Winter is nearly over and most of us are looking for something new to try. Ever thought about becoming a county coordinator? IAGenWeb has some wonderful counties just waiting for someone to care for them. Available are WARREN, LUCAS, APPANOOSE, MONROE, CLINTON & GUTHRIE counties. Take a tour of the counties at http://iagenweb.org/state/colist.php. Just let us know your choice and we will get the ball rolling! For more information about the requirements, go to: http://iagenweb.org/state/primer.htm. It's easier than it looks! If you have any questions, please just ask. We'll do our best to give good answers : ) Greta and Conni Mac IAGenWeb Welcome Hostesses welcome_to_iagenweb@iagenweb.org

I too am an Iowan.  I am the 5th generation to live in Muscatine County, all (until me) were farmers.  I still have a sister and a nephew living there but now I am in California.  The winters here are a far cry from what I remember there.  I remember the lump coal furnace that heated our house and standing in front of the register every morning to keep warm.  My Dad uses to use his tractor to clear the driveways and probably some roads, although because we lived on a main road, I don't remember him having to do that too much.  He cleared the driveways for his farms and those of his neighbors.  He milked cows so as someone said, it was essential to keep the road open so the milk man could pick up the milk. I also remember attending one room schools.  Although I didn't move, I attended different schools because they were consolidated so we travel by bus to some schools a distance away.  One school still had an outhouse.  That was a bit cold in the winter, but it took up time when I didn't want to do schoolwork.  By the time I got my coat and boots on, went out there, came back in and took it all off, I bet I could waste at least 10 minutes!  The winters in Iowas were fun too.  Sledding down the hills on a Flexible Flyer, the best sled around.  Ice skating on a pond at Weed Park in Muscatine.  Christmas caroling with my church youth group, driving all around the countryside to get to the homes.  It was a great place to grow up.  In more recent years, I remember flying back to Iowa for Christmas when my parents were still alive.  It was so cold it took our breath away when we stepped outside the airport.  Someone had an aluminum suitcase (or something like that) that was so brittle from the cold, it popped open when another suitcase hit it on the baggage carousel.  I'll never forget that! Jean Perera Researching Shepard, Jarvis, Haifleigh, Miller, Baker, Atwill   

I don't know if it is all this Iowa snow disussion or the fact that I am watching it snow outside my window, RIGHT NOW, here in Alabama that makes me remember many Iowa winters. As nostalgic as they may be, I really do not miss them. The snow we are having is just a dusting with big flakes and almost no accumulation. It will satisfy my masochistic snow lust for the year. Jim in Huntsville ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sharon Becker" <srbecker@iowatelecom.net> To: <IOWA@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, March 01, 2009 6:08 AM Subject: Re: [IOWA] Iowa Winters > I've put a photograph my relatives took of the Blizzard of 1936 > on Ringgold County's IAGenWeb site: > http://iagenweb.org/ringgold/photos/1936blizzard.html > > I recall that winter of 1966. We missed school the entire month of > January. Snow drifts were up to the eaves of the grainery and it > was an ordeal getting to the barn and back. We were milking about > 45 cows at the time and it is the only time that they never left the > barn lot. I resorted to using an old Iowan handwarmer while > helping milk the cows (hands inserted up between the cow's bag > and right rear leg.) It was so cold and so much snow that even > my brother's Shetland pony behaved herself. We also let the > farm dogs in the house that January. We hauled feed to the livestock > using our kids' sleds with the youngest kids sitting on the back of the > sleds to make sure the buckets didn't tip over. > Sharon R. Becker > Ringgold County IAGenWeb Coordinator > srbecker@iowatelecom.net > > > _____________________________________________ > > For additional information concerning how the list > works, how to sub and unsub and list rules, visit > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist/ > _____________________________________________ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IOWA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message

