Join us Thursday at the WCC!
During March the Greater Grand Rapids Women's History Council has featured the roles played by area rural and urban women in agricultural politics over the past century. This week we take our last look of the month and come into the present. Join us on Thursday-when new and renewing members a complimentary wine ticket! Scroll down here or join then. Support the work of the GGRWHC!
2012 Women's History Month Finale!
Thursday, March 29th, 2012
5:00 pm Hors d'oeuvres & wine ticket bar ($5/glass); 5:30 pm: program
Women's City Club, Lower level auditorium, 254 Fulton Street
Free & Open to the Public
After complimentary hors d'oeuvres and a champagne toast honoring the centennial of the Girl Scouts, we'll have a sneak peek at Jaye Beeler & Dianne Carroll Burdick's new book!
Tasting and Touring Michigan's Homegrown Food: A Culinary Road Trip
Gifted storyteller Jaye Beeler and award-winning photographer Dianne Carroll Burdick invite you to buckle up for "Tasting and Touring Michigan's Homegrown Food: A Culinary Roadtrip."
Chronicling Michigan's amazing agricultural landscape, its roads dotted with farm stands, hay bales, pastured animals and working barns, Jaye and Dianne will introduce you to a sampling of enterprising women tastemakers of Michigan-- farmers, herdswomen, cheese-makers, small-batch producers, bakers and culinarians. At the same time they squash myths that only men are farmers, these women expand the definition of the profession! Perhaps Laurie Arboreal of Bangor's Eaters Guild says it best: "I am forever trying to squash the stereotype that the man does the farming. I, too, am in the field, making deliveries, and selling stores and farmers markets."
On Thursday, visit a whole new world of food integrity and meet some of the women who produce our food!
Trained at the University of Kentucky, Jaye Beeler has worked in newsrooms in Arizona, Kentucky, Ohio and Michigan, where she was food editor and restaurant reviewer at The Grand Rapids Press for ten years.
Dianne Carroll Burdick is a free-lance photographer and instructor at GRCC and Kendall College. Her clients ranging USA Today to Opera Grand Rapids, Dianne has had work in over fifty art exhibitions and in six books.
EARLIER THIS MONTH: If you missed our first two programs, check out these newsy accounts by Mlive's Garret Ellison and the Rapidian's Sharon Hanks. Reward our news outlets for attending to local history! http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2012/03/how_female_leaders_changed_the.html and http://therapidian.org/join-us-thursday-night-learn-about-early-years-fulton-street-farmers-market and http://therapidian.org/women-fruit-ridge-and-their-essential-role-growing-economic-powerhouse-are-recalled-thursday-evening
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