Articles Tagged: Time Machine

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 …

Dr. Emma Jewel Neal knew, ‘from the time I knew anything,” that she was going to be a doctor. ‘My …

The SS Edmund Fitzgerald was a 729-foot freighter plying the Great Lakes for 17 years before it sank Nov. 10, …

Alice Carey Inskeep, who would have a deep and lasting impact on music education in Cedar Rapids, was born in …

Linn County’s first courthouse was built in Marion in 1842 and replaced with another courthouse in Marion in 1855. As …

Ever heard of Alexander Lippisch? He was an inventor and aeronautical engineer and might be one of the most significant …

The Killian Co. department store was a fixture in downtown Cedar Rapids from the time it opened in 1911 until …

Christmas trees were first sold commercially in the United States in the 1850s. The trees were chopped down in forests …