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September 7, 2010 |
Iowa Titles
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*A CHANGE AND A PARTING
My Story of Amana
$16.95
By Barbara Selzer Yambura with Eunice W. Bodine.
"In 1960, when Barbara Selzer Yambura first published her childhood memories of Amana, there were many Amana residents who could compare her account to their own. Today the 1920s and 1930s are fading from our community memory. Still, the stories and characters in this book continue to make that era come alive. - Lanny Haldy, executive director, Amana Heritage Society." This book tells of the change from religious communal life to free enterprise through the eyes of a young girl.
Perfect bound, 6 x 9", 264 pages. ISBN 1-572160-95-0
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*AMANA COLONIES, THE
$5.95
The past and present of the seven Amana Colony villages are documented in this book. Full color photographs, historic reference and informative guides present the unique charm of the people, places, and events which make this former communal society one of Iowa's main tourist attractions.
Staple bound, 8 1/2 x 11", 60 pages. ISBN 1-572160-79-9
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*AMANA PEOPLE
The History of a Religious Community
$12.95
By Peter Hoehnle.
This beautifully illustrated book is an overview of the Amana community from its founding in Germany to the present day with a focus on the Amana Colonies: seven villages in Eastern Iowa, the largest and longest lasting of America's communal groups. It gives an up-to-date account of the Amana Society's successful reorganization into separate church and business organizations. A treasure!
Paperback, 6 x 9", 96 pages. ISBN 1-932043-51-9
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*AMANA STYLE
Arts, Crafts, Architecture & Gardens
$14.95
By Marjorie K. Albers and Peter Hoehnle.
The German immigrants who settled the Amana Colonies of Iowa in 1855 brought with them a rich cultural heritage of arts and crafts. That heritage is explored, and celebrated, in this book. This comprehensive title explores everything from clock making, furniture, and woodworking to basketry, caning, and carpet weaving. Full-color photographs by legendary Iowa photographer Joan Liffring-Zug Bourret show the beauty that abounds in Amana, including gorgeous gardens and architecture. Together, the text and photos become their own work of art.
Perfect bound, 6 x 9", 160 pages.
ISBN 1-932043-31-4
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*AMANA
The Community of True Inspiration
$19.95 *** Back in print and updated with new photos ***
By Bertha M.H. Shambaugh.
The sincerity of her thoughts approaches a poetical charm and quality which has not been equaled or duplicated by any other writings about Amana.
This rare book tells about life in the Amana Colonies in Iowa at the turn of the century. A warm, accurate account, it is the only one of its kind, written during the religious-communal era of the Amana people. This is a facsimile of the 1908 book.
This book is published in cooperation with the Museum of Amana History and the State Historical Society of Iowa. This book is back in print with new pictures added throughout the book. Articles added at the end of the book include, "The Life of Bertha Shambaugh," by Mary Bennett, Archivist, State Historical Society of Iowa, and an epilogue by Lanny Haldy, Executive Director, Amana Heritage Society.
Paperback, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 ", 424 pages. 58 illustrations/photographs. ISBN 978-1932043631
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*AMANAS YESTERDAY
$12.95
Gradual change from a communal way of life with strong respect for tradition. People were rarely alone in the old Amanas. Historic photographs.
Paperback, 10 x 12", 23 pages. ISBN 09-60385-88-6
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*AMANAS, THE
A Photographic Journey 1959-1999
$16.95
Photographs by Joan Liffring-Zug Bourret.
For almost a half century, Joan, publisher of Penfield Press, has photographed, with dedication, the people of the Amana Colonies: their homes, events in their lives, and their treasures.
This collection includes black-and-white photos of the era, plus 12 pages of color showing the beautiful Amana villages and people. The photographs in this exhibition are printed on archival digital fade-proof printing paper, matted, and signed. The range of 10,000 tones far exceeds any quality previously available. The enlargements, sizes 8 x 10" to 20 x 24", are framed in walnut milled at the Schanz Furniture and Refinishing Shop, South Amana. The exhibition is at The Barn Restaurant, Amana, Iowa.
