Posted July 04, 2018in Collections & Hobbies
Altoona engine expert saves a rusted-out relic from going postal It looked like a cannon, and assuming the old engine wouldn’t run again, the man’s plan was to transform it into a mailbox. But before putting it out for U.S. Postal duty, the man heard he needed to talk to Don Pettey. Engines of
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Posted July 04, 2018in Couch Surfing
“It’s nice to be in an environment that does not include animal excrement for once.” Lisa comes from Manhattan, Kansas, to take part in a veterinary externship. Although she was not around much, she had a two-week stay in Des Moines while she visited different farms as part of a
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Posted July 04, 2018in Belly Up To...
Suburban brewery is a throwback to rural Iowa With half of a pickup truck protruding from behind the bar tapper, one might think the beer is coming directly from a leak in the truck. It’s not. But only a few feet away, lagers and ales brew at Barn Town Brewing. A little piece of
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Posted July 04, 2018in Tech Talk
Your pocket “super camera” is now a gateway tool to master photography. The mechanically captured still image has been around for more than 150 years. In the mid-1840s, the Daguerreotype process was invented whereby a specially conditioned, silver-plated copper would lock in an image when exposed to light and shadow.
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Posted July 03, 2018in Stray Thoughts
Sunday morning, government officials gathered in Des Moines to brief journalists about the storm that swamped the city and surrounding area with between 5 and 10 inches of rain Saturday night. Among the reporters there was William Petroski, who has covered state government for the Des Moines Register for 37
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