Video: Living in Iowa
Meet the people and places which make Iowa unique.
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John F. Lacey - National Park Conservationist (#1018)
An introduction to Major John Fletcher Lacey, who in his time, was known far and wide as “the father of the American conservation movement.” 09:10
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William Temple Hornaday - Iowan who helped save U.S. buffalo from extinction (#427)
This 1994 video tells the story of William Temple Hornaday, an American credited with saving the buffalo from extinction. In the late 1800s, Iowa taxidermist William Temple Hornaday used what he... 07:00
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1921 Boy Scouts' Adventure to Yellowstone (#214)
In 1921, boy scouts from Clinton, Iowa had a big adventure - a road trip in Model T's to Yellowstone National Park. They were heralded as heros, winding through mountains on dirt roads, splashing... 09:42
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Art in a Grave Place - Roy Dixon (#802)
Roy Dixon is an artist who makes granite come to life - as tributes to the dead. He makes personalized tombstone designs. This story originally aired on Iowa Public Television in 1998. 07:40
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At Your Own Risk (#1315)
An Iowa State University graduate taken hostage by the Islamic Jihad in Beirut, Lebanon, and held for six and a half years is featured. 07:46
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A Survivor's Story (#1334)
A Guatemalan native adopted by Iowans tells of life in her war-torn homeland where her parents were massacred and she was left to bury her baby sister.
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Boys of CCC (#1403)
The work of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), the federal works program during the Great Depression of the 1930s that beautified many of Iowa’s state parks, is featured. 07:24
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Out of Hitler's Reach (#1405)
The story of a Quaker boarding school near West Branch, Iowa, which in 1939 offered a safe haven for Europeans fleeing Nazi rule, is featured. 09:20
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Hispanic History (#1302)
The lives of Latinos living in Iowa in the 1920s are featured. 08:48
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Universal Language (#1306)
A choir from Tanzania touring and performing gospel music in Iowa is featured. 07:43
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SCOLA World TV (#1524)
The Iowa satellite 'farm' called SCOLA, a hub for news around the world, is featured. 06:57
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B-29 Veterans (#1301)
A reunion of World War II B-29 bomber pilots is featured. 07:08
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Korean War: The Forgotten War (#1320)
A Korean War veteran from Iowa recounts his military service in South Korea. 05:00
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Desert Storm: One Woman's Journal (#1320)
Excerpts from the diary of Iowa Pfc. Mary McFarland Stabe during her tour of duty in the Persian Gulf in 1990 and 1991 are featured. 08:32
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A Hispanic Voice (#1303)
Lorenzo Sandavol talks to Iowans who are having an effect on Latinos in Iowa through the Hispanic media. 06:53
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Traces of POW History in Iowa (#1326)
The stories of World War II German, Italian and Japanese prisoners of war held in Iowa are featured. 12:22
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Isabel Bloom (#1325)
The late Isabel Bloom spent her lifetime experimenting with materials and techniques that resulted in a business that manufactures and sells thousands of reproductions of her sculpture each year. 08:07
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Great Ape Trust of Iowa (#1629)
Great Ape Trust of Iowa, a research facility located in Des Moines, Iowa, and dedicated to studying the behavior and intelligence of great apes, is featured. 10:47
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Pioneering Photojournalist (#1616)
Marjorie Mills Vandervelde, a photojournalist working in the early 1960s in the jungles of Panama, is featured. 09:15
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Orphan Train (#1418)
The story of the Orphan Train, a movement that transported poor and homeless New York City children to rural homes in the Midwest (including Iowa) between 1854 and 1929, is featured. 08:59
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