Diane Fannon-Langton

‘Happy little ear of corn’ has been entertaining children in Cedar Rapids since 1952

Blind musician graduated from Coe, taught music and literature, earned Ph.D. at Iowa

Cedar Rapids added retired military equipment to parks in 1960s

City Hall moved around the downtown six times before moving to May’s Island, including a few years in an old hotel that one council member described as an “old shell. … It makes my flesh creep to think of it.”

Mary Emily Wright died at age 6 on Aug. 19, 1854, in her parents’ log cabin along the road that would became Highway 6/151 in Iowa County. She was buried in the cemetery across the road from her home. Her grave, surrounded by a white fence in the railroad right of way, is maintained to this day.

Station had been surrounded by Ralston Creek flash flood

Plant operated on Cedar River from 1917 to 1970s Cedar Rapids Electric Light and Power began offering electricity in Eastern …

‘Gazzy,’ born in 1941, was named for The Gazette

Orchestra has had five directors in past 100 years

Order of Railway Conductors operated downtown for almost a century, from 1878 to 1968

TIME MACHINE: Kansan preached Prohibition to thousands

The Gazette hired Cyrus Fosmire to produce cartoons and drawings for publication with Gazette stories. His first day on the job, and the first day his name was included in the masthead as “Illustrator,” was Jan. 1, 1896, when he was 20 years old.

Dennis Chaffee’s two toddlers were staying with him when he was shot and killed in his home in July 1983.

TIME MACHINE: An Iowa governor investigated and thought they were innocent in murder case, pardoning them in 1915.

TIME MACHINE: The idea for piggybacking – hauling semitruck trailers on flatbed train cars – might have been spawned in the late 1800s with the circus trains that crisscrossed the country. Some of the flatbed cars on those trains carried circus vehicles “piggyback” style.