Perfect Bound, 8-1/2 x 11", 124 pages. ISBN 1-572160086-1
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*BARNS AROUND IOWA: A SAMPLING OF IOWA'S ROUND BARNS
$14.95
Especially for Iowa is this spring release photographed by Luella Hazeltine, edited by Deb Schense. Luella, when she retired as a worker at Quaker Oats about 15 years ago, took a copy of the State Historical Society of Iowa's book Without Right Angles by Lowell Soike to see the listings of round barns in Iowa. Camera in hand, Luella set out for over a decade finding the barns and photographing them in color. This 6x9 book of 128 pages preserves approx. 100 round and multi-sided barns in color county by county.
ISBN 193204344-6
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*CARIBBEAN INNOCENTS
$12.95
This is a story of two unsophisticated Iowans who have developed a part of the island of Bequia, known as the jewel of the Windward Islands. The author, Patricia Fischer, felt compelled to tell the stories of how they held sway over the crises, follies and foibles, to maintain the charm of paradise.
Perfect bound, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2". ISBN 1-572160-05-5
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*GRANT WOOD AND LITTLE SISTER NAN
Essays and Rememberances
$16.95
By Julie Jensen McDonald.
This book traces the life of one of the most famous models in art. The life of the artist, her brother, is documented. Many illustrations. With over 40 photographs of the artist and his sister, this title, illustrated with family photos, tells the untold story of Nan's life. She is known worldwide as the woman who posed with the man holding the pitchfork in Grant's painting American Gothic. This is a book for Iowans proud of Grant Wood and for all those who like Americana-type subjects. The chapter Life with Edward is a tobacco road story of life in California in the 1930s.
Perfect bound, 6 x 9", 142 pages. ISBN 1-57216-038-1
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*Humor
FINDING MY WAY
$14.95
May navigates the issues she has faced during the first year. May's engaging tales include:
Life in her new family
The proposition from Gus, a Poodle lover
Dog park politics and May's way of coping
People who sleep with their dogs
May's photographic fashion portfolio
Laughter yoga for dogs, May's new career
A sampling of recipes for dog treats
May says...
Because my mother was a full-blooded Lab instead of a Doodle, and my dad was a Labradoodle (half Lab, half French Poodle) my siblings and I were rescued Labradoodle rejects. For this reason, I am offering sales of my autobiography, Finding My Way, to fundraising groups for shelters and institutions helpful to needy animals, particularly dogs. I am not intimately acquainted with cats.
When I was almost grown, a French poodle, Gus in Illinois, offered to woo me. I was seriously considering his offer. We exchanged photographs. Then Gus made a fatal mistake. He sent me photographs of octomom, Olive, nursing his puppies. I immediately scheduled a hysterectomy. I am certain many American women have had both experiences: an unfaithful mate and fixing.
Find out how I handle being rejected by the Weimaraners Syndicate and my next brave new career move. I offer my new book to you, size 6x9", 112 pages with 116 photographs, mostly in color. ISBN: 978-1932043617
Read the press release here:
Finding My Way
NEW RELEASE NOW AVAILABLE!
Watch Mays Preview Movie:
Finding My Way
Visit my merchandise store!
Thank you so much for sending me copies of Finding My Way. I thought it was wonderful. It was nice to be introduced to May's friends. You can let May know that yes, Olive is allowed to sleep in the bed with her human sister Kayla and yes, Riley is allowed to sleep with her parents too. I'll be sure to share it with others.
Thank you again,
Robin (Octomom Olive's owner)
The first year for a dog is the most important to its development. "Finding My Way" is the charming story of May, a Labradoodle who joined a caring family. Written from the perspective of the dog, "Finding My Way" provides a charming story that readers will love and relish for hours. Enhanced with full color photos, "Finding My Way" is well worth the consideration.
James A. Cox, Editor-in-Chief
Midwest Book Review
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*MY BROTHER GRANT WOOD
$16.95
By Nan Wood Graham, with John Zug and Julie Jensen McDonald.
