Our Iowa Heritage: What’s New?

WHAT’S NEW @ Our Iowa Heritage? With our site growing larger, it’s important for you, our readers, to be able to easily navigate through our stories. Here’s a current list of NEW posts on our site. Come back regularly to check it new posts.

– Posted March 23, 2023 – Till There Was Meredith Willson.
– Posted March 20, 2023 – 1856 – Bridging The Father Of Waters.
– Posted March 17, 2023 – The 1950’s – Hooray For Evy’s Hawkeyes.
– Posted March 14, 2023 – 1942 – War Rationing Hits Iowa City.
– Posted March 12, 2023 – 1849 – Iowa Dollars To Doughnuts.
– Posted March 9, 2023 – A Letter From The 1st State Legislative Session – Iowa City.
– Posted March 8, 2023 – 1965 – Frank Patton’s SUI Echoes Of Old Gold.
– Posted March 1, 2023 – 1846 – Iowa Elects A State Governor.

– Posted February 28, 2023 – Iowa PBS – Kinnick: The Documentary.
– Posted February 27, 2023 – 1841 – The Sudden Death Of A U.S. President.
– Posted February 26, 2023 – 1849 – H.H. Winchester – Iowa Travel Guide.
– Posted February 25, 2023 – PBS-Iowa – The History of the Iowa Fight Song.
– Posted February 24, 2023 – 1862 – Seeking Iowa Civil War Promotions.
– Posted February 23, 2023 – Meredith Willson …And Then I Wrote The Music Man.
– Posted February 21, 2023 – 1852 – The Red Rock Wild West Murder Mystery.
– Posted February 19, 2023 – 1853 – Grimes To Mason – Farmer To Farmer.
– Posted February 19, 2023 – The Letters Of Governor James W. Grimes.
– Posted February 19, 2023 – Gov. James W. Grimes – The ‘Wide Awake’ Father Of Republicanism.
– Posted February 16, 2023 – Meredith Willson – Want To Go Deeper?
– Posted February 15, 2023 – The Naming Of Iowa – Antoine Le Claire Or Albert Lea?
– Posted February 14, 2023 – Meredith Willson Marches On To Iowa-PBS.
– Posted February 13, 2023 – As The Dunkel World Turns.
– Posted February 11, 2023 – N.R. Parvin – Like Father, Like Son.
– Posted February 9, 2023 – 1850’s – The Rise & Fall Of Iowa’s First Two Senators.
– Posted February 7, 2023 – Dear Iowa City – Build Us A Road!
– Posted February 2, 2023 – 1844 – The Great Lee County Road Debate.
– Posted February 1, 2023 – Learning From History – Wide Awake Vs. Woke.

– Posted January 31, 2023 – Recommending John W. Finley – Dubuque’s Good Doctor.
– Posted January 29, 2023 – William Penn Clarke – Iowa City’s Abolitionist.
– Posted January 27, 2023 – 1853 – The $50,000 Investment In Iowa City’s Future.
– Posted January 24, 2023 – Let The City-Wide Celebrations Begin: 1839-1841-1856.
– Posted January 20, 2023 – Iowa City’s Top 50 Influencers: Part Two – 1846-1939.
– Posted January 18, 2023 – Iowa City’s Top 50 Influencers: Part One – 1832-1845.
– Posted January 15, 2023 – Ohio’s Robert Lucas – Life Before Iowa.
– Posted January 11, 2023 – Folsom’s Fury – Building A Bridge Over Troubled Water.
– Posted January 9, 2023 – Black Hawk Of Saukenuk.
– Posted January 7, 2023 – The Iowa Colonel Who Helped Stop The Honey War.
– Posted January 6, 2023 – 1839 – The Iowa & Missouri Honey War.
– Posted January 4, 2023 – 1849 – Iowans Want The Transcontinental Railroad!
– Posted January 2, 2023 – Jesse Williams – Rescuing Iowa’s New Capitol – 1841.
– Posted January 1, 2023 – 100 Years – Dixie Lee Boyer Boller – 1923-2023.

– Posted December 30, 2022 – 1840 – The Road From Bloomington To Iowa City.
– Posted December 26, 2022 – Ansel Briggs – The Stagecoach Driver Who Became Governor.
– Posted December 24, 2022 – Scott County’s Representative – James Grant.
– Posted December 22, 2022 – Johnson County’s Own – The Wandering Doc Comes Home To Solon.
– Posted December 21, 2022 – H.F. Wickham – SUI’s Bug Man.
– Posted December 19, 2022 – Samuel D. Guengerich – Amish’s School Master.
– Posted December 17, 2022 – Johnson County’s Own – Washington Township.
– Posted December 14, 2022 – Fales To Mason – Iowa City To Burlington – 1850.
– Posted December 13, 2022 – It’s Beginning To Look Like A Meredith Willson Christmas.
– Posted December 11, 2022 – Curtis Bates – The Christmas Day Letter From Iowa City.
– Posted December 9, 2022 – January 1842 – A Letter From The Fourth Assembly.
– Posted December 8, 2022 – Johnson County’s Own – Amish, Iowa.
– Posted December 6, 2022 – Iowa City’s Photographic James Family.
– Posted December 5, 2022 – H.S. Fairall – Iowa City’s Newspaper Man Of The 1880’s.
– Posted December 1, 2022 – Iowa City’s Good Doctor – Henry Murray.

