Built in the 1860s by Irish immigrants
Constructed of brown sandstone quarried by hand and hauled four miles with ox teams, St. Patrick’s Church has stood in Monroe County, Iowa, for nearly a century and a half. The great rock church — a “cathedral in the wilderness”– remains close to the hearts and minds of the people. No matter where they live, they’re from Georgetown.
Includes photos of all graduates of Georgetown High School.
Michael W. Lemberger received more than a hundred national and state awards during seventeen years as a newspaper photographer. He worked in film, video, and digital media as well as creating pen-and-ink drawings. He taught photo seminars at the University of Iowa and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and was a well-known archivist of historical photographs; after his death in 2016, The Lemberger Collection was donated by his family to the University of Iowa Libraries.
Leigh Michaels is the author of more than 100 books, including 80 contemporary romance novels, a dozen historical romance novels, non-fiction books about writing, and local history books. More than 35 million copies of her books have been printed in 25 languages around the world. She is a six-time finalist in the Romance Writers of America RITA contest, and was honored by Iowa Library Association with the Johnson Brigham Award for an Iowa author making a contribution to literature world-wide. For more information about her, visit her website at www.leighmichaels.com.
172 pages, illustrated in black and white