Notes and Queries
The Society of American Archivists (SAA)
will hold its 1994 annual meet-
ing at the Westin Hotel in Indianapolis,
Indiana, September 6 through
September 11. The general theme will be
"The Archival Core: Defining the
Profession in the Information Age."
For more information about the meeting
contact either Bruce L. Johnson,
Director of the Library at the Indiana
Historical Society, at (317) 232-1879,
or Eric Pumroy, Head of Special
Collections and Archives at Indiana University-Purdue
University at
Indianapolis, at (317) 274-0462. Johnson
and Pumroy are serving as co-
chairs of the local Host Committee for
the meeting.
The historian of the Hillsboro First
United Methodist Church is seeking to
improve that church's collection of
historical information on Hillsboro
Methodism. This includes information
about: Ambrose Chapel United
Brethren Church, the Old Constitution
United Brethren Ambrose Class and
Hillsboro Mission, United Brethren
Hillsboro District Leaders, the Hillsboro
District of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, Hillsboro M.E. Station, Hillsboro
M.E. Circuit,Hillsboro African Methodist
Episcopal Church (Black Rock and
Wayman Chapels), Leesburg A.M.E.
Society, Hillsboro Wesleyan Church,
and Hillsboro Female College. Any
evidence of a Women's Christian
Association before the 1873 Crusade is
also welcome. Contact: Church
Historian, First United Methodist
Church, 133 E. Walnut St., Hillsboro, Ohio
45133-1499.
The Western Reserve Historical Society
has received the papers of Julian I.
Krawcheck, retired commentary columnist
and reporter for the Cleveland
Press. The collection consists of material from his early
career as a reporter
in Charlotte, North Carolina; scrapbooks
of Krawcheck's Cleveland Press
newstories and series from the years
1949-1977; and the complete collection
of the union newspaper, the Cleveland
Record, printed during the newspaper
strike of 1963. Of greatest
significance are Krawcheck's unpublished articles
and interviews and the research notes,
memos, and drafts used for his
columns and series. For further
information about this collection, contact the
Library Director, Western Reserve
Historical Society, 10825 East Blvd.,
Cleveland, Ohio 44106.
The Kentucky Historical Society has
presented its 1993 Richard H. Collins
Award to A. Gwynn Henderson, staff
archaeologist at the Program for
Cultural Resource Assessment, University
of Kentucky. The award, designed
to recognize outstanding research and
writing, was given for Henderson's ar-
ticle entitled "Dispelling the
Myth: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century
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Indian Life in Kentucky," which
appeared in the Winter 1992 issue of The
Register of the Kentucky Historical
Society.
The New York State Historical
Association and The Farmers' Museum re-
cently announced several awards. Clifton
Hood, Assistant Professor of
History at Hobart and William Smith
Colleges, received the 1993 New York
State Historical Association Manuscript
Award for his monograph, "722
Miles: The Building of the Subways and
How They Transformed New
York." The first place 1993 Kerr
History Prize went to Stefan Bielinski, di-
rector of the Colonial Albany Social
History Project of the New York State
Museum, for his article, "A
Middling Sort: Artisans and Tradesmen in
Colonial Albany," while Geoffrey
Blodgett, Danforth Professor of History at
Oberlin College, received the second
place prize for his article, "The
Emergence of Grover Cleveland: A Fresh
Appraisal." Both articles appeared
in 1992 issues of New York History.
The Forest History Society recently
announced a number of prizes and
awards. William J. Cronon and Donald J.
Pisani will share the 1993 Charles
A. Weyerhaeuser Award for the best book
on forest and conservation history
published in 1991-1992. Cronon, the Frederick
Jackson Turner Professor of
History, Geography, and Environmental
Studies at the University of
Wisconsin, won with his book, Nature's
Metropolis: Chicago and the Great
West. Pisani, Professor of History at the Texas A&M
University, shares the
award with his, To Reclaim a Divided
West: Water, Law, and Public Policy,
1848-1902. Cronon also won the Society's 1993 Theodore C. Blegen
Award
for his article, "A Place for
Stories: Nature, History, and Narrative," which
appeared in the March 1992 issue of Journal
of American History. The Ralph
W. Hidy Award went to Ralph H. Lutts,
director of education at the Virginia
Museum of Natural History, for his
article, "The Trouble with Bambi: Walt
Disney's Bambi and the American Vision
of Nature," which appeared in the
October 1992 issue of Forest &
Conservation History. Nelson H. Lawry, a
science writer in Rollinsford, New
Hampshire, has won the 1993 John M.
Collier Award for Forest History Journalism
with his "Big Business Won
Environmental Fight in Early New
Hampshire." For further information
about these, and other awards, contact
the Forest History Society at 701
Vickers Avenue, Durham, North Carolina
27701.
The Western History Association has a
number of annual awards available
which may be of interest to our readers.
The Caughey Western History
Association Book Prize is given annually
for the most outstanding book on
the history of the American West
(broadly defined) and consists of $2,500
and a certificate presented to both the
author and the press. The Rundell
Graduate Student Award offers $1,000 to
a graduate student in the process of
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researching a dissertation topic in the
field of western history. The Ray A.
Billington Prize was established to
recognize the best article (essays of
10,000 words or less) on western history
published in any journal other than
the Western Historical Quarterly and
carries an award of $300 to the author
and $100 to the publishing journal. The
Bolton-Kinnaird Award in
Borderlands History presents a prize of
$300 for the best article on any phase
of the history of the Borderlands, from
the Floridas to the Californias, from
the sixteenth century to the present,
published in any scholarly journal or
edited volume during the previous
calendar year. The W. Turrentine Jackson
Prize is given biennially to a beginning
professional historian for a first book
on any aspect of the history of the
American West and carries a $1,000 cash
award. The Joan Paterson Kerr Book Award
is a biennial award of $400 and
a certificate to the university press
and a certificate to the author for the best
illustrated book on the history of the
American west. The Sara Jackson
Award is an annual award of $500 to
support the M.A. or Ph.D. research of a
minority student in the field of western
history. All of these awards are an-
nounced at the annual meeting of the
Western History Association in the fall
of the year. For specific information
and requirements of the prizes, contact
the Western History Association,
University of Nevada, Department of
History, Reno, Nevada 89557.
The University of Iowa Press recently
issued H. Roger Grant's Living in
the Depot: The Two-Story Railroad
Station as part of their American
Land
and Life Series. For information about ordering Living in the Depot, contact
the University of Iowa Press at 119 W.
Park Road, 100 Kuhl House, Iowa
City, Iowa 52242-1000.
The Indiana Historical Society, in
cooperation with the Tippecanoe County
Historical Association, recently
published Indians and a Changing Frontier:
The Art of George Winter. A lavishly illustrated volume, Indians and a
Changing Frontier focuses on the career of George Winter, one of the
first
professional artists to live and work in
Indiana. The catalog, compiled by
Sarah E. Cooke and Rachel Ramadhyani,
documents the 760 watercolors and
drawings of Winter located at the
Tippecanoe County Historical Association
in Lafayette. For information about this
publication, contact the Indiana
Historical Society, 315 W. Ohio St.,
Indianapolis, IN 46202.
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