– Posted November 29, 2022 – Iowa City & EKKO Radio Stamps.
– Posted November 28, 2022 – Rev. W.W. Woods – Bringing The Gospel To Iowa City.
– Posted November 26, 2022 – Iowa’s Secretary Of State & Official Stone Finder.
– Posted November 24, 2022 – 1863 – A Proclamation Of Thanksgiving Across America.
– Posted November 24, 2022 – Roosevelt’s New Deal – The WPA & Iowa City.
– Posted November 22, 2022 – Mattie & Me – Iowa City’s A.B. Cree.
– Posted November 20, 2022 – Meet Four Iowa City Civil War Veterans.
– Posted November 17, 2022 – Iowa City’s Old Growler – Part Two.
– Posted November 17, 2022 – Dr. Otto Kuntze & His Iowa Mineral Office.
– Posted November 15, 2022 – A.H. Palmer – Iowa City’s Old Growler.
– Posted November 13, 2022 – NBC’s Chime Master – Iowa’s Meredith Willson.
– Posted November 9, 2022 – 1843 – A Letter To The Major Of Monongahela Valley.
– Posted November 7, 2022 – 1846 – A Glimpse Of Iowa City – J. B. Newhall.
– Posted November 7, 2022 – 1840 – Sketches Of Iowa City – J. B. Newhall.
– Posted November 7, 2022 – J.B. Newhall – Iowa’s First Rock Star.
– Posted November 3, 2022 – Senator James B. Harlan – His Iowa City Years.
– Posted November 1, 2022 – Oliver Weld – Keosauqua’s Young Representative.

– Posted October 30, 2022 – Harriet P. Macy – Iowa’s Own Teaching Artist.
– Posted October 29, 2022 – 1840’s-1890’s – Iowa City’s Classic Hotels.
– Posted October 28, 2022 – 1839-1842 – Iowa City’s First Hotels.
– Posted October 26, 2022 – Iowa City’s Banking Corner.
– Posted October 24, 2022 – Let’s Meet Some More Bollers.
– Posted October 21, 2022 – 1908 – Oakdale Hall – Iowa’s Answer To The White Plague.
– Posted October 19, 2022 – 1870 – Meet Iowa City’s Shrader Family.
– Posted October 18, 2022 – Iowa City’s Commercial Colleges – Taking Care Of Business.
– Posted October 15, 2022 – Welcome To East Iowa City & Rundell.
– Edited & Re-Posted October 6, 2022 – Iowa City – Here Comes The Railroad!
– Posted October 6, 2022 – The 1850’s – The Birth Of Iowa Railroads.
– Posted October 2, 2022 – C.H. Booth – The Grand Old Man Of Dubuque.

– Posted September 30, 2022 – The Streets Of Iowa City – From Mud To Bricks.
– Posted September 29, 2022 – Honoring The Ioway Tribe Of Johnson County.
– Posted September 28, 2022 – The Great Iowa City Tornado Of 1859.
– Posted September 27, 2022 – Laurel Summers – The Man Who Saved Iowa City.
– Posted September 26, 2022 – April 1846 – The First Step Toward Statehood.
– Posted September 25, 2022 – 2022 – The Johnson County Boller Cousins Reunite!
– Posted September 24, 2022 – Iowa City – April 1843 – The Letter Back Home.
– Posted September 23, 2022 – Tipton’s Farm Boy – Judge Emlin McClain.
– Posted September 21, 2022 – Iowa City’s Civil War Postmaster – J.R. Hartsock.
– Posted September 19, 2022 – The Great American Postage Stamp Exchange Of 1861.
– Posted September 18, 2022 – SUI’s Wise Choice – Picking Dr. Peck.
– Posted September 14, 2022 – Boyhood Days In Iowa – Herbert Hoover.
– Posted September 13, 2022 – Gustavus D. Hinrichs – SUI’s Own Dr. Derecho.
– Posted September 12, 2022 – 1860 – Let’s Visit The State Fair!
– Posted September 11, 2022 – D.F. Wells – It Is Well With SUI.
– Posted September 8, 2022 – 1853 – Opening Doors For The Visually Impaired.
– Posted September 4, 2022 – Marty & Sandy – The Senior Recitals.

