Hoosier Authors Book Club - An Abundance of Katherines, John Green
2024-09-19 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) | General Lew Wallace Study & Museum, 200 Wallace Ave., Crawfordsville, IN, 47933, United States
Hoosier Authors Book Club – An Abundance of Katherines by John Green

Hoosier Authors Book Club - The Magic Garden, Gene Stratton-Porter
2024-10-24 19:00 - 20:30
Hoosier Authors Book Club – The Magic Garden by Gene Stratton-Porter

Physical copies of The Magic Garden by Gene Stratton-Porter will not be available for loan. The kindle version of the book is available for .99c here.

Hoosier Author's Book Club - Hawaii and a Revolution by Mary Hannah Krout
2025-04-17 19:00 - 20:30
The Hoosier Authors Book Club for 2025 begins on Thursday, April 17 with Hawaii and a Revolution by Mary Hannah Krout. Krout, a native of Crawfordsville, details her personal experience as a journalist and correspondent for the Chicago Inter-Ocean covering the 1893 revolution in Hawaii.
The book is available for purchase here.
We hope you can join us!

Dr. Howard Miller Lecture Series - Ben-Hur Chariots by Dr. Bela Sandor
2025-05-08 19:00 - 20:30

Dr. Howard Miller Lecture Series - June Mathis: A Silent Film Visionary by Dr. Thomas J. Slater
2025-05-20 19:00 - 20:30

Hoosier Authors Book Club - The Artist, Ladoga, Indiana by Kelly O'Dell Stanley
2025-05-22 19:00 - 20:30
On Thursday, May 22, the Hoosier Authors Book Club will meet to discuss Kelly O’Dell Stanley’s memoir The Artist, Ladoga, Indiana. In this memoir, the brushstrokes of the author’s father, Rob O’Dell, echo long after his passing in 2017. As Kelly moves into his restored turn-of-the-century building in a small Indiana town, she finds herself wandering the same roads he once traversed, enveloped by the vibrant landscapes he painted and the emotional landscapes of her own heart. In her quest to understand her father’s legacy, Kelly dives deep into his art, discovering that its true beauty lies not just in technique, but in the broken and the overlooked, reminding us of all the power of being seen and celebrated.

Hoosier Authors Book Club - The Port of Missing Men by Meredith Nicholson
2025-06-26 19:00 - 20:30
The third book club selection of the 2025 Hoosier Authors Book Club is Meredith Nicholson’s The Port of Missing Men and will meet on June 26. Published in 1907, the story is set in the early 1900s and follows the life of a wealthy young man named John Keith, who embarks on a sea voyage to the Philippines in search of adventure and romance. Things take a dark turn when Keith’s ship is wrecked on a deserted island, and he becomes stranded with a group of survivors. As they struggle to survive, Keith begins to uncover a sinister plot involving a group of missing men who were last seen in the same area. With the help of a beautiful young woman named Hope, Keith sets out to unravel the mystery and uncover the truth behind the missing men. The novel is a thrilling adventure story that explores themes of love, betrayal, and redemption. It also delves into the complexities of human nature and the lengths that people will go in order to achieve their goals. The Port of Missing Men is a classic tale of survival and intrigue that will keep readers on the edge of their seats until the very end.
The book is available for purchase here.

Hoosier Authors Book Club - "Some Memories of a Long Life" by Malvina Shanklin Harlan
2025-09-18 19:00 - 20:30
On Thursday, September 1, the Hoosier Authors Book Club will be reading Some Memories of a Long Life by Malvina Shanklin Harlan. Like Abigail Adams, Malvina Shanklin Harlan witnessed—and gently influenced—national history from the unique perspective of a political leader’s wife. Her husband, Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan (1833–1911), played a central role in some of the most significant civil rights decisions of his era, including his lone dissenting opinion in Plessy v. Ferguson, the infamous case that endorsed separate but equal segregation. And for fifty-seven years he was married to a woman who was busy making a mental record of their eventful lives.
After Justice Harlan’s death in 1911, Malvina wrote Some Memories of a Long Life, 1854–1911, as a testament to her husband’s accomplishments and to her own. The memoir begins with Malvina, the daughter of passionate abolitionists, becoming the teenage bride of John Marshall Harlan, whose family owned more than a dozen slaves. Malvina depicts her life in antebellum Kentucky, and her courageous defense of the Harlan homestead during the Civil War. She writes of her husband’s ascent in legal circles and his eventual appointment to the Supreme Court in 1877, where he was the author of opinions that continued to influence American race relations deep into the twentieth century. Yet Some Memories is more than a wife’s account of a famous and powerful man. It chronicles the remarkable evolution of a young woman from Indiana who became a keen observer of both her family’s life and that of her nation.
When Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg began researching the history of the women associated with the Supreme Court, the Library of Congress sent her Malvina Harlan’s unpublished manuscript. Justice Ginsburg wrote the forward for this biography.

Hoosier Authors Book Club - "The Witchery of Archery" by Maurice Thompson
2025-10-23 19:00 - 20:30
The last book club selection for the year will be discussed on Thursday, October 23. It is The Witchery of Archery by Maurice Thompson. Written in 1878, this was the first book in English about hunting with bow and arrow ever published. Thompson was from Crawfordsville and one of Lew Wallace’s closest friends. It was the first important book about archery written in English since Toxophilus, which was written in 1545. It was said that Witchery “…has as much effect on archery as Uncle Tom’s Cabin had on the Civil War and it made Crawfordsville the worldwide center for archery for decades in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. When Thompson wrote The Witchery of Archery, he filled it with various stories, many of which were humorous. However, it also gave practical advice on the sport, such as the manufacturing of archery paraphernalia and how to use the equipment while hunting. This is sure to be a different kind of read, written right here in Crawfordsville. A book that added to both our legacy as the Athens of Indiana and to Indiana during the Golden Age of Hoosier Authors.

Dr. Howard Miller Lecture Series - "The Last Adieu" with Ryan L. Cole
2026-03-12 19:00 - 20:30

Hoosier Authors Book Club - "Everything is Tuberculosis" by John Green
2026-04-16 19:00 - 20:30
Please join us for the first Hoosier Authors Book Club of 2026. To begin the year, we will be reading and discussing John Green’s Everything is Tuberculosis. Books are available to rent in the Carriage House Interpretive Center.

Hoosier Authors Book Club – “If This Isn't Nice, What Is?” by Kurt Vonnegut
2026-05-21 19:00 - 20:30
Kurt Vonnegut’s classic humor and humanist perspective shines through in If This Isn’t Nice, What Is?, a collection of witty and candid commencement speeches advising graduates to embrace life’s simple and happy moments, to stay humanistic and recognize the joy around you. Vonnegut points out how people often fail to realize they are happy, and to step back and appreciate those moments.

Dr. Howard Miller Lecture Series - Gail Stephens on General Lew Wallace & the Civil War
2026-06-11 19:00 - 20:30

ArchiCamp 2026
2026-06-16 09:00 - 2026-06-17 15:00

Hoosier Authors Book Club - "The Rabbit Hutch" by Tess Gunty
2026-06-18 19:00 - 20:30
Set across one week and culminating in a shocking act of violence, The Rabbit Hutch chronicles a group of people looking for ways to live in a dying city, a town on the brink, desperate for rebirth. How far will its residents—especially Blandine—go to achieve it? Does one person’s gain always come at another’s expense? Tess Gunty’s The Rabbit Hutch is a gorgeous and provocative tale of loneliness and community, entrapment and freedom.
