Following the successful completion of the first phase of our two-phase fundraising campaign for Kurt’s “Forever Home,” I’ve received kind messages of support, additional unexpected donations, and several good questions. I have some answers for those who asked. Did you…
By Chris Lafave, Curator of the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library One Sunday in 2014, a guest from Salt Lake City, Utah, walked into the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library and requested a tour. He was in Indianapolis because his…
Karen Loftus (far left) and her Loftus Engineering Team. Now that we’ve secured the initial funding for Kurt’s “Forever Home,” we’re moving closer to a potential building purchase and are thinking about the future build out. We are so thankful…
Marian University proudly partners with community businesses and organizations to support their respective missions, as well as enhance student engagement. One class has been working with us at the Vonnegut Library for the last few years. Students in Stacy Wriston’s…
By Christopher Murphy I was a senior at Georgetown University, enrolled in ROTC (following my older, career-Army-officer brother into the Air Defense Artillery) and reading as many Kurt Vonnegut books as I could find – one right after the other.…
“If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own.” This was one of the themes of Night of Vonnegut, sponsored in part by Wabash College on April 11. While “So…
We are so happy to host American Author and Historian Douglas Brinkley at our 2019 Night of Vonnegut gala on April 11 at the Athenaeum. Dr. Brinkley will interview another well-known author, Sir Salman Rushdie, that evening as part of…
by Lance Miccio, Artist, Veteran, and Friend of the Vonnegut Library In 1998, I lived in Easton in Northampton County, Pennsylvania. My brothers and I were renovating the Mount Vernon Hotel, built nearly 150 years earlier in 1853. After months…
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