Eisenhower Presidential Library & Museum Virtual Lunch & Learn series
The Salina Journal
ABILENE — The 2021 monthly Eisenhower Presidential Library & Museum Virtual Lunch & Learn series will start at noon Thursday, Jan. 28.
The free hourlong virtual program will host Pamela Riney-Kehrberg, who will discuss the primary aspects of farm children’s lives: work, school and play. Work was the most important element in children’s lives, followed by school and leisure. She will tell the story of the children whose labor made the continuation of their families’ enterprises possible.
Riney-Kehrberg is a distinguished professor of history at Iowa State University, where she has taught since 2000. She is the author of "Rooted in Dust: Surviving Drought and Depression in Southwestern Kansas," "Childhood on the Farm: Work, Play and Coming of Age in the Midwest," "Always Plenty to Do: Growing Up on a Farm in the Long Ago" and "The Nature of Childhood: An Environmental History of Growing Up in America Since 1865." She is also the editor of the Routledge History of Rural America. In 2017, she became a fellow of the Agricultural History Society. Currently, she is researching the farm crisis of the 1980s.