You have heard it many times. A picture is worth a thousand words. The actual origin of the adage is spotty, but the saying clearly gained prominence in America in the early 20th century. Frederick R. Barnard published a column titled “One look is worth a thousand words” in Printer’s
Read More →If you watched the popular TV show “Seinfeld” in the late 1990s, you are smiling right now. If you didn’t watch the show, well, read on, as you can still smile. Festivus was depicted on “Seinfeld” as a Dec. 23 holiday that includes a Festivus dinner, an aluminum Festivus
Read More →Few things say springtime like baseball. Spring training for the teams is a signal for us Iowans that the snow will soon be completely gone and the green grass will be growing. Bitterly cold temperatures can keep some folks home during the early-season games, but that is where the term
Read More →I am mostly Irish. At least that’s what my mother said. She also told my siblings and me that our great-great-grandmother was a full-blooded Cherokee Indian from the “Crow’s Feet” clan. Through a bit of research, I could not find any evidence of this. Mom is likely correct on
Read More →Who doesn’t want to be the best? In some way, I believe we all do. In most cases, being “good enough” simply isn’t good enough. We want to do better. “Good enough” are words frequently heard coming out of the mouths of the underachievers of the world. You have
Read More →With 2025 now upon us, and as we begin to break the New Year’s Resolutions we committed to just days ago, I can’t help but think about the importance of our small businesses and the impact that buying from them has on all of us — financially and emotionally. Simply
Read More →Welcome to our holiday issue of CITYVIEW. With Jack Frost nipping at your nose, you will find warmth in our collection of holiday stories this month. Our favorite Christmas songs Do you have a favorite Christmastime song? One that makes you smile each time you hear it? If so, then
Read More →In June of this year, Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird announced the launch of her office’s new cold case unit to investigate more than 400 unsolved murders in Iowa. I wanted to publish a list of the 400-plus cases, and I asked Jim Duncan if he would be interested in writing
Read More →I was in the fourth grade when my teacher, Mrs. Lensch, noticed how a group of us boys were quite interested in Halloween monsters. She suggested we put on a Halloween play for the class. So we did. Each of us played the role of one of the classic monsters
Read More →We tend to complain about travel times, potholes in our roads and slow service, but imagine having to ride a horse to your county courthouse to complete your necessary transactions. When Iowa was forming its counties, this travel-by-horse time was a major factor in determining where the boundary lines would
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