Laura Stebbins
“A monument’s dimensions should be determined by the importance to civilization of the events commemorated…Let us place there, carved high, as close to heaven...
My dad was less than impressed on our first visit to the Crazy Horse Memorial decades ago.
It was hard to imagine Crazy Horse on...
All the elements of the traditional West were in play: mounted riders speeding across the grassland gathering and directing buffalo, a rising cloud of...
Maybe every presidential candidate campaigning in Iowa should be required to speak from or at least spend some time wandering through the beautiful Cowles...
The adults outnumbered the kids at least five to one in the Hughes Conservatory of Reiman Gardens in Ames recently when trains, tunnels, towers...
“Don’t say it’s a fine morning, or I’ll shoot ya.”
That’s John Wayne’s character, George Washington McLintock, in his 1963 movie “McLintock,” with Maureen O’Hara....
Imagine 32 thoroughbred horses, 16 riders and four wagons, each turning in figure eights around two barrels set in an infield and then racing...
What do you have to do to cross a state off your “been there” list? My friends and I have had this conversation in...
Butterflies!
If you like butterflies, the place to go is the Butterfly Wing of Reiman Gardens on the Iowa State University campus in Ames. Although...
“There’s a lady looking down from heaven, and she’s proud of me. I guarantee it,” said Iowa State University Football Coach Paul Rhoads to...
