Eugenec Eppley Foundation News Today

Take a moment to reminisce on the Gene Eppley Boys Club, whose motto was: “It is better to build boys than to mend men.”

It was from his hotels that Eugene C. Eppley made the millions that benefited civic and community endeavors over 30 years.

Other Americas Fig. 1. Spring in Town by Grant Wood (1891–1942), 1941. Signed and dated “GRANT/ WOOD/ 1941” at lower center. Oil on wood, 26 by 24 ½ inches. Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, Indiana, © Figge Art Museum, successors to the Estate of Nan Wood Graham/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY. Fig. 2. Wood in a photograph from 1941. Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa. Grant Wood’s mature career began in 1929, the year of the great stock market crash and the beginning of a decade of na...