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Friendly Town
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Grinnell Stories blog by Dan Kaiser
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Friendly Town Program
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African Americans, Latinx Americans, Race
Post title: Dreaming About Nature...and Race: “Friendly Town” Comes to Grinnell
Date published: September 1, 2020
Link to blog post: https://grinnellstories.blogspot.com/2020/09/dreaming-about-natureand-race-friendly.html
Drake Library Archive Digital File Name: Grinnell Stories/2020-09-01 Friendly Town comes to Grinnell
Summary: In the critical time of race relations in 1960s America, Grinnell and other rural towns hosted primarily African American and Latinx children from urban areas for two weeks as a part of “Friendly Town,” a Fresh Air program. Between three and 34 children visited each year between 1965 and 1968. Memories from both hosts and visiting children are sparse and varied; some hosts still communicated with their guests after their visits, one guest shoplifted from a local store, and no one asked the visiting children about problems with their hosts.
Alvarez, Danny
Alvarez, Donny
Anderson, Richard
Bates, Sandra
Ben Franklin Store, Grinnell, IA, USA
Burch, Pamela
Callison, Oda
Callison, Wayne
Clark, Grant
Dunham, H. Grinnell
Epting, Charlie
Evans, Dorothy
Fresh Air Programs
Friendly Town Program
Gilmour, C. Edwin
Groth, Virgil
Haas, Dennis
Haas, Tommy
Hansen, Harold
Hotchkin, Bernard
Howig, Don
Howig, Ethel
Keyes, Toni
Kissane, Jim
Kissane, Nancy
Klein, David
Langford, Mark
Lee, Mary
Maggitt, David
Mattausch, Tom
Mayflower Community, Grinnell, IA, USA
Milburn, Don
Milburn, Joan
Mueller, Berneil
Mueller, Kimberly J.
Mueller, Ted
Palmer, Virgil
Parslow, Michele
Parslow, Morris Albert
Pedersen, Dorothy
Pedersen, Paul
Perkins, Joseph (Ike)
Raffety, Eloise
Raffety, Maynard
Ratliff, Harry
Reynolds, Harry
Rikansrud, Don
Rikansrud, Opal
Simpson, Brenda
Smith, Bette
Smith, Bob
Smith, Brian
Smith, Darlene
Smith, Eugene
Sneed, Charlie
Sneed, Steve
Sneed, William
St. John’s Lutheran Church, Grinnell, IA, USA
Steger, John
Strickler, Melba
Sykes, Gerald
Sykes, Reginald
Torres, Virginia
United Church of Christ-Congregational, Grinnell, IA, USA
Weeks, Bill
Weeks, JoAnn