Peter Hatch will present Thomas Jefferson’s Revolutionary Garden at Monticello. Hatch, Director of Gardens & Grounds Emeritus for the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, was responsible for maintenance, interpretation, and restoration of the 2,400-acre landscape at Monticello from 1977 to 2012. Thomas Jefferson wrote that "the greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add […]
Little Orphant Annie - Discovery, Preservation, and Restoration Eric Grayson is a nationally renowned film preservation expert, specializing in silent movies. Eric will be presenting the 1918 original film of Little Orphant Annie. This unusual surviving film features a rare film appearance by James Whitcomb Riley - the Hoosier poet and close friend of […]
Dr. Howard Miller Lecture Series at the General Lew Wallace Study & Museum presents... Reconstructing Henry S. Lane: Redefining Political Legacy Amidst Reconstruction Ambiguity. Owen Bennett, Assistant Director of the Montgomery County Historical Society, will give a lecture on the vague and misleading historiography of Henry S. Lane’s role during the era of reconstruction […]
Dr. Howard Miller Lecture Series at the General Lew Wallace Study & Museum presents… The Man Who Saved Cincinnati Peter Bronson is a newsman, editor, magazine writer and author. He has written eight books, including The Man Who Saved Cincinnati (2023), Not in Our Town (2022), and Forbidden Fruit (2020). He was an editor and […]
Dr Howard Miller Lecture Series presents...The United States Colored Troops from Montgomery County by Shannon Sullivan Hudson. A science teacher by day and a history buff by night, Shannon Hudson is the author of Abolitionists of the Underground Railroad: Legends from Montgomery County, Indiana. Shannon will speak on the United States Colored Troops from Montgomery […]
Melissa Gentry is the Supervisor of the Paul W. Stout Map Collection at Ball State University Libraries and serves on the board of the Delaware County Historical Society. An active member of the League of Women‘s Voters, she is a recognized speaker on Indiana women’s history. Melissa has presented at numerous state and national conferences Her work has been recognized by the Library of Congress, and the Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commission. This program will highlight the contributions of Indiana women to the Temperance and Suffrage movements.