{"id":17161,"date":"2012-02-21T22:57:25","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T04:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=17161"},"modified":"2012-02-21T22:57:25","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T04:57:25","slug":"the-cataloguing-of-tippecanoe-county-indiana-artifacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=17161","title":{"rendered":"The Cataloguing of Tippecanoe County, Indiana Artifacts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following excerpt is from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jconline.com\/article\/20120221\/NEWS\/202210318\/Curator-connects-past-preserves-future-TCHA-collection?odyssey=nav%7Chead\">an article by Ron Wilkins<\/a>, posted at the Feb. 21, 2012 edition of jconline.com:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jconline.com\/article\/20120221\/NEWS\/202210318\/Curator-connects-past-preserves-future-TCHA-collection?odyssey=nav%7Chead\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/John-M-Harris.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"John M. Harris, former director of the Tippecanoe County Historical Association, shows a cannon ball Wednesday thought to be from the Revolutionary War era, at the Tippecanoe County Historical Association in Lafayette. (By Michael Heinz\/Journal &amp; Courier)\" width=\"250\" height=\"178\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17163\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>John M. Harris spends each Tuesday and Wednesday quietly working in a small office surrounded by shelves stacked from floor to ceiling with boxes containing &#8230; well, that&#8217;s what Harris is finding out.<\/p>\n<p>Outside his office, a much larger room is filled with stacks of boxes, filing cabinets and a conference table for sorting. Throughout the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcha.mus.in.us\/grc.htm\">Frank Arganbright Genealogy and Research Center<\/a>, items are in storage &#8212; items someone at some point considered historically significant.<\/p>\n<p>Nestled in his small office on the second floor of the center on 10th Street across from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcha.mus.in.us\/fowler.htm\">Moses Fowler House<\/a>, Harris&#8217; task is to computerize the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcha.mus.in.us\/about.htm\">Tippecanoe County Historical Association<\/a>&#8216;s hard-copy card catalogs and computerize years of donated items that escaped being enumerated or completely slipped through the cracks.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcha.mus.in.us\/grc.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Frank-Arganbright-Genealogy.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Frank Arganbright Genealogy Center\" width=\"337\" height=\"146\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-17165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Frank-Arganbright-Genealogy.jpg 337w, https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Frank-Arganbright-Genealogy-300x129.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 337px) 100vw, 337px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHe rhetorically repeated the question to himself as he leaned forward in his chair, reaching for a 10-pound cannonball set on a table in front of him: &#8220;What is it that&#8217;s fun? Being able to handle something like this that probably goes back to the Revolution,&#8221; he answered, holding out the solid shot that was found in the area of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fort_Ouiatenon\">Fort Ouiatenon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For Harris, 67, the fun is also bringing order from chaos and the chance to play history detective when he stumbles across undocumented items or some unrecognizable trinkets or artifacts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jconline.com\/article\/20120221\/NEWS\/202210318\/Curator-connects-past-preserves-future-TCHA-collection?odyssey=nav%7Chead\">Read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following excerpt is from an article by Ron Wilkins, posted at the Feb. 21, 2012 edition of jconline.com: John M. 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