CHOCOLATE EXTRAVAGANZA, Dec. 1, The Barn at Bay Horse Inn, 1468 W. Stones Crossing Road, Greenwood. The $10 early bird admission is from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.; $5 regular admission is from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thirty-eight vendors and donated chocolate desserts. Money goes toward Haven Women’s Ministry and Biglife Ministries.
Got a craving for chocolate? Need to do some unique Christmas shopping?
An event this weekend will help you with both needs.
The annual Chocolate Extravaganza will allow you to sample chocolate from local restaurants and shop local vendors.
Admission money goes toward helping two nonprofit agencies that help women.
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH ON COMMUNITY AND CONFLICT, 9 a.m. Dec. 1, Dietz Center at Franklin College. Free. Six undergraduate students from Franklin College’s Department of History will present individual research projects as part of the Department of History’s Senior Seminar. The event, themed “Community and Conflict: Aspects of Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Indiana History."
Franklin College students want to help educate the community on Indiana history.
Senior history students were required to conduct research at local archives like the Johnson County Museum of History and the Indiana Historical Society to piece together events in Indiana history. The class is taught by Ralph Guentzel, professor of history and chair of the department.
Student presenters are organized in pairs across three panels. During the first panel, from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m., Emily Cart, will present “Norms and Transgressions: Gendering Mid-Nineteenth Century Indiana Women.” Riley Steimel will follow with “Making It into the Curriculum: A History of Women’s Studies at Franklin College.”
During the second panel, from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m., Noah Dahlquist will take audience members through the Civil War period in his discussion, titled “A Hoosier Boy Defends the Union: The Early Civil War Experiences of Billy Davis.” Afterward, Jack Rogers will bring audience members to the Vietnam War era, with “The War within the War: Indiana University-Bloomington and U.S. Military Policy in Southeast Asia, 1969-1970.”
The third panel starts at noon and will include a presentation from Griffin Reid, who will present on the topic “Foes No More, Friends Not Yet? Americans, Germans, and Italians at Camp Atterbury, 1942-1945.” Hannah Rollett will wrap up the event with her presentation on 20th century immigration to the United States, entitled “In Search of the American Dream: The Mexican Immigrant Experience in Indiana, 1920s-1970s.”
