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« Saturday December 12, 2009 »
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(event) Whatever Happened to Tuna Noodle Casserole? Start: 12:00 pm *A Road Scholar Program by Penelope Bingham* The mere mention of "Tuna Noodle Casserole"-the one made with canned tuna, packaged noodles, and canned soup-to an American of a certain age can call up powerful memories. Love it or hate it, Tuna Noodle Casserole has been an icon of American home cooking since the 1950s. The program invites the audience to think about the ways in which the family dinner table and American culture have changed since the days of Leave it to Beaver and to consider the role of the food industry in American food culture. (event) Journey Stories Start: 1:00 pm End: 4:00 pm *Journey Stories* tells how we and our ancestors came to America. From Native Americans to new American citizens and regardless of our ethnic or racial background, everyone has a story to tell. This special opening day will feature a ribbon cutting ceremony at 1:00 p.m. Afterwards, Dr. Loren Horton, Emeritus Senior Historian of the State Historical Society of Iowa, will lead a family and oral history workshop, offering advice on the recording and preserving of personal and family journey stories through memoir writing and oral interviews. Our history is filled with stories of people leaving behind everything - families and possessions - to reach a new life in another state, across the continent, or even across an ocean. Many chose to move, searching for something better in a new land. Others had no choice, like enslaved Africans captured and relocated to a strange land and bravely asserting their own cultures, or like Native Americans already here, who were often violently removed by newcomers. This exhibition runs from December 12, 2009 - January 24, 2010. The exhibit hours are: (event) Preserving Personal and Family Journey Stories Start: 2:00 pm Dr. Loren Horton, Emeritus Senior Historian, from the State Historical Society of Iowa, has made a study of diaries of extraordinary people doing extraordinary things. As an opening program, he will feature some of these diary excerpts kep by travelers along overland trails to the American West. He will offer a workshop and advice for recording personal and family journey stories through memoir writing and oral history.

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