Tag: Iowa history

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Where is thy sting?

In another day and another time, the buildings crowded on the block made all kinds of sense. The school’s own precious history makes clear that

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The Algona Nativity

The first one was twelve feet wide, still quite a production because Jesus, Mary, and the babe were mud-sculptured, then baked, then painstakingly painted. Back

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The Pastor’s Guns

Religious visions were everywhere in the years preceding the Civil War. Boom towns out west here may have been hell holes for a time, but

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Ghost Town Legacy

Could be an early 20th century shot from a lot of places on the map. There’s a hill up the street, but the place looks

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