– Posted August 30, 2022 – 1839 – The Twenty-Four Streets Of Iowa City.
– Posted August 28, 2022 – The Iowa City Public Library – Celebrating 125 Years.
– Posted August 26, 2022 – Lolly Parker Egger’s Library Legacy.
– Posted August 24, 2022 – The Press-Citizen Celebrates Iowa City’s Centennial.
– Posted August 21, 2022 – The Day MLK Came To Iowa City.
– Posted August 20, 2022 – A Penny From Heaven – Rev. Fred L. Penny.
– Posted August 20, 2022 – Bethel AME – 150 Years Of Keeping The Faith In Iowa City.
– Posted August 17, 2022 – 2006 – Iowa City Storm Stories.
– Posted August 14, 2022 – Bob Hibbs – Iowa City’s Postcard King.
– Posted August 12, 2022 – Meet The Good People Of Block 98.
– Posted August 12, 2022 – Hubbard Park – Diversity Down By The Riverside.
– Posted August 9, 2022 – 1901 – Opening Johnson County’s New Court House.
– Edited & Re-Posted August 8, 2022 – Remembering The Old Stone Capitol.
– Edited & Re-Posted August 7, 2022 – Moving On Up – The Old Capitol Dome.
– Edited & Re-Posted August 6, 2022 – Inside Old Capitol – Your Guided Tour.
– Edited & Re-Posted August 5, 2022 – Iowa City – A July 4th Celebration.
– Edited & Re-Posted August 5, 2022 – Simon Estes – From Centerville to Center Stage.
– Edited & Re-Posted August 4, 2022 – Johnson County’s New Namesake – What a Lulu!
– Edited & Re-Posted August 4, 2022 – Johnson County Remembrance Markers.
– Edited & Re-Posted August 4, 2022 – 1838 to Today – Unity Through Diversity.
– Edited & Re-Posted August 4, 2022 – Marybeth Slonneger – Iowa City’s Artistic Historian.
– Edited & Re-Posted August 3, 2022 – Weber’s Fun Facts – The Old Stone Capitol.
– Edited & Re-Posted August 3, 2022 – Weber’s Winners – Iowa City’s Finest.
– Edited & Re-Posted August 3, 2022 – My Iowa Art – The Book Collection.
– Edited & Re-Posted August 3, 2022 – My Iowa Art – The Collection.
– Edited & Re-Posted August 2, 2022 – Iowa Millennium Art – The 2000 Poster.
– Edited & Re-Posted August 2, 2022 – The Iowa Award – 1951 To Today.
– Edited & Re-Posted August 2, 2022 – Three Hundred Years of Iowa Maps.
– Edited & Re-Posted August 1, 2022 – The Mapping of Iowa City – 1832 To Today.

