American Battlefield Trust Park Day 2024

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

Join Grounds Manager Deb King to help give the grounds a spring cleaning and prepare for the new season at the Museum! Bring your own tools & gloves, or they will be provided.

Hoosier Authors Book Club – Shakespeare Saved My Life

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

Shakespeare Saved My Life - Laura Bates See https://www.ben-hur.com/programs/hoosier-authors-book-club/ for more information

Dr. Howard Miller Lecture Series – The Man Who Saved Cincinnati by Peter Bronson

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

Dr. Howard Miller Lecture Series at the General Lew Wallace Study & Museum presents… The Man Who Saved Cincinnati Peter Bronson is a newsman, editor, magazine writer and author. He has written eight books, including The Man Who Saved Cincinnati (2023), Not in Our Town (2022), and Forbidden Fruit (2020). He was an editor and […]

Dr. Howard Miller Lecture Series – The USCT from Montgomery County

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

Dr Howard Miller Lecture Series presents...The United States Colored Troops from Montgomery County by Shannon Sullivan Hudson. A science teacher by day and a history buff by night, Shannon Hudson is the author of Abolitionists of the Underground Railroad: Legends from Montgomery County, Indiana. Shannon will speak on the United States Colored Troops from Montgomery […]

Hoosier Authors Book Club – Hoosier Public Enemy

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

Hoosier Public Enemy: A Life of John Dillinger - John A. Beineke   See https://www.ben-hur.com/programs/hoosier-authors-book-club/ for more information

Hoosier Authors Book Club – You Should See Me in a Crown

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

You Should See Me in a Crown - Leah Johnson See https://www.ben-hur.com/programs/hoosier-authors-book-club/ for more information

17th Annual TASTE of Montgomery County

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

Saturday, August 24, 2024 from 12:00 - 9:00 pm. Please join us to experience the flavors of local Montgomery County vendors while enjoying music on the Historic General Lew Wallace Study & Museum grounds! For more information, please visit the TASTE of Montgomery County Website.

Dr. Howard Miller Lecture Series – Athens of Indiana: The Pre-War Years by Beth Swift

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

Former Wabash College Archivist Beth Swift will give a lecture called Athens of Indiana: The Pre-War Years about Montgomery County prior to the Civil War. Included in her talk will be the Wabash College Cadets, a militia formed of local college students that trained alongside Lew Wallace's Montgomery Guards militia. The talk will be held in the […]

Dr. Howard Miller Lecture Series – A Sweet Strangeness Fills My Heart: The Journals of Sallie Independence Foster 1861 – 1881by Dolores Hydock and Bobby Horton

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

Renowned storyteller Dolores Hydock and musician Bobby Horton will give their presentation of A Sweet Strangeness Fills My Heart: The Journals of Sallie Independence Foster 1861-1887. This performance, based on Sallie's diaries, papers, and letters from her brothers off at war, presents a funny, touching, and uniquely personal look at the life and times that Sallie shared […]