Purdue University Press is publishing several regional history titles this year.  The most recent book is Enriching the Hoosier Farm Family: A Photo History of Indiana’s Early County Extension Agents by Fredrick Whitford, Neal Harmeyer and David Hovde. Compiled from original county agent records discovered in Purdue University’s Virginia Kelly Karnes Archives and Special Collections Research Center, Enriching Hoosier Farms and Families includes hundreds of rare, never-before-published photographs and anecdotal information about how county agents overcame their constituents’ reluctance to change.

Purdue University News Service release available at:

http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2016/Q2/purdue-university-press-to-launch-book-honoring-early-county-extension-agents.html

Additional details on Enriching the Hoosier Farm Family can be found at: http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/titles/format/9781557537430-1