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 […]
On December 5, the General Lew Wallace Study & Museum will be celebrating the 19th annual Holiday Tea & Fashion Show. It is a lovely way to welcome the Holiday Season. This event, A Very Vintage Christmas, will offer a twist this year. After long-time participant, heathcliffs, closed earlier this year, we will be offering […]
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.
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 contributing to […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.