Many color plates of work found in major museums of America as well as Iowa museums. Photographs feature Grant Wood and friends active in the regional art of the 1930s. This book, released by the Iowa State Historical Society, is a treasure for all interested in American art and the history of an era (1890s-1940s).
Perfect bound, 6 x 9", 200 pages. ISBN 0-890330-12-3
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*WILLOW BASKETRY FOR THE VERY BEGINNER
$16.95
By Joanna Schanz.
This manual covers how to make willow baskets and is used by Joanna in her classes: Willow Weekend, the third weekend in February; Midwest Natural Basketmaking Seminar, the last full weekend in April; Association of Michigan Basketmaking Convention, in October; and at other locations across America. Joanna creates both traditional and not-so traditional willow baskets. Many are in private collections throughout the United States and abroad. She has travelled and studied in England and Germany. Of special note is how to make a willow basket with a removable bottom rim, a noteworthy feature of some of the traditional Amana baskets. Spiral bound. 7 3/4 x 9 3/4". 63 pages. ISBN 1-572160-31-4
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*WILLOW BASKETRY OF THE AMANA COLONIES
$11.95
By Joanna Schanz.
This book shows baskets in full color on the front and back covers. The history of basketry in the Amana Colonies in Iowa is covered plus directions on how to make baskets. Patterns for willow baskets by Joanna and her accomplished students are available in the Amanas at Schanz Broom and Basket in West Amana and Amana and at the Amana Arts Guild Museum Shop in High Amana. Joanna has studied basketry in Europe and has demonstrated her art nationally.
Perfect bound, 7 3/4 x 9 3/4", 93 pages. ISBN 0-941016-36-6
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*WOMEN 1957-1975
$25.00
Photographs by Joan Liffring-Zug
Now in a second printing in 2000, this book originally published in 1981 continues to give a look at some of the roles women traditionally filled in the decades after World War II. The photographer points out, "In the years these images were taken, very few middle-class women worked outside of their homes. The roles then assigned to women separated them from business, from politics and from each other."
Weston Naef, then assistant curator of photography at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, selected two of these images, Nan Wood Graham, Model for American Gothic, 1975, and Junior League Christmas Party, 1962 for the museum's photography collection.
Many of the images have gentle satire such as the Coe College Faculty Wives' Club with a painting of a semi-nude by Kunyioshi and disapproving members.
The photographer says, "During the years that I took these photographs, I did not realize how they documented the limited roles of women in that era. I wanted to explore their lives to see why my own life seemed so alienated and different from theirs in so many instances. With the birth of the women's movement in the 1960s, these photographs ultimately defined some of the social conditions of this era.
The photographs have been exhibited at the New York City Camera Club and in many galleries.
Paper bound, 8-1/2x11", 72 pages. ISBN 0-960385-84-3
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A COOK'S TOUR OF IOWA
$21.00
Bonnie's Zucchini Casserole
1 medium zucchini, sliced, parboiled, and drained
1 large whole tomato, diced
1/2 medium onion, chopped and sauteed in 1 tablespoon butter
1/2 green pepper, chopped
5 to 6 slices fried bacon, crumbled
1/2 cup grated cheddar cheese
1/2 cup buttered bread crumbs
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a greased 1-quart casserole, spread alternate layers of zucchini, tomato, onion, green pepper, and bacon. Sprinkle with grated cheese and top with bread crumbs. Bake in preheated oven 20 minutes. Makes 4 servings.
Rhubarb Custard Pie
3 eggs, lightly beaten
1/4 cup half-and-half
1 and 1/2 cups granulated sugar
1 tablespoon flour
1/8 teaspoon salt
4 cups chopped rhubarb
1 9-inch unbaked pie shell
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. In a large bowl, mix eggs and half-and-half. Add sugar, flour, salt, and rhubarb and mix thoroughly. Pour mixture into unbaked pie shell. Place pie in over and bake 15 minutes; lower heat to 350 degrees and bake 30 to 45 minutes longer, or until set. Makes 6 to 8 servings.
