This week in Grinnell
- Abstract Expressionists: The Women
Tue, Oct 27 · 11 AM · Grinnell College Museum of Art (FINE* 131): 1108 Park St - Gallery Talk with Dr. Ellen G. Landau
Tue, Oct 27 · 4:15 PM · Grinnell College Museum of Art (FINE* 131): 1108 Park St - Abstract Expressionists: The Women
Wed, Oct 28 · 11 AM · Grinnell College Museum of Art (FINE* 131): 1108 Park St - Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
Wed, Oct 28 · 6:30 PM · Bear Center Multipurpose Dance Studio (P103):1201 10th Ave - Scholars' Convocation: Dan Reynolds
Thu, Oct 29 · 11 AM · Joe Rosenfield '25 Center (JRC 101): 1115 8th Ave - Abstract Expressionists: The Women
Thu, Oct 29 · 11 AM · Grinnell College Museum of Art (FINE* 131): 1108 Park St - Aikido at Grinnell College
Thu, Oct 29 · 5:30 PM · Bear Center Multipurpose Dance Studio (P103):1201 10th Ave - ParasWani Kvletktif Presents Batu Buah
Thu, Oct 29 · 7 PM · Grinnell College Museum of Art (FINE* 131): 1108 Park St - Abstract Expressionists: The Women
Fri, Oct 30 · 11 AM · Grinnell College Museum of Art (FINE* 131): 1108 Park St - Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
Fri, Oct 30 · 6:30 PM · Bear Center Multipurpose Dance Studio (P103):1201 10th Ave
About Grinnell
Grinnell started in 1854, when four founders, among them Vermont Congregationalist Josiah B. Grinnell, laid out a prairie town and Grinnell talked his partners into giving it his own name instead of "Stella." From the start it was a stop on the Underground Railroad; in the winter of 1859 John Brown and twelve people fleeing slavery found shelter here, and the young Iowa College, later Grinnell College, moved here from Davenport. The junction of two railroads helped make it the county's biggest community, and the Spaulding works built carriages and then automobiles that once kept more people employed than anywhere else in the county. The town took hard blows, a deadly tornado in 1882 and a downtown fire in 1889, and rebuilt in the brick and stone storefronts that still line its historic commercial district. Its best-loved corner is Louis Sullivan's 1914 Merchants' National Bank, a little "jewel box" whose pattern now shows up in the downtown crosswalks. Today about 9,600 people share Central Park's bandstand and gazebo, the Drake Community Library, the arts center in the old Stewart Library, and a full calendar of concerts, gallery nights and, this fall, a Trunk or Treat in the park.