Midwest Bedrock: The Search for Nature’s Soul in America’s Heartland

October 22, 2025
6:00 p.m.
Spring Green Community Library, 230 E Monroe St., Spring Green

A Wisconsin Science Festival Event, in partnership with the Spring Green Community Library.

Author Kevin Koch takes participants on a photo-journey across twelve Midwestern states to out-of-the-way nature and outdoor-cultural sites defying the usual stereotypes of Midwest landscape. Geology, biology, archaeology, and history are interspersed throughout the narrative of this twelve-state journey. The presentation is based on Koch’s most recent book, Midwest Bedrock: The Search for Nature’s Soul in America’s Heartland.

Kevin Koch, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus of English at Loras College in Dubuque, IA, where he taught various multidisciplinary nature-based writing courses. His writings include Midwest Bedrock: The Search for Nature’s Soul in America’s Heartland; The Thin Places: A Celtic Landscape from Ireland to the Driftless; The Driftless Land: Spirit of Place in the Upper Mississippi Valley; and Skiing at Midnight: A Nature Journal from Dubuque County, Iowa. More of his work can be found at: https://www.kevinkochdriftlessland.net/kevins-nature-blog.