Hoover Museum opens grand presidential exhibit '39 Men'
The Hoover Museum Library in West Branch debuts a major exhibit '39 Men' featuring artifacts used by all 39 presidents. The show opens with a 10 am ceremony led by Gov. Terry Branstad and runs through Oct. 30, with educational programs and an exampling consultant planned to bring history to the public.
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Thomas Jefferson
Lewis and Clark
Dakotas
James Garfield
Garfield
Calvin Coolidge
Coolidge
West Branch
Hoover Museum
Richard Norton Smith
Smith
Terry Branstad
Abraham Lincoln
Jim Sayres
Lawrenceburg
U.S
Hoover
Washington, D.C
Iowa
Jefferson
Monticello
Hoover Library Museum
Lincoln
Ulysses S. Grant
John Tyler
Compassion led Andreasen to top of field
Nancy Andreasen rose from English professor at the University of Iowa to a world renowned psychiatrist and researcher. Since 1982 her grants total 8.8 million dollars, funding the Mental Health Clinical Research Center she is developing. Her 1984 The Broken Brain argues psychiatry seeks medical explanations for mental illness while preserving patient dignity and treating schizophrenia as a disease that maims without killing.
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Lyle Muller
Johnson County
Iowa City
Nancy Andreasen
John Donne
Andreasen
University of Iowa
U of I’s
U of I
United States
Donne
Murky past hangs over Amana Indian dam
The Indian Dam on the Iowa River near Middle Amana is an 18 inch high V shaped rock dam thought to be built by Sac and Fox Indians as a fish weir. It spans a 150 foot river bend with a small opening at the vertex for fish passage. The structure is under consideration for the National Register of Historic Places.
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Chris Manahan
Metro-Iowa
Iddle Amana
Iowa River
Middle Amana
U.S. Survey of Public Lands
Lanny Hardy
Sac & Fox
Hardy
Amana
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Donna Lee Olson
Compassion
Gazette
Matt Stockman
Amana Indian