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Diane Langton

The Gazette
After more than 40 years in The Gazette newsroom, I officially retired as of 2016. That is, except for continuing to contribute to The Gazette's history column, Time Machine. There are more than 300 of them with my byline, and 50 of them are available in a Gazette book, "Ties To Our Past." They are $23.95 at The Gazette Store store.thegazette.com. (You know you want one.)
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Tuesday, July 14, 2020

Time Machine: Reporter Gladys Arne floated the Mississippi on a johnboat before ...

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Time Machine
Tuesday, June 30, 2020

Time machine: Cedar Rapids' first Black police officer was hired in 1890

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Time Machine
Tuesday, June 09, 2020

Time Machine: Hiawatha's city founders once guaranteed 'no beer taverns'

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Time Machine
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Tuesday, June 02, 2020

Time Machine: Iowa professor reigns as only American to win top violin competition ...

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Time Machine
Thursday, April 30, 2020

Time Machine: Romance in the Yukon as two Iowans find each other in midst of ...

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Time Machine
Thursday, April 16, 2020

Time Machine: Holland Furnace

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Time Machine
Wednesday, April 01, 2020

Time Machine: A Avenue viaduct

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Time Machine
Wednesday, March 25, 2020

Time Machine: Resurrection windows

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Time Machine
Friday, March 20, 2020

Time Machine: The elusive 1918 flu virus

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Archive
Tuesday, March 10, 2020

Time Machine: The last wading pool

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Time Machine
Friday, March 06, 2020

After 46 years, Duane Arnold Energy Center set to close this year

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Business
Wednesday, March 04, 2020

Time Machine: The bells of Cornell College

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Time Machine
Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Time Machine: The story of Duane Arnold, the namesake for an Eastern Iowa nuclear ...

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Time Machine
Tuesday, February 11, 2020

Time Machine: How nutritionist Kate Daum left her mark at the University of Iowa

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Time Machine
Wednesday, February 05, 2020

Time Machine: The Watertruck Buck roamed Cedar Rapids before fatal encounter

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Time Machine
Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Memorial to Cedar Rapids teacher started school district's art collection in 1913

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Time Machine
Tuesday, January 14, 2020

TIME MACHINE: The midget car racing boom in Eastern Iowa

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Time Machine
Tuesday, January 07, 2020

Cedar Rapids' Fourth Avenue Bridge

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Time Machine
Tuesday, December 31, 2019

Suicide or murder? Death of Iowa veteran in Montana in 1921 raised questions

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Time Machine
Tuesday, December 17, 2019

Time Machine: Giant balloons once floated above Cedar Rapids streets

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Time Machine
Tuesday, December 10, 2019

Time Machine: Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer

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Time Machine
Wednesday, December 04, 2019

Time Machine: How did renowned novelist Kurt Vonnegut Jr. wind up in Iowa City?

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Time Machine
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