Festival included: panel featuring Grant Wood, Paul Green, Lawrence Tibbett, Frank Lloyd Wright; exhibition of paintings by Grant Wood and Marvin Cone; graduate student art exhibition; plays and musical performances.
Scrapbook compiled by Evelyn Birkby; chiefly contains clippings from "Up a country lane, " Birkby's weekly homemaking column in the Shenandoah Evening Sentinel newspaper.
Excerpted from The Irving library, vol. 7, no. 949. Includes debate with Stephen Douglas (June 17, 1858), speech at Independence Hall (Feb. 21, 1861), First Inaugural Address (Mar. 4, 1861), Emancipation Proclamation (Jan. 1, 1863), Gettysburg...