Download or read book Road to Waubeek written by Barbara Feller and published by Ice Cube Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the crossroads of two cultural icons exists Jay Sigmund, born near the Wapsipinicon River in Waubeek, Iowa. As the Regionalist movement was in full swing guess who had an enormous influence on well-known artist Grant Wood? Jay Sigmund! Also at this time, a paperboy in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was working on his interests in poetry with Jay Sigmund--this paperboy was Paul Engle, who later went on to co-create and direct the Iowa Writers' Workshop and start the International Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. In his time, Jay Sigmund was a successful insurance agent, but also a respected and well-known author who had a major impact on Midwestern culture through his deep love and respect of his place in Iowa.
Download or read book Iowa a Guide to the Hawkeye State written by Best Books on and published by Best Books on. This book was released on 1938 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: compiled and written by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the state of Iowa ; sponsored by the State Historical Society of Iowa to commemorate the centenary of the organization of Iowa territory.
Download or read book Summary Report written by Local Roads Improvement Program (Wis.) and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Paddling Iowa written by Nate Hoogeveen and published by Big Earth Publishing. This book was released on 2006-07 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly revised guide to the best paddling trips in Iowa, contains trip ideas, and environmental, geological, and historic points of interest.
Download or read book The Plowman Sings written by Jay G. Sigmund and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2008 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Jay G. Sigmund stands as America's most forgotten Regionalist writers of the Jazz Age. Championed by Carl Sandburg, Sherwood Anderson, and Grant Wood, the Iowa writer/insurance man helped make his home state the epicenter of a national Regionalist Movement. The literary stir Sigmund created caused even popular Boston-based critic E. J. O'Brien to declare Iowa as America's new literary center and to choose six of Sigmund's short stories among the best of 1930. From 1921 to 1937, the late-blooming, dark-horse Sigmund shocked East Coast literati with glowing New York Times reviews while delighting tens of thousands of readers each week with down-to-earth verse in the biggest and best Midwestern dailies. The man Ilya Tolstoy hailed as "an American Chekhov and Maupassant," published over 1200 poems, 125 short stories, and over 25 plays while simultaneously working full-time as an insurance executive." "Editor Zachary Michael Jack, himself a celebrated Iowa poet, reintroduces contemporary agrarian writers, poets of place, and eco-critics to Sigmund's essential oeuvre in a jam-packed collection featuring eight Sigmund short stories, more than fifty poems, and a complete one-act play."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book History of Linn County Iowa written by Luther A. Wick, Barthinius L. Brewer and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-08-01 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: History of Linn County Iowa by Luther A. Brewer, Barthinius L. Wick
Download or read book Archaeology of the Great River Road written by John T. Penman and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The WPA Guide to Iowa written by Federal Writers' Project and published by Trinity University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers’ Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the country’s shared history and culture. The American Guide series consists of individual guides to each of the states. Little-known authors—many of whom would later become celebrated literary figures—were commissioned to write these important books. John Steinbeck, Saul Bellow, Zora Neale Hurston, and Ralph Ellison are among the more than 6,000 writers, editors, historians, and researchers who documented this celebration of local histories. Photographs, drawings, driving tours, detailed descriptions of towns, and rich cultural details exhibit each state’s unique flavor. The rolling hills between the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers are home to the Midwest’s Hawkeye State, faithfully cataloged in the WPA Guide to Iowa. Stressing the agricultural roots and varied crops grown throughout the state, this guide includes many pictures depicting the lives of Iowa farm workers in the 1930’s.
Download or read book Storm Data written by United States. Environmental Data Service and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Present Time written by Luther A. Wick, Barthinius L. Brewer and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Present Time by Luther A. Brewer, Barthinius L. Wick
Download or read book Grant Wood written by R. Tripp Evans and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2010-10-05 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He claimed to be “the plainest kind of fellow you can find. There isn’t a single thing I’ve done, or experienced,” said Grant Wood, “that’s been even the least bit exciting.” Wood was one of America’s most famous regionalist painters; to love his work was the equivalent of loving America itself. In his time, he was an “almost mythical figure,” recognized most supremely for his hard-boiled farm scene, American Gothic, a painting that has come to reflect the essence of America’s traditional values—a simple, decent, homespun tribute to our lost agrarian age. In this major new biography of America’s most acclaimed, and misunderstood, regionalist painter, Grant Wood is revealed to have been anything but plain, or simple . . . R. Tripp Evans reveals the true complexity of the man and the image Wood so carefully constructed of himself. Grant Wood called himself a farmer-painter but farming held little interest for him. He appeared to be a self-taught painter with his scenes of farmlands, farm workers, and folklore but he was classically trained, a sophisticated artist who had studied the Old Masters and Flemish art as well as impressionism. He lived a bohemian life and painted in Paris and Munich in the 1920s, fleeing what H. L. Mencken referred to as “the booboisie” of small-town America. We see Wood as an artist haunted and inspired by the images of childhood; by the complex relationship with his father (stern, pious, the “manliest of men”); with his sister and his beloved mother (Wood shared his studio and sleeping quarters with his mother until her death at seventy-seven; he was forty-four). We see Wood’s homosexuality and how his studied masculinity was a ruse that shaped his work. Here is Wood’s life and work explored more deeply and insightfully than ever before. Drawing on letters, the artist’s unfinished autobiography, his sister’s writings, and many never-before-seen documents, Evans’s book is a dimensional portrait of a deeply complicated artist who became a “National Symbol.” It is as well a portrait of the American art scene at a time when America’s Calvinistic spirit and provincialism saw Europe as decadent and artists were divided between red-blooded patriotic men and “hothouse aesthetes.” Thomas Hart Benton said of Grant Wood: “When this new America looks back for landmarks to help gauge its forward footsteps, it will find a monument standing up in the midst of the wreckage . . . This monument will be made out of Grant Wood’s works.”
Download or read book New York Court of Appeals Records and Briefs written by New York (State). Court of Appeals. and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume contains: 204 NY 397 (People v. Persce) 204 NY 551 (People v. Ferrone) 205 NY 531 (People v. Bklyn Cooperage Co.)
Download or read book Silurian Stratigraphy of Eastern Linn and Western Jones Counties Iowa written by Brian J. Witzke and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fossils of Iowa written by Robert Wolf and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fossils of Iowa field guide is written primarily for amateurs in geological exploration and collecting. Robert Wolf provides a comprehensive coverage of more than 150 sites in Iowa and adjacent areas of Minnesota and Nebraska with the types of fossils that can be found and precise directions. Excellent illustrations by Carol Ann Ratcliff aide in identification. For an update in site conditions and geological names since the book was first published contact the author at [email protected].
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