Join the Writers Guild as we feature farm memoir at the First Sunday Prose Reading Series in November. Writers Linda Pickle and Ann Robins will share their work exploring farm life in the mid 20th Century, a different era for farming.

Sunday, November 2, 2025
4-5:30pm
Open Mic to follow
The Juniper Art Gallery and Cafe
615 W. Kirkwood Ave.

Ann Robins began writing her family stories after retiring to Bloomington in 2006. In 2019 she received the daily journals and ledgers of the family farm from 1932 to 1991. Ann swims, grows and makes things, volunteers at the downtown library, but continues to be obsessed with remembering her grandmother.

Linda Schelbitzki Pickle came to her family’s Nebraska farm in 1945, soon after her father returned to Chicago from World War II. Her parents worked hard to establish themselves and Linda was deeply shaped by her youth spent there. She sees these years now as a time of great change in American agriculture.