It doesn't sound like your family was in the Cedar Rapids, Linn Co. area - but there is a newspaper from there that they have online and free that goes back that far - maybe you can find something.... http://crpubliclibrary.newspaperarchive.com/   julie --- On Sat, 2/28/09, Mark Hadlund <KRAM95@cox.net> wrote: From: Mark Hadlund <KRAM95@cox.net> Subject: [IOWA] Iowa Winters To: IOWA@rootsweb.com Date: Saturday, February 28, 2009, 11:30 PM I learned that five of my Rief family members, the mother and the four youngest children, all had died in 1885. That many deaths in so short of a time had me wondering. Some research and a weather forcast lead me to a blizzard that happened in Iowa, including Pottawattamie County. There were a few record lows with temps more than twenty degrees below zero. A small notice in The Daily Nonpareil said that two of his girls died of an illness and their mother was ailing as well. Unfortunatley about a weeks worth of the February paper is missing. I'll need to do some further research to see what else, if anything, can be found. Mark

I've put a photograph my relatives took of the Blizzard of 1936 on Ringgold County's IAGenWeb site: http://iagenweb.org/ringgold/photos/1936blizzard.html I recall that winter of 1966. We missed school the entire month of January. Snow drifts were up to the eaves of the grainery and it was an ordeal getting to the barn and back. We were milking about 45 cows at the time and it is the only time that they never left the barn lot. I resorted to using an old Iowan handwarmer while helping milk the cows (hands inserted up between the cow's bag and right rear leg.) It was so cold and so much snow that even my brother's Shetland pony behaved herself. We also let the farm dogs in the house that January. We hauled feed to the livestock using our kids' sleds with the youngest kids sitting on the back of the sleds to make sure the buckets didn't tip over. I've created a webpage "Notable Weather Incidents of Ringgold County" which was taken from NOAA's documentation. http://iagenweb.org/ringgold/history/weather.html I must say that I believe our winters aren't like the ones I experienced as a child. Nor are they like the winters our ancestors and their ancestors experienced in Iowa. Although there were a few days this winter that I brought my 2 elderly barn cats into the house, fearing for their safety. Now, Curly Joe (he has a tail deformity so his tail curls over his back like a handle) and Halloween (she's black with orange specks and 1/2 of her face is yellow - other 1/2 black, splits in a straight line down her nose) don't wanna go back to the barn. Squirt, the orphaned kitten, is totally indignant. She thinks this is her house and she doesn't play well with others. Squirt and the mini-pin Sadie have formed an alliance in a unified effort to reclaim the house. So I spend most of my days saying, "Quit it" "Knock it off" "Hey! That's enough!" They look at me and then 5 minutes later, start in again. Yeah, I'm a softie. My ancestors (farmers & coal miners) would never have brought a barn cat into the house because it was cold outside. BTW, as I type this, they announced on the early a.m. news that Paul Harvey died. He was 90-years-old. I've always appreciated him telling us "the rest of the story." Sharon R. Becker Ringgold County IAGenWeb Coordinator srbecker@iowatelecom.net

My Iowa ancesters were Beebe and Williamson. Beebe before 1650 was in Northamptonshire England. In 1650 with a family of seven children he set sail for New London, CN. He died on the trip over, but managed to write a will to his children. Two hundred years later he leaves his parents in Ohio and settles as a wagon maker in Lee and Des Moines County Iowa. There he married and a year later was in Shelby County where his children was born. He was the first elected sheriff of Shelby County. Williamson was an early settler in Indian country in New York just west of the colonial line. There he married and had children and finally went to newly opened Ohio territory. His son left as a young man and went to Council Bluffs, Iowa where he decided to stop. He married and had a family in several counties of Iowa before settling in Galland's Grove Township in Shelby County. He was a priest of the new organized LDS church In Shelby County. donkelly ----- Original Message ----- From: Greta Thompson <bluebear@new.rr.com> To: IOWA@rootsweb.com <Iowa-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 03:07:04 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [IOWA] Fw: ???? I'm sure Rhonda wanted to send this to the list. Greta ----- Original Message ----- From: Rrspearsfamily@wmconnect.com To: bluebear@new.rr.com Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 8:21 PM Subject: Re: [IOWA] ???? Hi everyone Most of my family line is in Osky. my mother was born there. I only lived there for one summer when I moved in with my mother and we then moved back to my home state of Colo. my lines are Witt, Smith, Danielson, Mason, Kruse, Hanna there may be more but thats what I can remember without looking it up. Rhonda _____________________________________________ For additional information concerning how the list works, how to sub and unsub and list rules, visit http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist/ _____________________________________________ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IOWA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I learned that five of my Rief family members, the mother and the four youngest children, all had died in 1885. That many deaths in so short of a time had me wondering. Some research and a weather forcast lead me to a blizzard that happened in Iowa, including Pottawattamie County. There were a few record lows with temps more than twenty degrees below zero. A small notice in The Daily Nonpareil said that two of his girls died of an illness and their mother was ailing as well. Unfortunatley about a weeks worth of the February paper is missing. I'll need to do some further research to see what else, if anything, can be found. Mark

