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Restoring the Wall
What's New at the Lew: The General Lew Wallace Study & Museum and Lew Wallace Study Preservation Society are pleased to announce a new restoration project planned for this winter. MCCF Grant...
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A New Way to Volunteer
What's New at the Lew: Beginning in 2022, potential volunteers will have a new way to connect with us! Thanks to support from the Montgomery County Leadership Academy, we are now discoverable on the...
View Article2022 Programs at the Study
What's New at the Lew: We are planning a return to in-person programming in the summer and fall of 2022. Our Hoosier Authors Book Club resumes in-person meetings at the Carriage House this July. The...
View ArticlePeter Hatch Lecture: Thomas Jefferson’s Revolutionary Monticello Garden
What's New at the Lew: On Thursday, October 27, Peter Hatch presented “Thomas Jefferson’s Revolutionary Garden at Monticello.” Hatch is the Director Emeritus of Gardens & Grounds for the Thomas...
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In Memoriam: Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko
What's New at the Lew: Late last week we learned that Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko, former director of the General Lew Wallace Study & Museum, had been admitted to hospice. To our sorrow, Cinnamon...
View ArticleLew Wallace Interview on New Mexico Statehood
What's New at the Lew: Lew Wallace was always good for an interview and seldom shy to wade into a discussion. Just a month before he died when his health was rapidly failing, Lew waded into a...
View ArticleAn Unpretentious Residence: Lew and Susan’s Home
What's New at the Lew: Isaac Compton Elston, Sr. died unexpectedly in October of 1867 shortly after returning to Crawfordsville from a trip. For many years, his daughter Susan and son-in-law Lew...
View ArticleDon’t believe everything you read when it comes to Lew Wallace.
What's New at the Lew: Moral of this story: Don’t believe everything you read when it comes to Lew Wallace. Wallace was comfortable with firearms and by all accounts was a capable shot. In his youth,...
View ArticleWar at their front doorstep.
What's New at the Lew: Robert Todd Lincoln was the eldest of Abraham and Mary Lincoln’s four sons. When his father was elected President in 1860, Robert was in college at Harvard. He participated in...
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The Great Agnostic – Robert G. Ingersoll
What's New at the Lew: In the mid-1870s, Lew Wallace was drafting a short story about the three wise men and their journey guided by the Star of Bethlehem. The story was intended for publication in...
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