It’s Black History Month – Celebrating Iowa City’s own James Alan McPherson. Read more at our website.
Making Elbow Room For A Pulitzer-Prize Winner. Over a thirty-year period, James Alan McPherson, the first African-American to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, found plenty of “elbow room” for both himself and others while teaching at the University of Iowa Writer’s Workshop. In 2021, Iowa City renamed one of its city parks in his honor.
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Iowa’s Very Own Caitlin Clark Read more at our website. Follow the link in the COMMENT section…
February 15, 2024– She’s does it. Iowa women’s basketball’s Caitlin Clark breaks the NCAA women’s basketball all-time scoring record after passing Kelsey Plum.
It was only right that Caitlin Clark becomes the NCAA’s all-time leading scorer for women’s basketball inside the building she’s turned into a madhouse, a jam-packed Carver-Hawkeye Arena loaded with Iowans marveling at their own. The crowd roared endlessly when Clark splashed home her 3,528th point against Michigan on a first-quarter logo trey, which pushed her past Washington’s Kelsey Plum.
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Iowa City’s Candy Couple – Russell & Clara Stover. Read more at our website. Follow the link in the COMMENT section…
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Did you know that one of the most famous candy-making companies in America had its beginnings right here in Johnson County? Yup – Russell Stover Candies is the brainchild of a fourth-generation Iowa Citian – Russell Stover (1888-1954), and his talented wife – Clara Mae Lewis Stover (1882-1975), from near-by Oxford.
After their great success with the Eskimo Pie (1920-1923), Russell & Clara Stover start Mrs. Stover’s Bungalow Candies. By the 1950’s, the company that bore Stover’s name was producing 11 million pounds of candy annually and selling its products through 40 Russell Stover shops, and in about 2,000 department stores nationwide.
Come read the amazing story of how this persistent Iowa City couple achieved success despite a number of financial setbacks that would deter many others.
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