Now on display at the Heritage Art Gallery - Drake History
Mike
Their names appear on buildings and adorn award certificates. Their
faces are seen rarely, and then only in dusty old portraits and the
yellowed pages of college annuals. Distance in history makes it hard to
remember that the founders of Drake University were flesh and blood -
men and women of great ambitions, tedious struggles and grand
accomplishments.
Despite building what today is Iowa's largest private university, the
stories of the people who made the school possible are seldom told -
until now.
A historical display at the Polk County Heritage Gallery will tell the
tales of the dreamers, thinkers, stargazers and war heroes who built
Drake. Visitors will learn how a swashbuckling adventurer, businessman
and Civil War general named Francis Marion Drake allied with George
Carpenter, a teacher and preacher from Winterset, to build a university
in the middle of what was then a forest some five miles from Des
Moines.
They will read about Daniel Morehouse, a former football player and
stargazing intellectual who discovered a comet, got some of Drake's
finest buildings built during the nation's worst economic times and
dozens of other stories great and small from Drake history.
Also on available for viewing will be a display of historical items
from Drake's storied past and a running slideshow of images through
Drake's past and present.
Drake is also building an online history archive about the University
and Des Moines at www.lib.drake.edu/heritage.
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Call for Entries, Iowa Exhibited 21
The Heritage Art Gallery is proud to announce the call for entries for
the 21st showing of Iowa Exhibited.
You can download the call for entries from our website:
http://www.heritagegallery.org/downloads/HGie21CallforEntry.pdf
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