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Empty Nest: Cancer!

It's been a rough year.

Central School Remembers—Silent Movies, Box Socials and More 100 Years Ago

by Darcy Dougherty Maulsby
Central School Preservation president

Empty Nest: Mule Festival in Kahoka Not Hokie

Like the Old Threshers Reunion in Mt.

Central School Remembers: 1900 Diary Entries Detailed School Days, Birthdays in Lake City

Central School preserves the remarkable diaries of Frances E. (Moseley) Pray, who lived in Lake City for decades.

Empty Nest: Harvest Galore for '24!

 The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few; therefore ask the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into h

Central School Remembers: Remembering Ding Darling, Iowa’s Cartoonist-Turned-Conservationist

by Darcy Dougherty Maulsby
Central School Preservation board president

Empty Nest: Heart transplant no holiday for Jim Holaday

Most everybody in Henry County, and a lot of SE Iowa, know Jim Holaday.

Central School Remembers: Remembering When Babe Ruth Hit the Links at Twin Lakes

by Darcy Dougherty Maulsby
Central School Preservation board president

Empty Nest: Are Aronia Berries A Cure-all?

All I know is my own story, and the stories of others whom I believe.  I had an ugly skin cancer on my forehead calle

Central School Remembers: Remembering Johnny Gosch—42 Years Later

by Darcy Dougherty Maulsby
Central School Preservation board president

Central School Remembers: Lake City’s key role in dredging Twin Lakes

By Darcy Dougherty Maulsby
Central School Preservation board president

Empty Nest: Dog Days of Reading

My birthday at the end of July comes just in time for Dog-Days-of-August reading.

Empty Nest: 68 Days in Captivity

When 82-year old Roy Libby and his wife Karla of Mt.

Central School Remembers: Central School Remembers—Aug. 29, 1984

by Darcy Dougherty Maulsby
Central School Preservation board president

Empty Nest: Dr. Scott Slechta, father of education

I get occasional emails from readers, most of them complimentary of my Empty Nest column.

Central School Remembers: When Lake City Schools Had 860 Students in 1970

by Darcy Dougherty Maulsby
Central School Preservation board president

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