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Annual Meeting of the RSMA, Saturday, September 14, 2024

Hearst Center for the Arts

We had a wonderful day together! 

Mary Swander, former Iowa Poet Laureate, gave the Keynote Address at our Centennial Celebration of the 1924 publication of Ruth's first novel, Country People.  

We hosted a panel, Country People on Country People. 

Our panel included four farmers, young and old, male and female, for a variety of perspectives on rural life and their responses to the Suckow novel Country People.

Thank you to:

Larry Harris and Denise O'Brien -- Rolling Acres Farm, Atlantic, Iowa

Lorna Easton -- Our Association member!  Has lived her whole life on a farm near Hawarden, Ruth Suckow's birth home in northwest Iowa

Sean Dengler -- a young farmer who commutes from Urbandale to help his parents continue the family farm between Traer and Dysart; Sean is also a newspaper columnist and podcaster

Award Ceremony, Suckow $1,000 Iowa Student Scholarship & $500 Teacher Award: the winning essay is titled "August and Emma Kaetterhenry:  A Marriage Examined," was written by Veronica Ruse. One of the teachers from Grinnell's High School, Jennie Flinspach, as well as Veronica's boyfriend, were there to celebrate her win.

Thanks to all for coming and an invitation to come to next year’s Centennial Celebration of Odyssey of a Nice Girl

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