Medicine

Listen to Leah Erdmann as she recommends State of Wonder by Ann Patchett.

Another Busy Fall Weekend in Northwest Iowa

When Edgar Hartman came down with the mumps, it laid him up for a month. That may seem unlikely. Mumps? Hartman was a 26-year-old soldier who'd just…

The story goes that a man named John H. MacColl suffered mountain fever after coming west to Nebraska for, of all things, his health. Wasn't just a…