Lefse
5 well-packed cups riced potatoes
1/2 cup (1 stick) margarine
3 tablespoons powdered sugar
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon salt
Use Idaho russet potatoes. Boil, then mash and rice potatoes. Add margarine while potatoes are still warm. Cool until room temperature. Add powdered sugar, flour, and salt. Mix with your hands, knead well, and then roll into a log. Cut and measure into 1/3-cup portions and make a round ball of each portion. Press it down by hand and it will be easier to keep round while rolling out. Dust the large canvaslike cloth lefse "board" (or pastry board) with flour. Press dough down, turn over, and press down again. Roll as thinly as possible using a rolling pin with a pastry sleeve into 14-inch circles to fit the lefse grill. The secret of making thin lefse is using a covered rolling pin. For the last roll across the dough use a grooved lefse rolling pin, which marks the dough slightly and makes it thinner. Using a lefse stick, roll dough onto stick and transfer to hot lefse grill or griddle. You must use a lefse stick or holes will be made in the dough. (Some cooks use a thin spatula instead.) Bake a minute or two, then turn with lefse stick or spatula. Turn when lefse bubbles and brown spots appear. Fold each lefse into half or quarters. Cool between towels and store in plastic bag. Spread with butter to eat. Some people sprinkle the lefse with brown or white sugar and then roll it up. Makes about 18.
A Bur Oak Book.
310 pages, 52 photos, 1990
ISBN: 0-87745-289-X
ISBN: 978-0-87745-289-8
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A PECULIAR PEOPLE
Iowa's Old Order Amish An Expanded Edition
$19.95
Now back in print with a new essay, this classic of Iowa history focuses on the Old Order Amish Mennonites, the state's most distinctive religious minority. Sociologist Elmer Schwieder and historian Dorothy Schwieder began their research with the largest group of Old Order Amish in the state, the community near Kalona in Johnson and Washington counties, in April 1970; they extended their studies and friendships in later years to other Old Order settlements as well as the slightly less conservative Beachy Amish.
A Peculiar People explores the origin and growth of the Old Order Amish in Iowa, their religious practices, economic organization, family life, the formation of new communities, and the vital issue of education. Included also are appendixes giving the 1967 Act Relating to Compulsory School Attendance and Educational Standards; a sample Church Organization Financial Agreement, demonstrating the group's unusual but advantageous mutual financial system; and the 1632 Dortrecht Confession of Faith, whose eighteen articles cover all the basic religious tenets of the Old Order Amish.
Thomas Morain's new essay describes external and internal issues for the Iowa Amish from the 1970s to today. The growth of utopian Amish communities across the nation, changes in occupation (although The Amish Directory still lists buggy shop operators, wheelwrights, and one lone horse dentist), the current state of education and health care, and the conscious balance between modern and traditional ways are reflected in an essay that describes how the Old Order dedication to Gelassenheit the yielding of self to the interests of the larger community has served its members well into the twenty-first century.
Elmer Schwieder (1925-2005) was emeritus professor of sociology at Iowa State University. With Dorothy Schwieder he wrote Buxton: A Black Utopia in the Heartland. Dorothy Schwieder is emerita professor of history at Iowa State University and the author or coauthor of, among others, Iowa: The Middle Land and Growing Up with the Town: Family and Community on the Great Plains (Iowa, 2002). Thomas Morain is the author of, among others, Prairie Grass Roots: An Iowa Small Town in the Early Twentieth Century; formerly director of research and interpretation at Iowa's Living History Farms, he is currently director of community outreach at Graceland University in Lamoni, Iowa.
By Elmer Schwieder and Dorothy Schwieder, with a new essay by Thomas J. Morain. A Bur Oak Book Series.
