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Post by DD on Mar 28, 2006 8:27:38 GMT -5
I met Pam Dinsmore (Have you seen my town Columbus Indiana through the lens) the other day and we talked about her book and she signed mine for me. She said that she is getting great feedback from her book and is really happy so many people are enjoying it. I ask her when the Republic newspaper was going to do an article on it, she said she talked to them twice and her publisher did also but they (the paper) didn't want to because it was a self published book, so Pam told them to forget it because she said she could see it was useless to keep trying because they just wasn't interested I told her I thought this was ridiculous but she said it was true. What a shame! the Republic is only paper Columbus has and yet they refuse to show it off a little with this book I'll give it the credit it deserves anyone out there who truly enjoys the beauty of Columbus go get this book , it's full color and believe me you won't be disappointed!!
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Post by David Sechrest on May 15, 2006 1:51:45 GMT -5
This is not really a book, but a more of a study. Here's the info: An historic preservation/conservation study prepared by: LeRoy Troyer and Associates, Architects/Planners/Landscape Architects, 1977. The "book" has quite a few pictures of historic buildings and places. The Washington Street Apts. picture came from this book, as well as the plat map and historic buildings posted in the Main Street/Downtown History folder. I doubt very seriously if you'll ever find this "book" for sale anywhere.
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Post by David Sechrest on May 16, 2006 20:40:54 GMT -5
If I could recommend 3 books to permanently own regarding Columbus history, this would be one of them. This book is a reprint of the original "Illustrated Historical Atlas of Bartholomew County, Indiana, 1879," by the Bartholomew County Historical Society in 1978. As I stated in another post in the Downtown History Folder, the text was written by Colonel John A. Keith, attorney, and son of Isham Keith. The book contains many wonderful pictures of farms of the time, and maps of all cities in Bartholomew County. The map of Columbus of the time contains many identified buildings and areas. I believe this book to be out of print, so keep your eye out for a copy. They usually go for about $30.
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Post by Ricky_Berkey on Sept 10, 2006 6:36:07 GMT -5
This is from the "Looking Back" column in the Republic for 9/8/2006:
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From Columbus Comment: "William E. Marsh's book 'I Discover Columbus,' which reached local purchasers last week, has caused a lot of tongues to wag. It has been the topic of discussion in many homes, and some of the things that have been said have not been complimentary. On the other hand a few citizens have expressed themselves as having enjoyed the opus, much of what was published in a series of articles in The Evening Republican 20 years ago and written by the ex-Columbus newspaperman."
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Post by nancs on Sept 10, 2006 18:46:43 GMT -5
In September 1956, according to notes in my family's copy of 'I Discover Columbus,' Wm. Marsh was at an open house at my aunt and uncle's home in Orange, CA. At that time he did autograph our book. Additionally, in our copy, I found a photo of Mr. Marsh, from the June 30, 1962, edition of the Evening Republican. From the article, consideration at that time was to find a place for a museum, perhaps in the old jail. Nanc
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Post by nancs on Sept 14, 2006 8:23:15 GMT -5
My list of 'Things to Do,' is vast!!!!! One of the many items on that list is to make note of Pam Dinsmore's book on the boards..................when I was in Columbus, one of my first stops was the visitor's center to 'gather up,' as promised to my family, things that we didn't already have about Columbus. At that time I purchased Pam Dinsmore's book------what a treasure it is. It was my privilege to meet Pam at the historic Columbus Celebration. What a delightful lady!!!!!!!!!! Her collection of Columbus photos, all in color, is so well done, and thought out. It really matters not, if you are a tourist, a newcomer to Columbus, or an old timer------------her book compliments whatever you are looking for about Columbus. In my case, I have used Pam's book with my mom, and we have had wonderful conversations about places that still remain in her memory bank, and I can show her what they are like today. Thanks Pam, for putting together such a wonderful photo journal about Columbus. Check it out, folks, the title is Have You Seen My Town? Columbus, Indiana Through the Lens. Nanc
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Post by David Sechrest on Oct 6, 2006 13:30:53 GMT -5
Hellooooooo Everyone! From the America In Bloom website: The eight America In Bloom Criteria Awards were announced following a Special Welcome Reception for attendees at the 5th Annual America in Bloom Educational Symposium and Awards.