I grew up in Iowa and now live in Minnesota. When my dad died in 1982 we tried to drive to Cedar Rapids for the funeral and got stranded in La Porte City (on highway 218?) and had to spend 4 days and nights there before we could get out of town. The temperature was about 30 below with winds of about 30 mph, resulting in a wind chill of about 90 below. The strip motel we stayed in (me, wife, 3 kids, and a dog) did not have enough heating capability to heat our end unit above the lower 60's. There is not a whole lot to do in Laporte City for 4 days and evenings. We did have some good meals and service at Dave's Chicken Shop (I think that was the name.) We were able to leave and get to CR just in time for the funeral. But they were not able to get out to the country cemetery to bury my dad so he had to wait until later in the year to get buried. He didn't even get to ride in a nice Cadilac for his final trip to the cemetery, he was hauled in a back of a truck that could make it out to the gravesite. Do any of you remember that awful storm that started the day my dad died on January 9, 1982? Don Elias On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 11:29:21 EST ROSKAYBEB@aol.com writes: > I have a newpaper clipping dated April 6, 1938, that my folks saved. > It's > about highway 63 four miles north of Waterloo being closed for 14 > hours by a > four-foot snowdrift that was 600 feet long. My mom & dad, aunt, & > 2-year-old > cousin were in one of the 35 cars that were unable to get through. > They > spent the night at a farm house along with a group of other people. > Mother said > they gathered around a pot belly stove all night, & in the morning > the lady > of the house fixed pancakes for everybody. > I was born the following October, so that was the first of many Iowa > > blizzards that I was present for. I lived in Waterloo, Iowa, till I > was 20, then > moved to Nebraska (same weather there.) > My favorite winter memories are ice-skating all winter at various > outdoor > rinks around Waterloo. > Kay B. ____________________________________________________________ Click here to find the perfect picture with our powerful photo search features. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/BLSrjpTEuJCCk0avtZngdfCjeQKCfLPqslSvMniiMmVU9FxtKdLnnJLJDWY/

This also isn't geneaology, but some might be interested. The painting "American Gothic" by Grant Wood will only be at the Des Moines Art Center until March 29. There is no charge at the DMAC. Tomorrow, Sunday, 3/1/09, there is also a free screening of the film 'Grapes of Wrath' in the auditorium at 1:30. This is a regionalism collection, including other artists such as Thomas Hart Benton and Jason Pollock. More info below. The rest of the collection stays longer, but 'AG' is only until 3/29/09. It helps to understand what some went through. [Another note: my uncle was born in Nov. 1938, so he was 70 last fall. At his house there is no plastic and he has a very antique, eclectic home. So, we did his birthday 1938 style. Old dishes, simple food, patterned tableclothes, aprons, hats, dresses, newsboy caps, home canned peaches & green beans, white shirts & ties, overalls, talking about news stories like the Dione quintuplets, played period music, antiques, old photos, etc. It was great fun. One cousin dressed like a gun maw, i.e. Bonnie Parker and had a starting pistol in her belt and I brought some cigars. We parked our Model A in the driveway. We have done similar parties before. It's tough to find ways to take picnic food 1930s style - like canning jars and boxes.] After Many Springs: Regionalism, Modernism & the Midwest is the first exhibition to address the artistic battles that were waged simultaneously in New York and the Midwest during the 1930s and the early 1940s. In the midst of the Great Depression, one of the most contentious and fractious artistic debates emerged, one that pitted progressive modernist figures such as Jackson Pollock, Charles Sheeler, and Philip Guston, against artists who sought a revival of tradition. Thomas Hart Benton, John Steuart Curry, and Grant Wood fought against abstraction, believing that American subjects should be conveyed only by straightforward, recognizable imagery. While Benton would become one of the most vocal spokespersons for the movement that became known as Regionalism, his painting, like that of Wood, actually had its origins in abstraction and the Modernist movement. Drawing on the work of artists such as Benton, Curry, and Wood, as well as Margaret Bourke-White, Guston, Dorothea Lange, Pollock, Ben Shahn, Sheeler, and others, After Many Springs aims to rethink and probe such terms as Regionalism and Modernism. While these movements are usually seen as opposites, this exhibition aims to challenge that perception by highlighting the various formal and thematic correspondences that subtly weave them together. Comprised of painting, photography, and documentary film, the works in this exhibition portray not only the Midwestern landscape, but convey complex issues prevalent in the Depression era, including poverty, racism, and ecological devastation. After Many Springs was organized by curator Debra Bricker Balken and Art Center Director Jeff Fleming and is accompanied by a full-color catalogue.

