Weston and Gerdine Ralston moved to Cedar Rapids in 1933 with their sons, James, 13, and Weston, 10, where Weston …
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This column started out as a story about an American chestnut tree in West Union, a Fayette County city of …
Memories of the play still rattle around in Tom Hurn’s head. In the summer of 1972, Iowa’s baseball team made …
Clarence L. Miller, who had come to Cedar Rapids from Ohio with his parents in the 1860s, had his own …
For most of my generation growing up in Cedar Rapids in the 1950s and ’60s, the sprawling stone house on …
Arabella Babb Mansfield, an Iowan, became the first woman lawyer in the United States in 1869, but she never practiced …
Forty-five years ago this week, the worst April blizzard in Iowa history paralyzed the state. On Sunday, April 8, 1973, …
Easter, a Christian holiday celebrated around the world, and April Fools’ Day, an event observed by pranksters everywhere, rarely fall …
‘LOCAL BOY PICKS UP ARCTIC MESSAGE,” screamed The Gazette’s banner headline on Aug. 3, 1925. The local boy was 15-year-old …
The likely builder of the 16-foot-square basswood cabin that once sat high on a hill above the Cedar River was …
Downtown Cedar Rapids in 1959 was a busy place, with shoppers and business people on the street, especially during the …
Although world war was the main story of 1918, newspaper pages that fall were replete with stories about people dying …
Three men from St. Louis – August C. Reps, Herman N. Craemer and Adolph H. Jungk – turned their eyes …
When New York economist Ralph Borosodi teased his wife in 1934 about the freshly canned tomatoes from her garden, she …
On Saturday afternoon, May 2, 1953, Walter M. Mayer of Santa Fe, N.M., stopped in Greencastle, Mo., to return a …
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