– Edited & Re-Posted July 31, 2022 – Iowa Celebrates Three Sesquicentennials.
– Edited & Re-Posted July 31, 2022 – Irving Weber – Mr. Iowa City.
– Posted July 31, 2022 – Greetings From Iowa – Goldfinches & Wild Roses.
– Edited & Re-Posted July 30, 2022 – America’s Bicentennial – The U.S. Post Office.
– Edited & Re-Posted July 30, 2022 – Iowa’s Very Own – U.S. Postage Stamps.
– Posted July 30, 2022 – America’s Bicentennial – Waving The Flag.
– Edited & Re-Posted July 30, 2022 – The Cy-Hawk Game – Iowa’s Super Bowl.
– Edited & Re-Posted July 29, 2022 – America’s Bicentennial – Restoring Old Capitol.
– Edited & Re-Posted July 26, 2022 – Marching, Musical, High-Stepping Hawkeyes.
– Edited & Re-Posted July 26, 2022 – Tom Davis – Our HMB Musical Mom.
– Edited & Re-Posted July 25, 2022 – Old Stone Capitol Remembers – Abraham, Martin, & John.
– Edited & Re-Posted July 25, 2022 – August 10, 1965 – Hoover Stamp Day.
– Posted July 25, 2022 – An American President – Herbert Hoover.
– Edited & Re-Posted July 24, 2022 – William J. Petersen – Iowa’s Steamboat Bill.
– Edited & Re-Posted July 24, 2022 – 1947 – The SUI Centennial Celebration.
– Edited & Re-Posted July 24, 2022 – 1946 – Iowa Celebrates 100 Years Of Statehood.
– Edited & Re-Posted July 23, 2022 – U.S.S. Iowa – The Navy’s Finest.
– Edited & Re-Posted July 23, 2022 – Iowa City 1839-1939 Centennial.
– Edited & Re-Posted July 23, 2022 – The Old Stone Capitol Remembers – Benjamin F. Shambaugh.
– Edited & Re-Posted July 22, 2022 – Mildred W. Pelzer – An Iowa City Artist.
– Posted July 22, 2022 – The Mildred Pelzer Iowa City Murals.
– Posted July 22, 2022 – 1938 – Iowa Celebrates Our Territorial Centennial.
– Edited & Re-Posted July 21, 2022 – U.S. Post Office Brings Their ‘Stamp Show’ To Iowa.
– Edited & Re-Posted July 20, 2022 – Iowa Celebrates The Roaring 1920’s.
– Edited & Re-Posted July 20, 2022 – SUI Mascots – The Big Three.
– Edited & Re-Posted July 20, 2022 – The Hawkeyes Take The Field.
– Edited & Re-Posted July 19, 2022 – Fred W. Kent – Continuing The Photographic Tradition.
– Posted July 19, 2022 – Fred W. Kent’s Iowa City Classics.
– Posted July 19, 2022 – Wetherby & Kent – Two Generations – Two Cameras – One City.
– Edited & Re-Posted July 18, 2022 – Carrie C. Catt – Iowa’s Champion for Women’s Rights.
– Posted July 18, 2022 – Dixie C. Gebhardt – Iowa’s Own Betsy Ross.
– Edited & Re-Posted July 17, 2022 – Iowa’s Own Music Man – Meredith Willson.
– Edited & Re-Posted July 17, 2022 – The Big Show – Meredith Willson’s Big Stage.
– Edited & Re-Posted July 17, 2022 – May The Good Lord Bless And Keep You.
– Posted July 17, 2022 – Meredith Willson & The Iowa Hawkeyes.
– Posted July 17, 2022 – My Meredith Willson – Music Man Story.
– Posted July 17, 2022 – The Music Man On Broadway – 2022.
– Edited & Re-Posted July 11, 2022 – The Iowa City Airport – A Rich Aviation History.
– Posted July 11, 2022 – A Bird’s Eye View Of Iowa City.
– Edited & Re-Posted July 9, 2022 – Captain Tom, Iowa City & The Red Devil Airship.
– Edited & Re-Posted July 9, 2022 – Let’s Go To City Park!
– Edited & Re-Posted July 9, 2022 – Let’s Go To City Park! (Part II)
– Edited & Re-Posted July 8, 2022 – Economy Advertising – Birthplace Of The Midland & More.
– Posted July 8, 2022 – Iowa City’s ‘Look For The Label’ Department Store.
– Edited & Re-Posted July 8, 2022 – Thomas Nast – The Father of Political Cartooning.
– Edited & Re-Posted July 8, 2022 – Hannah Elizabeth Irish – Iowa City’s Business Entrepreneur.
– Edited & Re-Posted July 7, 2022 – 40 Turn-Of-The-Century Leaders Who Shaped Iowa City.
– Edited & Re-Posted July 7, 2022 – Iowa City at the Turn-of-the-Century.
– Posted July 7, 2022 – Penny Postcards – Old Capitol & Iowa Avenue.
– Edited & Re-Posted July 7, 2022 – Penny Postcards – The Center Of Iowa City.
– Edited & Re-Posted July 7, 2022 – Penny Postcards – Iowa City North.
– Edited & Re-Posted July 7, 2022 – Penny Postcards – Iowa City South.
– Edited & Re-Posted July 7, 2022 – The “Miss Tillie” Penny Postcard Collection.
– Posted July 7, 2022 – An Iowa City Turn-Of-The-Century Christmas.
– Edited & Re-Posted July 7, 2022 – C.C. Nutting – Hidden Gem Of The Great SUI Triumvirate.
– Edited & Re-Posted July 4, 2022 – The Wieneke Family – Iowa City’s Penny Postcard People.
– Edited & Re-Posted July 4, 2022 – Two Ohio Friends – One SUI Law Library Letter.
– Edited & Re-Posted July 4, 2022 – Charles B. Elliott: Romancing the Forest City Meteorite.
– Edited & Re-Posted July 3, 2022 – The Forgotten Four: SUI’s Little Engines that Could.
– Edited & Re-Posted July 3, 2022 – The Forgotten Four – One Big Contribution To SUI.
– Edited & Re-Posted July 2, 2022 – Unity Hall: SUI’s Gathering Place.
– Edited & Re-Posted July 1, 2022 – Homeopathic Medical Building #2: SUI’s 2nd Medical Opinion. 
– Edited & Re-Posted July 1, 2022 –Dental Building: SUI’s Eye Tooth for 80 Years.
– Edited & Re-Posted July 1, 2022 – Observatory #2: SUI’s Eye to the Sky.

– Edited & Re-Posted June 30, 2022 – Close Hall: SUI’s Home for Jesus, Jumpshots & Journalism.
– Edited & Re-Posted June 29, 2022 – Hall Of Pharmacy & Chemistry: SUI’s Controversial Park Place.
– Edited & Re-Posted June 28, 2022 – Science Hall: SUI’s Only Mobile Home.
– Edited & Re-Posted June 27, 2022 – Medical Building: SUI’s Ill-Fated Medical Experiment.
– Edited & Re-Posted June 27, 2022 – North Hall: The Grandfather of SUI.
– Edited & Re-Posted June 26, 2022 – South Hall: SUI’s Ten-Chimneyed One.
– Edited & Re-Posted June 24, 2022 – Mechanics Academy: The Cradle of SUI.
– Edited & Re-Posted June 23, 2022 – Old Capitol – The Icon of SUI.
– Edited & Re-Posted June 22, 2022 – From University Square To The Pentacrest.
– Posted June 21, 2022 – Iowa City Penny Postcards – Old Capitol & Iowa Avenue.
– Edited & Re-Posted June 21, 2022 – SUI Red Brick Campus – The Golden Age of the State University of Iowa.
– Edited & Re-Posted June 20, 2022 – The 1890’s in Iowa City.
– Edited & Re-Posted June 19, 2022 – The Baileys & The Montgomery Ward Wish Book.
– Posted June 18, 2022 – Iowa City – The Hub For Holsteins.
– Edited & Re-Posted June 18, 2022 – The 1880’s in Iowa City.
– Edited & Re-Posted June 14, 2022 – Boerner & Sons – Iowa City’s Prussian Poppa of Pharmacy.
– Edited & Re-Posted June 9, 2022 – When The Circus Came To Iowa City.
– Edited & Re-Posted June 9, 2022 – The Great Iowa City Circus Poster Mystery.
– Edited & Re-Posted June 8, 2022 – The Hospitals of Iowa City.
– Edited & Re-Posted June 8, 2022 – The 1870’s in Iowa City.
– Edited & Re-Posted June 7, 2022 – All Aboard Iowa RPO’s.
– Edited & Re-Posted June 7, 2022 – A Rocky Mountain Mayor with Strong Iowa Roots.
– Edited & Re-Posted June 6, 2022 – Henry County’s Newspaperman, Statesman & Civil War Hero.
– Edited & Re-Posted June 5, 2022 – Major Ira J. Alder – The Hundred-Day Civil War Veteran.
– Edited & Re-Posted June 5, 2022 – Iowa & The Civil War – 1861-1865.
– Edited & Re-Posted June 5, 2022 – George D. Woodin & The Lane Trail.
– Edited & Re-Posted June 5, 2022 – Iowa & The Underground Railroad.
– Edited & Re-Posted June 4, 2022 –The 1860’s in Iowa City.
– Edited & Re-Posted June 3, 2022 – The Bridges of Iowa City.
– Posted June 1, 2022 – Riding The Five Rails Of Iowa City.

