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What a year it has been! Thanks to each of our volunteers, visitors, and donors who contributed to our 2020 exhibits and activities. This year, we provided you with more virtual programming, and we were pleased with the response as neighbors, both near and far, joined us to learn more about Irvington history and art. Thousands of individuals have viewed Paul Diebold's strolls as he shared his knowledge of Irvington architecture, places, and traditions on Facebook live and on our website. We appreciated your patience as other events needed to be postponed or cancelled due to changing guidelines and requirements.
We were still able to provide new exhibits such as Twenty Portraits, Power Hats & Irvington Women, Irvington Commercial Properties, Rita Spalding: Saveurs de France, Presenting Irvington Artists (through Dec. 19), and Securing the Vote: Women's Suffrage in Indiana (through Dec. 6). The permanent exhibits, International Harvester, Angels of West Baden & Ghouls of Irvington, continued to attract new and returning visitors. Online presentations included discussions of The Year We Left Home, Something's Brewing, Robert Hunt's Art, and the "Undefeatable" Grace Julian Clarke.
We were glad to see you at the Ice Cream Socially Distanced event as you continued to support the historical society and keep our traditions going, even when adaptations were necessary. Others cleaned out closets while they were home and brought us some lovely donations which we will incorporate into future exhibits.
2020 Year In Review
A volunteer organization like the Irvington Historical Society survives and progresses only with the help of donors, large and small. Our content and our stories are all donated as well. We want to recognize and thank the businesses and individuals who have supported us over the past 12 months:
2020 Grants
2020 Sponsors
The Volunteers who keep us open!
Steve & Sue Barnett
Sue Beecher
Don Brown
Rita Chapman
Paul & Peggy Diebold
K. Egan
Char Ottinger Flick
Don Flick
Emma Flick
Irvington’s Black Hat Society
Kent Hankins & Bill Aughe
Cheryl Hizer
Jennifer Hale
Anne Hardwick
Ian Harmon
Ron Huggler
Melinda Jones
Andrea R. Light
James Harmon
Matt & Emma Robinson
Steven & Paula Schmidt
Michael Schmidt & Tammy Dominowski
Anne Spudic
Robert Uhlenhake
Don Weishaar
The following People donated materials to the IHS archives during the past year:
Kathleen Angelone
Steven R. Barnett
Sue Beecher
Kathy Bizzano
Vivian Blankenship
Mark Butterfield
William Clarke
Barbara Shortridge Cooper
Kathleen 'Kegan' Egan
Estate of Roy Hensley
Charlotte Ottinger Flick
Donald Flick
Bruce Gable
D Gaither
Marty Gallagher
Carolyn & Eugene Page Family
Irvington Community Council
Anne Hardwick
Laura Hildreth
Howe Alumni Association
Ron Huggler
Garry Brown
Irvington Garden Club
Irvington Methodist Church
Nancy Kimmell
Marilyn Korfhage
Andrea Rochelle Light
Kent Lobsiger
Rebecca Mauser
Kathy McKimmie
Charles S Milner
Debbie Parrish
Nancy Patrick
David Peat
Diane Ross
Steven & Paula Schmidt
Brad Shockney
John Shortridge
Susan Sklar
Les Strickler
Mary Jane Teeters-Eichacker
Kathleen Tilson
Robert Warren
Rhonda Wiles
Ann Zimmerman
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