Who: Art Cullen in conversation with Chris Jones
What: an evening celebrating his new work, Dear Marty, We Crapped in Our Nest
Where: T-Bock's Upstairs
When: Monday, 10/20 at 7:00pm
Join Art Cullen, author of Dear Marty, We Crapped in Our Nest, and Chris Jones, Midwest writer and environmentalist, for a conversation and Q&A session followed by a book signing on Monday, October 20th at 7pm at T-Bock's Upstairs, 206 W Water St, Decorah, IA. Everyone is invited to this free event sponsored by the Oneota Valley Literary Foundation, with support from Pulpit Rock Brewing and Dragonfly Books.
“Art Cullen is a great journalist–and this is a great account of what the biggest crisis in human history looks like from the most fertile farmland on our planet. Read it, feel it, and get to work.”–Bill McKibben, author Here Comes the Sun
We have fouled our nest over the past half century in a way that was almost unavoidable, given our history of seeking domination — first over the Indigenous people of the Western World, then over their land. Native people for millennia lived with the land in a vital relationship. Europeans set out to transform that relationship brutally, and this destruction has reached a head. We simply cannot go on like this, washing our soil down the river while the planet bakes, ignoring our own immigration story.
Art Cullen is editor and co-owner with older brother John of the Storm Lake Times Pilot (www.stormlake.com) in rural Northwest Iowa. Art is a Storm Lake native, where he graduated from St. Mary’s High School with his pal Marty Case. Art barely earned a journalism degree from the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn. He has been a reporter and editor at newspapers in Algona, Ames and Mason City, Iowa, and helped John launch the Storm Lake Times in their hometown in 1990. They also own the Cherokee Chronicle Times, a weekly in an adjacent county.
Joining Art in conversation is Chris Jones, who has held several esteemed positions, including, but not limited to, Lab Supervisor at Des Moines Water Works, Environmental Scientist at the Iowa Soybean Association, and a Research Engineer & Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Iowa. Chris’ research interests span from contaminant hydrology, nutrient and sediment transport, to agriculture and water quality. In his free time, Chris is an avid outdoorsman who enjoys fishing, gardening, and mushroom hunting.
This event is part of Dragonfly Books and the Oneota Valley Literary Foundation’s robust author event series, which brings top-notch writers of all genres to Northeast Iowa to lead in conversations about literature and writing. To learn more about this event and other events with Dragonfly Books, visit www.dragonflybooks.com.
If you find that you can't make it to the event but would still like to purchase any books from this author talk, give Dragonfly Books a call at 563-382-4275. Our staff will be glad to reserve a book, have it autographed for you, and shipped out as needed.
You may also like the following events from Oneota Valley Literary Foundation:
- This month, 22nd September, 07:00 pm, Cynthia Marie Hoffman | Exploding Head | Reading, Q&A, and Signing in Decorah
- This month, 27th September, 01:00 pm, Erin Makela | Worthy of Trust | Open House Signing in Decorah
- Next month, 2nd October, 05:30 pm, Shelf Life: A BYOBook Club in Decorah
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