Recorded in Woodbine, Iowa, 2019
This snapshot was gathered in conjunction with the Museum on Main Street program at the Smithsonian Institution and its "Stories from Main Street" initiative. The project is intended to capture Americans' impressions and stories about their small-town and rural neighborhoods, waterways, personal memories, cultural traditions, work histories, and thoughts about American democracy. This story is from a group of narratives inspired by the Smithsonian traveling exhibition, "Voices and Votes: Democracy in America."
Speaker 1: Have you ever volunteered to work on a campaign?
Speaker 2: Yes, I volunteered to work on the bond issue campaign; those of us who supported it worked in groups, and we went to our areas where we lived and so I went since I live out in the country, I went to the neighbors and visited with them about the bond issue, answered their questions that they had, shared information that we have put together on the reasons why we needed the bond issue to pass.
It was a lot of work. I looked at it as an investment in the school district, an investment in the community and the investment in my children's education. And today, it's paying off for your education.
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