Herbert Quick Birthday Party
Sun, Oct 22
|Shelter House and Colfax No. 9 School
Help celebrate a very important person in Grundy Center history, Herbert Quick. His birthday is remembered and celebrated in many places throughout the U.S. and is most appropriate that we commemorate it in his "home county."
Time & Location
Oct 22, 2023, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Shelter House and Colfax No. 9 School , 700-798 13th St, Grundy Center, IA 50638, USA
About the event
Please join us to celebrate Herbert Quick's birthday with a recitation from Luther Thoresen with games and ice cream and birthday cupcakes after!
Where: Shelter House and Colfax No. 9 School at Orion Park Event Sponsors: GC Historical Society and Grundy Center Lions Club Subject: Herbert Quick’s Footprints. Why he is important to our community. Order of the Day: Program: 1:00-2:00 Shelter House. Recitation from our “Herbert Quick”– Luther Thoresen Refreshments: 1:00-3:00. Ice Cream and Toppings and Birthday Cupcakes Games and Schoolhouse Tour: 2:00-3:00 Please Join Us!
The footprints of Herbert Quick are interesting to follow as his family made their way from Wisconsin to Iowa and to Grundy and Hardin County, to Sioux City and Washington, D.C. His contributions and legacy are well-known throughout the literary world. His writings are said to be the most accurate accounting of the Iowa Prairie. "It is important for us to know," said Loren Kruse, society director and former editor…