We will share details on our recent salvage projects, our success at the Salvage Barn, and our goals for the future. Hawkeye Historian Marty Boller will give an interesting historic overview of the Close Family of Iowa City, which includes Close Hall, the Close Paper Mill, and the iconic Close House on the corner of Gilbert & Bowery Street! Light refreshments will be served. Parking is available on Bowery St. if the PS1 parking lot is filled.

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We’ve been posting “This Day In History”, “Our Picture of the Week”, and “Did You Know?” since 2020, and now, at age 75, it’s time to slow down a bit and take some time to smell the roses. So, effective June 1, 2026, we will discontinue our daily posts but will still plan to post “Our Picture of the Week” on Sundays through December 2026.

You can still access all of our hundreds of posts from this page. Just scroll down to the month you want to explore and click on that link. That will open up for you an index to all of our posts related to that particular month.

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