December 17, 2007
(click images to enlarge)
The public was invited to attend the 97th birthday
celebration for
Farwell Tilden Brown, Ames Official Historian,
at 3 pm December 17, 2007.
(click images to enlarge)
The public was invited to attend the 97th birthday
celebration for
Farwell Tilden Brown, Ames Official Historian,
at 3 pm December 17, 2007.
Sixty friends and family gathered in the Northcrest Green Room for the birthday celebration. Kathy Svec, Ames Historical Society president, presented Farwell with a plaque commemorating his service to the Ames community.
(photo by Gary Moore)
A photographic slide show illustrating Farwell's
life was narrated by Janet Klaas,
curator for the Farwell T. Brown Photographic
Archive.
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FARWELL TILDEN BROWN
FOR A LIFETIME OF SERVICE TO THE
Proclaimed the “Official Historian of the City of Ames” in 1986, Farwell Brown has made us aware of our roots with the “connecting stories” he told in his Bicentennial Chautauqua lectures, newspaper articles, books, television presentations, and countless talks to local groups. On November 17, 1980, he became the first president of the newly formed Ames Heritage Association (since 2004, Ames Historical Society). He was instrumental in the preservation of the historic Hoggatt School, Bauge Pioneer Home, and Cory Family Cemetery. The images of early Ames collected by him are preserved in the Farwell T. Brown Photographic Archive. As mentor and friend, Farwell Brown, himself, is a connecting story. |
Hip, Hip, Hurrah!
From left: Dennis Wendell, curator
Janet Klaas, presenter
Kathy Svec, president
97 year-old Farwell Brown
Mary Brown Howard, daughter of Farwell and
Ruth
Ruth Brown, wife of Farwell
Farwell and friends extinguish his birthday candles.
Friends stayed to visit and enjoy snacks following the program.
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