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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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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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Summary: The Biographical Dictionary of Iowa includes each subject's name, birth and death dates, place of birth, education, and career and contributions. Many of the names will be instantly recognizable to...
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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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Summary: "The City of Johnston has grown over the last 30 years to a population of 6,000 residents. The next 20 years could see the population increase as much as three times to 18,000 residents. The demand...
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Summary: Draft for public review prior to a public hearing slated to be held in 1999. The document summarizes the background of the project, the alternatives which were considered, and the environmental impacts of the recommended alignment
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Summary: "Polk 2030 is Polk County's Comprehensive Plan, intended to provide the citizens of Polk County with a vision of the future of their County and their neighborhoods. Based on this vision, the plan...
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Summary: "Polk County in coordination with the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) is proposing to replace Kempton Bridge over the Des Moines River, reconstruct and widen NW 66th Avenue from NW Beaver Drive...
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Summary: "The Iowa DOT, in partnership with the Cities of Urbandale, Grimes, and Johnston, Iowa, located in the Des Moines Metropolitan Area, is proposing to construct improvements in the Interstate 35...
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Summary: March of 1990 will be remembered by central Iowans as one of the most bizarre months of extreme weather on record. Within one week, the state experienced a devastating ice storm, flooding, severe...
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Jodi Chapman
Summary: Contains 150 "moments" originally aired on WHO Radio in celebration of Iowa's 150th anniversary as a state.
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Ron Corbett
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Summary: "Beyond Promises" is a memoir of sorts by Ron Corbett, who became the youngest speaker of the Iowa House of Representatives and who now is finishing up his eighth year as mayor of Iowa's second...
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David Gebhard
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Summary: In Buildings of Iowa, David Gebhard and Gerald Mansheim trace Iowa's architectural history from the earliest Native American influences to the present. Divided into five regional areas -- Mississippi...
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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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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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Chris Norton
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Summary: In a moment, Chris went from a talented eighteen-year-old Luther College football player with a promising future to a quadriplegic with a 3 percent chance of ever moving or feeling anything below his...
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Heidi Radkiewicz
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Summary: Explores the challenges and joys of a new marriage beset by the horrors of war. Beyond the usual complications of limited closet space and awkward dinners with the in-laws, National Guard recruits...
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Ashley Rullestad
Summary: A brief history of Johnston, Iowa from the 1846 Beaver Creek Settlement to the present.
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