> Thanks everyone. Are there anymore about how they managed in the snow > back before modern heating and cars. Was it like Little House on the > Prairie? Karen

Thanks everyone. Are there anymore about how they managed in the snow back before modern heating and cars. Was it like Little House on the Prairie? Karen

I'm sure Rhonda wanted to send this to the list. Greta ----- Original Message ----- From: Rrspearsfamily@wmconnect.com To: bluebear@new.rr.com Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 8:21 PM Subject: Re: [IOWA] ???? Hi everyone Most of my family line is in Osky. my mother was born there. I only lived there for one summer when I moved in with my mother and we then moved back to my home state of Colo. my lines are Witt, Smith, Danielson, Mason, Kruse, Hanna there may be more but thats what I can remember without looking it up. Rhonda

I lived in Albert Lea, Minn for a short time where I became interested in Pheasant hunting. Neddless to say, we somethimes meandered southward and enjoyed the hunting in your fine state.The entire Male side of my heritage is Ireland to Iowa to God knows where. Surely God's Little Acre is in IOWA! ----- Original Message ----- From: <iowa-request@rootsweb.com> To: <iowa@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 6:00 PM Subject: IOWA Digest, Vol 4, Issue 37 > > > This is the IOWA list in digest form. For additional information > concerning how the list works, how to sub and unsub and list rules, visit > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist/ > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Dewey (Grace Keir) > 2. Re: Iowa winters & summers (Ruth MF Tucker) > 3. Re: ???? (Esther Tripp) > 4. Kanawha (Martha Johnson) > 5. Re: Kanawha (Martha Johnson) > 6. Re: Iowa winters (Cheryl Westfall) > 7. Re: ???? (Jim) > 8. Iowa weather (Karen Conroy) > 9. Fw: Iowa weather (Karen Conroy) > 10. mail (June Hebert) > 11. Re: Iowa weather (Linda Ziemann) > 12. Re: history (a1hawkeye@juno.com) > 13. Cedar Rapids Cemetaries (Scottsfamilytree@aol.com) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 11:03:37 -0600 > From: "Grace Keir" <gkeir@hickorytech.net> > Subject: Re: [IOWA] Dewey > To: "'IOWA@rootsweb.com'" <Iowa-L@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <9CA57A541C3F46CABE867516B6877B0E@GKeir> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Oh yes, everyone must read the book "Dewey - The library cat who touched > the > world". I just finished it. My husband was from Spencer and we still > visit > there, but never did meet Dewey. Also, they are planning a movie about > Dewey and Meryl Streep is supposed to play the role of the library > director. > And Dewey Readmore Books (the cats full name) has a web site. > > Grace > > You wrote: > Have you read Dewey, the book about the cat who spent his life in the > Spencer, Iowa public library? You might enjoy it. > > Greta Thompson > IAGenWeb Marion and Bremer Counties Coordinator > IAGenWeb Family Group Sheet Special Project Coordinator > IAGenWeb Welcome Hostess > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:35:31 -0800 (PST) > From: Ruth MF Tucker <rutucker@yahoo.com> > Subject: Re: [IOWA] Iowa winters & summers > To: IOWA@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <472157.31691.qm@web59611.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > I have enjoyed all the stories about Iowa winters and being a 73 year > native Iowan, can remember many of those winters when snow was so deep > that roads were one lane, with areas where you?had to wait if you were > meeting another car until that vehicle passed by.??That was rural Iowa > year after year in the 1960's when my children were small.? Road clearing > equipment wasn't as sophisticated as now, and many times farmers would > help out with manure loader buckets on their tractors, so milk transports > and livestock trucks could get to the farms for pick-up.? Bulk milk tanks > could only hold about a days milk production so it was necessary to get > the roads open so a major source of farmers income could be delivered. > > But with all?the nasty winter weather and this winter has set records in > the Eastern Iowa area with record snow totals, we have great summer > weather, when flooding doesn't occur!? I was one of those unlucky folks > who lost a home, and have finally purchased a permanent residence after > 8?months.? We are still waiting for the federal, state government to > decide?how to purchase our "flood-plain"? property.? Just be patient. > > In our area one of the summer activities is the?? > ?weekly? band concerts from? early June to August. > ?Many towns have town bands where oldsters and high school band students > join together to entertain one night a week in a local park at the band > shell.? Cedar Falls has the oldest still operating Town Band still giving > weekly concerts.? A museum is maintained on Main street where the original > band practiced. Tuesday night sees the park filled with everyone from > birth to g-great grandparents bringing lawn chairs and blankets to spread > neatly in rows across the city block park to enjoy the music for about an > hour and a half.? Karl King and Sousa marches always find a place on the > program as well as Broadway musicals.? The local Kiwanas club mans the > concession stand with pop corn? and soft drinks.? It is one of their main > sources of income for the community projects they sponsor. > > Ruth > Cedar Falls/Evansdale, IA > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 11:59:59 -0600 > From: "Esther Tripp" <tripps@ncn.net> > Subject: Re: [IOWA] ???? > To: <Iowa@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <09046C1B243E46F7B24562EB60812F06@EstherPC> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > > Amen.... I'm in north central Iowa and I am still chipping away at the 2 > inches of frozen rain,sleet,thunder snow that we got on Thursday past. > I'm > trying to be patient as they say we will be back above freezing next week. > it might hit 30 F. today. > Esther > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "barbgeni" <barbgeni@cox.net> > To: <Iowa@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 7:52 AM > Subject: Re: [IOWA] ???? > > >> Have you read this before? It sure fits with some of the weather we have >> had this winter. >> Barb >> >> On the sixth day, God turned to the Archangel Gabriel and said, "Today I >> am >> going to create a land called Iowa. It will be a land of outstanding >> natural >> beauty. It shall have tall majestic landscapes full of buffalo, tall >> grass, >> hawks, beautiful skies, forests full of elk and deer, rich farmland and >> fair-skinned people. I shall make the land rich in resources so as to >> make >> the inhabitants prosper; I shall call these inhabitants Hawkeyes and they >> shall be known as a most friendly people." >> >> "But, Lord", asked Gabriel, "don't you think you are being too generous >> to >> these Iowans?" >> >> "Not really," replied God, "just wait and see the winters I am going to >> give >> them" >> >> Author unknown. >> >> _____________________________________________ >> >> For additional information concerning how the list >> works, how to sub and unsub and list rules, visit >> http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist/ >> _____________________________________________ >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> IOWA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message >> >> > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:37:55 -0500 > From: Martha Johnson <mjohnson049@columbus.rr.com> > Subject: [IOWA] Kanawha > To: IOWA@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <F87856D1-3E75-4C66-B3E9-D4164D953C7F@columbus.rr.