– Edited & Re-Posted May 24, 2022 – 1857 – A Capitol Moving Day.
– Edited & Re-Posted May 24, 2022 – The Rock Island Iowa City Depot.
– Edited & Re-Posted May 23, 2022 – Iowa City – Here Comes The Railroad!
– Edited & Re-Posted May 23, 2022 – Josias & Christiana Ritter – Iowa City Church Planters.
– Edited & Re-Posted May 23, 2022 – Johann F. Doescher – Breaking Down Walls That Divide.
– Edited & Re-Posted May 23, 2022 – Heinrich Wehrs – Iowa City’s Frontier Pastor.
– Edited & Re-Posted May 8, 2022 – Celebrating The Iowa State Fair.
– Edited & Re-Posted May 7, 2022 – Isaac A. Wetherby – One Artist with Many Dreams.
– Posted May 6, 2022 – Iowa City – Coast to Coast.
– Edited & Re-Posted May 5, 2022 – George H. Yewell – Iowa City’s Pioneer Artist.
– Edited & Re-Posted May 4, 2022 – 1850’s – Meet Some New Iowa City Friends.
– Posted May 4, 2022 – Iowa City – Through The Eyes Of Isaac Wetherby.
– Posted May 4, 2022 – Iowa City – Through The Eyes Of George Yewell.
– Edited & Re-Posted May 2, 2022 – Dear Iowa City – Show Me the Money.
– Edited & Re-Posted May 1, 2022 – 1848 – Iowa City’s Hum-Dinger of A Bell Story.

– Edited & Re-Posted April 30, 2022 – 1856 – Go West, Young Doctor, Go West.
– Posted April 29, 2022 – 1855-1860 – Everything’s ‘Normal’ in Iowa City.
– Edited & Re-Posted April 29, 2022 – SUI – The Early Days 1847-1860.
– Edited & Re-Posted April 29, 2022 – February 25, 1847 – SUI Begins With A Bang.
– Edited & Re-Posted April 28, 2022 – 1846 Iowa Statehood – A Field of Dreams.
– Edited & Re-Posted April 28, 2022 – Judge Williams & Legal Troubles in Bloomington.
– Edited & Re-Posted April 27, 2022 – 1844 – The Drive to Statehood.
– Edited & Re-Posted April 26, 2022 – Steamboat’s A-Comin’ – Maybe?
– Edited & Re-Posted April 26, 2022 – Walter Terrell & His Waterworks.
– Edited & Re-Posted April 25, 2022 – Gilman Folsom – Crossing The Iowa River.
– Edited & Re-Posted April 25, 2022 – Letters To Gilman Folsom – Iowa City Pioneer.
– Edited & Re-Posted April 25, 2022 – Tracking Down Iowa City’s Boyd Wilkinson.
– Edited & Re-Posted April 24, 2022 – Walter Butler – A True Servant’s Heart.
– Edited & Re-Posted April 24, 2022 – H. D. Downey – Iowa City Esquire.
– Edited & Re-Posted April 24, 2022 – Iowa City Stage Ready – 1840-1870.
– Edited & Re-Posted April 23, 2022 – Parvin & Aldrich – Making & Collecting Iowa History.
– Edited & Re-Posted April 22, 2022 – The Old Capitol Gem That Got Away.
– Edited & Re-Posted April 22, 2022 – John F. Rague – Creator Of A Classic.
– Edited & Re-Posted April 21, 2022 – Iowa City’s Rose Hill – Irish’s Woods.
– Edited & Re-Posted April 21, 2022 – Ahoy, Frederick Irish – The Iowa City Sea Captain.
– Edited & Re-Posted April 21, 2022 – Clinton Street – Iowa City’s Center of Commerce.
– Edited & Re-Posted April 20, 2022 – The Iowa City Newspaper Wars.
– Edited & Re-Posted April 20, 2022 – Iowa Newspapers – The Early Years.
– Edited & Re-Posted April 19, 2022 – Sylvanus Johnson – Mr. Red Brick.
– Edited & Re-Posted April 18, 2022 – On the Road to Iowa City.
– Edited & Re-Posted April 18, 2022 – Lyman Dillon – Plowing the Straight & Narrow.
– Edited & Re-Posted April 17, 2022 – Surveying the Life of Cyrus Sanders – Iowa City Pioneer.
– Edited & Re-Posted April 17, 2022 – Cyrus Sanders – My 1839 Iowa Adventure.
– Edited & Re-Posted April 17, 2022 – Cyrus Sanders – Setting Johnson County History Straight.
– Edited & Re-Posted April 17, 2022 – Johnson County Historical Resources.
– Posted April 15, 2022 – Klondike Bill & Friends Visit Iowa City.
– Edited & Re-Posted April 14, 2022 – Chauncey Swan – The Father of Iowa City.
– Edited & Re-Posted April 14, 2022 – A Burlington Hawkeye Keepsake.
– Edited & Re-Posted April 13, 2022 – Philip Clark – Johnson County’s Irish Settler.
– Edited & Re-Posted April 13, 2022 – Welcome to Iowa, Governor Lucas.
– Edited & Re-Posted April 12, 2022 – Iowa Territory 1838-1846.
– Posted April 10, 2022 – The Midnight Ride of Philip Clark.
– Edited & Re-Posted April 9, 2022 – Courting Johnson County.
– Edited & Re-Posted April 8, 2022 – The U.S. Postal Service Comes to Johnson County.
– Edited & Re-Posted April 8, 2022 – 1820’s/1830’s – Phelps vs. Gilbert.
– Posted April 7, 2022 – Three ‘Greetings From Iowa’ Postcards – One Corny Artist.
– Edited & Re-Posted April 6, 2022 – Will The Real John Gilbert – Please Stand Up?
– Edited & Re-Posted April 6, 2022 – Chief Poweshiek – The Roused Brown Bear.
– Edited & Re-Posted April 5, 2022 – Stephen Sumner Phelps – The Original Iowa Hawkeye.
– Posted April 4, 2022 – The Johnson County Business Meeting That Changed Iowa History.
– Edited & Re-Posted April 4, 2022 – The Story of Napoleon, Iowa – 1832-1839.
– Edited & Re-Posted April 3, 2022 – Iowa City’s Humble Beginnings.
– Edited & Re-Posted April 1, 2022 – Charles T. Mason – Here Comes The Judge.
– Edited & Re-Posted April 1, 2022 – Burlington & The Hawkeye State.
– Edited & Re-Posted April 1, 2022 – Burlington – Iowa’s First Capital City 1837-1840.

