Today is General Lew Wallace’s 182nd birthday, and we here at the Museum are celebrating! We’ve got delicious desserts, games and puzzles, prizes and awesome challenges (like walking on old-school stilts!). Things are warming up outside and the games are already in full swing inside. We’ll be partying until 3 […]
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Lew Wallace’s Birthday Celebration takes place on Friday, April 10, 2009 CRAWFORDSVILLE, IN, April 3, 2009— The 182nd birthday of Montgomery County’s favorite son, General Lew Wallace, will be celebrated on Friday, April 10, on the grounds of the General Lew Wallace Study and Museum in Crawfordsville from 10:00 a.m. […]
Annual Park Day sponsored by Civil War Preservation Trust, History Channel, US Dept. of Interior CRAWFORDSVILLE, IN, March 28, 2009—The Civil War began as a struggle between armies of untrained but enthusiastic volunteers. Seven generations later, another army of volunteers is about to descend on America’s Civil War battlefields – […]
Thanks to a grant from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), General Lew Wallace’s personal artifacts from the Civil War will have a long-lasting resting place. Artifact Storage The IMLS has awarded the General Lew Wallace Study and Museum a $3000 American Heritage Preservation Program grant for […]
After months of preparation, the General Lew Wallace Study and Museum debuted its 2009 exhibit, Embattled: General Wallace’s Leadership in the Civil War to members of the Lew Wallace Study Preservation Society on Friday, March 20. Gail Stephens, author and Wallace historian, greeted the crowd and shared her experiences guest […]
Spring has finally arrived and the Museum is blooming with activities! Following the opening of the 2009 exhibit, people from central Indiana descend upon the Museum for Park Day 2009. In partnership with the Civil War Preservation Trust, Park Day is a national program where people volunteer at parks, battlefields, […]
Lew Wallace found passion and inspiration in battle at a young age. “When night came, and my mother tucked me in the little trundle-bed with my elder brother, I had gained such store of wisdom pertaining to war that it passed into my dreams, and from them into my life; […]
Post by Amanda McGuire, Museum Intern I started an internship here in November to research, write, and fabricate an exhibit about Lew Wallace’s legacy through the various productions of Ben-Hur for the Legacy Gallery in the mechanical room of the Study. While I have worked on small parts of exhibits […]
We frequently receive questions by e-mail relating to Lew Wallace, and I received one today asking whether or not Lew Wallace wrote Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ on a bet. Lew Wallace’s motivation to write Ben-Hur has been the subject of many discussions, beginning during his lifetime. Wallace answered […]
The General Lew Wallace Study and Museum announced today that the director, Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko, will be leaving the organization in May. She has accepted the position of CEO at the Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor, Maine. An interim director will be appointed in March to guide the organization for the […]