Heritage Renewal

The Center for Heritage Renewal will be exhibiting at the Grass-N-Beef Research Review, Central Grasslands Research Extension Center, Streeter, on January 20. The center recently acquired three banner stands to use as exhibit panels. One will bear general information about the center, and the other two will contain historic photographs of rural life in the Missouri Coteau during the 1930s and 1940s. The photos all are drawn from county extension agent reports held by NDSU Archives. One set of photos is organized under the theme, "Hard Times in the Middle Landscape." It depicts such events and developments as dust storms, grasshopper poisoning campaigns, and the organization of New Deal farm programs. A second set of photographs is arranged under the heading, "Keeping the Faith in the Coteau." These depict residents of the region adapting and carrying on a sense of community despite the hard times. Scenes include 4H and homemaker achievement days, pageantry, picnics, and cooperative cattle dipping.