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.
Carol Hanner was a natural-born seamstress, according to her husband, Tom.
âShe wanted to be a designer when she went to Clay High School. She could make anything.â
The whiz at home economics channeled her creativity into her family and working in real estate.
But sewing didnât stop. Tom said she redirected her love to making pillows for Memorial Childrenâs Hospital (now Beacon Childrenâs Hospital). The pillow making was one of many projects of Tri Kappa, a womenâs philanthropic organization in Indiana. Carol was a member for more than 20 years.
At first, the pillows were shaped like puppies. And that a took special talent. Tom said Carol could make those puppies look great. The work later evolved to regular pillows.