Long-time followers of our blog will remember that last year we had a family of Red-shouldered Hawks nesting on the Study grounds. This week, one of them has made repeat appearances. Tuesday Amanda spotted a hawk flying around, and today Larry, Stephanie, and Deb saw the hawk sitting on one of the […]
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Fall has hit with a vengeance with temperatures in the high 70s and temperatures hovering around 45 degrees a day later. Typically unpredictable Indiana weather! The lawn is littered with leaves with only the pin oak and some ginkgo leaves left on the trees. The lawn mowers are chopping up the leaves and […]
More pictures of archaeology on the grounds today. Kids are uncovering some great finds in the Archaeologist Training area and helping out at the reflecting pool, too!
The archaeologists from the University of Indianapolis are here and have started working. They have already opened up a new unit between the Carriage House and the south wall and have found some window glass, coal and bricks. They have also started opening up new units around the reflecting pool […]
The History Beneath Us archaeology program returns to the General Lew Wallace Study & Museum on September 22-23 from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. each day to revisit the excavation begun in General Wallace’s backyard in September and to break some new ground. The previous archaeological excavations on the grounds […]
Did you know we have a geocache located somewhere on our 3.5 acres? According to Wikipedia, “[g]eocaching is an outdoor recreational activity in which the participants use a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver or mobile device and other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers, called “geocaches” or “caches”, anywhere […]
Everything is planted and growing in the gardens of the Museum. The gardens are planted and flowers are bursting open every day. I am keeping track of blooming plants on our Facebook page with a ‘Bloom Report Photo Album’. Things are growing in the trees also! We have the pleasure […]
Sunday, May 6th saw dogs and owners alike enjoying the beautiful shady grounds of the Study. The Stroll for Strays, a fund raiser for the Animal Welfare League, started and finished the Stroll at the Study. The Study was the starting point, with the stroll following a route through the […]
Archaeologists Dr. Chris Moore from the University of Indianapolis and Anne Moore, together with U of I students and members of the public are working on uncovering the outline of Lew Wallace’s reflecting pool this weekend. Past excavations have revealed the far edge of the pool. They are now hoping […]
Everything is blooming this spring at the Study. The magnolia trees bloomed April 13th this year, 30 days before they bloomed last year. The lilacs, redbuds and dogwood soon followed. Everything seemed to bloom at once. The Study has been adopted by a pair of hawks, which started building a […]