First Friday Friends @ 1 pm

Open to all ages! Refreshments included. Come As You Are
$10 per person pay at door or purchase a punch card 5 for $40 (unless otherwise stated)
Call 641-418-8037 for group rate of more than 8.

Cheryl Mullenbach

Iowa's Misbehaving Women

April 7 @ 1 pm (First Friday Friends)
$10 per person pay at door
Includes refreshments

Learn about Iowa's female riverboat captain, inventor, ambulance corps worker and others! Women who were heralded for their work: "a woman with plenty of nerve," or "angel or mercy". 

Award winning Iowa author of non-fiction books, Cheryl Mullenbach. C_SPAN's "Book TV" series broadcast her talk at the FDR Presidential Library. She has also written a books about the history of stagecoaches, Women of the Spanish-American War and others.

1930 lady

abandoned house

Rosa Snyder

Off the Map: Stories of Abandoned & Disappearing Towns Around Iowa

May 5 @ 1 pm
FREE
​thanks to Humanities Iowa
Donations accepted for snacks

Thousands of towns were established during IA’s pioneer & railroad era. These small towns built around the time of the height of a coal industry supplemented the needs of the countless farmers & still others were established for very different reasons. Many existed for a few years, some slowly faded away over time, & a few never existed except as “paper” towns. Regardless, each community has its own unique story. Towns are truly windows to our past & have helped form the history of our state. Discovering & learning about them helps to keep their names & memories from oblivion. Take a tour around Iowa exploring a sampling of these idiosyncratic communities in photographs & stories from Brooklyn, Boyer, Cooper, Dalkeith, Grant City, Muddy & more.

David Connon

Josiah Bushnell Grinnell & the Iowa Underground Railroad

JUNE 2 @ 1 pm
​FREE 
​thanks to Humanities Iowa
Donations accepted for snacks.
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David Connon

 Josiah was called "preacher", "congressman", "negro-stealer" during his life. He participated in the Iowa Underground Railroad, helping at least 37 fugitive slaves. David will tell a story of racism, noble actions and conflict, highlighting abolitionist John Brown's visit to Grinnell and Grinnell's first riot over the presence of fugitive slaves in public school.

Josiah Bushnell