Learn “How Corn Changed Itself and then Changed Everything Else” in a presentation at the Windmill Cultural Center, 111 10th Ave., Fulton, a news release says.
Author Cynthia Clampitt, an Illinois Humanities Road Scholar speaker, will demonstrate this concept through the history of common agricultural crops and foods. She weaves the stories of early America toward the development of the Midwest we know today. She will trace how corn evolved from a weedy grass to the cash crop of the modern world.
Volunteer Millers of de Immigrant Windmill will host this presentation at 6 p.m. Tuesday, July 22, at the cultural center. The facility is fully accessible to persons with disabilities. Light refreshments will be served following the program. This event is free and open to the public. For more information, call 563-249-6115.