Iowa state fair
(John Dominis. 1955)
why don’t they have those neon signs any mooooore?
My favorite consolidated school names in Iowa
- Pomeroy-Palmer
- Allison-Bristow
- Ackley-Geneva-Wellsburg-Steamboat Rock
- Glidden-Ralston
- Belmond-Klemme
- Paton-Churdan
- Galva-Holstein
- Orient-Macksburg
- Nashua-Plainfield
- Gladbrook-Reinbeck
- Stuart-Menlo
- Garner-Hayfield
- Sibley-Ocheyedan
- Odebolt-Arthur
- Lawton-Bronson
- Clarion-Goldfield
A lot of these could also be fancy people names
source: listening to school closings on the radio as a kid, track meets, driving around, etc. Also I consulted this list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_districts_in_Iowa
my school, Roland-Story, doesn’t seem that cool or have that great of a mouthfeel like some of these, but maybe to others it would be a good one. Mainly I like it because it could be a name, and also it bucks the trend by having the smaller city listed first.
Related: Favorite Wisconsin place names, favorite Chicagoland place names.
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Look what Rachel sent me from Iowa! #gifts #giving #mugs #80s #Tumblr
Yayy! Glad it made it in one piece :)
515 til I die, positive energy, YES
A day of hope for school's newest students
Nice article in today’s Register about Burmese refugee kids in the Des Moines Public Schools. This excerpt gives some numbers:
According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 762 of the state’s 2,188 refugee arrivals from 2008 to 2011 were from Burma, like the Thein family, which has been in Iowa since May.
The number of refuges coming from the country began climbing in 2006 and 2007 as the United Nations stepped up its program to resettle individuals displaced by internal and ethnic tensions and the government’s human rights violations. In 2011, Iowa accepted 177 Burmese refugees; neighboring Minnesota took in 1,055.
Vinh Nguyen, coordinator for the Des Moines school district’s English language learners (ELL) program, points out that the numbers don’t factor in movement from state to state. He estimates that more than 500 of the more than 31,000 students enrolled in Des Moines public schools this fall — more than 5,000 of whom are ELL students — are Burmese, or Myanmarian, refugees.
Nguyen compared that to the fall of 1975, when 275 refugee kids entered Iowa schools at the start of the historic post-Vietnam war migration spearheaded by then-Gov. Robert D. Ray.
Iowa is literally the neatest state I’ve ever seen. I MEAN JUST LOOK AT HOW SQUARE ALL THE COUNTIES ARE.
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Did you know that Strawberry Point, Iowa is home to the world’s largest Strawberry?
‘Cause it’s, uh, bigger than, a… [cough] ..you know, a normal strawberry.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6o9dmUoTq1r5m0xwo1_500.jpg)
Did you know that Strawberry Point, Iowa is home to the world’s largest Strawberry?
‘Cause it’s, uh, bigger than, a… [cough] ..you know, a normal strawberry.
