Inside Ag Hill Book Sales Benefit Ag Heritage Park
Pictured at a book signing that followed the
"150 Years on Ag Hill" lecture are, from left:
Joe Yeager, CoAg Dean and AAES Director
Richard Guthrie and Gene Stevenson.
When Joe Yeager and Gene Stevenson published Inside Ag Hill: The People and Events That Shaped Auburn's Agricultural History from 1872 to 1999 in 2000, their hope was to sell enough copies to fund a scholarship. With that hope now realized, the book, which is a comprehensive and entertaining history of Auburn agriculture, is available for a reduced price, with all future proceeds going to Ag Heritage Park.
Yeager and Stevenson were among several speakers who addressed the history of Auburn agriculture as part of AU's sesquicentennial celebration. The celebration has been underway campus-wide since February and marks the 150th anniversary of the establishment of Auburn University. Stevenson and Yeager presented a program entitled "150 years on Ag Hill: Personalities, Politics and the Development of Auburn Agriculture." Dwayne Cox, head of the AU Library's Special Collections and Archives department, presented a separate program on "Cooperative Extension, the Farm Bureau, and Luther N. Duncan, 1914-1947." Both lecture events were part of the official AU Sesquicentennial Lecture Series.
The scholarship-the Agricultural Alumni Association Gene Stevenson and Joe Yeager Endowed Scholarship in Agricultural Communications-is now fully endowed and was awarded for the first time in 2005. With that goal met, the two authors, both of whom are retired from the AU College of Agriculture or Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, agreed that future proceeds from the sales should be channeled to the park.
The books, which did sell for $25, are now available for $10 (a $5 shipping and handling fee will be added to mailed copies). They also are available free to any new lifetime members of the Auburn University Agricultural Alumni Association. To order a book, contact Leslie Parish at 334-844-3237 or parislw@auburn.edu . To join or learn more about the Ag Alumni Association, contact 334-844-3204 or visit www.ag.auburn.edu/alumni .