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Our members met at 10 am at the Cedar Falls Library Conference room for our Business meeting; we then moved over to the Hearst Center for lunch and the afternoon discussion. It was a great meeting, with several visitors.
We talked about Ruth Suckow’s most famous novel, The Folks at the Hearst Center for the Arts.
Barbara Lounsberry, University of Northern Iowa emeritus professor of English, led the discussion of this 1934 Iowa novel set in Belmond (which means “beautiful world” in French). The novel follows Fred and Annie Ferguson, “the folks” of the title, and their children, from their start on an Iowa farm and as they branch out in the early twentieth century. “The Folks has been called Suckow’s masterpiece,” Lounsberry explains. “Suckow captures with searing realism the joys and sorrows each generation meets, the challenges of leaving and returning, and the abiding Iowa earth.” Copies of the novel are available in the “Iowa Section” of the Cedar Falls Public Library. For further information, contact Lounsberry (Lounsberry@gmail.com). Pictures of our past Annual meetings
Last Updated July 19, 2011
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