Showing posts with label Iowa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Iowa. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 22, 2020

Add up all the factual fragments to build your preferred family history

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"You can't go back home to your family, back home to your childhood ... back home to a young man's dreams of glory and of fame ...
Wednesday, November 11, 2020

Message for the Commander, France, 1918

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A remembrance for what once was called Armistice Day and now Veteran’s Day. My paternal grandfather, Raymond Arthur Shay, enlisted in the ...
Tuesday, October 13, 2020

Family stories feature twists and turns that don't show up on genealogy sites

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Molly Reed Shay was known as "most beautiful" in St. Patrick’s Church, Iowa City, Iowa,  So says a description printed in tiny let...
Sunday, December 20, 2015

Part IX: Mudder's World War I diary

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December 26  Happier today than I have been for some time, got a letter from Peany and such a sweet one too, also one from E with a handker...
Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Part I: Mudder's World War I diary

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Here’s a puzzler that could be on the Travel Channel’s “Mysteries at the Museum:” The object, almost 100 years old, measures four inches ...
Sunday, April 22, 2012

Sioux City Journal: It takes a community to stop bullying

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Sioux City (IA) Journal devotes Sunday front page to anti-bullying campaign. Neat graphic, gutsy move. A new resource is available locally...
Sunday, March 04, 2012

Jim Coppoc leads poetry workshop at Cheyenne library

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Performance poet and musician Jim Coppoc of Ames, Iowa, leads a writing workshop on Sunday at the Laramie County Public Library in Cheyenn...
Tuesday, February 14, 2012

James Coppoc brings his performance poetry to Cheyenne during Poetry Out Loud competition

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The 2012 Wyoming Poetry Out Loud state competition will take place March 5-6 in Cheyenne. Sixteen student competitors and their teachers a...
Saturday, January 14, 2012

Planet Jackson Hole: "Wyoming picker causes raucous caucus" in Iowa

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Ten Sleep musician Jalan Crossland busted by police during protests against Republican candidates during Iowa caucus. Go to  Wyoming picke...
Saturday, December 31, 2011

Who is the mystery man from Ten Sleep arrested at Occupy the (Iowa) Caucuses?

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Rachel Maddow muses in this MSNBC clip about the Occupy the (Iowa) Caucuses protester arrested at Mitt Romney HQ and whose h...
Tuesday, August 16, 2011

River City's got trouble with a capital "T" and that stands for Tea Party

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A billboard ordered and paid for by the North Iowa Tea Party shows President Obama, Adolf Hitler, left, and Vladimir Lenin, on South Fed...
Tuesday, March 15, 2011

The Irish diaspora brought us The Great Shame and -- for many -- much better lives

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Looking for some especially depressing books to read during St. Patrick's Day week, I chose The Great Shame, and the triumph of the Iris...
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Saturday, March 01, 2008

Iowa Gov rounds up support for Obama

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Iowa Governor Chet Culver, a Democrat, had some nice things to say about Barack Obama when he visited Cheyenne today. For example, Obama wil...
Sunday, January 06, 2008

Local Democrats digest Iowa results

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Local Democrats held an informal "Iowa Caucus Party" last Thursday at C.B. & Potts in Cheyenne. I was late to the party, so I ...
Monday, December 31, 2007

Dems host "Caucus Party" Jan. 3

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Nicole Novotny, communications director for the Laramie County Democrats, sent this reminder: On January 3, 2008, the Laramie County Democra...
Thursday, March 29, 2007

Middle East corn crisis boosts E85 prices

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I had to blink back my disbelief when I ethanoled-up yesterday morning at Cheyenne's one-and-only biofuels station. The price per gallon...