Articles Tagged: Time Machine

During the Great Depression, the Civil Works Administration – a New Deal program – surveyed the nation’s forest and wasteland. …

Shoeless Joe Jackson’s nickname came from his time playing baseball for Greenville in the Carolina Association. He had a sore …

Any greatest hits playlist celebrating notable musicians and moments in Linn County music history is likely to invite criticism, debate …

In 1952, prominent Cedar Rapids businessman Cecil Reed drove to Denver with his wife, Evelyn, and their four children, ranging …

Gladys Arne and her friend Emma Raphael, both in their early 20s, set out from a Davenport dock to begin …

A version of the well-known Iwo Jima flag-raising sculpture – officially known as the Marine Corps War Memorial – stands …

The first Black police officer in Cedar Rapids grew up in Canada. Obediah ‘Obe” Claire was born in Ogdensburg, N.Y., …

4-H might be the most traditional, yet forward-thinking, organization in Linn County. For nearly 100 years, the organization has been …

Before Black Lives Matter, there was the summer of 1963 and the huge March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. …

A small community called Hiawatha Junction formed outside the Cedar Rapids city limits in the 1940s. A mile north of …

Charles Treger was born in Iowa City in 1935 and started playing a violin at age 7. He began taking …

Merle H. Collins of Kingfisher, Okla., brought industrial farming to Iowa, using advanced methods of crop rotation and fertilization to …

Lawrence Welk, one of the nation’s foremost band leaders and early TV personalities, brought his ‘champagne music” to Cedar Rapids …

At the turn of the 20th century, a vaccine had been developed for smallpox, a virus that killed millions in …

The Yukon love story of Mary Emily Fellows of Montour and Ely Ebenezer Weare of Cedar Rapids was reported across …