The reception was held at the Basin Park Hotel, followed by the presentations at the City Auditorium.
This summer, America in Bloom judges visited participating communities across America to evaluate them on their accomplishments with floral displays, landscapes, urban forestry, turf and groundcover areas, heritage conservation, environmental awareness, tidiness and community involvement.
Towns were evaluated according to a series of guidelines on the efforts of the entire community, including residential neighborhoods, business and commercial areas, and municipal parks and grounds.
One Award for each of AiB’s eight judging criteria was presented to the community achieving the highest score in that criteria, regardless of the population category they entered in.Columbus IndianaColumbus has received many state and even national awards for its landscaped areas. Its landscapes are varied from the natural prairie along the front entrance from the interstate, to the formal Italianate gardens of the Irwin home, from the interstate entrance to businesses to homes. Several nationally known landscape architects have their work seen in Columbus. Connecting many of these parks and landscapes ae 19 miles of “People Trails.” To accompany this award, a special book entitled Columbus In Bloom will be available shortly. As soon as I can find a picture of it, it will be posted here.
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Post by David Sechrest on Oct 6, 2006 13:38:37 GMT -5
Sylvia Whorton will have a new book coming out very soon.
People & Places In My Town Columbus Indiana has some nice pictures in it. I wish I could share more info about it. I skimmed through it the other day, and got caught up by the pictures.
I would say it's probably the best of the three books Sylvia has written.
A picture of the cover will be shown here very soon!
Oops, you can buy the book at Art In The Heartland (372-0762). Talk to Sue about it...
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Post by David Sechrest on Jul 27, 2007 21:20:39 GMT -5
While at Walgreen's out on the bypass this morning, I happened to notice that there were scads of Tamara Iorio's Postcard book, and Patricia Mote's Images Of America: Columbus. Both were $19.95 each, plus tax. For those of you who might not have picked up a copy and still want one!
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Post by richard on Sept 10, 2007 14:22:35 GMT -5
The advertisement, shown below, was in The Republic Sunday, September 9, 2007.
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Post by richard on Sept 22, 2007 18:33:52 GMT -5
“A Columbus, Indiana Visitor’s Guide” is another Columbus book by Pamela Dinsmore. The 48 page guide is published by and available at Art in the Heartland, 408 Washington Street, Columbus, IN. 47201. Phone 812-376-3465, online at www.artintheheartland.comThe soft cover book went on sale this week and I understand it may also be available at the Visitors Center.
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Post by richard on Sept 22, 2007 18:35:07 GMT -5
“Remembering Quality Mill Supply... And Then Some...” By Ray Long also went on sale this week. The146 page, soft cover, book is published by and available at Art in the Heartland, 408 Washington Street, Columbus, IN. 47201. Phone 812-376-3465, online at www.artintheheartland.comThe author weaves the everyday happenings taking place behind the doors of Quality Mill Supply, during his thirty-four-year tenure.
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Post by richard on Dec 4, 2007 22:45:02 GMT -5
I believe limited copies of this book are available at The Republic in Columbus.
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Post by Ricky_Berkey on Dec 5, 2007 8:49:08 GMT -5
Great book! It was put together by Harry McCawley, sure wish we could get him to join our website!. This book is a companion to the Columbus: 125 years book that kind of inspired David to create the website and then in turn inspired me. None of the pictures in the two books were duplicated. It would be nice to see them re-release the first book as well. What woud be really nice would be for them to put all their photos online but then how would they be able to sell any more books I believe limited copies of this book are available at The Republic in Columbus.