204 pages, 24 photos, 5 maps, 1 drawing, 6 x 9 inches, 2009
ISBN: 1-58729-805-8
ISBN: 978-1-58729-805-9
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Cooking, American
*AMERICAN GOTHIC COOKBOOK
$6.95
Revised and expanded edition of two of Penfield''s old favorites: The American Gothic Cookbook, and Recipes From Our Annual Fourth of July Potluck Picnic For Friends and Relations. Artwork by Grant Wood featured throughout. Recipes include marinated mushrooms, cheesy chowder, buffet salad, lemon bread, blintz torte, Stone City hash browns, chili sauce, Granny pie, and more.
Hot German Potato Salad p. 48
3 cups diced, cooked potatoes
4 slices bacon
1 onion, chopped
1/4 cup vinegar
2 Tbs. water
3 Tbs. sugar
1 tsp. salt
Pepper
1 Tbs. minced parsley
Prepare potatoes. Fry bacon, then brown onion in bacon fat. Add vinegar, water, sugar, salt, and pepper and bring to boil. Add potatoes and parsley and toss. Serve hot. Serves 6-8.
Spiral bound, 5-1/2 x 3-1/2", 160 pages.
ISBN 1-932043-52-7
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Cooking, German
*GERMAN RECIPES
Old World Amana Specialties and Photography from the Amana Colonies
$14.95
Revised and expanded.
Over 100 recipes. Rare, historic photographs. Recipes for the traditional shower of wedding cakes and other customs. The Amanas were settled in Iowa by German-speaking members of the Community of True Inspiration seeking religious freedom in the 19th century. Today, the seven historic villages that make up the Amanas are one of the state's major tourist attractions.
Perfect bound, 6 x 9", 128 pages. ISBN 1-932043-11-X
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Cooking, Iowa
*LICENSE TO COOK IOWA STYLE
Revised and Expanded
$6.95
A revised edition of an old Penfield favorite has an expanded Sites and Events section. Typical recipes include an Amish-Mennonite Tapioca Pudding from Kalona; Czech Kolaches from the Czech Village, Cedar Rapids; a Danish Kringle from Elk Horn; Norwegian Rye Bread from Decorah; or Dutch Currant Bread from Pella. Band night, church social, or just backyard ice cream recipes preserve a culture that still prevails in many Iowa communities. There are prize recipes for preserving the bounty of the backyard garden, including pickles, chutneys, jams, and jellies. And with an air of State Fair, recipes for meats and poultry abound, along with breads, pies, cakes, and cookies.
Spiral bound, 5-1/2 x 3-1/2", 166 pages. ISBN 1-932043-25-X
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Eastern Iowa's Historic Barns and Other Farm Structures: Including the Amana Colonies - B/W Version
$19.89
Originally there were approximately 200,000 barns built in Iowa. Now it is estimated that only 60,000 barns remain, with another 1,000 or more barns disappearing from Iowas landscape annually. This book preserves in print Eastern Iowa''s historic barns built from 1839 to 1955 with over 250 photographs from the authors research, the first ever Amana Colonies barn tour, the Johnson County Historical Society barn tour, and the Iowa Barn Foundations annual barn tour. Eight Iowa counties and twenty rural cities are covered. Former president Hoover lived as a youth five miles from one of the featured octagonal barns when it was built in 1883. This barns aesthetic beauty is so inspiring that people from other countries come to visit this barn each year to see the unusual bell shaped roof, a suspended staircase, a railway car, and laminated interior ribs. It may be the only barn built with a bell shaped roof and is thought to be the oldest surviving barn built of its kind in the U. S.
Perfect bound. 216 pages. 8-1/2 x 11" Black and white format.
Written and photographed by Deb Schense.
ISBN-13: 978-1430302735 ISBN-10: 1430302739
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Eastern Iowa's Historic Barns and Other Farm Structures: Including the Amana Colonies - Color Version
$39.89
Originally there were approximately 200,000 barns built in Iowa. Now it is estimated that only 60,000 barns remain, with another 1,000 or more barns disappearing from Iowa's landscape annually. This book preserves in print Eastern Iowa''s historic barns built from 1839 to 1955 with over 175 photographs from the authors research, the first ever Amana Colonies barn tour, the Johnson County Historical Society barn tour, and the Iowa Barn Foundations annual barn tour. Eight Iowa counties and 20 rural cities are covered. Former president Hoover was living as a youth five miles from one of the featured octagonal barns when it was built in 1883. This barns aesthetic beauty is so inspiring that people from other countries come to visit this barn each year to see the unusual bell shaped roof, a suspended staircase, a railway car, and laminated interior ribs. It may be the only barn built with a bell shaped roof and is thought to be the oldest surviving barn built of its kind in the U. S.
