 3 pm Saturdays

  • December 1 & 2, 2007
    Rev. Charles Kennedy, Jr., internationally known singer and actor, will perform in concert:

  • Quiet Heroes of the Underground Railroad
    Saturday, December 1, 2007, 7 pm
    Hebron Lutheran Church, 125 North Liberty Street, Blairsville

  • A Tribute to Nat King Cole
    Sunday, December 2, 2007, 2 pm
    Indiana Theater, Philadelphia Street.

Tickets are available at the Indiana County Tourist Bureau (Indiana Mall), Indiana First Bank in Blairsville and the Blairsville Historical Society, adults, $7 and students, $5

  • November 10, 2007
    Veterans Day Observance at Historical Society

    The Historical and Genealogical Society, 621 Wayne Ave (Old Armory), will be open on Saturday, November 10th, 2007, for the observance of Veterans Day. The public is invited to tour the Memorial to the Veteran where new displays mark this observance. Refreshments will be served. Hours will be 10 am to 3 pm.  Please call 724-463-9600 with any questions.

  • October 25, 2007
    The Historical and Genealogical Society of Indiana County will hold its Annual Meeting

On Thursday, October 25th in the Historical Museum on 621 Wayne Ave. , Indiana, the Historical Society will hold its Annual Meeting. After a short business meeting, Arnold Wolfe of the Rainbow Diamond Club will speak about glass made in Indiana, PA. 

  • October 16, 2007
    Historical Marker to be Dedicated in Clymer

The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission and the Historical and Genealogical Society of Indiana County have announced plans for the dedication of a new state historical marker. The marker commemorates Dr. Robert Mitchell of Indiana, a leader of the Underground Railroad, and five fugitive slaves who were sleeping in a log cabin owned by Mitchell in what is now Clymer, then Green Township. Clarence Stephenson, renowned county historian, conducted the research and applied for the marker on behalf of the Historical Society. The public is invited to attend the dedication ceremony, which will take place on Tuesday, October 16, 2007, at 4:00 p.m. on Rt. 286, Highway East in Clymer.

  • August 17-18-19, 2007
    Rescue of Richard Newman, 1858, presented during Diamond Days

    Sponsored by the NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Underground Railroad Network to Freedom and the Blairsville Passport to Freedom Underground Railroad Experience

    Sometime in the early 1850’s, an enslaved Virginian named Richard Newman struck a dangerous and courageous path north to freedom. He began a new life in Blairsville, Pennsylvania with the help of Underground Railroad conductor and African American community leader Lewis Johnson. In those days, a reign of terror permitted white men on their word alone to “claim” any African American as a fugitive slave and take him or her into slavery. Pennsylvania law attempted to thwart this by restricting local police power from aiding slave catchers. In 1858, a deputy United States Marshall and a Uniontown bounty hunter came to Blairsville with a warrant for Richard Newman. Led by Blairsville’s African American community, a howling mob chased them out of town.

    On August 18 and 19, 2007, at 2 PM, the Blairsville Passport to Freedom Underground Railroad Experience and Civil War era living historians from around the region will re-enact the Rescue of Richard Newman at the corner of Market and Spring Streets during Blairsville’s Diamond Days festival. This will be their first reenactment as an official program of the NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Underground Railroad Network to Freedom. Next year they will kick off the Indiana County Civil War Sesquicentennial at this annual reenactment.

    They invite you to participate in commemorating this important and dramatic Freedom Story. You will become part of the story as citizens of Blairsville and travelers via canal, stage and railroad who passed through Blairsville on the way west. Feel free to dress appropriately if you wish. LOOK FOR THEIR NEWSBOY FOR THE LATEST NEWS IN 1858.

    Mr. Seth Gibson of Blairsville plays Lewis Johnson, Black community leader, Underground Railroad agent, Presbyterian congregant, and coal miner/hauler. As always, funds, sponsors, actors, entertainers, people who sew, committee members and site volunteers for the UGRR museum are needed.