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3/4/2010
SILOS AND SMOKESTACKS

Silos & Smokestacks to Honor Best in Heritage Development

Northeast Iowa (March 4, 2010) - Silos & Smokestacks National Heritage Area (SSNHA) will be holding their annual Golden Silo Awards Luncheon Wednesday, April 7, from 12:00-1:30 p.m. at the Sky Event Centre, downtown Waterloo. The Sky Event Centre is located in the original Black’s Gypsy Tea Room in the historic Black’s Building.

Each year, SSNHA celebrates the best in heritage development by presenting Golden Silo Awards to individuals and organizations whose contributions demonstrate outstanding excellence in preserving and telling stories of American agriculture.

This year’s special guest will be Mary Lynch Swander, Poet Laureate of the State of Iowa. She will perform a vignette from her play, Farmscape, a docudrama capturing the changing rural environment.

“We are proud to have Mary Swander as part of this year’s celebration. Her play Farmscape demonstrates the very same excellence in preservation of America’s agricultural story that is being recognized through our Golden Silo Awards,” commented Don Short, SSNHA President.

Tickets are $30 each for this recognition of the Heritage Area’s finest. For more information or to register, please contact Carol Klein at 319-234-4567 or cklein@silosandsmokestacks.org. Invitation and registration form may also be found at www.silosandsmokestacks.org.

Silos & Smokestacks National Heritage Area is one of 49 federally designated heritage areas in the nation and is an Affiliated Area of the National Park Service. The Heritage Area covers 37 counties in the northeast quadrant of Iowa. Interstate 80 borders it on the south and Interstate 35 borders it on the west. Through a network of sites, programs and events, SSNHA interprets farm life, agribusiness and rural communities – past and present.

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(Contacts: Candy Welch Streed, Program & Partnership Director, Silos & Smokestacks National Heritage Area, cstreed@silosandsmokestacks.org, Office: 319.234.4567,Cell: 319.404.0115; or Aaron Steinmann, Marketing & Communications Manager, Silos & Smokestacks National Heritage Area, asteinmann@silosandsmokestacks.org, Office: 319.234.4567,Cell: 563.593.4521)