Activities

Wednesday, March 18, 2026 – NOON to 1 P.M. Brown Bag Luncheon. Bring your lunch

and we will serve dessert and drinks. Program: Women’s History

presented by Janet Payne and Phyllis Amick. Free, donations are accepted.

Saturday, April 4, 2026, DOUG KRIEGER – BEEKEEPING CLASS! 10 – 11 A.M.

Reservations due by 4 p.m. on Saturday, March 28. Fee: $10.00 per person.

Scott County Heritage Center and Museum Will Host IHS’s Traveling Exhibit Hoosiers & Their Hooch: Perspectives on Prohibition 

Scottsburg, Ind.—Scott County Heritage Center and Museum will host Hoosiers & Their Hooch: Perspectives on Prohibition, one of the Indiana Historical Society’s (IHS’s) traveling exhibits, from April 4 thru May 2. The exhibit, featuring the rise and fall of prohibition in Indiana and throughout the country, will be on display at the Museum, located at 1050 S Main Street, Scottsburg.

The exhibit spans the dawn of the temperance movement of the 1900s, the roaring 1920s and the unprecedented repeal of a constitutional amendment during the Great Depression. The sights, sounds and experiences of the time period are brought to life by images and graphics from IHS’s collections. 

In addition, the era’s conflicting cultures are demonstrated through colorful historic figures such as Edward S. Shumaker of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League, as well as the bootleggers, moonshiners and bathtub gin distillers who found their way around the law in Indiana.

The end of the exhibit gives visitors an update on what has happened between 1933 and the present day, demonstrating the effects prohibition has had on Indiana’s regulatory landscape and how it is represented in modern culture. Hoosiers & Their Hooch: Perspectives on Prohibition is made possible by Kroger.

For more information about this exhibit, call 812.752.1050 or visit SCHCAM.org.

About IHS Traveling Exhibitions

Historical societies, museums, libraries, schools and other nonprofit organizations in Indiana can book this and other traveling exhibits through IHS’s Local History Services department. Exhibits may be borrowed for approximately four to five weeks at a time. To book an exhibit, please contact Zane Cuthbertson at zcuthbertson@indianahistory.org or (317) 233-3110. For more information about the traveling exhibit program, visit www.indianahistory.org. 

About the Indiana Historical Society

Since 1830, the Indiana Historical Society has been Indiana’s Storyteller™, connecting people to the past by collecting, preserving and sharing the state’s history. A private, nonprofit membership organization, IHS maintains the nation’s premier research library and archives on the history of Indiana and the Old Northwest and presents a unique set of visitor experiences called the Indiana Experience. IHS also provides support and assistance to local museums and historical groups; publishes books and periodicals; sponsors teacher workshops; produces and hosts art exhibitions, museum theater and outside performance groups; and provides youth, adult and family programs. IHS is a Smithsonian Affiliate and a member of the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience.

PAI Board Meeting, 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, April 14, 2026.

Wednesday, April 15, 2026, Brown Bag Luncheon. Noon – 1 p.m.

Presenter: Jeannie Noe Carlisle, Topic: Local History! The History of the oldest man in IN, Kinder Ferguson. He lived to be 108 years old!

Bring your lunch and we will serve desserts and drinks. Free, donations always accepted.

First Museum Historical Dinner Program—Friday, April 17, 2026, 6 p.m.

Deadline to make paid reservations is Friday, April 10th, at 4 p.m. Tickets are available at this time. Call with a credit card or stop by to make your paid reservation.

Army Guy and Red Cross Gal: World War II through the Eyes of Two Small-Town Hoosiers

By Barbara Olenyik Morrow 

During World War II, Auburn attorney Bill Husselman served as a military police lieutenant with U.S. General George S. Patton’s Third Army as it marched across northwest Europe.

Auburn music teacher Mary Brandon served as an American Red Cross club worker in Italy as Allied troops slogged up the peninsula.

Never did Bill’s and Mary’s paths cross overseas, never did their duties – wildly different – overlap. But their similar back grounds (they were friends before the war) and their distinct voices and perspectives (as gleaned from war time letters) form the heart of Barbara Olenyik Morrow’s latest book, Army Guy, Red Cross Gal: The Lives & Letters of Two Small-Town Hoosiers Who Helped Win World War II, written in collaboration with Ellen England.

Morrow’s program will track Bill and Mary’s overseas paths – as Allied forces fought at Anzio and Monte Cassino, liberated Rome, crossed the English Channel, swept across France, prevailed at the Battle of the Bulge, and drove deep into Germany’s heartland, where American soldiers witnessed horrors at Buchenwald and other concentration camps.

Archival and other war-era photos will complement Morrow’s lecture. She also will highlight why these stories from 80 years ago still deserve our attention – and why war-era letters need to be preserved.

A former journalist who has been a Pulitzer Prize finalist, Morrow is the author of seven books, most focusing on Indiana history. Her books have featured college basketball coaching legend John Wooden, nature writer Gene Stratton-Porter, and famed Underground Railroad leader Levi Coffin. A longtime Auburn resident, she lectures extensively around the state.

A catered meal by The Bistro will be included in the price of the program. $45.00 per ticket and all reservations must be made before Friday, April 10th by 4 p.m.  The meal will be served at 6 p.m. with the program being presented approximately 7 p.m.  There is a limit of only 45 people to set comfortably.  Don’t delay in ordering tickets. Stop by the Museum, 1050 S Main St, Scottsburg, IN prior to the deadline of April 10th to purchase tickets by cash, check or credit card.

Autographed copies of Army Guy, Red Cross Gal (hardback, $27, paperback, $22) will be available for purchase before and after her presentation. Her website is www.barbaraolenyikmorrow.com.

School Tours

Schools are invited to call to schedule a tour of the Scott County Museum, 812.752.1050.  Students would be introduced to Scott County History from 1812-up to the present.   Exhibits include: furniture and other items donated from Englishton Park, the home of the English Family, Lexington, Indiana; rope bed with feather ticking mattresses;   Pigeon Roost Massacre information; Quilts; English Toy Box with toys; Pie Safe; Old Radio;  various exhibits that are changed regularly.

Do you know what a pie safe is?  There is one in the English Room.  See if you can figure out which piece of furniture would be a safe place to keep pies before refrigerators.

Ghost tours

Tours continue throughout the year normally on Saturday nights by Appointment Only.  Please call the Museum for more information and to make an appointment at 812.752.1050.  Gather 10 friends and call to schedule.  Two hour tours are $10.00 per person.  Six hour tours, beginning at 6:00 p.m. – Midnight tours available also.  $20 per person.

Have Your Event Here!

The Michael L. Smith room is available for renting for your event or activity, including weekends.  

  • Space limit is 45 people for using tables.

  • Rental is $100.00 per 4 hours

  • For Non-Profits & PAI Members, $50.00 per 4 hours.

  • WiFi is available for your use.

Call the Museum to schedule your event, 812.752.1050 or email us at contact@schcam.org.