Winter 2004 (Vol. 85, No. 4)Winter 2004 (Vol. 85, No. 4)FEATURE ARTICLES:
Comrade Khrushchev and Farmer Garst: Summit in an Iowa Cornfield
by Stephen J. Frese
It’s Not Every Day You Get to Call the Son of a Soviet Leader
by Stephen J. Frese
A Gamble for Freedom: Frances Overton and the Underground Railroad in Grinnell
by Rebecca Conard
A Tour of Iowa’s 20th-Century Architecture
by Barbara Mitchell, with photographs by Cameron Campbell
Every Building in its Best Form
by Cameron Campbell
Symbolic Trees and Practical Tree Care: The Iowa Arbor Day Manuals
by Lori Vermaas
Yearly Index
by Marvin Bergman
DEPARTMENTS:
Front Porch: Two visitors to Iowa: one very visible Soviet premier in 1959, and one runaway enslaved person in 1858.
Reading the Past: Jane Addams Comes of Age
by Marvin Bergman
One in a Million: According to a rare book published in 1844, printers could buy “metal ornaments” to illustrate advertisements for tools, livestock, furniture, and runaway slaves.