Author talk: Art Cullen on "What's Eating Iowa"
Schedule
Sun Apr 19 2026 at 02:00 pm to 03:30 pm
UTC-05:00Location
Mines of Spain State Recreation Area and E. B. Lyons Nature Center | Dubuque, IA
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For Earth Day 2026, Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaperman Art Cullen will come to Dubuque to speak on the topics of his video docuseries (What's Eating Iowa)-- and his book (Dear Marty, We Have Crapped in Our Nest).As publisher and editor of the Storm Lake Times-Pilot, Cullen writes from his rural Iowa perspective that "we have fouled our nest over the past half century in a way that was almost unavoidable, given our history of seeking domination — first over the Indigenous people of the Western World, then over their land. Native people for millennia lived with the land in a vital relationship. Europeans set out to transform that relationship brutally, and this destruction has reached a head. We simply cannot go on like this, washing our soil down the river while the planet bakes, ignoring our own immigration story."
In the wake of the book's publication. Cullen has teamed up with award-winning cinematographer Jerry Risius to highlight issues and struggles faced by working families in Iowa in What's Eating Iowa. First episode -- Water quality:
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Where is it happening?
Mines of Spain State Recreation Area and E. B. Lyons Nature Center, 9097 Bellevue Hts, Dubuque, IA 52003-9217, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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