Presented by Pete Bill. 

After being passed over for consideration as Purdue University’s president for being “too young and too jovial”, Harvey Wiley went to Washington to be the Chief Chemist of the US Dept of Agriculture. From this seemingly obscure, back-room laboratory position, Wiley’s meandering career path took him into the center of the debate over the lack of control over food additives and the misrepresentation of quackery medications as legitimate healing products. Today Wiley is considered the father of the “Pure Food and Drugs Act”, an act of congress that today ensures that the food you eat is safe, and what you take as medicine today is far more likely to help than hurt you. Come hear the tales of this “unorthodox” scientist with the quirky personality, and his Poison Squad. This event is sponsored by the National Group.

Learn more about Show & Tell programs:  Remember grade school Show & Tell, and how you looked forward to it all week? We all brought things from home that we thought were special or that were important to us. Recapture that school magic with TCHA’s Show & Tell programs! Bring a favorite piece from your collections, share what you know with others in the audience, and learn something new! Afterwards, sit back in your chair and engage with the presenter’s program.

Topic: Show & Tell: Poison food and snake oil: Harvey Wiley’s crusade

Time: Feb 7, 2023 11:30 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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Presented by Pete Bill. 

If there was a political issue of the day in the 1890’s Helen Gougar was probably somewhere near the center of the fight. Whether it be as an activist for Women’s Suffrage or the Temperance and Prohibition movement, or as an advocate for laws to protect victims of domestic violence, Helen led a life long battle for what she viewed as fundamental “human rights” that belonged to women. Her roles took her from the smoky writing rooms of newspapers to the Indiana Supreme Court. Come hear the hard-fought tales about how Lafayette native, Helen Gougar, helped lift up the roles of women in society and changed the way women were viewed.

Learn more about Show & Tell programs:  Remember grade school Show & Tell, and how you looked forward to it all week? We all brought things from home that we thought were special or that were important to us. Recapture that school magic with TCHA’s Show & Tell programs! Bring a favorite piece from your collections, share what you know with others in the audience, and learn something new! Afterwards, sit back in your chair and engage with the presenter’s program.

Presented by Ben Ross Of RATIO Architects, Inc.

Learn a little of the history of this final resting place of some 10,000 souls. Incorporated in 1848 by 23 prominent citizens, Greenbush was Lafayette’s second public cemetery, and its purpose was to provide the public with affordable burial plots. We’ll visit some graves of old settlers, well-known citizens, and unknown civil war soldiers. 

NOTE: if it is raining, we will hold the program at the Frank G. Arganbright Genealogy Center, 1001 South, Lafayette, IN

Presented by Tommy Kleckner, Director of the Western Regional Office at Indiana Landmarks.

Presented by Pete Bill. 

John T. McCutcheon once described George Ade as someone “who would always stand out in a room”. From his earliest days as a student at Purdue and Sigma Chi fraternity, to his flop-house days in Chicago as a cub reporter, to his later career as a writer, poet, and playwright, George Ade always stood out mostly by being “just a little different” … or, perhaps, “just a little odd”. Come hear some of the tales and adventures of “The Aesop of Indiana” as he traveled through life from Purdue to Chicago to his eventual Hazelden estate in nearby Brook, Indiana.

Learn more about Show & Tell programs:  Remember grade school Show & Tell, and how you looked forward to it all week? We all brought things from home that we thought were special or that were important to us. Recapture that school magic with TCHA’s Show & Tell programs! Bring a favorite piece from your collections, share what you know with others in the audience, and learn something new! Afterwards, sit back in your chair and engage with the presenter’s program.

Presented by Fred Whitford