Green energy has become a popular topic among Great Plains people as fuel prices have risen, but for decades people in the region used the renewable power of the wind to do part of their physical work. T. Lindsay Baker, of Tarleton State University, will speak about how Plains residents pumped water, ground grain, sawed firewood, ran machine shops, and generated their own electricity using the free power of the wind. All lectures are free and open to the public.

Baker is the W.K. Gordon Endowed Chair of Southwestern History, Director of the W.K. Gordon Center for the Industrial History of Texas, and Coordinator of the Public History Graduate Program at Tarleton State University. His lecture is titled “How the Wind Did Human Work on the Farm.”

Baker’s talk is funded in part by Humanities Nebraska and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment. All lectures are free and open to the public.