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Post by BobLane on Dec 5, 2007 15:13:26 GMT -5
Hi folks, and Richard, thanks for posting the picture which I think was from one our Pioneer Days of the 50's . It would be interesting if folks could identify and post the names of those in the picture. Memories, how good to remember where we came from. Bob Lane
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Post by David Sechrest on Dec 21, 2007 11:55:42 GMT -5
C. Robert Wolfe has written a new book which includes his time spent growing up in Columbus Indiana. My Time is available at Art In The Heartland, 408 Washington St., Columbus IN 47201. Telephone: 812-372-0762. Ask for Sue Breeding. This book sells for $19.95
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Post by David Sechrest on Dec 21, 2007 13:00:46 GMT -5
I believe limited copies of this book are available at The Republic in Columbus. [/size] [/quote] I just received my copy of this book last evening, and spent the rest of the night pouring over the pictures. I even got out my magnifying glass to check out some detail, especially with the downtown pictures. I thoroughly enjoyed this book, and want to thank Harry McCawley and The Republic for doing a fine job in selecting the pictures. There are just a couple of clarifications that need to be made, though. At the bottom of page 8, the picture is identified as "The Crump Theatre on Third Street had a distinctly different look in this photo from the 1890's." Well, sure it had a different look because this wasn't the Crump Theatre on 3rd Street. George and I discussed a version of this pic in the Crump Thread, and came to the conclusion that it was located across from the Courthouse on Washington Street. It's the old A. Tross Building. To read more about this, check out the Crump Theatre Thread. Page 38, botton pic: It is great to see a picture of George Cummins, who opened up his Cummins Bookstore in 1892. There is something else going on in this picture, other than what the caption reads. It appears that George Cummins is pointing to a man on the front page of the Indianapolis Star. Also, please notice the taped up copy of the newspaper on the left hand side. George was an Indianapolis Star distributor from the paper's inception, and the newspaper on the left is the first copy of the Indianapolis Star. This picture really captures what it was like to walk into Cummins Bookstore even when I was a kid and used to shop there throughout the 1960's. The wall of magazines was always a treat to me, although the location in the picture is different from when I used to frequent the place. In the 1960's, the wall of mags was located to the right when you stepped through the door. Also, I just had to get the magnifying glass out and check out the comics on the bottom shelf! On page 47, the picture is identified as "Before the creation of Flat Rock-Hawcreek School Corp. in 1957, the town of Clifford had its own high school." Ok, I'm sure they did, but the picture is of the old State Street School buildings in East Columbus. I attended school in both buildings from 1958 through 1964, and know these two buildings by heart. This is one of the best pics I've ever seen of State Street School. The picture of the lady stepping out of the TV set (on top of a car, no less) on page 43 really captures the "way-out" advertising gimmicks of the 1950's as well as the popularity of something called the "television set." Also, the "Living Color-TV" sign tells me that this picture happened sometime after 1954, as that was the year the installation of color transmission lines was completed, enabling us Columbus Indiana residents to watch TV shows in color (IF, you had a color tv set). This book compliments the first one, which by the way, came out almost 10 years to the day. Let's hope we don't have to wait another ten years for another!
