Amy Bloom reads from her popular novel "Away,"
A starred review in Publishers Weekly summarized the plot: "Life is no party for Lillian Leyb, the 22-year-old Jewish immigrant protagonist of Bloom's outstanding fifth novel: Her husband and parents...
Anonymous, but it may have belonged to Margaret Waters or Margaret Smith, possibly from Georgetown, D.C.The first lines appear to be a manumission document. Also included are expenses, presumably for Margaret Smith and paid by a third party. The...
Sophie Neems is in the seventh grade at South East Junior High School in Iowa City. Her poem was selected for the 2007 Poetry in Public project, sponsored by the Iowa City Public Art Program. Now in its fifth year, Poetry in Public displays poems...
Sophie Radl is 19 years old and a freshman at the University of Iowa. She is an aspiring photographer who also enjoys exploring other media. Radl is currently studying Spanish and hopes to study abroad soon. Last fall one of her photos was...
Australian author Cate Kennedy will read from her novel The World Beneath, winner of the People’s Choice Award in the New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards in 2010. The World Beneath’s main characters, Rich and Sandy, were environmental...
[Officers and members] -- Clubs represented -- Report of Credential committee -- [Minutes of the thirty-third annual session...] -- [Officers and members] -- Clubs represented -- [Minutes of the thirty-fourth annual session...] -- Officers for...
Festival included: panel discussions featuring Lester D. Longman, Thomas Wood Stevens, Arnold Small, Philip Greeley Clapp, Fletcher Martin, W. D. Coder, E. C. Mabie, Thompson Stone, Horst Janson; exhibition of contemporary art of seventy-nine...
Scrapbook compiled by Evelyn Birkby; chiefly contains clippings from "Up a country lane, " Birkby's weekly homemaking column in the Shenandoah Evening Sentinel newspaper.
Soldiers; Surgery; Physicians; War casualties; Military hospitals; Military camps; Battlefields; Campaigns & battles; Military officers; Homesickness; Education
Letters from Underwood to his wife, Sophie, and two from her to him, while he was an assistant surgeon of the 12th Regiment of the Iowa Infantry during the Civil War.
Soldiers; Surgery; Physicians; War casualties; Military camps; Campaigns & battles; Battlefields; Military officers; Tents; Homesickness; Families; Farming; Horses
Letters from Underwood to his wife, Sophie, and two from her to him, while he was an assistant surgeon of the 12th Regiment of the Iowa Infantry during the Civil War.