It was scary,” Jack Nicklaus said of Pebble Beach, which gave him nightmares so acute he famously woke his wife on the eve of his 1972 U.S. Open victory totally spooked. It’s
Most of us will never know what it's like to parachute out of a Cessna, tend goal for the Boston Bruins, burn rubber on a Q DVF DU track, scale Everest, or quarterback the Detroit Lions. So it's our g
Letters by the eldest Wallace (1836-1916) of the famous Midwestern American farm family to especially young farmers, were collected in two volumes published in 1897 and 1911. Editor Zachary Michael Ja
From yesterday's gingham girls to today's Farmer Janes, The Midwest Farmer's Daughter unearths the untold history and renewed cultural currency of an American icon at a time when fully 30 percent of n
Samuel "Pond Ball" Clintock, his father, and his two best friends begin restoring a long-abandoned golf course during summer vacation and dredge up years worth of pleasant and unsavory memories.
Iowa, the Definitive Collection gathers for student, teacher, researcher, and leisure reader alike a rich harvest of Iowa lore as told by a bevy of its most famous and forgotten voices Iowa history as
What's the single most important piece of advice you would share with a young Iowan growing up or coming of age in the Hawkeye State? Iowa editor and author Zachary Michael Jack posed this timeless qu
In 1912 and 1913 a young activist named Rosalie Gardiner Jones formed an all-women army and marched across five states demanding equal rights for women. First they marched from Broadway in New York Ci
Horticulturist and botanist Bailey (1851-1954) helped found the 4-H movement, started the nature study movement, was a leading advocate of parcel post and rural electrification, and was picked by his
"Nature-study not only educates, but it educates nature-ward; and nature is ever our companion, whether we will or no. Even though we are determined to shut ourselves in an office, nature sends her me
For fourteen years during the golden age of sports, Paul Gallico was one of America’s ace sportswriters. He saw them all—the stars and the hams, the immortals and the phonies in boxing, wrestling, bas
