Welcome to our new subscribers. On Mondays, you will recieve a link for a Zoom call featuring Julie and a notable guest. The call will start at noon and run an hour, then you can hang around and go into a breakout room to meet other particpants informally.
Here’s your Zoom link for today’s Monday Zoom Lunch guest, Matt Richter, a proud representative of the University of Okoboji and a legacy member of the Richter family, who are synonymous with the fabled Iowa Great Lakes area.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82697857707
Step into the way back machine with me to the 1960’s when a Des Moines Register and Tribune columnist ‘discovered’ the Richter boys - three sons named Richter - who launched a T-shirt business with displaying a logo of the University of Okoboji. My dad, Gordon Gammack, was that writer. And, just ask when you come in the store and they’ll hand you a copy of the column.
The Three Sons clothing store in downtown Milford looks almost the same as it did in the 1960s. Literally.
Matt is the son of Herman and Paula Richter, who remain fixtures in the store, along with other members of the Richter family. He’s as much the affable cheerleader for the University of Okoboji as his dad has been for decades, and he serves on the Arnolds Park city council.
I don’t know what we’ll talk about today, but I can guarantee it will be a fun conversation.
The University of Okoboji has an extensive curriculum and is a magnet for continuing education here in the Iowa Lakes region. By the way, the Okoboji Writers’ Retreat to be held September 17-20, is accredited. Learn more: www.okobojiwritersretreat.com
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NEXT WEEK
Next week’s Monday Zoom Lunch guest is Detroit Free Press reporter Phoebe Wall Howard, who covers the automobile industry. She will be a speaker for the Okoboji Writers’ Retreat. Here is a piece she wrote about the Okoboji Classic Car Museum from her time there last year: https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/2022/10/01/iowa-okoboji-classic-cars-museum-toby-shine/69529995007/
JUNETEENTH
Today is Juneteenth. To learn more about this important day in history, read Iowa Writers’ Collaborative columnist Teresa Zilk:
IOWA WRITERS’ COLLABORATIVE
Did you read last week's Sunday Roundup of Iowa Writers’ Collaborative columns? Big stuff. Last week, we introduced three new columns, including Stephanie Copley’s, It was Never a Dress, Dave Price’s Perspective, and a new Letters from Iowans column where readers’ essays and commentary will appear.
Laura Belin: Iowa Politics with Laura Belin, Windsor Heights
Doug Burns: The Iowa Mercury, Carroll
Dave Busiek: Dave Busiek on Media, Des MoiWriters'hanie Copley: It Was Never a Dress, Johnston
Art Cullen: Art Cullen’s Notebook, Storm Lake
Suzanna de Baca Dispatches from the Heartland, Huxley
Debra Engle: A Whole New World, Madison County
Julie Gammack: Julie Gammack’s Iowa Potluck, Des Moines and Okoboji
Joe Geha: Fern and Joe, Ames
Jody Gifford: Benign Inspiration, West Des Moines
Nik Heftman, The Seven Times, Los Angeles and Iowa
Beth Hoffman: In the Dirt, Lovilla
Dana James: New Black Iowa, Des Moines
Pat Kinney: View from Cedar Valley, Waterloo
Fern Kupfer: Fern and Joe, Ames
Robert Leonard: Deep Midwest: Politics and Culture, Bussey
LettersfromIowans, Iowa
Tar Macias: Hola Iowa, Iowa
Darcy Maulsby: Keepin’ It Rural, Lake City
Kurt Meyer, Showing Up, St. Ansgar
Wini Moranville, Wini’s Food Stories, Des Moines
Kyle Munson, Kyle Munson’s Main Street, Des Moines
Jane Nguyen, The Asian Iowan, West Des Moines
John Naughton: My Life, in Color, Des Moines
Chuck Offenburger: Iowa Boy Chuck Offenburger, Jefferson and Des Moines
Barry Piatt: Piatt on Politics: Behind the Curtains, Washington, D.C.
Dave Price: Dave Price’s Perspective, Urbandale
Macey Spensley, The Midwest Creative, Davenport and Des Moines
Larry Stone, Listening to the Land, Elkader
Mary Swander: Mary Swander’s Buggy Land, Kalona
Mary Swander: Mary Swander’s Emerging Voices, Kalona
Cheryl Tevis: Unfinished Business, Boone County
Ed Tibbetts: Along the Mississippi, Davenport
Teresa Zilk: Talking Good, Des Moines
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