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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 […]

Hoosier Authors Book Club – The Magic Garden, Gene Stratton-Porter

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

Hoosier Authors Book Club - The Magic Garden by Gene Stratton-Porter   Physical copies of The Magic Garden by Gene Stratton-Porter will not be available for loan. The kindle version of the book is available for .99c here.

2024 Hoosier Author Fair

Fusion54 101 W. Main, Crawfordsville, IN, United States

In conjunction with Crawfordsville Main Street's Downtown Party Night on Small Business Saturday, we are hosting our annual author fair. Authors from Crawfordsville and around the state will have books and related merchandise for sale. They are happy to discuss writing and sign books with attendees.

Holiday Tea & Fashion Show

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

This year's Holiday Tea & Fashion Show will be held on Friday, December 6, 2024 with the theme being "St. Nicholas" The event is a major fundraiser for the General Lew Wallace Study & Museum and will be hosted at the Elston Homestead at 400 East Pike Street. Visitors may attend the holiday event any […]

Hoosier Author’s Book Club – Hawaii and a Revolution by Mary Hannah Krout

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

  The Hoosier Authors Book Club for 2025 begins on Thursday, April 17 with Hawaii and a Revolution by Mary Hannah Krout. Krout, a native of Crawfordsville, details her personal experience as a journalist and correspondent for the Chicago Inter-Ocean covering the 1893 revolution in Hawaii. The book is available for purchase here. We hope you can join us!

American Battlefield Trust – Park Day 2025

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

    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 preserved, but pristine. Activities are chosen by each participating site and can include building trails, raking leaves, painting signs, putting up fences and […]

Hoosier Authors Book Club – The Artist, Ladoga, Indiana by Kelly O’Dell Stanley

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

On Thursday, May 22, the Hoosier Authors Book Club will meet to discuss Kelly O'Dell Stanley's memoir The Artist, Ladoga, Indiana. In this memoir, the brushstrokes of the author's father, Rob O'Dell, echo long after his passing in 2017. As Kelly moves into his restored turn-of-the-century building in a small Indiana town, she finds herself wandering the […]

Hoosier Authors Book Club – The Port of Missing Men by Meredith Nicholson

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

The third book club selection of the 2025 Hoosier Authors Book Club is Meredith Nicholson's The Port of Missing Men and will meet on June 26. Published in 1907, the story is set in the early 1900s and follows the life of a wealthy young man named John Keith, who embarks on a sea voyage to the Philippines […]