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If you’re handing out sweets today, make sure to stop by the Study and hand some out to us! Director Larry Paarlberg is a fan of anything dark chocolate. Associate Director/Education Erin Gobel is a York Peppermint Patty fan. Grounds Manager Deb King likes peanut butter cookies. Associate Director/Collections Amanda […]
April 21-27 is National Volunteer Week, and to celebrate that, we would like to introduce you to one of our volunteers. This is the first in a series of posts about our volunteers and why the General Lew Wallace Study & Museum is important to them. We couldn’t run the […]
Erin Gobel joined the staff at the Lew Wallace Study as the Associate Director in October 2011. Erin received a BA in history from Hanover College in 2007. She earned an MA in Public History and a Graduate Certificate in Museum Studies from IUPUI in 2010. She wrote her thesis […]
Today is the last day for summer intern Kasey Greer, who will be a sophomore at Indiana University Bloomington. A history major, she applied for the Rhetorical Analyst internship analyzing Lew Wallace’s writings to get a sense of the man behind the actions. Since May, she has worked over 30 […]
March 23 was Museums Advocacy Day organized by the American Association of Museums, and I represented not only the General Lew Wallace Study & Museum but also the entire Indiana museum community to our elected officials in Washington, DC. Advocacy Day started with a day of training, including a briefing […]
The Staff and Trustees of the General Lew Wallace Study and Museum welcomed new Museum Director Larry Paarlberg with a reception in his honor on Thursday, October 22, 2009. Members of the Lew Wallace Study Preservation Society gathered at the Carriage House Interpretive Center to meet Paarlberg, mingle, and of […]
Dale Petrie, longtime leader with the Lew Wallace Study Preservation Society and the chair of the Taste of Montgomery County Committee since its inception, has received the Fredrick J. Urbaska Civic Service Award from the National Association of Wabash Men for his contributions to Crawfordsville and Montgomery County. Dale is […]
Larry Paarlberg accepted the position of Director of the General Lew Wallace Study and Museum. He is the former executive director of Goodwood Museum and Gardens in Tallahassee, Florida. He will begin at the Museum on October 1. Paarlberg, an Indiana native and 1980 Purdue alum, has worked in historic […]
Last week, Visitor Services & Marketing Coordinator Kara Edie presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for State and Local History on how historic sites of all sizes are utilizing new technology to spread their mission to larger audiences. The presentation, “Technology, Web 2.0 and Historic Sites: Strategies […]