CEDAR RAPIDS – They write about love and loss. About happiness and sorrow. About procrastination and staying connected. And, now, …
Dave Rasdal People & Places Jan. 14, 2013 5:00 am4790d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – They write about love and loss. About happiness and sorrow. About procrastination and staying connected. And, now, …
Dave Rasdal People & Places Jan. 9, 2013 5:00 am4795d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – “The trains are tying up traffic on Fourth street in Cedar Rapids again. It’s nothing new.” So …
Dave Rasdal People & Places Jan. 7, 2013 5:00 am4797d ago
IOWA CITY – Ron Hall grew up dirt poor in a railroad boxcar in Iowa City with an extended family …
Dave Rasdal People & Places Jan. 2, 2013 5:00 am4802d ago
VINTON – The Wurlitzer baby grand piano, its sound board covered in shattered glass from a nearby window, its wooden …
Dave Rasdal People & Places Dec. 31, 2012 5:00 am4804d ago
[nggallery id=978] We started 2012 with Laughing Laura in Lansing and continued smiling through last week’s visit with Lu Happel …
Dave Rasdal
People & Places Dec. 26, 2012 5:00 am4809d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – Luanna Happel only meant to help out friends Bob and Pat Snyder at their Ced-Rel Supper Club …
Dave Rasdal
People & Places Dec. 24, 2012 5:00 am4811d ago
WILLIAMSBURG – Everybody loves a surprise gift, especially children. That’s why Carol Van Dee, manager of Colony Point BP convenience …
Dave Rasdal
People & Places Dec. 19, 2012 5:00 am4816d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – Little Free Libraries are popping up around the world like tulips in spring. So, it was probably …
People & Places Dec. 19, 2019 11:20 am2260d ago
WAUKON – ‘She’s always been a survivor,’ mom Lois McCormick Shindoll of Marion said as her daughter survived to the …
Dave Rasdal
People & Places Dec. 17, 2012 5:00 am4818d ago
[nggallery id=976] SIGOURNEY – The saying goes that the couple who plays together, stays together. But does that including scaling …
Dave Rasdal
People & Places Dec. 12, 2012 5:00 am4823d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – Using an old-fashioned slideshow rather than a computerized PowerPoint presentation, Cedar Rapids historian Mark Stoffer Hunter recently …
Dave Rasdal
People & Places Dec. 10, 2012 5:00 am4825d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A walnut vanity in the main bathroom remains unfinished, as does a wall-to-wall, ceiling-to-ceiling entertainment center in …
Dave Rasdal
People & Places Dec. 5, 2012 5:00 am4830d ago
SIGOURNEY – I should have brought binoculars. That’s the only way to see from one end of Lyle Dumont’s new …
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