Join us for our Author Spotlight featuring Pamela Riney-Kehrberg, author and Distinguished Professor of History at Iowa State University. She will read excerpts her latest book, When a Dream Dies: Agriculture, Iowa, and the Farm Crisis of the 1980s, and take questions from the audience.
Pamela Riney-Kehrberg is a Distinguished Professor of History, and the author or editor of a number of books, including Rooted in Dust: Surviving Drought and Depression in Southwestern Kansas, Childhood on the Farm: Work, Play and Coming of Age in the Midwest, and The Nature of Childhood: An Environmental History of Growing Up in America, 1865-Present. She is the author of a historical book for children, Always Plenty To Do: Growing Up on the Farm in the Long Ago. When a Dream Dies is her latest book.
Copies of When a Dream Dies will be available for purchase and author signing.
This event is held in partnership with the Ames Writers Collective and KHOI Community Radio.
