"Riverside High School: A Knot-ical Tale" told by Kim McCann

3010 North White River Parkway East Drive,Indianapolis IN 46208

01 August, 2021

Description

If These Walls Could Tell Series in collaboration with Indiana Landmarks and Storytelling Arts of Indiana Set sail on a story that twines strings of occupancy, intention, and intrigue, creating knots that anchor this structure in Indiana's history. In the midst of the Great Depression, crews from the Works Progress Administration constructed a gleaming white naval armory on Indianapolis’ White River, where U.S. Navy and Marine recruits trained for decades. Three years ago, the armory embarked on a different educational mission as Riverside High School. At the Rescue Party on April 25, 2020, Indiana Landmarks honored Indianapolis Classical Schools’ remarkable adaptation of the 1938 armory with the 2020 Cook Cup for Outstanding Restoration. Join us to hear Kim McCann tell the story of this magnificent building and its transformation into Riverside High School. Following the storytelling event, tours of Riverside High School will be offered until 6 pm. About Kim McCann Kim McCann is a full-time historical interpreter and program developer at Conner Prairie. She has performed several one-woman shows during the IndyFringe Festival, including "Screw You, I'm Nancy Drew." During the summer of 2018, she attended the As I Recall Storytelling Guild at Hamilton East Public Library, where she first considered the possibility of formalizing something she had been doing her entire life — entertaining and engaging people with a personal recollection of her life and experiences. McCann won the first and second Indy Story Slams of 2018 earning her a spot to open for Vicki Juditz at the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana History Center. She also opened for Ghost Stories at Crown Hill Cemetery. In November 2019, she premiered "Gin Girl" for the Frank Basile Emerging Stories Fellowship. About the If These Walls Could Tell Series sponsored by Frank and Katrina Basile Indiana Landmarks and Storytelling Arts of Indiana, with generous support from Frank and Katrina Basile, developed the If These Walls Could Tell series in 2011 to honor the winners of the Cook Cup Award for Outstanding Restoration. These original stories inspired by historical Indiana buildings are about the people who have built, lived, worked, gathered, and restored these vintage places.