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed > > I had the pleasure of visiting in Kanawha this fall. I have some > relatives buried there, and also via a cousin I met on the internet > found other cousins still living there. They met us and took us > to the Hancock Cemetery and were so very gracious. One even took > us to her home and shared old photographs of my grandfather's > uncles , aunts and cousins. > > We didn't spend as much time there that we learned what a quaint > town it is, but the people we met were wonderful. I want to go back. > > At Christmas my relative told me of how the down town has open > houses, and the businesses serve refreshments, etc. That would only > happen in a good old small town. > > I also had great help from the local genealogy society before my trip > in locating some information that made me eager to visit. > > Martha > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:42:36 -0500 > From: Martha Johnson <mjohnson049@columbus.rr.com> > Subject: Re: [IOWA] Kanawha > Cc: IOWA@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <B733AD1D-61BC-4B7E-B64B-5DF6C138C500@columbus.rr.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed > > Forgot to say ( shame on me), that the cousins we met took us to > THEIR home, which had been my grandfather's great uncle's home in the > 1800's. So we saw px of the original farm house, and how it has > changed through the years. > > I want to go back!!!! > > Martha > > > On Feb 28, 2009, at 1:37 PM, Martha Johnson wrote: > >> I had the pleasure of visiting in Kanawha this fall. I have some >> relatives buried there, and also via a cousin I met on the internet >> found other cousins still living there. They met us and took us >> to the Hancock Cemetery and were so very gracious. One even took >> us to her home and shared old photographs of my grandfather's >> uncles , aunts and cousins. >> >> We didn't spend as much time there that we learned what a quaint >> town it is, but the people we met were wonderful. I want to go >> back. >> >> At Christmas my relative told me of how the down town has open >> houses, and the businesses serve refreshments, etc. That would only >> happen in a good old small town. >> >> I also had great help from the local genealogy society before my trip >> in locating some information that made me eager to visit. >> >> Martha >> >> >> _____________________________________________ >> >> For additional information concerning how the list >> works, how to sub and unsub and list rules, visit >> http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist/ >> _____________________________________________ >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IOWA- >> request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 12:28:50 -0700 > From: Cheryl Westfall <tedrickw@cox.net> > Subject: Re: [IOWA] Iowa winters > To: IOWA@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <1032796378.20090228122850@cox.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > Thanks for your posts! I now remember why we moved to Arizona! > > Cheryl > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 7 > Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 14:59:39 -0600 > From: "Jim" <neiersj@hiwaay.net> > Subject: Re: [IOWA] ???? > To: "Esther Tripp" <tripps@ncn.net>, <Iowa@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <DEB94E8E32F546E2AC33078D113DA6FD@TOSHIBAMain> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > > To all you current Iowa residents. I am a former Iowa resident now living > in Alabama. Guess what is predicted for us tonight. Two to four inches > of > SNOW!! We'll just shut down until spring. > > > Jim Neiers > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 8 > Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 21:12:06 -0000 > From: "Karen Conroy" <karen.conroy@virgin.net> > Subject: [IOWA] Iowa weather > To: <IOWA-L@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <2B7957547A264EDFB9888CBC78DA7E63@D4Z63Y1J> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > > Thanks everyone. Are there anymore about how they managed in the snow > back > before modern heating and cars. Was it like Little House on the Prairie? > Karen > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 9 > Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 21:12:55 -0000 > From: "Karen Conroy" <karen.conroy@virgin.net> > Subject: [IOWA] Fw: Iowa weather > To: <iowa@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <5E903CABF3494C8E8A19E03600246BAE@D4Z63Y1J> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=response > > > > >> Thanks everyone. Are there anymore about how they managed in the snow >> back before modern heating and cars. Was it like Little House on the >> Prairie? Karen > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 10 > Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 16:14:16 -0600 > From: June Hebert <junefh@gmail.com> > Subject: [IOWA] mail > To: iowa@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: > <e592d1750902281414q72302c93oe5bf28468a533f27@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Glad we have some messages again. Even if cold and snow. Thanks I know > I'm > not alone. > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 11 > Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 16:35:28 -0600 > From: "Linda Ziemann" <lin.ziemann@verizon.net> > Subject: Re: [IOWA] Iowa weather > To: <IOWA-L@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <0KFS0006QRUT48EI@vms173003.mailsrvcs.