The Pella Public Library will host author Rachelle Chase soon. The presentation on Tuesday, May 14 at 6:30 p.m will focus on the coal mining town of Buxton, Iowa, established in 1900, where five thousand African Americans and Caucasians lived, worked and attended school together. Using photos and audio clips, Chase will share the events that created this unique community, its notable residents, and what made it disappear. Rachelle Chase is the author of Lost Buxton (2017) and Creating the Black Utopia of Buxton, Iowa.