Ben-Hur on display!

Ben Hur on display! What is the first thing that comes to mind when the name Charlton Heston is mentioned? If it's a chariot race, then you may want to check out our new display for the month of April. The display is commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the 1959 movie edition of the classic book Ben-Hur (written by Lew Wallace of Crawfordsville). You can learn all sorts of interesting facts about the movies (there were three, and a stage play was also produced), and you can also look at pictures that tell stories of their own. Did you know that the Ben-Hur stage play aired on Broadway in New York City? Did you know that the first movie edition of Ben-Hur resulted in a standard-setting movie copyright lawsuit? Did you know that the 1925 silent film, Ben-Hur, was the most expensive silent movie ever filmed in Hollywood? These are just a few of the things that you can learn about in the new display!

We hope that you will take some time to come out and look at the display on the second floor of the library this month only.