Articles Tagged: A Day Away

Step into the past at Swedish settlement of Bishop Hill, Ill.

From ample water access to cheap international cuisine, Storm Lake has enough to feel like a destination in the middle of nowhere.

The Marion Arts Festival is celebrating 30 years by painting a new swath on the city’s summer scene.

It’s easy to find day trips around Eastern Iowa with festivals all summer long. Here’s a guide to explosions of art in parks and streets, cultural and heritage festivals — and lots and lots of fireworks.

Old World charm, tulips ready to bloom for 2022 Pella Tulip Time Festival, slated for May 5-7.

People claim that America’s best engineering project was the Interstate Highway System that makes driving fast. Others counter that the massive roads destroyed regionalism by spawning gauntlets of chain restaurants and hotels.

Wandering through Shrine of the Grotto of the Redemption in West Bend, Iowa, is a religious experience. It’s often referred to as the “Eighth Wonder of the World.”

Mark your calendar for April 20 to 24 and head to Dubuque for the 2022 Julien Dubuque International Film Festival. The 5-day event draws worldwide attention and endorsements.

Every day is prime weather for climbing on equipment gargantuan and garden-sized in the John Deere Pavilion in Moline, Ill.

Lynn and Brenda Ochiltree have been scooping up ice cream, often shaken and stirred into malts and shakes, as well as creating soda pop phosphates flavored with homemade syrups and serving up sandwiches in the Wilton Candy Kitchen full time since 2019.

Emmetsburg, Iowa, ready to parade its Irish heritage Saturday with its St. Patrick’s Day celebration and all year-round.

World-class nature photography exhibit at Dubuque’s National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium takes viewers inside remote locations.

The “Human+Nature” exhibit by artist Daniel Popper showcases five giant outdoor sculptures connecting people and the world around them, on display at Morton Arboretum in Lisle, Ill.

Winterfest offers activities indoors and out, with plenty of room to social distance, on Saturday, Jan. 22, in Amana, Iowa.

“Nature Connects,“ a vibrant, colorful temporary exhibition at the Muscatine Art Center was built one LEGO brick at a time, until after 3,202 hours, New York artist Sean Kenney had assembled 321,680 LEGO bricks into 17 creations related to the natural world.