by: Reed Parker, Inside INdiana Business
Posted:
Jan 19, 2021 / 10:29 AM EST
INDIANAPOLIS (Inside INdiana Business) Five Indiana counties have new county historians after their appointments by the Indiana Historical Society and Indiana Historical Bureau. The new historians in Pulaski, Delaware, Vigo, LaPorte and Shelby counties will serve three-year terms.
Mary Conner is the new appointee in Pulaski County as she currently serves as a docent at the Pulaski County Historical Society, and also owns a family farm awarded the Hoosier Homestead Award.
New Delaware County Historian Karen Vincent serves as board president of the Delaware County Historical Society and recently retired from Minnetrista in Muncie. She has also served as past president of the Association of Indiana Museums.
CROWN POINT â Friends and family gathered Monday afternoon to honor Bruce Woods, a beloved Lake County historian and educator.Â
Rev. Mark Wilkins, senior pastor at First United Methodist Church of Crown Point, said those gathered at Burns Funeral Home â in person or via Facebook Live â were there to honor Woods greatness. It is sadly trite to begin a funeral service by saying that we come to remember a great man, Wilkins said. The reason I say sadly is because greatness has become somewhat of a demeaning term in our modern culture. We attribute greatness to anyone from our greatest heroes all the way down to somebody whose chief skill is hitting 3-pointers in overtime. Â