General Lew s Book Club invites Ray Boomhower Saturday, March 6, 2021 4:00 AM The Hoosier Authors Book Club continues its sixth year with a special virtual meeting. The General Lew Wallace Study & Museum’s book club invite Hoosier author Ray E. Boomhower to visit Crawfordsville virtually. The discussion will be held online at 7 p.m. on Thursday, March 18, via a Zoom discussion. Books are currently available for checkout at the Carriage House.
The book for this meeting is Boomhower’s Fighting For Equality: A Life of May Wright Sewall. It was originally chosen in 2020 as a tie in to the Study’s “Suffrage & Sovereignty” exhibit, but the discussion was postponed by COVID-19. The discussion was rescheduled for March 2021 to celebrate Women’s History Month.
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1) The Children s Museum of Indianapolis The world s largest children s museum recently added even more fun with a $38.5 million sports-theme addition. Kids can play on a mini Colts football field, Indy 500 pedal cars and mini golf courses. Also at the museum: a Dinosaur Dig excavation site, a brilliant Chihuly-inspired
Fireworks of Glass display, hands-on science experiments galore, a full-size indoor carousel and a Playscape section specifically geared toward babies, toddlers and preschoolers. childrensmuseum.org Children27s-Museum.jpg
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