Celebrate American Cream Talks, 2023
In summer 2023, Barbara Knox Homrighaus presented a series of three talks as part of Iowa’s participation in Celebrate National American Cream Draft Horse Day. These talks took place in Ellsworth, Jewell, and Radcliffe — important sites in the early development of the American Cream. Full text and images from the presentations can be accessed below.
Thank You
Researchers Barbara Knox Homrighaus and Nancy Eich Kayser thank the following people for their support and expertise regarding the three ‘pioneer breeders’ talk series in central Iowa for Celebrate National American Cream Draft Horse Day July 11th: Richard Steffen, Jewell Museum Director; Salena Schmitz, Ellsworth Librarian; Janet Adix, Ellsworth Museum Director; Radcliffe Public Librarian Marilyn Raska-Engleson, Elaine Bahr, and Marcia Eller; Radcliffe Museum and Historical Society Anita Drake; Roland Historical Society, Robert Higgins; Jewell Powerpoint Jodi Knox; Ellsworth Coordinator Jodi Knox; Ellsworth Photographer Galen Crawford; Radcliffe Parade Truck driver Chuck Knox and crew John Knox, Rhett Knox, Louie Knox, Avery Thompson, Camden Thompson, Jack Perkins; ACDHA Associate Committee co-chair Clair Rierson; Radcliffe photographs Marian Knox Houseman; Martin County Minnesota Historical Society researcher Dona Paris; ACDHA President Belle Davis, ACDHA Secretary/Treasurer Kerrie Beckett; Gladys Knox Bell, Mark Christian, Peggy Dolan and Clair Kelly, Cheryl and Ross Hanson, Barry Homrighaus, Ruth Homrighaus, Audrey Knox Johnson, the Esther Knox Murray family, the June Knox Nemechek family, Ann Omvig Maine, Laura Obrien, Barbara Schulz, Marlin and Russell Smith, Alan Spohnheimer, Arlen Twedt, Steven Twedt, the Photograph Collection of Samuel Harold and Dorothy Halsted Twedt, Dennis and Patti Yancy, Kipling and Linda Yancy, Martin Yancy, Paige Yancy and Garrett Rogers.