Debbie A. Hanson (Augustana University)
On July 14, 1941, WNAX radio out of Yankton, South Dakota aired the first episode of The Neighbor Lady with host Wynn Hubler Speece, less than five months before the United States was plunged into WWII. “With Radios, We’re All Friends: Your Neighbor Lady’s WWII Cookbooks” explores how the cookbooks produced by this radio program depict the lives and concerns of Upper Midwest and Great Plains rural women who formed their own on-air community via the show and used the cookbooks to help preserve the folk group they created to help combat the uprootedness the war forced upon them.
Part of 02-15 Technology, Foodways, Festival, and Ceremony, Thursday, November 02, 10:30 am–12:30 pm