The Iowa Center for the Book will host a statewide virtual event on Iowa’s agricultural heritage on Thursday, April 22 at 7:00 p.m.
Earth’s Bounty in Iowa: Then & Now will be held via Zoom and will feature two guest speakers, a professor of history and a farmer storyteller, who will speak on the state’s rich history of agriculture along with the modern challenges and triumphs of farming in Iowa. The speakers will deliver short presentations followed by a discussion, with time built in for questions from attendees submitted via chat.
Those interested in attending should register at the link below to receive the Zoom link for the presentation.
Earth’s Bounty in Iowa, developed and organized by the Iowa Center for the Book at the State Library of Iowa, is the result of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for a two-year program on the agricultural heritage of the state.
About the Speakers
Dr. Pamela Riney-Kehrberg is Professor of History at Iowa State University, where she has taught since 2000. She is the author of Rooted in Dust: Surviving Drought and Depression in Southwestern Kansas, Childhood on the Farm: Work, Play and Coming of Age in the Midwest, Always Plenty to Do: Growing Up on a Farm in the Long Ago and The Nature of Childhood: An Environmental History of Growing Up in America Since 1865. She is also the editor of the Routledge History of Rural America. In 2017, she became a Fellow of the Agricultural History Society. Currently, she is researching the Farm Crisis of the 1980s.
Darcy Maulsby is a fifth generation farmer, business owner, author, marketing specialist, historian and speaker. Darcy helps businesses uncover their “wow” stories and share them to inspire people to dream bigger, revitalize their rural communities and change the world for the good, one story at a time. She is also proud to be part of a farm family that operates a Century Farm in Calhoun County near Lake City and Yetter. Darcy also serves as president of the Calhoun County Corn Growers, president of Central School Preservation in Lake City and is a member of the District Advisory Committee for the Iowa Soybean Association. www.DarcyMaulsby.com
About the Iowa Center for the Book
The Iowa Center for the Book is an affiliate of the Library of Congress Center for the Book and a program of the State Library of Iowa. Earth's Bounty in Iowa: Then & Now has been made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the Human Endeavor.