Diane Fannon-Langton

Cedar Rapids company specialized in printing fine books after its 1907 founding

Edgar Bergen dropped into a meeting in Cedar Rapids in1963 and used his hand to demonstrate his ventriloquism talent. Donations …

Ada Van Vechten pushed to open a free, public library in Cedar Rapids 125 years ago.

Members gathered in Eighth Avenue building for more than a century

Figures still on display in Algona every December

State went slightly bonkers in 1956 after bowl invite

Charles Hollenbeck sold the land — a popular picnicking spot — to two men, who created a modern “park-like” cemetery, …

Two men — an immigrant and a dentist — provided 30 years of free Thanksgiving dinners in Cedar Rapids

At a time when Blacks were not welcome in Midwest hotels, James Weldon Johnson was welcomed into the Van Vechten …

The owner of a Cedar Rapids office supply store saved a steam locomotive from the scrap yard and brought it …

Who was the ‘Uncle Ben’ who haunted so many of his paintings?

Hardly anyone takes note of the occasion, including newspapers

The Capitol Theater opened in 1928, but six months later the lettering on its sign was changed to Paramount.

“Satchmo” played on Quad Cities riverboat, then appeared in concert at numerous Eastern Iowa venues

One troupe operated next door to the swimming pool in the basement of the Roosevelt Hotel