Articles Tagged: Time Machine

It was a Saturday – March 2, 1935 – that the Cedar Rapids Gazette reported artists Grant Wood and Sara …

Passion Plays – the dramatic representations of the suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ – began in medieval Europe …

Any tour of Grant Wood-related sites in Iowa would be woefully incomplete without a visit to the Cherry Building in …

Phyllis Fleming spent 45 years working in The Gazette’s newsroom, most of that in leadership positions, before retiring in 2002. …

A group of seven Iowa Hawkeye fans from Cedar Rapids started a nonprofit in 1979, the Iowa Hawkeye Rebounders Ltd., …

In 1839, militias in Iowa and Missouri squared off over where the state line should be between the two states. …

Long before postcards were relegated to reminders of dental checkup and oil changes, they delivered well wishes and news of …

This month’s ‘Piece of History” is a picture taken June 6, 1957, of big band leader Duke Ellington talking to …

Dr. Andrew Jay Hankins is retired now. He lives in the Detroit area, but for four years, from 1961 to …

A marriage of 66 years seems a worthy topic to write about on Valentine’s Day. I started researching a column …

When the 18th Amendment outlawing the manufacture and sale of liquor was added to the U.S. Constitution in 1920, it …

Just as older generations tried to save American youth from the dangers of the lambada and the twist, even-older generations …

Edwin Bruns taught a variety of courses at the Cedar Rapids YWCA in the 1960s, including ones in oil painting …

Charles E. Fawcett – who would become a successful Cedar Rapids businessmen – moved to the city from Benton County …

Images of the violent Jan. 6 incursion of the U.S. Capitol, in which five people died, evoked recollections of previous …