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[ Permalink ]  Film & Discussion: King CornThursday September 25, 2008: 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm -- Downtown Library: 4th Floor Meeting RoomBehind America’s dollar hamburgers and 72-ounce sodas is a key ingredient that quietly fuels our fast-food nation: corn. Recent college graduates Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis leave the east coast for rural Iowa, where they decide to grow an acre of the nation’s most powerful crop. They find that America’s most subsidized crop has become the staple of its cheapest – and most troubling – foods. Join the discussion after the film led by UM Community Scholars. Cosponsored by Michigan Television and the University of Michigan Community Scholars Program |
 Featured Events Michigan Reads! Raccoon Tune by local celebrated children’s author Nancy Shaw is the book chosen for the 2008 Michigan Reads program. Nancy will visit the Traverwood Branch to read her book and talk about early literacy on Tues., Sept. 9 at 7 pm. This event, for preschoolers 2-5 years and their caregivers, includes a raccoon craft, too!  Featured Service pictureAnnArbor is a service from AADL that gives you the opportunity to contribute digital copies of your Ann Arbor photos and documents, and easily share them on the web. Galleries currently include pictures of The Ann Arbor Street Art Fair, a 1920 brochure about the Eber White addition to Ann Arbor, and more... |
