The mission of Hometown Perry is to study, understand, communicate, and celebrate the vital contribution small towns have made to American life as seen through the prism of the immigrant experience in Perry, Iowa, and other small towns across the Midwest. Through its buildings, artifacts, programs, images, and oral histories, Hometown Perry, Iowa explores the story of one small Midwestern town and its people. Together, the stories of individual lives form a larger pattern in which one can read the history of small towns in Iowa and the Midwest.
