Category Archives: Local history

Never Let the Facts Get in the Way of a Good Story

Posted on December 6, 2021 by David L. Rice Library

*Post written by Mona Meyer, Archives and Special Collections Metadata Librarian. This phrase has been attributed to Mark Twain (is there anything evenly remotely plausible that hasn’t been attributed to Twain?), but other sources call it proverbial. This itself is … Continue reading →

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ArchivesFest 2021: UASC and Posey County Historical Society

Posted on November 17, 2021 by David L. Rice Library

*Post written by Mona Meyer, Archives and Special Collections Metadata Librarian, and James Wethington, senior library assistant at the University Archives and Special Collections. Though #AmericanArchivesMonth is over, the University Archives and Special Collections (UASC) thanks all of this year’s … Continue reading →

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“Water, Water, Everywhere, nor any Drop to Drink”

Posted on November 15, 2021 by David L. Rice Library

*Post written by Mona Meyer, Archives and Special Collections Metadata Librarian. Samuel Taylor Coleridge penned this in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, but I’m going to co-opt it for this blog about the 1937 flood of the Ohio River. You … Continue reading →

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ArchivesFest 2021: Willard Library and Newburgh Museum

Posted on November 1, 2021 by David L. Rice Library

*Post written by Mona Meyer, Archives and Special Collections Metadata Librarian, and James Wethington, senior library assistant at the University Archives and Special Collections. As #AmericanArchivesMonth comes to a close, the University Archives and Special Collections (UASC) thanks this year’s … Continue reading →

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Evansville State Hospital

Posted on November 1, 2021 by David L. Rice Library

*Post written by Mona Meyer, Archives and Special Collections Metadata Librarian. Mental illness. That’s a term that has long scared us, that has terrible stigma attached to it. I delved into this in a January 21, 2019 blog entitled “It’s … Continue reading →

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