ABILENE, Kan. – Join the “Ike Book Club” in discussing Sod and Stubble on Monday, June 12 at 7 p.m. in the Visitors Center Auditorium. This Talk About Literature in Kansas (TALK) program is free and open to the public.

Jim Hoy of Emporia State University will facilitate the discussion. Hoy is an authority on the folk life of ranching, a topic on which he has lectured throughout the world. His publications include 12 books and more than 100 articles. He is the coauthor of Plains Folk, a syndicated newspaper column and charter member of the KHC Speakers Bureau, serving since 1985, and has been leading TALK discussions since 1986.

Hoy received his PhD in medieval English literature from the University of Missouri-Columbia and is a professor of English and the Director of the Center for Great Plains Studies at Emporia State University.

The TALK series is conducted through a partnership with the Kansas Humanities Council, the Abilene Public Library and the Eisenhower Presidential Library. “The Best of the West” theme celebrates the Chisholm Trail 150th and Eisenhower’s love of western novels.

All of the books in this series are available to check out from the Abilene Public Library or purchase at the Eisenhower Presidential Library Gift Shop. The complete series schedule is available at www.eisenhower.archives.gov.