Join Silos & Smokestacks for a bus tour through Northeast Iowa. Visit three historic barns, and along the way enjoy the award-winning documentary, The Barn Raisers, with live commentary from producers Tammy and Kelly Rundle.
Participants will eat a pancake breakfast at Hardin County Farm Museum in Eldora, Iowa, tour the Harriman-Nielsen Historic Farm in Hampton, and receive a barn tour and lunch at Tyden Farm No. 6 in Dougherty. All farms and barns featured on the tour are designated Silos & Smokestacks Partner Sites.
The Barn Raisers, is an award-winning documentary film that examines the iconic architecture of barns. The film sets the stage for a larger conversation about farm life and rural culture in the Midwest. Kelly and Tammy Rundle from Fourth Wall Films, producers of the documentary, will join the bus tour to give live commentary about the documentary, the sites visited and look into the history, culture and creativity of the historic barns that dot Iowa’s countryside.
Cost is $20 person (call for group rates) and includes breakfast, lunch, snacks and an official Silos & Smokestacks bus tour bag. The bus will leave downtown Waterloo at 8 a.m. on Saturday, June 2. Register at silosandsmokestacks.org/bustour. Call (319) 234-4567.
The project is supported, in part, by the Iowa Arts Council, a division of the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs.
Through a network of sites, programs and events, Silos & Smokestacks National Heritage Area tells the story of farm life and agribusiness—past and present. Visitors can learn about and experience agriculture at a variety of museums, historic sites, and farms. One of 49 federally designated heritage areas in the nation, Silos & Smokestacks is an Affiliated Area of the National Park Service. The heritage area covers 37 counties in the northeast quadrant of Iowa.
The Barn Raisers was partially funded by grants from Humanities Iowa, Silos and Smokestacks National Heritage Area, the Kansas Humanities Council, the Ohio Humanities Council, the Wisconsin Humanities Council, the Michigan Barn Preservation Network, the National Barn Alliance/Russ & LuAnn Mawby, the Moline Foundation, and the Community Foundation of Jackson County. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this documentary film and program do not necessarily reflect those of these organizations.
Kelly and Tammy Rundle of Fourth Wall Films are the producers of The Barn Raisers, and the regional Emmy® nominated historical documentaries Country School: One Room – One Nation, River to River: Iowa’s Forgotten Highway 6, and Letters Home to Hero Street (co-produced with WQPT-PBS), and the award-winning Movie Star: The Secret Lives of Jean Seberg (co-produced with Garry McGee), Lost Nation: The Ioway series, and Villisca: Living with a Mystery.
To order the award-winning The Barn Raisers DVD visit http://
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