The Prairie Landscape

The Studs Terkel Humanities Service Award - 2006


Lynn Asp

Nominated By The Honorable Robert E. Logan


Franklin Grove


Lynn Asp

For more than two decades, music instructor Lynn Asp has embodied the motto of the Franklin Grove Historical Society: "Preserving our past is pioneering our future" through her involvement in the preservation of the rural Midwestern heritage and the historical record of the Franklin Grove community. Ms. Asp is currently Recording Secretary and former President of the Historical Society and serves as the Mayor's appointed chairman of the Village's Historic Preservation District. She has also been integral in the development of Chaplin Creek Historic Village, a growing restoration community containing more than a dozen buildings that present the history of settlement on the prairies starting in the early 1800s. The Historic Village is now a central showcase for historical reenactments, live cultural demonstrations, craft making, and recreation of a bygone era. In addition, for 14 out of the first 20 years it was held, Ms. Asp chaired the Franklin Grove Summer Harvest Festival, founded in 1980 as an educational endeavor to preserve and showcase local history.

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