Our May Day program was bursting with creativity. Our first guest was Dallas Center Grimes 6th grade author Miara Steir, who published her first book when she was eight and has it as her goal to reach 101 classrooms throughout central Iowa telling students how they can also publish their own books. Then Iowa poet laureate Mary Swander introduced us to her plays dealing with the lives of farmers as well her AGARTS project. We were joined by Mark Gannon, who is starting a new foundation to set up events where farmers can tell the stories of life on their farms, have them recorded, and make them available online. We played a couple of these stories from people who farmed on century farms -- Gordon Bivens and Gina McAndrews, (Gina also co-hosted as KHOI's new Farm Reporter.)
Originally broadcast 05/01/2019
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