Evelyn and Birthday Bouquet Speaking Engagements

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


Upcoming Speaking Appearances by Evelyn:

Evelyn will lead the Brownville Lyceum forum at 2 p.m. Sunday, May 23rd, 2010 sharing recipes and stories of rural life. She is the author of 10 books, a radio homemaker for over 40 years, a newspaper columnist, and the subject of an Iowa Public Television documentary.

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.



Recent Speaking Appearances by Evelyn:

  • •  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 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
Several of the subjects she has recently presented include the following:

  • •  Witching for William - searching for my ancestors in Scotland and Illinois

  • •  Adventure after 60 - Adventures in England and Scotland

  • •  How I Became an Accidental Author

  • •  Up a Country Lane; Life in the 40s and 50s on a little Iowa farm