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Something happened way back when, a crime long gone from the memories of anyone downtown Hawarden today. Probably never made the Sioux City Journal, but…
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Clear as a friend's heart, 'twas, and seeming cool--A crystal bowl whence skyey deeps looked up.So might a god set down his drinking cupCharged with a…
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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 they were also…
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In 1875, the year before the Battle at Little Bighorn, a 30-year-old single woman named Mary C. Collins, who’d been living in eastern Iowa, accepted an…
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The day lilies planted around the little frame church are mostly a weed patch. The dried-up front door begs paint, the cross at the peak just above it is…
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Seems downright amazing today, but in the years just following the Civil War, two activist groups determined to get women the right to vote, went…
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Not everyone believes the Homestead Act of 1862 worth celebrating. If I were Native American, I wouldn’t be thrilled to know the government gave away land…
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Silky the cat joins us on Welcome. Sit. Stay. He has brothers and sisters needing a home all waiting together at the Siouxland Humane Society. Go get…
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LIVING ON THE EDGE I’ve lived in many places in my life. I’ve wandered, I’ve been lost. I’ve searched for things and people I didn’t even know I was…
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Leadership Siouxland prepares leaders for all the facets of our community, whether its the ambitious entrepreneur or the retired community organizer. And,…