Archive for History
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Historical Buchanan School Gaining New Life
By Kim Brown Property Manager The Naval Station Apartments The old Buchanan School, built in 1903 and essentially abandoned since 1988, is receiving a “deep facelift” as it is being brought back to contemporary life. Chris Ales, senior housing developer and owner of Signature Property, is reh...
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Birthday Wishes for July
By Eloise Graham Happy Birthday to the USA! Wishing a Happy Birthday to our country celebrating 242 years. It has seen meager times, and times of plenty; times of war and times of peace; happy times and chaotic times; times of growth and expansion... in other words, it has seen it all. We wond...
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Just Saying…
By Q.C. Jones Talking about My Generation Join me as your host, QC Jones takes you for a ride. Even though I have been pretty much living on airplanes for the past month or so, we’re not going via private jet. Instead, we’re traveling back in time. With express permission from the ever accom...
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CASI Hosts Local Travel Adventures: Explore Your Own Backyard!
By Samantha Meier CASI Assistant Director of Marketing Looking for things to do this summer? Look no further than our very own Quad Cities area! CASI presents our Local Travel Adventure series with local trips and excursions every month. Check out some of our upcoming trips at an affordable price...
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A Time-honored Tradition
By Mary Schricker Gemberling My first exposure to Shakespeare was over fifty years ago in college when I enrolled in a cursory course about his life and writings. William Shakespeare surfaced once again in my early years of teaching when the curriculum demanded that my junior high students read Rom...
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Say Yes to the Dress
By John & Joan Maxwell Cinnamon Ridge Farms Striding with purpose into Goodwill, I knew I was stepping outside my comfort zone. Like a basketball play at a key moment of the game, I rehearsed the plan in my mind. “John,” I coached myself, “let’s get in there, find what you need, and ge...
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Just Saying…
By Q.C. Jones The mother of all... Mother’s day is just around the corner. This would be a great time for old QC Jones to go into karma collector mode and lay out mushy remembrances of Mother’s Days long past. Yes Ma’am with a flick of his arthritis infested typing fingers, yours truly could...
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The Mississippi: Servant or Master
By Jan Rittmer Ridgecrest Village resident Here at Ridgecrest Village where I live, one resident calls herself, “A river rat from down by Muscatine,” and doubts she could sleep without the river flowing nearby. One man learned to sail on Lake Davenport above Lock and Dam 15, and remembers th...
