Two Gents' Worth
December 26, 2024
Civil Society
I met Iowa’s newest — and one of its only — neighborhood ice cream truck drivers this past Friday night. I was out walking on that lovely evening through the Roosevelt neighborhood in Ames — where we had lived decades ago — when I heard what sounded like music from an ice cream truck. Surely,…
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Civil Society
We went back to the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines this past Friday to see if things had changed much since we had last been there. Considering the last time we were there was back in 1979 or ’80, you might think things would look a whole lot different. And they likely did —…
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We’ve just reached, unfortunately, two mid-way points during our summer-long sojourn here in the great heart of the American heartland, Ames, Iowa. This past Wednesday marked the exact half-way point of our stay — and this weekend marks the half-way point of that lovely season of summer. Neither marker is causing us to celebrate, but…
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