The conservation movement was in its infancy when Lew Wallace was alive. An avid sportsman, including hunting and fishing, Lew loved the outdoors. The Grand Kankakee Marsh One of Lew Wallace’s favorite places on earth was the Grand Kankakee Marsh that spread across Northwestern Indiana into Illinois. Over the course […]
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Thanks to heavy rainfall this past week, Lew’s reflecting pool has made a brief reappearance behind the Study. Take a look at this historic photo of the reflecting pool… …then compare it to a photo taken this morning. You can almost see it, can’t you?
“The border around the skylight is handpainted, designed by the owner. It consists of implements of warfare in groups chained together. We see the shield, helmet, sword, bugle, breastplate, etc…” – Ella Kostanzer, January 1, 1900 With these words, recorded 113 years ago, Ella Kostanzer became the only person to ever […]
For those of you who live in the Southwest, here’s a great opportunity to connect locally! Gail Stephens, a Lew Wallace Study Preservation Society board member, is scheduled to speak to the Scottsdale (Arizona) Civil War Roundtable a week from today (4/16/2013). Gail, a volunteer at Monocacy National Battlefield and […]
We have a lot of great programming planned for our 2013 season, and a lot of what we are offering has never been done here before! Some dates are still being finalized, but here’s a little preview of what you can look forward to: April 6 is Civil War Trust […]
Wallace Scholar Dr. Howard Miller will be speaking about Ben-Hur before the evening screenings of the film at the Historic Artcraft Theatre in Franklin, Indiana.Dr. Miller is a Professor Emeritus with The University of Texas at Austin and a world-recognized scholar on the history of American religion. His article “The Charioteer […]
Lew was a fan of music. He played the violin and Susan played the guitar. One of his reasons for building the Study was so he could play the violin at midnight if he chose. We think he would approve of our upcoming event! A choral group from Wabash College […]
by Nancy VanArendonk When I was growing up — back in the days before Netflix, Redbox, Movies On Demand and the like — there were just two possibilities if you wanted to see a film that had been made some years earlier. You could hope that it might someday be […]
Ten days from now, the 33-foot screen at the Historic Artcraft Theatre in Franklin, Indiana, will be home to a film spectacular. Just in time for the celebration of Easter, movie-goers can see Charlton Heston starring as Judah Ben-Hur. The 1960 Academy Awards presented Ben-Hur with eleven of twelve awards for […]
Lew Wallace’s fame generates from his literary masterpiece Ben-Hur. He is generally given credit for writing three novels of historical fiction. The Fair God: The Last of the ‘Tizins (1873), Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880); and The Prince of India; or, Why Constantinople Fell (1893). While these three major […]