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The Lucas Countyan: Another piece of the Dry Flat neighborhood gone
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Monday, August 10, 2015. Another piece of the Dry Flat neighborhood gone. These big masonry piers until just the other day supported steps up to the front porch of what many of us still called the Kelso house - - after Sam and Mary Kelso, who raised five kids on their Lucas-Wayne county line farm before retiring, selling out and moving to Albia in 1974. That was 40 years ago, for heaven's sake. I wish I had a photo, but since I don't you can see a piece of the west side of the house in this snapshot take...
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Blog from Tony Dillon-Hansen (Tigers n Dragons ): June 2013
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Random thoughts about music, guns, weed, God, rights, civility, reform, social media, web design, public policy, inspiration, martial arts, technology. Monday, June 24, 2013. Of course, under current enemy combatant statutes, you, as the U.S. Citizen, may find yourself exceptionally interested in the prison conditions at Guantanamo Bay. People are too eager to trade freedom and liberty away, and thus, they ignore an individual responsibility of having freedom is to also ensure that freedom endures despit...
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The Lucas Countyan: Flying pigs and affirming Baptists
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Thursday, August 06, 2015. Flying pigs and affirming Baptists. I just looked outside my window, and pigs were flying by! My friend, Patrick - - an Iowa boy who now lives in California - - quipped yesterday after I shared a news story from. First Baptist opens its doors to same-sex couples.". Greenville's First Baptist, although among the mother churches of the 1845 Southern Baptist Convention, is an exception for a couple of reasons, most notable according to Jim Dant, senior pastor, a long history of mo...
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christo education: December 2011
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Thursday, December 29, 2011. Pop Quiz: Education Policy in 2011. This from The Answer Sheet:. The year 2011 was monumental in education — monumentally good or monumentally bad, depending on your view. School reformers who believe in using business principles to run public schools had a banner year. More states expanded the number of charter schools, promoted vouchers and moved toward using student test scores to evaluate teachers. Test yourself on 2011 issues. That will continue to play out in 2012.
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The Lucas Countyan: Sic transit gloria & all that: Webb Hultz
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Saturday, April 23, 2011. Sic transit gloria and all that: Webb Hultz. Paula Mohr, of the State Historic Preservation Office, recently ran across material regarding this old Chariton house in a 1901 pattern book published by George Barber, one of America's most prolific Victorian architects. She forwarded it to the Chariton Historic Preservation Commission and we played identify-the-house with it for a while this week. At some point the west half of the block fell vicitim to a Chariton-style scorched ear...
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The Lucas Countyan: Ham sandwiches for 12,000: The big Morrell picnic
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Saturday, August 08, 2015. Ham sandwiches for 12,000: The big Morrell picnic. The John Morrell and Co. plant in Ottumwa as it looked at some point between World War I and World War II. Once upon a time, Ottumwa's John Morrell and Co. was the south of Iowa's biggest employer. During 1900, the meatpacker's average daily workforce ranged between 1,000 and 1,200, depending upon workload. On Thursday, Aug. 23, 1900, they all came to Chariton for a picnic in the city's brand new South Park. Yikes! TD, as he wa...
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The Lucas Countyan: Monday morning prairie detour
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Tuesday, August 04, 2015. Monday morning prairie detour. The turn from July into August brings some of the most colorful displays in Lucas County's prairie remnants as yellows and golds emerge on every front as counterpoint to spikey Prairie Blazing Star, just now coming into full bloom. The big yellow faces of Compass Plant flowers (top) are beginning to emerge as the stalks shoot skyward. These plants can and do reach eight feet. And then there's Rosin Weed. And Sweet Black-Eyed Susans, too. Lots of Se...
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