Librarian and UI alumna Esther Walls was elected director of the United States Secretariat for the International Book Year 1972. In this capacity, she coordinated the activities of the U.S. Secretariat, an agency established to promote the United...
Festival included: luncheon speakers featuring Jean Charlot, Modeste Alloo, Thomas Wood Stevens; exhibition of American paintings and etchings; graduate student art exhibitions; plays and musical performances.
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 also includes awards presented to Birkby by Iowa Press Women, Inc....
Diaries recounting the Civil War experiences of Jacob Harrison Allspaugh of the 31st Ohio Infantry regiment, primarily describing the war in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Georgia. Allspaugh was a resident of Rock Rapids, Iowa, in his later years.
Don Gropman spent a long-ago year at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He has published several nonfiction books, and his work has appeared in Best American Short Stories and other prize anthologies. "To The Pig Station" is excerpted from Fool For...
Donna Davison currently resides in Asheville, NC. Her poems express the flow and interweaving of all the threads of the cosmic tapestry of life – from the intense pain to the sublime divinity of all, and have previously appeared in This...