Kinney Pioneer Museum a Mason City Find
Museum Director Kay Ingersol literally guided us by phone to the Kinney Pioneer Museum and Historical Society of North Iowa. At first we …
Category: Civil War history
Elijah P. Lovejoy Monument and the Whispering Wall
I’d learned about Elijah Lovejoy in history and about his support of the abolition movement years ago, but sometimes it takes seeing and…
Fort Defiance defies history
There is always an interesting twist when it comes to history, but an ironic one surrounds Clarksville’s Fort Defiance. Built by 200 enslaved…
Christmas in Clarksville!
While Christmas celebrations in your own back yard are not to be missed, sometimes to get into the holiday spirit a holiday…
The History and Mystery of Rutherford B. Hayes
While in Ohio, this summer, Nancy Reynolds took Annie Jansen and I to tour the beautiful Rutherford B. Hayes home and his Presidential…