The crew from University of Indianapolis is here preparing for this weekend’s History Beneath Us public archaeology program! One group of UIndy students are removing the backfill from the initial excavation of the reflecting pool so that they can begin digging where they left off in September. Dr. Christopher Moore, […]
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The end of the Study Restoration Project seems to be in sight! After months of weather delays, workers are installing the last of the copper. To make sure that the roof doesn’t leak, all the areas of the roof have to be cut and fastened exactly, from the curved corners […]
Saturday saw ice on the windshields, but that didn’t keep volunteers from cleaning up the 3.5 acres of the General Lew Wallace Study and Museum. Over 30 people descended on the Museum to rake, mulch, pick up branches and do general garden work. Two trailers were filled with leaves and […]
Spring is here, although snow flurries are in the air, and the flowers are starting to emerge. Daffodils, squill, myrtle and hyacinths are blooming now. The crocus are done for the year and the spring beauty plants are breaking through the ground. Soon violets, trillium and tulips will be blooming. […]
The construction crew has replaced the bucket lift they used in the fall with old-fashioned scaffolding. It looks like these final phases of the exterior Study Restoration Project will resemble when Lew Wallace first built it. I can just imagine him standing on the grounds, overseeing the final days of […]
Top of the morning! St. Patrick’s day find the Museum lawn starting to green up and the siberian squill blooming. Daffodils are budding and the tulips are sprouting. After a long, ice and snow filled winter, spring cannot come soon enough. Saturday, April 2nd, is the annual Park Day. In […]
The 2011 exhibit, Agents of Deterioration, officially opened with a members’ sneak preview Friday night. Guests looked carefully to find one of the featured artifacts in an historic photograph of the Study building as Lew Wallace used it. Members enjoyed a variety of sweet and savory treats, from sugar cookies […]
Anyone on the grounds at the same time as the Grounds Manager will hear an enthusiastic lesson in plant identification as the first sprouts of the season poke above the soil. Right now they look pretty short and, to the untrained eye (like mine), unrecognizable…. …but soon they’ll be beautiful […]
The study gardens have been very active this winter. Since the first of December, the icicle gardens have flourished. Every other week, it seems, a winter weather advisory has been issued. The snow and ice have taken over the grounds. An ice storm left 5.5 inches of ice, to be […]
1865 was a year of events and activity for Lew Wallace. Early in the year he was sent to Mexico to prevent Mexican support of the dying Confederacy. While in Mexico he learned of the end of the Civil War and the death of Abraham Lincoln. Military Trials Upon his […]