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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, January 12, 2021

Time Machine: Dr. Emma Neal fended off addicts, crossed the icy Cedar, in 63 years ...

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Time Machine
Tuesday, December 29, 2020

TIME MACHINE: Alice Inskeep, school music pioneer in Cedar Rapids

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Time Machine
Tuesday, December 08, 2020

Time Machine: Iowa Christmas tree growers organized 65 years ago to guarantee ...

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Time Machine
Tuesday, December 01, 2020

Time Machine: When this Marion woman lost her job in the Depression, she started her ...

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Time Machine
Tuesday, October 27, 2020

Time Machine: An Iowan invented the pop-up toaster

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Time Machine
Tuesday, October 13, 2020

Time Machine: 3 presidents visited Cedar Rapids 25 years ago to dedicate the ...

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Time Machine
Tuesday, October 06, 2020

Quonset huts provided married student housing after World War II

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Time Machine
Tuesday, September 29, 2020

Time Machine: Cedar Rapids 'Bohemian tabernacle' 110 years later

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Time Machine
Tuesday, September 15, 2020

Time Machine: The story of a stowaway from Cedar Rapids

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Time Machine
Tuesday, September 08, 2020

Other derechos have raked Iowa over the years

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Community
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Tuesday, September 01, 2020

Time Machine: As we relocate, a look back at The Gazette building through the years

Diane Langton
Time Machine
Saturday, August 15, 2020

Time Machine: Bruce Bucknell, the puppet master from Cedar Rapids

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Time Machine
Tuesday, August 04, 2020

Time Machine: The Iowa prison camp that lasted 50 years in a state forest

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Time Machine
Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Time Machine: 'A Field of Dreams' revived Shoeless Joe Jackson's tarnished image ...

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Tuesday, July 14, 2020

Time Machine: Reporter Gladys Arne floated the Mississippi on a johnboat before heading to NYC

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Time Machine
Tuesday, July 07, 2020

Same sculptor who created Iwo Jima statue in Arlington made one for Cedar Rapids

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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 16, 2020

Time Machine: Cedar Rapids lawmaker helped write, pass historic Civil Rights Act in 1964

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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 with 1962 ...

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Time Machine
Wednesday, May 20, 2020

Time Machine: The short era of Iowa industrial farming thwarted by Great Depression

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Time Machine
Thursday, May 14, 2020

Time Machine: The champagne music of Lawrence Welk

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Time Machine
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