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > In my research of my ancestors, I found an old newspaper article that > mentions my Grandfather and his brother made (the move) trip from Plymouth > County, IA, to their new home in Armour, S.D. by SLEIGH. Yes, SLEIGH. I > would love to have seen that happen. It is mentioned in the same article > that their Mother and younger sibs made the trip by train. > > The date of the article is January 1, 1915. That is lots of miles across > there to Armour from LeMars, Iowa. And there had to be plenty of SNOW for > the sleigh to be a good mode of transportation!! Grandpa was 26 yrs old > and > single at the time of this trip. > > Just had to share an earlier SNOW story from the Iowa newspaper archives. > I > love it!! > > Linda Ziemann > > IA GenWeb Plymouth, Monona, Sioux County Coordinator > > http://iagenweb.org/ > > Iowa Old Press IAGenWeb Special Project Co-Coordinator > > http://www.iowaoldpress.com/index.html > > "A Look Back at the Lives and Times of Our Ancestors" > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: iowa-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:iowa-bounces@rootsweb.com] On > Behalf > Of Karen Conroy > Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 3:12 PM > To: IOWA-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [IOWA] Iowa weather > > Thanks everyone. Are there anymore about how they managed in the snow > back > before modern heating and cars. Was it like Little House on the Prairie? > Karen > > > > _____________________________________________ > > For additional information concerning how the list > works, how to sub and unsub and list rules, visit > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist/ > _____________________________________________ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IOWA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in > the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 12 > Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 22:36:29 GMT > From: "a1hawkeye@juno.com" <a1hawkeye@juno.com> > Subject: Re: [IOWA] history > To: kate@comm1net.net > Cc: Iowa@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <20090228.163629.12380.1@webmail14.vgs.untd.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 > > This also isn't geneaology, but some might be interested. The painting > "American Gothic" by Grant Wood will only be at the Des Moines Art Center > until March 29. There is no charge at the DMAC. Tomorrow, Sunday, > 3/1/09, there is also a free screening of the film 'Grapes of Wrath' in > the auditorium at 1:30. This is a regionalism collection, including other > artists such as Thomas Hart Benton and Jason Pollock. More info below. > The rest of the collection stays longer, but 'AG' is only until 3/29/09. > It helps to understand what some went through. > [Another note: my uncle was born in Nov. 1938, so he was 70 last fall. At > his house there is no plastic and he has a very antique, eclectic home. > So, we did his birthday 1938 style. Old dishes, simple food, patterned > tableclothes, aprons, hats, dresses, newsboy caps, home canned peaches & > green beans, white shirts & ties, overalls, talking about news stories > like the Dione quintuplets, played period music, antiques, old photos, > etc. It was great fun. One cousin dressed like a gun maw, i.e. Bonnie > Parker and had a starting pistol in her belt and I brought some cigars. > We parked our Model A in the driveway. We have done similar parties > before. It's tough to find ways to take picnic food 1930s style - like > canning jars and boxes.] > After Many Springs: Regionalism, Modernism & the Midwest is the first > exhibition to address the artistic battles that were waged simultaneously > in New York and the Midwest during the 1930s and the early 1940s. In the > midst of the Great Depression, one of the most contentious and fractious > artistic debates emerged, one that pitted progressive modernist figures > such as Jackson Pollock, Charles Sheeler, and Philip Guston, against > artists who sought a revival of tradition. Thomas Hart Benton, John > Steuart Curry, and Grant Wood fought against abstraction, believing that > American subjects should be conveyed only by straightforward, recognizable > imagery. While Benton would become one of the most vocal spokespersons for > the movement that became known as Regionalism, his painting, like that of > Wood, actually had its origins in abstraction and the Modernist movement. > Drawing on the work of artists such as Benton, Curry, and Wood, as well as > Margaret Bourke-White, Guston, Dorothea Lange, Pollock, Ben Shahn, > Sheeler, and others, After Many Springs aims to rethink and probe such > terms as Regionalism and Modernism. While these movements are usually seen > as opposites, this exhibition aims to challenge that perception by > highlighting the various formal and thematic correspondences that subtly > weave them together. > Comprised of painting, photography, and documentary film, the works in > this exhibition portray not only the Midwestern landscape, but convey > complex issues prevalent in the Depression era, including poverty, racism, > and ecological devastation. > After Many Springs was organized by curator Debra Bricker Balken and Art > Center Director Jeff Fleming and is accompanied by a full-color catalogue. > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 13 > Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 18:00:21 EST > From: Scottsfamilytree@aol.com > Subject: [IOWA] Cedar Rapids Cemetaries > To: IOWA@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <d54.4798fef3.36db1c05@aol.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > My father saw the painting of American Gothic when it was being painted. > Dr. McKeeby. Is buried in Cedar Rapids, Just East of McKinley Junior High > School. I think Oak hill Cemetary. A lot of famous Cedar Rapidinas are > buried > there. Also I have relatives buried there. I have relatives buried in > three > cemetaries in Cedar Rapids. > I am also a distant cousin of Laura Ingalls Wilder and Herbert Hoover . > Laura Ingalls Wilders papers are in the Hoover Library. > I think Hawkeye is named after the Indian Blawkhawk. > Scott > **************A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. 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My father saw the painting of American Gothic when it was being painted. Dr. McKeeby. Is buried in Cedar Rapids, Just East of McKinley Junior High School. I think Oak hill Cemetary. A lot of famous Cedar Rapidinas are buried there. Also I have relatives buried there. I have relatives buried in three cemetaries in Cedar Rapids. I am also a distant cousin of Laura Ingalls Wilder and Herbert Hoover . Laura Ingalls Wilders papers are in the Hoover Library. I think Hawkeye is named after the Indian Blawkhawk. Scott **************A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1218822736x1201267884/aol?redir=http:%2F%2Fwww.freecreditreport.com%2Fpm%2Fdefault.aspx%3Fsc%3D668072%26hmpgID %3D62%26bcd%3DfebemailfooterNO62)

