Coal Car Riggs and Little Eva: The Great Depression in Iowa

Storyteller Darrin Crow will be at the Marshalltown Public Library on Sunday, March 2 at 2:00pm to perform his program, "Coal Car Riggs and Little Eva: The Great Depression in Iowa". The performance will take place in the library's community meeting rooms. 

This first person story weaves together the lives of Coal Car Riggs, a hobo and the young farm girl Eva Killen as each struggles to survive. Along the way they will cross paths with Grant Wood, Jeff Davis the Hobo King, and the Million Dollar Mulligan.

Darrin Crow is a storyteller from Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Storytelling has been a part of his life for as long as he can remember, whether it was listening to his aunts, uncles and grandparents talking about farming and coal mining in Iowa or immersing himself in Jules Verne and Tolkien up in his tree house. As a high school student, he began volunteering at a living history museum. Here he found that he could use his love of telling stories to put people in touch with their heritage in a way they had not experienced before. In college he studied interpretive speech, and after college he worked as an actor and itinerant storyteller in Pennsylvania and Florida. In 1999 he returned to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and has been telling stories ever since. Over the last decade he has honed his craft by telling stories across the area in settings from church basements to major outdoor festivals.

This program is sponsored by the Marshalltown Public Library and is free and open to the public. For more information, call the library's Information Desk at 641-754-5738 ext. 4 or visit the library's website at www.marshalltownlibrary.org.