The Greene County Historical Society is hosting a free program this weekend.

Members Chuck Offenburger and Alan Robinson will highlight “The Legendary Journalists of Greene County.”

The journalists that will be reviewed from the early 1900’s include former editor-in-chief of the Des Moines Register, Kenneth MacDonald; founder of the Gallup Poll, George H. Gallup; former editor and publisher of the Grand Junction Globe from 1914 to 1917, Frank Luther Mott; former editor-in-chief of the Mason City Globe-Gazette, W. Earl Hall; former Jefferson Herald editor-in-chief, Victor Hugo Lovejoy and political columnist David Yepsen.

More recent journalists include Mary Rae Davis Bragg, who worked in the Detroit area before coming back to Iowa in 1991; Mike Schilling, who worked in the Springfield, Missouri area before turning over to politics in the 1990’s; former featured columnist for the Register Denise O’Brien Van; the Morain family, who ran the Jefferson Bee and Herald for more than 70 years; and other local radio journalists like Jerry Roberts and Doug Reider.

The program will start at 2:30pm on Sunday at the historical museum in Jefferson.  It is free and open to the public.