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.
"First Country Lane column scrapbook, 1949-1954. Cataloged Feb....
Scrapbook compiled by Evelyn Birkby; chiefly contains clippings from "Up a country lane, " Birkby's weekly homemaking column in the Shenandoah Evening Sentinel newspaper.
Correspondence details the 1865 wartime experiences of James Mead, who joined the army in 1862 and served in both the Iowa Infantry Volunteers and the U.S. Colored Volunteer Infantry.
The three Mann brothers of Fremont County, Iowa, were all soldiers in Company A of the 4th Iowa Volunteer Cavalry. Eldest brother, William enlisted on Oct. 2, 1861 at age 34. He was promoted to Veterinary Surgeon on Feb. 10, 1864 and was mustered...
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Poet Nan Lundeen, who grew up on a farm in Clinton County, Iowa, is a staff writer for The Greenville News in Greenville, South Carolina. Her poem 'Crate' won best of issue in the South Carolina Writers Workshop 2002 Anthology. Her poetry has been...
Ina Loewenberg has lived in Iowa City for more than 36 years. In addition to her most recent career as a photographer, she has been an internal auditor at The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, a tax preparer for H & R Block, and a...
Cecile Goding is from South Carolina, where she directed neighborhood adult literacy programs for some years. Her essay 'Six Degrees of Fluency,' set in Charleston, won a GAMA award in 2000 A.D. She lives and works in Iowa City.
Don E. Perkins has lived in Iowa all his life except for his time in the Navy during World War II. He earned a Masters in Education degree at the U of Iowa. Don is married, has three adult children, and two adult grandchildren. He lives in Des...
Deirdra McAfee grew up in Sigourney, a town named for one of nineteenth-century America's most famous poets. McAfee's stories have appeared in Confrontation, Willow Springs, The Seattle Review, The Baltimore Review, The Diagram, and others. She...
Matthew J. Wagner was born in Iowa City, Iowa, and attended both elementary and secondary schools locally. He has lived in Seattle, Wash., and a small town in the Catskill Mountains of New York called Cornwallville. While drafting iconographic...
Eric Johnson grew up on a farm in Fairfield, Iowa, and is now a web programmer in Iowa City. He designs humorous and offbeat t-shirts in his spare time and is working on a second children's book.
This poem was selected for the 2009 Poetry in Public project, sponsored by the Iowa City Public Art Program. Now in its seventh year, Poetry in Public displays poems by local writers of all ages in Iowa City buses, downtown kiosks, and select...
Sharalyn Pliler has a masters in professional writing from Maharishi University of Management, and is author of The Reluctant Vegetarian Cookbook. Her poetry has previously appeared in This Enduring Gift, an anthology of works by poets from...
Debra L. Hutchison spent the first eighteen years of her life on a dairy farm outside of Hampton, Iowa. "Iowa has had a great deal of influence on my sensibilities as a poet," she says. She earned an MFA from Vermont College and currently teaches...