Scrapbook compiled by Evelyn Birkby; chiefly contains clippings from "Up a country lane, " Birkby's weekly homemaking column in the Shenandoah Evening Sentinel newspaper.
Scrapbook compiled by Evelyn Birkby; chiefly contains clippings from "Up a country lane, " Birkby's weekly homemaking column in the Shenandoah Evening Sentinel newspaper.
Scrapbook compiled by Evelyn Birkby; chiefly contains clippings from "Up a country lane, " Birkby's weekly homemaking column in the Shenandoah Evening Sentinel newspaper.
Kathy Kapitan's hometown is Yankton, SD, and she currently gardens in Storm Lake, IA. She teaches composition courses at Buena Vista University. An avid reader, undisciplined writer, and enthusiastic gardener, Kapitan loves the Midwest, all four...
Bonnie J. Rough received her MFA in nonfiction writing from the University of Iowa. She lives in Minneapolis. Her essay “The Birdmen” was published in the Winter 2006-07 issue of The Iowa Review.
Bruce Moore is a 1970 University of Iowa graduate and lives in Geneseo, Illinois, with his wife of thirty-eight years, Betsy (also a U of I grad). They have four grown children and five grandchildren.
Robin Throne is an Iowa native and lives in Le Claire, Iowa, along that great river we all share in some molecular form or another. Her poetry, essays, and reviews have been published in Slipshot: A Journal of Literary Art, North Coast Review,...
Rob Vogt is a Chicago-area native and an Iowa Summer Writing Festival attendee. He has studied short story writing under Elizabeth Wetmore and Bret Anthony Johnston, graduates of the Iowa Writers Workshop.
One of 18 scrapbooks on Wood's career, containing letters, postcards, photographs, clippings, and miscellany; compiled by Nan Wood Graham, sister of Grant Wood.
De Wilde, George James, 1804-1871; Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859; Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850
Concerning his poem, "The Summer of 1818," which De Wilde sent him; Wordsworth's regard for it and for Hunt's lines on swimming in Hero and Leander; will send De Wilde a copy of the new edition of his poems; is proposing a new volume on The West...