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Some Summer Days in IowaFrederick John LazellBooks |
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Sunday Afternoon on the Porch Jim Heynen
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Sunday Afternoon on the Porch In 1939, just before graduating from high school in the small town of Ridgeway in northeast Iowa, Everett Kuntz spent his entire savings of $12.50 on a 35mm Argus AF camera. He made a camera case from a worn-out boot, scraps from a tin can, and a clasp from his mother’s purse. For the next several years, especially during the summers when he worked on his parents’ dairy farm, he clicked the shutter of his trusty Argus all around the quiet town. Everett bought movie reel film in bulk from a mail-order house, rolled his own film, and developed it in a closet at home, but he never had the money to print his photographs. More than two thousand negatives stayed in a box while he married, raised a family, and worked as an electrical engineer in the Twin Cities. When he became ill with cancer in the fall of 2002—sixty years after he had developed the last of his bulk film—Everett opened his time capsule and printed the images from his youth. He died in 2003, having brought his childhood town back to life just as he was leaving it. A sense of peace radiates from these... |
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Iowa Off the Beaten Path, 9thLori EricksonBooks |
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A Killing in IowaRachel CorbettKindle Store |
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Little HeathensMildred Armstrong KalishBooks |
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Iowa Curiosities, 2nd Eric Jones
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Growing Up CountryCarol BodensteinerBooks |
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Oddball IowaJerome PohlenBooks |
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IowaZachary Michael JackBooks |
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H is for Hawkeye Patricia Pierce
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Iowa In Iowa , Travis Nichols turns the bleak cultural void of Midwestern adolescence into a sequence of stunning prose vignettes. Here, a coming-of-age consciousness articulates the knotty uncertainties of personal, social and familial anxieties in sentences as equally complex as the feelings they house: The memories true or not against him seem to be turning to steam, as I turned, all the while thinking of chewing out alone through the ghostly meats. With youthful perplexity and zeal, a humorous and caustic violence of reflection drives this meditative, unclassifiable book. The scary truth is that the foreignness of private teenage cant was always asking the right questions. Now, we just have to listen: Is this the right one thing you haunt? Looking at this one house year after year? Yes. It must be. Not to let you move on. That was the way out. |
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IowaTravis NicholsIowa |
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Art of the StateDiana LandauBooks |
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