Public input is needed to create a strategic plan for a National Historic Landmark in Crawfordsville.
The General Lew Wallace Study and Museum staff and board members will craft and finalize the document this year.
Museum Director Larry Paarlberg says they want to know what they’re doing right and how they can improve.
"What are concerns? What are issues? Those will be then fed into the strategic plan, so we develop something where the museum can really play a vital role in the life of the Crawfordsville community, and really, west central Indiana."
Paarlberg says Lew Wallace is prominent for his Civil War and political career as well as being an accomplished author. However, he thinks Wallace had a great impact on cultural and political affairs at home and internationally.
"His writings, in general. He was a governor of New Mexico Territory and knew Billy the Kid," he says.
"He was an ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, so we're actually beginning to do some research into his time in the Middle East and the impact he may have had as the Ottoman Empire began to come apart and some of the impact that's had on the Muslim faith."
The public input meeting for the Wallace Study and Museum is Thursday, May 16, at 7 p.m. at Crawfordsville High School. More information about the Study is HERE.
