b'Hoovers Hometown DaysThe Foundations Member Picnic always draws a large crowd who enjoy learning about aspects of Hoovers impactful story during the Life Celebration event at Hometown Days. At left, the Extension Chords pre-pare another song for the group.Saturday, August 6 was a hot one for Hoovers Hometown Days. With temperatures in the 90s and very little breeze, shade was at a premium. The Foundation hosted 143 registered members at the annual free Member Picnic in the yard across from Hoovers Birthplace Cottage.The crowd grew when the Hoover Life Celebration began. An estimated 300 people enjoyed what shade they could find as the Extension Chords, a coral group from Iowa City, sang a few patriotic selections. Keynoting the event was Bertrand Patenaude, Hoover Institution research fellow andcurator of a temporary exhibit in the Hoover Presidential Museum called, Deliverance: America and the Famine in Soviet Russia, 1921-23. He discussed his research in developing the exhibit which was on display for eight months in the Quarton Gallery.Following the Life Celebration, Patenaude and three other Hoover research scholars met in the Figge Auditorium for the Hoover Forum. Each presented research on different aspects of the Russian famine. C-SPAN brought in a crew to record the program and airs segments of it from time to time on their weekly Presidency series on C-SPAN 2.Bertrand Patenaude, researcher and curator of Deliverance: The Russian Famine of 1921 to 1922, was one of four speakers at the Hoover Forum during Hometown Days.'