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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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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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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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Interactive for the Des Moines Art Center’s Pollock Ball. By picking up different combinations of paint cans, visitors were able to create unique color combinations and Pollock-esque digital paintings. 99 Counties of Iowa. An interactive exhibit designed for the State Historical Museum of Iowa. Tags: chorus,music,photo,web,. Art direction and development of website, posters, brochure and palm cards for the Des Moines Gay Men’s Chorus. Tags: genius,interactive,menu,tablets,wine,. Fusing Americana’s ...
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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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The Lucas Countyan: The one, the original Slab Castle, 1900-24 (Part 1)
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Tuesday, June 09, 2015. The one, the original Slab Castle, 1900-24 (Part 1). The original Slab Castle was a legendary Lucas County place with mythical properties that have endured far longer than the building itself. Drive about a mile south of Salem Cemetery on the New York Road today and you'll see, on your right, a sign identifying the Slab Castle Wildlife Area, 515 acres of grassland, wetland and timber owned by the Lucas County Conservation Commission. But Slab Castle wasn't here. The builders were ...
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The Lucas Countyan: Chariton's Modern New Hotel
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Wednesday, February 29, 2012. Chariton's Modern New Hotel. We're expecting announcements later this week about the future of the Hotel Charitone, so this seems like a good day to haul out and reprint this article about the hotel, published in the Herald-Patriot during the November, 1923, week after it received its first guests. CHARITON'S MODERN NEW HOTEL. OFFERS 75 ROOMS; COST $100,000. Building is Fireproof and of New Type in Lucas County;. Hotel Charitone is in the dimensions 40x125 feet. There ar...
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The Lucas Countyan: Bureau of Missing Places: Spring Lake & South Park
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Monday, August 03, 2015. Bureau of Missing Places: Spring Lake and South Park. A certain amount of imagination is required today because we're going in search of a couple of places in south Chariton that once were but no longer are. The former presence of one explains why we have a Spring Lake Addition to the city of Chariton - - but no Spring Lake. The other. well . Had it not been for the Rock Island Line we might still have a South Park. Then again, maybe not. I'm guessing the lot had been a pre-weddi...
