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Join us in the Prairie History Room where author Deana Driver will be doing a live reading of her book: "Cream Money: Stories of Prairie People"
Deana Driver is an award-winning journalist, author, editor, and book publisher. She has been a freelance journalist for more than 30 years and is the founding partner of DriverWorks Ink publishing, which specializes in inspiring non-fiction books about Prairie people.
Cream Money: Stories of Prairie People
Selling milk and cream was an integral way of life on the Canadian Prairies in the early to mid-1900s. On many farms, the women were in charge of milking the cows, separating the cream from the milk, and selling that cream to neighbours and townspeople. The extra money earned was used to subsidize the family’s income, especially in years of poor crops. Cream money helped purchase groceries, fabric, farm supplies, and other items that could not be produced on the farm. While children cherished the occasional candy treat purchased with cream cheque money, everyone in the family enjoyed the everyday bounty of delicious foods cooked with homemade butter or slathered with rich, whipped cream. Cream Money honours this bygone era of Prairie farming, celebrating the work of farm families through true stories and poems of how cream money was earned and spent. A donation from Cream Money books sold will be made to Lung Association of Saskatchewan.
Central Library, the largest of the nine Branches in the Regina Public Library system, is a social and informational hub in the heart of downtown Regina. The Library maintains an extensive calendar of programs, training opportunities, art exhibits in the Dunlop Art Gallery, along with film screenings in the Library's very own repertory film theatre!
