19th Annual Holiday Tea – A Very Vintage Christmas
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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.
Dubbed the “joy goddess of Harlem’s 1920s” by poet Langston Hughes, A’Lelia Walker was a dazzling cultural icon whose legendary parties and Dark Tower salon helped define the Harlem cultural scene. After inheriting her mother’s pioneering hair care business, A’Lelia became America’s first high-profile Black heiress and a patron of the arts. Joy Goddess takes readers inside her New York homes, where she hosted luminaries including Langston Hughes, James Weldon Johnson, Carl Van Vechten, and W.E.B. Du Bois—figures who shaped African American history and culture during the Roaring Twenties.