June Theodore Talk

June 22 – Sunday – 3:30 PM – June Theodore Talk: How Corn Changed Itself and Then Changed Everything Else: The Role Agriculture Played in the Early Days of Chicago. About 10,000 years ago, a weedy grass growing in Mexico possessed of a strange trait, known as a “jumping gene”, transformed itself into a larger and more useful grass — the cereal grass that we would come to know as maize and then corn. Thanks to corn, the Midwest was settled faster than any other region in history, and Chicago became immensely influential. Cynthia Clampitt, author of Midwest Maize: How Corn Shaped the U.S. Heartland, will present what may prove to be the corniest Theodore Talk ever!
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