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East Iowa poet Penningroth famed for Peter Pan letters
Ethel Penningroth of Williamsburg born 1897 lived on an Iowa City area farm in 1956. A homemaker and lifelong poet, she wrote personal Peter Pan letters with Sputnik, offered subscriptions to mothers and friends, and included poems in her letters. She toured Europe with AFSC observers after World War II, reported displaced persons issues, and published poetry and columns in The Gazette and WMT Radio.
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