A Sense of Place: Recent Episodes
The Goshen News
The Elkhart County Historical Museum in partnership with The Goshen News presents a monthly podcast about the history of Elkhart County and current exhibits at the museum. The podcast is hosted by Patrick McGuire, curator of education at the museum.
Elkhart County Historical Museum's Curator of Education Patrick McGuire talks with the editor of The Goshen News Sheila Selman about 30 years in journalism.
Elkhart County History Museum Curator of Education Patrick McGuire explores Elkhart County's horticulturists and their amazing varieties of flowers in this month's episode.
Elkhart County Historical Museum Curator of Education Patrick McGuire talks with Jim Geisel and Tiemen Godwalt about an upcoming play at the museum, "Kluckers: Indiana and the 1920s KKK." Tickets are $12 for the Sept. 24 performance at the museum. To purchase tickets, go to The Acting Ensemble's website, actingensemble.com.
Do you know why Alka Seltzer's jingle is "plop, plop, fizz, fizz" and not "plop, fizz"? Elkhart County Historical Museum's Curator of Education Patrick McGuire explains the marketing behind one of Elkhart County's most famous products.
Elkhart County Historical Museum Curator of Education Patrick McGuire talks with Lloyd Miller, the president of the Elkhart county Historical Society.
Host Patrick McGuire, curator of education at the Elkhart County Historical Museum, is joined by Paige Renshaw to discuss the exhibit she curated concerning Pearl Harbor Day and some of the local men who were there that day.
Kyle Hufford and Eric Miller of Goshen College's FiveCore Media talk with host Patrick McGuire about their movie "Vital Passage: A Holocaust Rescue Story." The story focuses on a Goshen family, the Plauts, who were business owners. They rescued 28 Jewish refugees from Germany prior to the outbreak of World War II. For more on the movie and the Plauts go to fivecoremedia.com/vitalpassage.
Elkhart County Historical Museum Curator of Education Patrick McGuire is joined by museum Administrator Julie Parke to talk about the museum winning the "Oscars" of museums during the American Association of State and Local History meeting. The two also reveal what went into making their award-winning three-part "Crossroads of Elkhart County" exhibit.
Elkhart County Historical Museum Administrator Julie Parke steps in for host Patrick McGuire for this month's episode and talks about convicted serial murderer Rudy Bladel and the Elkhart rail yard murders.
Elkhart County Historical Museum Curator of Education Patrick McGuire talks about the history of the St. Joseph River and it significance to the Miami and Potawatomi nations, plus its role in transportation. The river will be the focus of a documentary produced by WNIT, the local PBS channel. It will air at 8 p.m. Sept. 9 on WNIT and will premiere at the museum at 7 p.m. Sept. 23. However, it will first show at the Bristol Public Library at 2 p.m. Aug. 28.
Elkhart County Historical Museum Curator of Education Patrick McGuire explores Juneteenth, critical race theory, the 1619 project and their roles in the classroom in this month's podcast. Plus, Patrick talks about an effort by about 20 attorneys general, including Indiana's Todd Rokita, to enact a law banning critical race theory and the 1619 project in schools.
Host Patrick McGuire, curator of education for the Elkhart County Historical Museum, talks about the colorful and somewhat notorious life of Emma Barrett Molloy, Elkhart County's first female newspaper editor.
Elkhart County Historical Museum Curator of Education Patrick McGuire explores the life of Elkhart native Violet Schmidt Weitzman. Weitzman was nationally famous as a child for waving at the Twentieth Century Limited train as it passed by her backyard. Her second round of national attention came for being a Rockford Peach, the team featured in the movie "A League of Their Own." She even was an extra in the movie. Listen as Patrick tells her story, which can also be found at the Elkhart County Historical Museum.
Elkhart County Curator of Education Patrick McGuire is joined by the museum's Curator of Collections, Michelle Nash, for a talk about her job and how collections come about.
History evolves as diverse experiences and viewpoints are added, which is why research is important. Elkhart County Historical Museum Curator of Education Patrick McGuire explains the controversy around Christopher Columbus, statues and more in this week's podcast.
Dan Shenk and Lee Roy Berry Jr. talk with podcast host Patrick McGuire, Elkhart County Historical Museum curator of education, about Goshen's history as a sundown town and the resolutionGoshen city officials passed recognizing that. The two men were instrumental in collecting historical evidence and initiating the resolution.
Elkhart County History Museum Curator of Education Patrick McGuire finds that while creating a new exhibit for the museum more African American stories need to be told from their point of view. In this episode, he explores the migration of African Americans to Elkhart County, the railroad, schools, the Tolsons, the Klan, Goshen as a sundown town and racism.
Elkhart County Historical Museum Directror Julie Parke gives insight into World War I nurse Maude Essig of Elkhart, including some excerpts from Essig's journals.
Elkhart County Historical Museum's Curator of Education Patrick McGuire explores several virus-related themes in this month's podcast. He talks about keeping historical records of the novel coronavirus for future generations, virtual museum tours, how the sacrifice of first responders and medical personnel is similar to the Palm Sunday tornadoes and how a virus of the past led to medical innovation.
The Black Hawk War of 1832 led to hysteria in Elkhart County, leading settlers to build Fort Beane in Goshen. Hear the story of the fort as told by Elkhart County Historical Museum Curator of Education Patrick McGuire.
The Smithsonian has come to the Elkhart County Historical Museum. Museum Curator of Education Patrick McGuire talks with museum Director Julie Parke about this new traveling Smithsonian exhibit titled "Crossroads: Change in Rural America."
Elkhart County Historical Museum Curator of Education Patrick McGuire reveals the history of how communities in Elkhart County were named.
Elkhart County Historical Museum Curator of Education Patrick McGuire explores the beginnings of Elkhart County in a new exhibit that spans Potawatomi and Miami tribes living in the area to the arrival of the railroad.