(Second of two parts. Read Part 1 here.) Charles Perkins lived about five years in the palatial house he built …
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(First of two parts) The Perkins house has been in the news lately, beginning with The Gazette’s mid-January story by …
By 1930, William H. ‘Bill” Penfield had been a professional steeplejack for 20 years and had lived in and near …
A woman with a wonderful name – Jennie Iowa Berry – was a leading light in Cedar Rapids social circles …
When Russian composer Pyotor Tchaikovsky’s ballet, ‘The Nutcracker,” was first performed in St. Petersburg in 1892, it was considered an …
As the Winter Olympics were winding down in Switzerland in 1928, Cedar Rapids held its first Ice Carnival sponsored by …
It’s been 40 years since a Georgia art student turned a talent for soft sculpture into a nationwide craze. Xavier …
A temporary tabernacle on May’s Island hosted a communitywide Thanksgiving celebration in Cedar Rapids in 1914 – a celebration that …
As we take note of Veterans Day, once called Armistice Day to mark the end of World War I, you …
News of the end of the War to End All Wars spread like wildfire 100 years ago, on Nov. 7, …
What does picking corn have to do with politics? Quite a bit, at least on Oct. 17, 1958, when both …
In 1897, Company C of the Iowa National Guard in Cedar Rapids raised $1,000 to attend President McKinley’s inauguration. But …
Ansel Briggs was 40 years old when he became the first governor of the new state of Iowa on Dec. …
The unmarried members of the Coe College faculty organized an informal club in fall of 1920. They planned to have …
As in every pioneer community across the country, a burial ground was one of the first areas set aside in …
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