Activities

Upcoming Events for 2026 at your Museum! 1050 S Main St., Scottsburg, IN.

Saturday, March 7, 2026 – FARMER’S MARKET Meeting, 9 a.m.

Saturday, March 7, 2026 – CROCHETING CLASS – by Martyna Inman

11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Reservations MUST be made by Friday, March 6th, 4:00 p.m.

Price $20.00 per person. This price will include supplies that you may take home.

Call Jeannie, 812.752.1050 to make your reservation.

Tuesday, March 10, 2026, 5:00 p.m. Preservation Alliance, Inc. (PAI) Board Meeting

The public is invited. If you would like to be on the agenda, please call 812.752.1050.

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.

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!

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.