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Project Green: Our Garden Superstars

Recorded March 3, 2013

Karla McGrail shares many of the Linn County Master Gardeners' favorite ornamental landscaping perennials, trees and shrubs, choosen for their unique qualities...

Gardening, Nature, and Home Project GREEN

Eco Iowa City: Backyard Composting with Sherlyn Flesher

Recorded June 2011

Sherlyn Flesher of Johnson County Master Gardeners and expert composter presents information on how to get started composting effectively and easily.

Gardening, Nature, and Home Eco Iowa City

Intellectual Freedom Festival Poetry Event: Poets on the Barricades

The Iowa City Johnson County Senior Center's Reading Aloud group reads poems about slavery, racism, and other forms of oppression across time and the world.

Part of the 2015 Carol...

Books and Writing, Current Issues and Politics

Music is the Word Author Visit: David Gaines, "In Dylan Town"

For fifty years, the music, words, story, and fans of Bob Dylan have fascinated David Gaines. As a son, a husband, a father, a teacher, and a passionate lover of the literary in all its guises, he...

Arts, Music, and Hobbies, Books and Writing

The Cost of Success: Rap Music, Money, & Civics

A conversation between Dr. Michael Hill (UI English and African American Studies) and Andre Perry. From the moment that it appeared, rap music focused on money. Many commentators used this...

Arts, Music, and Hobbies, Current Issues and Politics

Iowa Roots Music: David Zollo in discussion with Andy Fleming

David Zollo has been highly active in the Iowa City music scene for over twenty years as a musician, songwriter, record label founder, and producer. David has asked musician Andy Fleming of Des...

Arts, Music, and Hobbies

Music is the Word: Spanish Culture's Impact on Russian Literature and Music

A conversation that examines the influence of Spanish culture on Russian literature and music of the 19th century with University of Iowa adjunct professor Anna Barker and piano accompaniment by...

Arts, Music, and Hobbies

Author Visit: Grace Lin

Author Grace Lin visits ICPL and is interviewed by children's librarian Morgan Reeves. Sponsored by Hills Bank and ICCSD.

Recorded November 5, 2015.

Books and Writing

Beyond the Winning Pig: Phil Stong's Other Animal Tales

What does it mean to imagine the history of Iowa animals apart from industrial agriculture and the meatpacking businesses that continue to shape our relationship to hogs, and chickens, horses and...

Local History

Author Visit: Jane Smiley

From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize: the much-anticipated final volume, following "Some Luck" and "Early Warning", of her acclaimed American trilogy—a richly absorbing new...

Books and Writing