In my research of my ancestors, I found an old newspaper article that mentions my Grandfather and his brother made (the move) trip from Plymouth County, IA, to their new home in Armour, S.D. by SLEIGH. Yes, SLEIGH. I would love to have seen that happen. It is mentioned in the same article that their Mother and younger sibs made the trip by train. The date of the article is January 1, 1915. That is lots of miles across there to Armour from LeMars, Iowa. And there had to be plenty of SNOW for the sleigh to be a good mode of transportation!! Grandpa was 26 yrs old and single at the time of this trip. Just had to share an earlier SNOW story from the Iowa newspaper archives. I love it!! Linda Ziemann IA GenWeb Plymouth, Monona, Sioux County Coordinator http://iagenweb.org/ Iowa Old Press IAGenWeb Special Project Co-Coordinator http://www.iowaoldpress.com/index.html "A Look Back at the Lives and Times of Our Ancestors" -----Original Message----- From: iowa-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:iowa-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Karen Conroy Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 3:12 PM To: IOWA-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [IOWA] Iowa weather Thanks everyone. Are there anymore about how they managed in the snow back before modern heating and cars. Was it like Little House on the Prairie? Karen _____________________________________________ For additional information concerning how the list works, how to sub and unsub and list rules, visit http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist/ _____________________________________________ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IOWA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Glad we have some messages again. Even if cold and snow. Thanks I know I'm not alone.

