Steps Through Time set Friday, Saturday at library

Columbus Signature Academy first grader Maycee Campbell plays on a vintage Ottawa Pump-It Train at the Bartholomew County Historical Society’s annual “Steps Through Time” exhibit outside the Bartholomew County Public Library in Columbus, Ind., Friday, Sept. 14, 2018. Mike Wolanin | The Republic Mike Wolanin | The Republic

The free Steps Through Time history-oriented exhibit will be from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at the Bartholomew County Public Library at 536 Fifth St. in Columbus. 

The library is partnering on the project with the Bartholomew County Historical Society, the Columbus Indiana Architectural Archives, the Bartholomew County Genealogical Society, the Yellow Trail Museum and Visitors Center, and the Atterbury-Bakalar Air Museum.

There will be displays from more than 25 individual collectors, local organizations and museums, according to organizers.

You can see Reeves and Cummins gas engines in operation and watch the engines pump water and grind corn.

Genealogy groups can help you discover your ancestry. Moreover, amid the library’s Cleo Turns 50 celebration of the half-century mark for the building designed by the late I.M. Pei, you can find out the story behind longtime librarian Cleo Rogers and her vision of serving Bartholomew County residents with an expanded, first-class library.

Information: 812-379-1266 or [email protected].