Sometime this summer on my way to work down First Avenue in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, I spotted Muffler Man waving an …
Dave Rasdal People & Places Oct. 14, 2009 5:12 pm5909d ago
Sometime this summer on my way to work down First Avenue in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, I spotted Muffler Man waving an …
Dave Rasdal People & Places Oct. 12, 2009 7:00 am5911d ago
What a great tour I had the other day of the new/old barn that has been erected in the last …
Dave Rasdal People & Places Oct. 9, 2009 1:07 pm5914d ago
When I sat down to chat with Rachel Powell of Keota the other day, I was not only charmed by …
Dave Rasdal People & Places Oct. 5, 2009 7:00 am5918d ago
I am continually amazed and impressed at the brave face people like Joan Decious are able to wear when facing …
Dave Rasdal People & Places Oct. 4, 2009 7:00 am5919d ago
A little girl was at her first golf lesson when she asked an interesting question: “Is the word spelled p-u-t …
Dave Rasdal
People & Places Oct. 3, 2009 1:00 pm5920d ago
AMBLAR, after my own heart, minus the “R” and with an “a” in place of an “e” spotted on a …
Dave Rasdal
People & Places Oct. 2, 2009 7:00 am5921d ago
You not only hear the notes of the huge 1896 Kimball pneumatic organ housed in the relatively small Union Sunday …
Dave Rasdal
People & Places Sep. 30, 2009 7:00 am5923d ago
Iowa has been known as the corn state for decades, even though it was the musical “Oklahoma” that touted corn …
Dave Rasdal
People & Places Sep. 21, 2009 9:33 am5932d ago
I waited too long to have a colonoscopy. I’m 56. It should have been done at 50. Or 40. My …
Dave Rasdal
People & Places Sep. 16, 2009 7:07 am5937d ago
Eva Ross, subject of today’s Ramblin’ column in The Gazette, is going home again. It will be the first time …
Dave Rasdal
People & Places Sep. 4, 2009 7:00 am5949d ago
Company C, 133rd Regiment, 34th Division, during World War II hailed from Eastern Iowa. The men came from Cedar Rapids, …
Dave Rasdal
People & Places Sep. 2, 2009 7:00 am5951d ago
In its day, the Cedar Springs Hotel at Upper Palisades near Mount Vernon must have been a grand place to …
Dave Rasdal
People & Places Aug. 28, 2009 7:00 am5956d ago
My Ramblin’ column in today’s Gazette was supposed to be about Palo Fun Day, scheduled Saturday. But, with all of the rain …
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