Requesting Evelyn to Speak at Your Event
Recent Appearances
Evelyn's Speaking Topics
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Evelyn is available for speaking engagements, preferably within 100 miles of her Sidney, Iowa home. The fee is negotiable. Contact her via email to request an appearance, or write:
Evelyn Birkby
Box 387
Sidney, IA 51652
Recent Speaking Appearances by Evelyn:
| What: Enjoy the Art of Storytelling The Iowa History Center presents Simpson alumna Evelyn Corrie Birkby '38, who will delight audiences as she shares stories from her eventful life as homemaker, author, radio personality and newspaper columnist in rural Iowa. From Up a Country Lane to Kitchen Klatter,hear the recipes and stories of our mothers and grandmothers. Click here to read about Evelyn's presentation and visit to the State Historical Society of Iowa. |
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Great Plains Radio History Symposium
October, 2010
Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
2010's symposium featured a panel on "radio homemaker programs," a staple of rural Midwestern radio programming from the 1920s through the 1980s. Evelyn was a featured panelist.
- • Brownville, Nebraska--Lyceum
- • Cedar Rapids, Iowa, library--Iowa Author's series
- • Mt. Vernon, Iowa, and Central College library
- • Red Oak Iowa, Montgomery State Bank Senior Club
- • Shenandoah, City National Bank
- • Kiwanis Club of Hamburg Iowa
- • I (Iowa) to Eye tour
- • Featured speaker on Whad'Ya Know" national radio broadcast, Wisconsin Public Radio
- • Writers seminar, Council Bluffs, Iowa, public library
- • Senior Centers talks on Local History and Teddy Bears
Evelyn began her career as a radio homemaker in 1950. She shared conversations, recipes, and friendship with her listeners. She still has a monthly radio visit on KMA radio, Shenandoah IA.
Now more than 90 years young, she lectures at her alma mater, Simpson College, Indianola IA, does on-air fund-raising for Iowa Public Television, and keeps a full calendar of personal appearances.
Evelyn was one of 150 Iowans chosen to represent Iowa at the Smithsonian Folk Life Festival on the Mall in Washington, DC in 1996. She was a presenter for the food venue and part of the radio broadcasting center performers working with other Iowa communicators. Evelyn presented several live broadcasts from the Mall during the two week Festival, including a broadcast when she interviewed Iowa native Hugh Sidey.
Evelyn, along with fellow radio broadcaster Lee Kline, of Des Moines, Iowa, hosted "a magical" evening program featuring early radio history at the Smithsonian Folk Life Festival on the Mall in Washington DC in 1996.
Evelyn's Topics for Speaking Appearances
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