Contents
Introduction
Talk of the Township, 1992–2010
Mel Peet | A Thinking Man’s Look at the “Good Old Days”: A Conversation with Mel Peet
Osha Davidson | The Last Days of the Schultz Brothers Variety Store
Rachel Faldet | Sit for Awhile and Rock
Norman Sage | About Tadpoles, Disasters, and Billy Sunday
Carmen Kraemer Clark | Rose
Michael Carey | The Letter from New York
David Manning | Greener Than Green
Raymond M. Tinnian | The Would-Be Caesars of Millard
Robert Neymeyer | Diamonds Are Not Forever: The Changing Role of Baseball in Small-Town Iowa
Dan Brawner | Local Ghosts
Winston Barclay | Welcome to Engle Country: A Review and an Appreciation
Gary Eller | Interstate
Steve Maravetz | Wadena!
Melvin Corson | My Two Years in a Box
Mike Kilen | The Iowa Sky
Annie Grieshop | Driving across Iowa
Betty Moffett | Lucy’s Scarf
Larry Stone | Houses on the Hills
Verl Lekwa | Is This Heaven? Then It’s Not Iowa
Beth Chacey DeBoom | Demolition: The Sixth Season in the City of Five
Michael Rosmann | A Peaceful Jog in the Country
Steve Hanken | Rest in Peace
J. Harley McIlrath | Memo...from the Director of the Center for Prairie Studies
Dee Ann Rexroat | Rockin’ the Corridor: A Music Critic Remembers
Marian Matthews Clark | Just in Case: Alone at Christmas
Rebecca Sullivan | A Common Thread
Dan Ehl | Night Moves at the Riverside Show Lounge
Leslie Caton | I Due
Shirley McDermott | The Judge vs. God, Television, and Fashion
Ann Struthers | Women Who Wore Aprons
Rustin Larson | The Third King
Jonna Higgins-Freese | Things I Didn’t Learn in School
Glenn Freeman | The Naming of Birds
Jane Purcell | Seeking Asylums
Kelley Jon Donham | Christmas Found on a Trailways Bus
Douglas McReynolds | County Fair
John Peterson | Wapsipinicon
Floyd Pearce | Filling the Cumberland Gap
Talk of the Township, 2010–2018
Contributors