Spurlock Museum - Event

Tuesday, October 21, 2025

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  Farm Aid talk: The Farm Crisis and Fallout: The Rural Midwest in the 1980s and After by Prof. Pamela Riney-Kehrberg

  4:30 pm

  Spurlock Museum: 600 S Gregory St, Urbana, IL 61801

  Pamela Riney-Kehrberg, Distinguished Professor of History at Iowa State since 2000, is a leading scholar in agricultural history. An award-winning author of seven books, her latest, When a Dream Dies, earned top honors in Iowa history in 2022 and 2023.

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Thursday, October 23, 2025

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  Farm Aid and Far Beyond: A Conversation with John Doe

  4:30 pm

  Spurlock Museum: 600 S Gregory St, Urbana, IL 61801

  Join John Doe, co-founder of the legendary band X, for a conversation about the band’s appearance at the inaugural Farm Aid concert in Champaign in 1985.

  • Lecture