– Edited & Re-Posted March 31, 2022 – John Plumbe, Jr. – Engineering a Railroad to the Moon.
– Edited & Re-Posted March 30, 2022 – Albert Lea’s 1835 Map of Iowa.
– Edited & Re-Posted March 30, 2022 – The Book That Gave Iowa Its Name.
– Edited & Re-Posted March 29, 2022 – Zebulon Pike & His Dam’d Rascals.
– Edited & Re-Posted March 28, 2022 – Dubuque & The West 1788-1838.
– Edited & Re-Posted March 27, 2022 – The Louisiana Purchase 1803-1806.
– Edited & Re-Posted March 26, 2022 – Iowa – The Discovery 1673-1803.
– Edited & Re-Posted March 26, 2022 – Meskwaki People – True Native Iowans.
– Posted March 24, 2022 – Preserving The Meskwaki Language of Iowa.
– Posted March 6, 2022 – G.D. & Mary Dillon – Iowa’s Banking Pioneers.
– Posted March 2, 2022 – 1850’s – Surveying This New Land Called Iowa.

– Edited & Re-Posted February 25, 2022 – Passing On Our Rich Boller Heritage.
– Posted February 25, 2022 – Celebrating Boller Wedding Anniversaries.
– Posted February 25, 2022 – Celebrating 200 Years – The 2016 Boller Road Trip.
– Posted February 25, 2022 – Celebrating 200 Years – Restoring George F. Boller’s Grave Site.
– Edited & Re-Posted February 25, 2022 – Martin J. Boller & Sandra E. Unrue.
– Seventeen-page set – (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9), (10), (11), (12), (13), (14), (15), (16), (17)
– Edited & Re-Posted February 25, 2022 – U of I Gathering Places.
– Edited & Re-Posted February 25, 2022 – Mapping Out My Iowa – 1951.
– Edited & Re-Posted February 25, 2022 – Growing Up in Mt. Pleasant – Old Threshers.
– Edited & Re-Posted February 25, 2022 – Henry County to Iowa City – The Red Ball Route.
– Edited & Re-Posted February 10, 2022 – The Daily Iowan – The Newspaper For Hawkeyes.
– Edited & Re-Posted February 7, 2022 – George E. Boller & Dixie L. Boyer.
– Fourteen-page set – (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9), (10), (11), (12), (13), (14)

– Edited & Re-Posted January 26, 2022 – Waldo E. Boller & Olive A. Hulme.
– Six-page set – (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6)
– Edited & Re-Posted January 23, 2022 – Daniel J. Boller & Barbara Miller.
– Five-page set – (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)
– Posted January 20, 2022 – Boller Furniture Company – Wayland’s Finest For 45 Years – Generation Two.
– Edited & Re-Posted January 16, 2022 – Iowa’s Music Man – Meredith Willson.
– Edited & Re-Posted January 13, 2022 – Jacob B. Boller & Catharine Smucker.
– Five-page set – (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)
– Edited & Re-Posted January 7, 2022 – George F. Boller & Elizabeth Zook.
– Six-page set – (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6)
– Posted January 3, 2022 – The Boller Furniture Company – Wayland’s Finest For 45 Years – Generation One.
– Posted January 1, 2022 – Iowa City Breweries – 1880’s: In Heaven There Is No Beer.
– Posted January 1, 2022 – Iowa City Breweries – The Beers That Made Milwaukee Jealous.

