BUS-eum at Dubuque Farmers Market

Program Type:

Exhibit, Lecture/ Presentation

Age Group:

Adults
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Event Details

Carnegie-Stout Public Library and the Dubuque Farmers' Market will host the BUS-eum, a non-profit mobile history exhibit in a retrofitted school bus, on Saturday, August 14, 2021.

The BUS-eum will be parked at the Dubuque Farmers' Market from 7:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Admission is free and open to the public.

The exhibit's theme, "Hidden or Forbidden No More: Prequels to the Greatest Generation," highlights the following Iowa and Midwest topics from 1914 to 1939:

  • Anti-German hysteria of WWI
  • The Influenza pandemic of 1918-19
  • Prohibition-era bootlegging and crime
  • The Ku Klux Klan's Second Wave of the 1920s
  • The Cow Wars fought by Depression-era farmers

At 10:00 a.m. BUS-eum director Michael Luick-Thrams will give a special presentation on the 1918 Flu Pandemic.

For more details about the BUS-eum, please visit TRACES Center for History and Culture at www.traces.org.

For the Dubuque Farmers' Market, please visit www.dubuquefarmersmarket.org.

For Carnegie-Stout Public Library, please visit us on Facebook or call 563-589-4225.