Scrapbook compiled by Evelyn Birkby; chiefly contains clippings from "Up a country lane, " Birkby's weekly homemaking column in the Shenandoah Evening Sentinel newspaper.
Joyelle McSweeney received her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 2001. Her first book, The Red Bird, won the first Fence Modern Poets Series Prize. "Bureau of" is from The Commandrine and Other Poems, published by Fence Books in 2004.
The present work is a very rare and little-known compendium of practical medicine and contains, as well, tracts by Euricius Cordus and Hieronymus Bock (1498-1554). The colored vignette on the title page and quaint woodcut illustrations through the...
Newspaper articles about the University of Iowa football seasons, 1936-1939, where Nile Kinnick excelled as a star player, which led to his Heisman trophy award.
Newspaper articles about Nile Kinnick's last football season at the University of Iowa, his subsequent football awards, his participation in the 1940 All Stars game, his Iowa speaking tours, and his enlistment and training in the U.S. Naval Air...