This is now the site of Conner Prairie, a gift from Eli Lilly, which Earlham developed into a living history museum. Conner Prairie is a crossroads in time, where the last decade of the 20th century intersects the first decades of the 19th. It is a place where visitors today can explore connections between communities today and communities then. Students now come to Earlham from near and far. They come from Indiana and Maine and Colorado, from Hispanic communities and African American neighborhoods, from rural areas and large cities, from northeast and southwest, even from Palestine, and Bosnia and Tanzania.
Many roads converge here.
Earlham students go out from here to study all over the globe. Students can walk in the front door of Carpenter Hall, and find themselves in foreign study sites in Mexico or Japan. They can walk in the front door of Tyler and find themselves in programs in Jerusalem or Northern Ireland. And students come back to campus share with one another what they have seen and done. We are a small community here in Indiana that serves as a global crossroads.