River Lights is Bookstore is pleased to present photographer/author David Ottenstein, author of "IOWA: Echoes of a Vanishing Landscape". David will be at the Dubuque Museum of Art on October 18 from 5:30-7:00pm with a presentation at 6:00pm.

This book contains 89 black and white photographs and includes texts by Alan Trachtenberg of Yale University and Jonathan Andelson, director of the Center for Prairie Studies at Grinnell College in Iowa. Exploring the transformation of the Iowa landscape from one based on the agrarian notion of the small, diversified farm to a landscape geared toward industrial scale agriculture.