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Month: January 2023

January 31, 2023January 31, 2023joynealkidney

The Scent of the Century: JOY

January 30, 2023April 13, 2023joynealkidney

Georgia Wilson’s House at Panora Still Stands

January 28, 2023March 25, 2023joynealkidney

You gotta take the pencil sharpener

January 27, 2023January 27, 2023joynealkidney

Searching for the Missing, Decades Later–Two Books by Kenneth Breaux

January 23, 2023January 23, 2023joynealkidney

This Journaled Prayer from 2004

January 20, 2023January 20, 2023joynealkidney

The Iowa Chemist Who Saved the Manhattan Project

January 18, 2023January 18, 2023joynealkidney

The Honeymoon is Over by Rick Friday

January 17, 2023January 17, 2023joynealkidney

Free Leora eBooks Through Saturday

January 16, 2023February 7, 2023joynealkidney

A Bright and Blinding Sun, a Story from WWII by Marcus Brotherton

January 13, 2023March 25, 2023joynealkidney

Chad Elliott: Iowa’s Renaissance Man

January 11, 2023January 11, 2023joynealkidney

Letter from the Daughter of Alonzo Wilson of Coon Rapids, Iowa

January 9, 2023January 9, 2023joynealkidney

The Wilson Connection to the White Rock Conservancy at Coon Rapids, Iowa

January 6, 2023January 7, 2023joynealkidney

Leora’s Dexter Stories: The Scarcity Years of the Great Depression – List of Chapters

January 4, 2023January 4, 2023joynealkidney

Tonsillectomies, 1951

January 2, 2023April 11, 2023joynealkidney

See this Blazing Star Quilt, from 1845, at the Iowa Quilt Museum

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