Posted December 23, 2021 – Iowa City’s Bell Keeper – Herb Gartzke.
Edited & Re-Posted December 23, 2021 – The Bells of Iowa City.
Posted December 21, 2021 – Iowa City’s Historic Skyscrapers.
Posted December 16, 2021 – Samuel J. Kirkwood – Iowa’s Civil War Governor.
Edited & Re-Posted December 11, 2021 – The Bridges of Iowa City.
Posted December 6, 2021 – Hannah Elizabeth Irish – Iowa City’s Business Entrepreneur.
Posted December 2, 2021 – 40 Turn-of-the-Century Leaders Who Shaped Iowa City.

Posted November 30, 2021 – St. Agatha’s of Iowa City – Breaking The Glass Ceiling.
Posted November 23, 2021 – Frank “Kinney” Holbrook – Tipton’s Iron Man.
Posted November 21, 2021 – The ‘Woke’ Abolitionist & Keeper Of The Fair.
Posted November 16, 2021 – The Christmas Eve Santa Came To Iowa.
Posted November 16, 2021 – Thomas Nast – The Father of Political Cartooning.
Posted November 15, 2021 – Welcome To Salubria, Iowa!
Posted November 12, 2021 – Alexander Levi – Dubuque’s Man Of Firsts.
Posted November 10, 2021 – Rich Stories of Diversity Timeline.
Posted November 9, 2021 – Clark + Clark + Cole = Equality in Education.
Posted November 7, 2021 – T. S. Wilson – Dubuque’s Good Neighbor.
Posted November 5, 2021 – Ralph + Wilson + Mason = The Road To Freedom.
Posted November 2, 2021 – Coger + Beck + Miller = Liberty & Justice For All.

Posted October 31, 2021 – The “Miss Tillie” Postcard Collection.
Posted October 29, 2021 – Remembering Helen Lemme – Grinnell’s Golden Girl.
Posted October 27, 2021 – Iowa’s Own Rocket Man – Dr. James Van Allen.
Posted October 25, 2021 – May The Good Lord Bless And Keep You.
Posted October 25, 2021 – The Big Show – Meredith Willson’s Big Stage.
Posted October 23, 2021 – Old Capitol’s Stairway To Heaven.
Posted October 21, 2021 – Meet Rose – Old Capitol’s 1876 Grand Steinway.
Posted October 20, 2021 – When Old Capitol Was The New Capitol: 1841-1857.
Posted October 19, 2021 – An Evening At The Movies – St. Louis – 1849.
Posted October 14, 2021 – Our Hawkeye Sing-Along.
Posted October 13, 2021 – The Wonderful World of SUI Colors – Black & Golden.
Posted October 12, 2021 – Ozzie Simmons + Racial Targeting = Floyd of Rosedale.
Posted October 11, 2021 – Iowa Homecoming: Hawkeye-Style.
Posted October 6, 2021 – Remembering 1985 – Kinnick Stadium’s “Top-Five” Football Match-Up.
Edited & Re-Posted October 3, 2021 – Iowa Celebrates: The Sesquicentennial.
Posted October 3, 2021 – May 1989 – Iowa City Celebrates 150 Years!
Posted October 1, 2021 – Honoring The U.S. Postal Service.
Posted October 1, 2021 – Iowa Statehood Day – December 28th.

Posted September 30, 2021 – On Iowa! Go Hawks! – Celebrating 175 Years!
Posted September 27, 2021 – SUI Mascots – The Big Three.
Posted September 23, 2021 – SUI’s Little Four Made One Big Contribution To Campus.
Posted September 22, 2021 – On The Road to Statehood – Celebrating 175 Years!
Posted September 19, 2021 – Cyrus Sanders – Setting The History Record Straight.
Posted September 16, 2021 – Cyrus Sanders – My 1839 Iowa Adventure.
Posted September 15, 2021 – Surveying the Life of Cyrus Sanders – Iowa City Pioneer.
Posted September 14, 2021 – Johnson County Historical Resources.
Posted September 12, 2021 – Johnson County Remembrance Markers.
Posted September 11, 2021 – The Cy-Hawk Game – Iowa’s Super Bowl.
Posted September 8, 2021 – Boerner & Sons – Iowa City’s Prussian Poppa of Pharmacy.
Posted September 6, 2021 – H. D. Downey – Iowa City Esquire.
Posted September 4, 2021 – Ancient Iowa – Exploring The Land.
Edited & Re-Posted September 4, 2021 – Meskwaki People – True Native Iowans.
Posted September 1, 2021 – Johnson County Remembrance Park.

