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Herbert Quick Birthday Party

Sun, Oct 22

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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."

Herbert Quick Birthday Party
Herbert Quick Birthday Party

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 of Successful Farming, who has written an interesting account of this important piece of history.

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