Hoosier Authors Book Club
In this special meeting of our Hoosier Authors Book Club, we will be joined by the League of Women Voters’ Well-Read Citizen Discussion group as part of their Fourth Mondays programming. We are reading Ray E. Boomhower’s biography Fighting for Equality: A Life of May Wright Sewall. Mr. Boomhower will be […]
Our popular Hoosier Authors Book Club makes a return Thursday, March 21, at 7 p.m. Readers will discuss Ernie Pyle’s World War II book Brave Men. Ernie Pyle Ernie Pyle was born in the small town of Dana in Vermillion County, Indiana, in 1900. He enlisted in the Naval Reserve […]
Our Hoosier Authors Book Club meeting for Thursday, May 4, has been cancelled. Flooding and road closures, as well as the continued rain, threatens the safety of our book club members. Please remember we do have a lecture scheduled for Tuesday, May 9 at 7 pm. Sandy Barnard will be discussing […]
The next Hoosier Author Book Club meeting will be held Thursday, April 28, at 7 p.m. inside the newly-restored Study building. Readers will discuss the Edward Eggleston novel The Hoosier Schoolmaster. Copies of the book are available for check-out from the museum. Because the book is in the public domain, […]
The General Lew Wallace Study & Museum’s state bicentennial programming is getting underway with The House of a Thousand Candles! The Museum’s 2016 exhibit will discuss the Golden Age of Indiana Literature, which began with the publication of Lew Wallace’s Ben-Hur and went on to include prominent novelists such as […]
Join us Thursday, October 15 at 7 pm for a discussion in the Study of Booth Tarkington’s Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel The Magnificent Ambersons! First published in 1918, this novel is a social commentary on wealth in American society. Set in a fictionalized version of Indianapolis, the novel traces the rise and fall […]