What stands out to you about Ottumwa’s past? What do you miss? For a small city, Ottumwa’s history is relatively well-documented. While the earliest years are sketchy — the town’s founding …

The easy answer is because it’s a hundred years ago, and looking back exactly a century is always fun and fascinating.   But the more deeply I looked into the newspapers, …

Who wrote the plays and poems credited to William Shakespeare? Though professors and English teachers would have you believe the matter is settled and the author of Hamlet and Romeo and …

A spider web of railroad tracks crisscrossed Iowa’s prairies at the beginning of the 20th century. Everything from passengers and mail to newspapers, and a host of general cargo items, …