Iowa Almanac
Iowa Almanac -- Monday, August 12, 2024
spotlight on the Garst Farm. More from the Iowa Almanac in a moment. Aloha! Attach at the island! Right here in Iowa. Hi there, Andy Peterson, joined Gary Dolphin and I as we host the annual Tate and Dotty Cummins Memorial Pineapple Gala to benefit Camp Courageous. It's Friday August 16th at 6 p.m. at the Double Tree Convention Center in downtown Cedar Rapids. Enjoy a Hawaiian dinner live inside of auction and more. Two view auction items or for tickets. Simply go to kibcarages.org and we'll see you there. On September 23rd, 1959, Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev began an unprecedented tour of the United States, including a speech in Des Moines and a visit to the heart of the world's best corn country here in Iowa. The Roswell and Elizabeth Garst Farm near Kuhn Rapids in Guthrie County was the site of an amazing visit by Khrushchev. Roswell Garst played an active role in the 1930s and 1940s in the conversion of old-style family farms to then-modern agribusiness, including his key role in marketing hybrid seed pork. Nikita Khrushchev's American tour swings into the world's best corn country. On the Kuhn Rapids Iowa farm of Roswell Garst, Mr. Kay has one of the most jovial and folksy days of his visit. One of the world's most modern, efficient, and profitable farming operations, Khrushchev shows an enthusiasm springing from his Ukrainian peasant background and the interest of a leader whose nation has long known major food production problems. The Garst Farmstead was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 12th, 2009, and is located on Highway 141 in the northwestern corner of Guthrie County. The Garst Farmstead officially became historic on this date in 2009, and that's Iowa Almanac for August 12th. Follow us on Twitter @IowaAlmanac. Until tomorrow, I'm Jeff Stein.