To all you current Iowa residents. I am a former Iowa resident now living in Alabama. Guess what is predicted for us tonight. Two to four inches of SNOW!! We'll just shut down until spring. Jim Neiers

Forgot to say ( shame on me), that the cousins we met took us to THEIR home, which had been my grandfather's great uncle's home in the 1800's. So we saw px of the original farm house, and how it has changed through the years. I want to go back!!!! Martha On Feb 28, 2009, at 1:37 PM, Martha Johnson wrote: > I had the pleasure of visiting in Kanawha this fall. I have some > relatives buried there, and also via a cousin I met on the internet > found other cousins still living there. They met us and took us > to the Hancock Cemetery and were so very gracious. One even took > us to her home and shared old photographs of my grandfather's > uncles , aunts and cousins. > > We didn't spend as much time there that we learned what a quaint > town it is, but the people we met were wonderful. I want to go > back. > > At Christmas my relative told me of how the down town has open > houses, and the businesses serve refreshments, etc. That would only > happen in a good old small town. > > I also had great help from the local genealogy society before my trip > in locating some information that made me eager to visit. > > Martha > > > _____________________________________________ > > For additional information concerning how the list > works, how to sub and unsub and list rules, visit > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist/ > _____________________________________________ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IOWA- > request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message

I had the pleasure of visiting in Kanawha this fall. I have some relatives buried there, and also via a cousin I met on the internet found other cousins still living there. They met us and took us to the Hancock Cemetery and were so very gracious. One even took us to her home and shared old photographs of my grandfather's uncles , aunts and cousins. We didn't spend as much time there that we learned what a quaint town it is, but the people we met were wonderful. I want to go back. At Christmas my relative told me of how the down town has open houses, and the businesses serve refreshments, etc. That would only happen in a good old small town. I also had great help from the local genealogy society before my trip in locating some information that made me eager to visit. Martha

Thanks for your posts! I now remember why we moved to Arizona! Cheryl