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Summary: This cassette tape gives the major broadcasts of WHO radio during the floods of 1993, including the complete interview with President Bill Clinton.
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Duane A Schmidt
Summary: You've heard of Norman Borlaug, Simon Estes, Ann Landers, Dan Gable, and Fred Maytag -- exceptional Iowans who have done exceptional things. But what about Mildred Wirt Benson, Sam Blanc, Beulah...
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Summary: Comprised of 12 stories by World War II veterans. These detailed and compelling stories bring a critical time in our history back to life. Editor Jane Cox helps these veterans tell their stories in...
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Summary: The true test of a community is how well it responds during a time of crisis. In the summer of 1993, the people of central Iowa worked together to fight back against the worst flood ever recorded....
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Mary L Jones
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Summary: Using images from Iowa Gold Star Military Museum, depicts history and content encompassing a century at Camp Dodge and its immediate vicinity.
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William H Thompson
Summary: "This book traces the development of transportation in Iowa from territorial days to the 1980s. It shows the evolution of the transportation systems; how they originated, progressed and functioned;...
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Summary: An affectionate look, combining historic photographs and recent footage, at the people and places of Iowa, past and present. Produced to commemorate the state's sesquicentennial.
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Henry A. Wallace
Summary: "Before there is a blueprint there must be a vision, whether it be for a battleship, a cathedral or a world society. This is the book of a vision of a world in which a man may be proud to live. Many...
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Mary Kay Shanley
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Summary: The box, fashioned from wood salvaged from the house where her father grew up, held treasures. A lion penny bank, an old wooden spoon, a dog collar. Memories that define who you are. The Memory Box...
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Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
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Summary: Maudie, one of a large family growing up in Iowa in the early 1900s, seems to attract nothing but trouble when all she wants is to be noticed for herself; and when a crisis hits the family she finally accomplishes this in the best way possible.
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Ruth E Wallace
Summary: "The Barnyard Stories, written and illustrated by Ruth E. Wallace, delighted a generation of children when they first appeared as a regular feature in Wallace's Farmer magazines in the late 1920s....
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