Edited & Re-Posted – August 28, 2021 – 1839 – The U.S. Mail Comes to Johnson County.
Posted August 28, 2021 – Iowa City Stage Ready – 1840-1870.
Posted August 26, 2021 – 1857 – A Capitol Moving Day.
Posted August 25, 2021 – The Old Capitol Gem That Got Away.
Posted August 24, 2021 – The Great Iowa City Circus Poster Mystery.
Posted August 24, 2021 – When The Circus Came To Iowa City.
Posted August 23, 2021 – Louis Englert – Iowa City’s Bavarian Beer Man.
Edited & Re-Posted August 20, 2021 – Index of Stories.
Posted August 20, 2021 – The Baileys & The Montgomery Ward Wish Book.
Posted August 18, 2021 – Carrie C. Catt – Iowa’s Champion for Women’s Rights.
Posted August 16, 2021 – George Washington Carver – Iowa’s Mr. Peanut.
Posted August 15, 2021 – The Field of Dreams Game.
Posted August 15, 2021 – 1838 to Today – Unity Through Diversity in Johnson County, Iowa.
Posted August 14, 2021 – Simon Estes – From Centerville to Center Stage.
Posted August 13, 2021 – Celebrating The Iowa State Fair.
Posted August 13, 2021 – Karl L. King – Iowa’s March King.
Posted August 12, 2021 – Grant Wood – Iowa’s Iconic Artist.
Posted August 11, 2021 – W.P. Kinsella – Write It and They Will Come.
Posted August 10,2021 – Old Capitol Iconic Moments – 100 Years Apart.
Posted August 10, 2021 – The Iowa Award – 1951 to Today.
Posted August 10, 2021 – Ding Darling & Herbert Hoover – Two Iowa Friends.
Posted August 7, 2021 – Duke Slater – Iowa’s All-American Trailblazer.
Posted August 6, 2021 – Rose Hill – Irish’s Woods.
Posted August 6, 2021 – Iowa Newspapers – The Early Years.
Posted August 6, 2021 – The Iowa City Newspaper Wars.
Posted August 5, 2021 – Honoring James Alan McPherson.
Posted August 1, 2021 – Let’s Go To City Park! (Part II)
Posted August 1, 2021 – Let’s Go To City Park! (Part I)
Posted August 1, 2021 – Signed Marybeth Slonneger’s Books for Sale.
Posted August 1, 2021 – Making Elbow Room for a Pulitzer-Prize Winner.

Posted July 29, 2021 – Marybeth Slonneger – Iowa City’s Artistic Historian.
Posted July 22, 2021 – Walter Butler – A True Servant’s Heart.
Announcement: Coming August 2, 2021 – “Did You Know? Blog Series.
Posted July 20, 2021 – Tom Davis – Our Musical Mom.
Posted July 18, 2021 – John F. Rague – Creator Of A Classic.
Edited & Re-Posted July 18, 2021 – The Old Stone Capitol.
Posted July 16, 2021 – Lyman Dillon – Plowing the Straight & Narrow.
Edited & Re-Posted July 16, 2021 – On the Road to Iowa City.
Posted July 13, 2021 – Ahoy, Frederick Irish – The Iowa City Sea Captain.
Posted July 11, 2021 – Marching, Musical, High-Stepping Hawkeyes.
Posted July 10, 2021 – Johnson County’s New Namesake – What a Lulu!
Posted July 9, 2021 – Courting Johnson County.
Posted July 8, 2021 – Clinton Street – Iowa City’s Center of Commerce.
Posted July 5, 2021 – The Bells of Iowa City.
Edited & Re-Posted July 5, 2021 – The Old Capitol Dome.
Edited & Re-Posted July 5, 2021 – Inside Old Capitol.
Posted July 3, 2021 – John Holladay – Hawkeye Artist at Heart.
Posted July 1, 2021 – 1844 – The Drive to Statehood.

Edited & Re-Posted June 30, 2021 – 1840’s -An Iowa City Pioneer.
Posted June 25, 2021 – My Iowa – 1951.
Posted June 23, 2021 – Nile Kinnick – Iowa’s Heisman Winner.
Posted June 22, 2021 – The Wieneke Family – Iowa City’s Penny Postcard People.
Posted June 15, 2021 – Our Iowa Heritage – A Chronological Index.
Posted June 14, 2021 – The Mapping of Iowa City.
Posted June 10, 2021 – Three Hundred Years of Iowa Maps.
Posted June 4, 2021 – 1838 – Welcome to Iowa, Governor Lucas.
Posted June 3, 2021 – Philip Clark – Johnson County’s Irish Settler.
Posted June 1, 2021 – Iowa City’s Hum-Dinger of A Bell Story.

Posted May 31, 2021 – Zebulon Pike & His Dam’d Rascals.
Posted May 31, 2021 – Will The Real John Gilbert – Please Stand Up?
Posted May 28, 2021 – Chief Poweshiek – The Roused Bear.
Posted May 26, 2021 – Political Cartooning and The Rich Iowa Tradition.
Posted May 25, 2021 – Captain Tom, Iowa City & The Red Devil Airship

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