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Hoosier Authors Book Club – “Some Memories of a Long Life” by Malvina Shanklin Harlan

General Lew Wallace Study & Museum 200 Wallace Ave., Crawfordsville, IN, United States

  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 […]

Hoosier Authors Book Club – “The Witchery of Archery” by Maurice Thompson

General Lew Wallace Study & Museum 200 Wallace Ave., Crawfordsville, IN, United States

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 […]