This year's Holiday Tea & Fashion Show will be held on Friday, December 6, 2024 with the theme being "St. Nicholas" The event is a major fundraiser for the General Lew Wallace Study & Museum and will be hosted at the Elston Homestead at 400 East Pike Street. Visitors may attend the holiday event any […]
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!
Each year, thousands of history enthusiasts, community-minded citizens, families, Boy and Girl Scouts, ROTC units and more come together in an effort to help keep our nation’s heritage not only preserved, but pristine. Activities are chosen by each participating site and can include building trails, raking leaves, painting signs, putting up fences and […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Each year, the General Lew Wallace Study & Museum hosts a gathering of regional authors for the Lew Wallace Hoosier Author Fair. The event is free and open to the public. Authors will have their books and related merchandise for sale and are happy to sign copies and chat with readers. This year's Lew Wallace […]