Iowa PBS television has completed its work on a story about the “Schoolboy Soldiers of Rippey” and will make the story available online beginning this Thursday, June 11, at 4 pm, and then continuously accessible there.
That will be on two sites on the internet: https://www.iowapbs.org/shows/iowalife and on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/@IowaPBS.
Also, the story will be featured on the Iowa PBS television show “Iowa Life,” in the episode number 310, scheduled to air on Sunday, July 5, at 6 pm. (That is an unusual time for the show, which normally airs on Monday nights.)
The finished Schoolboy Soldiers is 7 minutes along, according to Iowa PBS senior producer Theresa Knight, who led the reporting on the story.
“More than 160 years after the Civil War, Greene County students are uncovering the story of the Schoolboy Soldiers of Rippey,” Knight said. “Their efforts to research, honor, and memorialize the young men who left school to fight for the Union are preserving an extraordinary piece of Iowa history.”
When it airs on TV on July 5, it will be one of three or four stories included in a half-hour program. The other stories then are about the Seed Savers Exchange outside Decorah, the Des Moines Metro Opera in Indianola, and a look back at Iowa’s celebration of the nation’s bicentennial in 1976.
