BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Missouri State University/Calendar of Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Chicago BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20070311T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU TZNAME:CDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 DTSTART:20071104T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU TZNAME:CST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:087d4c7f-145d-453a-9b6c-6d7ab85b2e47.218560@calendar.missouristate.edu CREATED:20211115T201647Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211115T201647Z LOCATION:Meyer Library\, Duane G. 302 SUMMARY:Author Talk with Brooks Blevins DESCRIPTION:The Ozarks Studies Institute\, an initiative of the Missouri S tate University Libraries\, will host Brooks Blevins for an author talk a nd signing of his newly published book\, “A History of the Ozarks\, Volum e 3: The Ozarkers.” \n\n\nThis is a free and open to the public event. Ch eck out visitor parking information. The author talk will also be livestr eamed via Zoom. \n\n\nThe book is the third and final volume in Blevins's monumental history of the region. Chronicling the Ozarks from the late 1 9th to the early 21st century\, the author focuses on the cultural histor y of the region in the context of the American story. Blevins tackles myt hs and misconceptions about the Ozarkers as they journey into the modern period and embrace progress\, while struggling with barriers presented by poverty and geographic isolation.\n\n\nBlevins is Missouri State Univers ity’s first Noel Boyd Professor of Ozarks Studies and is a respected scho lar with a broad range of interests extending from the history of America n higher education to agriculture\, religion\, and society in the U.S. So uth. His first volume in the History of the Ozarks series won the Missour i History Book Award from the State Historical Society of Missouri\, as w ell as the Arkansiana Award from the Arkansas Library Association. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<html><head><title></title></head><body><p>Th e Ozarks Studies Institute\, an initiative of the Missouri State Universi ty Libraries\, will host Brooks Blevins for an author talk and signing of his newly published book\, “A History of the Ozarks\, Volume 3: The Ozar kers.”&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>This is a free and open to the public event. Check out&nbsp\;<a href="https://www.missouristate.edu/visitors/parking.htm">vi sitor parking</a> information. The author talk will also be&nbsp\;<a href ="https://missouristate.zoom.us/j/97346584186">livestreamed</a> via Zoom. &nbsp\;</p>\n<p>The book is the third and final volume in Blevins's monum ental history of the region. Chronicling the Ozarks from the late 19th to the early 21st century\, the author focuses on the cultural history of t he region in the context of the American story. Blevins tackles myths and misconceptions about the Ozarkers as they journey into the modern period &nbsp\;and embrace progress\, while struggling with barriers presented by poverty and geographic isolation.</p>\n<p>Blevins is Missouri State Univ ersity’s first Noel Boyd Professor of Ozarks Studies and is a respected s cholar with a broad range of interests extending from the history of Amer ican higher education to agriculture\, religion\, and society in the U.S. South. His first volume in the History of the Ozarks series won the Miss ouri History Book Award from the State Historical Society of Missouri\, a s well as the Arkansiana Award from the Arkansas Library Association.</p> \n<p></p></body></html> DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20211207T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20211207T170000 SEQUENCE:0 URL:https://ozarksstudies.missouristate.edu/ CATEGORIES:Public,Alumni,Current Students,Faculty,Staff END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR