From Warm Center to Ragged Edge

Jon Lauck talked about his book, From Warm Center to Ragged Edge, about the factors that lead to a migration of cultural energy from middle America towards the coastal urban states. Now known to some as flyover country or the Rust Belt, the American Midwest was once seen as the cultural hub of the United States in the years following the Civil War through the 1920s.

C-SPAN’s Local Content Vehicles (LCVs) made a stop in their “2017 LCV Cities Tour” in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, from September 7-13, to feature the history and literary life of the community. Working with the Midco cable local affiliate, they visited literary and historic sites where local historians, authors, and civic leaders were interviewed. The history segments air on American History TV (AHTV) on C-SPAN3 and the literary events/non-fiction author segments air on Book TV on C-SPAN2. close