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Post by richard on Jan 13, 2008 14:47:45 GMT -5
I believe limited copies of this book are available at The Republic in Columbus. [/size] [/quote] I just received my copy of this book last evening, and spent the rest of the night pouring over the pictures. I even got out my magnifying glass to check out some detail, especially with the downtown pictures. I thoroughly enjoyed this book, and want to thank Harry McCawley and The Republic for doing a fine job in selecting the pictures. There are just a couple of clarifications that need to be made, though. At the bottom of page 8, the picture is identified as "The Crump Theatre on Third Street had a distinctly different look in this photo from the 1890's." Well, sure it had a different look because this wasn't the Crump Theatre on 3rd Street. George and I discussed a version of this pic in the Crump Thread, and came to the conclusion that it was located across from the Courthouse on Washington Street. It's the old A. Tross Building. To read more about this, check out the Crump Theatre Thread. Page 38, botton pic: It is great to see a picture of George Cummins, who opened up his Cummins Bookstore in 1892. There is something else going on in this picture, other than what the caption reads. It appears that George Cummins is pointing to a man on the front page of the Indianapolis Star. Also, please notice the taped up copy of the newspaper on the left hand side. George was an Indianapolis Star distributor from the paper's inception, and the newspaper on the left is the first copy of the Indianapolis Star. This picture really captures what it was like to walk into Cummins Bookstore even when I was a kid and used to shop there throughout the 1960's. The wall of magazines was always a treat to me, although the location in the picture is different from when I used to frequent the place. In the 1960's, the wall of mags was located to the right when you stepped through the door. Also, I just had to get the magnifying glass out and check out the comics on the bottom shelf! On page 47, the picture is identified as "Before the creation of Flat Rock-Hawcreek School Corp. in 1957, the town of Clifford had its own high school." Ok, I'm sure they did, but the picture is of the old State Street School buildings in East Columbus. I attended school in both buildings from 1958 through 1964, and know these two buildings by heart. This is one of the best pics I've ever seen of State Street School. The picture of the lady stepping out of the TV set (on top of a car, no less) on page 43 really captures the "way-out" advertising gimmicks of the 1950's as well as the popularity of something called the "television set." Also, the "Living Color-TV" sign tells me that this picture happened sometime after 1954, as that was the year the installation of color transmission lines was completed, enabling us Columbus Indiana residents to watch TV shows in color (IF, you had a color tv set). This book compliments the first one, which by the way, came out almost 10 years to the day. Let's hope we don't have to wait another ten years for another![/quote] When I attended school, the “New” Building on the left of page 47, grade one thru three was in that building. The gymnasium was also in that building. The “Old” Building housed grades four, five, six and seventh grade classes. The first color picture, was taken January 12, 2008. Today that building is a County Annex Building. As you can see, the Flag Pole appears to be in the same location. As I walked past that pole, where hundreds of Patrol Boys and Girls had daily, raised and lowered the flag, I noticed that the pole has been repaired. A "C Channel" steel bar has been welded to two sides of that pole! Also notice that on the left edge of both pictures the former location of the Suburban Grill can be seen at it’s location at State Street and Illinois Avenue. The third picture shows that the “New Building” was built in 1928 and at that time it was the #7 School. I suppose I should say that the “Old Building” was torn down a short time after the “New” Fodrea School was opened at 2775 Illinois Street.
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Post by RER on Jan 13, 2008 17:11:00 GMT -5
Bartholomew County "Steps Through Time" Book, Page 47 Printed by The Republic Newspaper Is In ErrorAs David, Richard and now a former Clifford High School attendee said that is not Clifford High School. I wrote to former Columbus Indiana CHS graduate and basketball great Jerry Schofield a few days ago about Clifford High School. I sent him the picture that was shown in the book on page 47. His response is this: QUOTE: "I am not sure if it is State Street school. But I am pretty sure it is not Clifford as the porch on Clifford was much larger and there was no building to the left as we are viewing this photo. There was a basketball court on that side of the school where the other building is shown". END QUOTE Jerry transfered from Clifford High School to Columbus High School around 1954-1955 and played basketball for Bill Stearman for one year. So, the bottom-line of this picture on page 47 is what David, Richard and Jerry Schofield says: "It is not Clifford High School of the past." It is what David and Richard said: It is the old State Street School of the past that was located in East Columbus Indiana. I also remember the two buildings during the 1950s and that looks like State Street to me.
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Post by David Sechrest on Feb 2, 2008 18:32:19 GMT -5
I'm going to have to change the name of this category to include books about people from Columbus as well. And...here's the first: Now You Know: The Story of the Four Freshmen, by Ross Barbour Copyright 1995, Balboa Books, ISBN 0-936653-83-3 Price: $24.95 This book is available for purchase through Amazon, and a-capella.com. If anyone is aware of other places the book can be purchased, could you please let others know? Thanks!
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