Map of my Kingdom and VangMary Swander will provide the cultural and historical contexts surrounding her plays Map of my Kingdom, a drama about farmland transition, and Vang, a drama about recent immigrant farmers. Swander will detail how she wrote both dramas and she why was compelled to take on these contemporary agricultural issues. Land access is a pressing problem for […]
Research consultant, Beth Cody, author of the book, Gardens of the Past, will share her findings on the influences behind Laura Musser McColm's decision to have a Japanese-style garden installed in 1930. Topics include: Japanese Gardens at World's Fairs, landscape designers who created early Japanese-style gardens in the Midwest, and the fate of many Japanese-style […]
Inspired by the world premier of A Thousand Acres, this series of photographic exhibits, art shows, discussions, plays, book clubs and site-specific events will explore the themes and connections presented by the novel: patriarchy, the passing of land through family and the ties that bind us.Please visit dmmo.org/acres for more information, updates and events.
Working with the Enemy: German, Italian and Japanese Prisoners of War in Iowa during the Second World WarAs part of a relatively quiet and under-publicized government program, thousands of enemy soldiers invaded Iowa in 1943. With the hugely successful 1942 Allied campaign against Adolf Hitler’s vaunted Afrika Corps in North Africa, the number of enemy […]
https://www.danishmuseum.org/explore/exhibitions/tattoo-identity-in-ink
Working with the Enemy: German, Italian and Japanese Prisoners of War in Iowa during the Second World WarAs part of a relatively quiet and under-publicized government program, thousands of enemy soldiers invaded Iowa in 1943. With the hugely successful 1942 Allied campaign against Adolf Hitler’s vaunted Afrika Corps in North Africa, the number of enemy […]
https://www.danishmuseum.org/explore/exhibitions/tattoo-identity-in-ink
Unconditional Surrender: A Visit with Ulysses S. Grant is a one-man show about the life and times of the Civil War General and 18th President of the United States. Pete Grady, the author and performer, has performed his show over 100 times at venues in Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Missouri, South Dakota, Colorado, and Arizona. Grady is fully […]
This lecture-recital series will feature performancesof four musical works composed in Iowa and a discussion of their social andhistorical context. Works include Quarantine Polka by W.F. Strong, AmericanQuartet by Antonin Dvorak (arr. for wind quintet) , Red Oak Suite by DavidCrowe, and a set of Canons written in 2021 by Clay Gonzalez. Wild Prairie Windsis a […]
This lecture-recital series will feature performancesof four musical works composed in Iowa and a discussion of their social andhistorical context. Works include Quarantine Polka by W.F. Strong, AmericanQuartet by Antonin Dvorak (arr. for wind quintet) , Red Oak Suite by DavidCrowe, and a set of Canons written in 2021 by Clay Gonzalez. Wild Prairie Windsis a […]
This lecture-recital series will feature performancesof four musical works composed in Iowa and a discussion of their social andhistorical context. Works include Quarantine Polka by W.F. Strong, AmericanQuartet by Antonin Dvorak (arr. for wind quintet) , Red Oak Suite by DavidCrowe, and a set of Canons written in 2021 by Clay Gonzalez. Wild Prairie Windsis a […]
6-on-6 Girl’s Basketball in Iowa: Traditions, Transitions, and LegaciesFor most of the 20th cenury, Iowa was known for its devotion to a unique form of women’s sport known as 6-on-6 girls’ basketball. As other states abandoned 6-on-6 in the 1970s, Iowa remained committed to this half-court game until 1993, when the final 6-player championship was […]
