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Life is a parade

July 8, 2010 Journal Tribune

Life is a parade. They can be fun and exciting. They can be long and boring. It can be a beautiful, sunny day, or it can be rained out. There are candy and toys and coozies. And at the end, all that is left is horse manure. Well wait a minute, maybe life isn’t so [...]

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American history

June 29, 2010 Journal Tribune

Native American history has been lost or misplaced throughout the annals of time, a travesty that is shown very clearly right here in Iowa County. Archaeologists have proven a large American Indian settlement existed near South Amana in the mid-1800s, and very little is known about it. There was once a township in northern Iowa [...]

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Enthused about tractors

June 22, 2010 Nick of Time
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This was the weekend of tractors in Iowa County. Between the ill-fated Iowa County tractor pull and the annual gathering of Allis-Chalmers and Minneapolis-Moline enthusiasts, hundreds of tractors were rolling around the county weekends. Organizers worked hard to prepare the county fairgrounds for the tractor pull Friday night, alas Mother Nature was not as accommodating. [...]

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