Unconditional Surrender: A Visit with Ulysses S. Grant is a one-man show about the life and times of the Civil War General and 18th President of the United States. Pete Grady, the author and performer, has performed his show over 100 times at venues in Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Missouri, South Dakota, Colorado, and Arizona. The show has been performed at libraries, museums, and community theaters, at outdoor venues, and at gatherings as diverse as a meeting of alumni of the United States Military Academy and as part of the Fort Sisseton, South Dakota Historical Festival. The show has also been presented as dinner theatre.
Grady lives in Marshalltown and is a graduate of the University of Iowa College of Law. He served in the Iowa Department of Justice as an Assistant Attorney General until his retirement in 2016.
The program begins at 1 p.m. at the Indianola Activity Center located at 2204 W. 2nd Avenue (Hwy 92). Funding for this event is provided by Humanities Iowa, a private, non-profit state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. The free speaker series is sponsored by Community 1st Credit Union and hosted by Indianola Parks & Recreation.