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SUMMARY:Exhibit—The State of Water
DESCRIPTION:Our Most Valuable Resource\nJune 16–August 11\nJohn Edward Smith Gallery (Kemin Cultivation Center)\nIncluded with General Admission\nOnly 0.007 percent of the planet’s water is available to fuel and feed its 8 billion people. Brad Temkin’s photography puts visitors face-to-face with the systems and techniques that deliver our most valuable natural resource. In doing so\, the exhibition encourages us to see water conservation as a process we can all get involved in. \nWater stands as the most important chemical compound used by humans daily\, and polling shows many Americans care deeply about water quality. But despite highly visible water crises—like the high lead levels in Flint\, Michigan\, and scarcity within the Navajo Nation—the quality and safety of drinking water often are taken for granted. It comes out of a faucet or a fountain\, initiated by an easy turn of the knob or push of a button. In truth\, that water has taken a much longer and complicated journey to reach us\, having traveled through a vast network of systems that most of us will never see. \nIn The State of Water: Our Most Valuable Resource\, Guggenheim award-winning photographer Brad Temkin continues his longstanding attention to our relationship with nature—how we appreciate and accommodate it\, and how it accommodates us. Temkin’s pictures celebrate ideas in water and wastewater engineering design\, showing the inventiveness in architecture and infrastructure necessary to meet our needs and to accommodate nature. \nA Program of ExhibitsUSA\, a national division of Mid-America Arts Alliance\nand The National Endowment for the Arts\n\n—PRESENTING SPONSOR—
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SUMMARY:Reading of the Declaration of Independence
DESCRIPTION:Celebrating the first public reading on July 8\, 1776\nWednesday\, July 8 • 3 p.m. • Church of the Land\nJuly 4\, 1776\, is the date etched into our national memory as the day the Second Continental Congress approved our Declaration of Independence. Four days later\, the document creating a new country was read aloud in public for the first time\, by Colonel John Nixon at the State House Yard in Philadelphia. \nOn July 8\, 2026\, Americans in all 50 U.S. states and 16 territories will read the Declaration of Independence aloud at state capitols\, city halls\, county and municipal buildings\, schools\, libraries\, community centers\, parks\, and museums. Living History Farms is honored to welcome the Daughters of the American Revolution\, Sons of the American Revolution\, Children of the American Revolution\, and Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate for this semiquincentennial event. Join us as we peal the church bell and hear the Declaration proudly read\, just as the residents of Philadelphia did 250 years ago. \nIncluded with General Admission. \nImage: Detail from “Reading the Declaration of Independence by John Nixon\, from the steps of Independence Hall\, Philadelphia\, July 8\, 1776\,” by Edwin Austin Abbey\, 1889 \n\n\n 
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SUMMARY:Grain Harvest + 'Tractor Wars 2'
DESCRIPTION:Our original community event!\nSaturday\, July 25 • 9 a.m.-4 p.m.\nAll activities included with General Admission\n\nEvery year since 1970\, we’ve invited guests to help us bring in the harvest using methods from centuries past. A key part of the harvest was threshing\, or separating seeds from stalks. \nWalnut Hill: See antique tractors from the Central Iowa Tractor Club on the field south of the Church of the Land from 9 a.m. to noon. Watch a tractor parade down Main Street at 12:30 p.m. \n1850 Pioneer Farm: Try threshing by hand with an old-fashioned flail\, 9:30–11 a.m. and 1–4 p.m. \n1900 Farm: Demonstrations of a gasoline-powered thresher\, 10–11 a.m. and 1–4 p.m. \nBe sure to allow time for the tractor cart ride to and from the farm sites \nWalnut Hill: Tractor parade\, 12:30 p.m. \n\nScreening of the Iowa PBS documentary “Tractor Wars II”\n“Tractor Wars II” focuses on the years 1929-1959 when companies worked to bring mechanized farming to everyday rural life. International Harvester\, Ford and John Deere fought for market supremacy through the Great Depression and World War II. By the 1950s they were all looking at how their designs fit into the equation of power and affordability. \n\nFollowed by a panel discussion celebrating the International Year of the Woman Farmer\nConfirmed panelists: \nErin Herbold-Swalwell\nErin is a lawyer who chairs the Board of Living History Farms and works at the Iowa Farm Bureau. She grew up on a crop/livestock farm near Mingo. Her parents still farm\, and she continues to be involved. Agriculture has always been a big part of her life\, and her interest in the law followed that. She understands the complexity in developing a family succession plan and the unique dynamics\, law\, and circumstances farmers face. Erin specializes in general ag law\, including administrative law\, business law\, environmental law\, real estate\, and estate planning and probate.   \nDarcy Maulsby\nDarcy is proud to be part of a family that operates a Century Farm in Calhoun County\, where she runs a marketing/communications company. She has covered agriculture and business for nearly 20 years and has worked with a number of leading business and ag organizations. In addition to serving on the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation’s FARM TEAM Speaker Corps\, Darcy is a Board member of Living History Farms\, serves as the president of the Calhoun County Farm Bureau\, the Calhoun County Corn Growers\, vice president of Central School Preservation in Lake City\, and is a member of the District Advisory Committee for the Iowa Soybean Association. \nRSVP requested \nLearning Center\, 11 a.m.
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