Crawfordsville

The Henry S. Lane House was the home of Henry S. Lane and Joanna Lane. It is located at 212 South Water Street in Crawfordsville, Indiana. In 1939,... Helen Elston Smith, the Lanes' niece, died and willed the house and its contents to the Montgomery County Historical Society. The house has been a museum since Helen's death. The house was originally built onto an existing three-room brick cottage, which is currently part of the dining room. The cottage was a Federal style cottage that dates back from the early 1830s. Henry Lane purchased this cottage and the 4 acres surrounding it from Isaac Elston in the fall of 1844. 85%-90% of all of the furnishings are either original to the house or belonged to the Elston Family. Susan Wallace, sister of Joanna Lane, met her future husband Lew Wallace in the house's formal parlor. Henry Lane was a delegate from Indiana at Lincoln's funeral. The house has been painted various colors since 1845. From 1845 to 1881, the house was white. Joanna painted the house gray in mourning of Henry's death in 1881. After Helen Smith renovated the house into an Italianate villa, the house was pink. From 1945 to the present the house is white.
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The General Lew Wallace Study & Museum, formerly known as the Ben-Hur Museum, is located in Crawfordsville, Indiana. It was declared a National... Historic Landmark in 1976, and in 2008 was awarded a National Medal from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services. The museum is associated with the life of Lew Wallace and his novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. The study, designed by Wallace, and accompanying carriage house are the only structures pertaining to Lew Wallace that have retained historical integrity. Both of these buildings now make up the museum and exhibit many of the artifacts that Wallace used during his lifetime, as well as many objects pertaining to his literary legacy. Guided tours of the study are available for a small admission fee; the Carriage House Interpretive Center and grounds are open to the public free of charge. Lew Wallace is most famous for his military service and his novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ .
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Will Shortz is an American puzzle creator and editor, and currently the crossword puzzle editor for The New York Times. Will Shortz was born and... raised on an Arabian horse farm in Crawfordsville, Indiana. Graduating from Indiana University in 1974, he is the only person known to hold a college degree in enigmatology, the study of puzzles. Shortz achieved this feat by designing his own curriculum through Indiana University's Individualized Major Program. While at IU, Shortz pledged and was initiated into the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity. He also earned a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Virginia School of Law , though he forewent the bar exam and began a career in puzzles instead. Shortz began his career at Penny Press Magazines, then moved to Games magazine for 15 years, serving as its editor from 1989–1993. He has been the crossword puzzle editor for The New York Times since 1993 , and has been the puzzle master on NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday since the program was started in 1987.
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Indiana is a US state, admitted to the United States as the 19th on December 11, 1816. It is located in the midwestern and Great Lakes regions of North America. Indiana is the 38th largest by area and the 15th most populous of the 50 United States. Indiana is the least extensive state in the continental US west of the Appalachian Mountains. Its capital and largest city is Indianapolis, the second largest of any state capital and largest state... capital east of the Mississippi River. Before it became a territory, varying cultures of indigenous peoples and historic Native Americans inhabited Indiana for thousands of years. Angel Mounds State Historic Site, one of the best preserved ancient earthwork mound sites in the United States, can be found in Southwestern Indiana near Evansville. Residents of Indiana are known as Hoosiers. The etymology of the word is disputed, but the leading theory as advanced by the Indiana Historical Bureau and the Indiana Historical Society has "Hoosier" originating from the upland South region of the U.S. as a derogatory slang term for a rough countryman, a country bumpkin. The state's name means "Land of the Indians," or simply "Indian Land.
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