Perfect bound. 112 pages. 8-1/2 x 11" Color format.
Written and photographed by Deb Schense.
ISBN: 978-1430302742 ISBN-10: 1430302747
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GHOSTS OF THE AMANA COLONIES
$9.95
By Lori Erickson
The stories related in this book will intrigue you. Some may well be the result of an over-active imagination or wishful thinking, but can they all be dismisssed as fiction? You may never look at these peaceful village in the same way again! With an historical backround of the Amana Colonies.
8.2 x 5.3 x 0.5". 172 pages. ISBN 1-8784-8808-2
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IOWA BIRDLIFE
$21.00
All my life I have been fascinated and thrilled by the nesting of birds, the songs, courtship rituals, nest building... In these spirited essays Gladys Black, dean of Iowa ornithologists, presents the results of years of painstaking observation of the haunts and habits of Iowa birds. By distilling her exacting fieldwork into the columns that held a devoted readership in the Des Moines Register from 1969 to 1987, she motivated a generation of birdwatchers to help preserve Iowa's endangered natural heritage. This expanded edition of her 1979 book reprints more than a hundred of her lively columns, supplemented by a new checklist of Iowa species and a description of Iowa habitats.
From robins nesting on window ledges to short-eared owls sailing low over snowy fields, pied-billed grebes diving for fish to catbirds singing on moonlit nights, Black introduces us to the birds of field and forest, prairie and pond. Whether describing red-breasted nuthatches gorging on suet at her feeder after a snowstorm or a flock of American goldfinches all balancing gracefully on ripening oats, she reminds us of the natural sights and sounds that we must appreciate and protect. Humorous, personal, engaging, and instructive, her essays provide a readily accessible body of information about Iowa's birdlife for both amateur and professional naturalist of every interest level.
By Gladys Black, Foreward by Dean M. Roosa, Introduction by Carl Kurtz, from the Bur Oak Books Series.
220 pages, 32 color and 107 black and white photos, 1992.
ISBN: 0-87745-393-4
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Magnet - Iowa
8th Day Iowa
$4.95
This photo has been a best seller over the years. This was taken at a historic 1982 Rosebowl football game. A large print may also be made of this print. Visit Joan's photo gallery at: JoanLiffringZugBourret.com for more information. The 4" x 6" postcard is also available.
©Joan Liffring-Zug Bourret photo
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Mississippi River Sunset
$4.95
NE Iowa, Mississippi River Sunset 2" x 3" magnet, postcard also available
©Joan Liffring-Zug Bourret photo
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Mississippi Splendor
$4.95
NE Iowa Mississippi River splendor 2" x 3" magnet, postcard also available
©Joan Liffring-Zug Bourret photo
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Pampas Grass
$4.95
Pampas Grass NE Iowa 2" x 3" magnet, postcard also available
©Joan Liffring-Zug Bourret photo
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Postcard - Iowa
8th Day Iowa
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This photo has been a best seller over the years. This was taken at a historic 1982 Rosebowl football game. A large print may also be made of this print. Visit Joan's photo gallery at: JoanLiffringZugBourret.com for more information. A 2" x 3" magnet is also available.
©Joan Liffring-Zug Bourret photo
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Mississippi River Sunset
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©Joan Liffring-Zug Bourret photo
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Mississippi Splendor
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NE Iowa Mississippi River splendor postcard 4" x 6", magnet also available
©Joan Liffring-Zug Bourret photo
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Pampas Grass
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Pampas Grass NE Iowa 4" x 6" postcard, magnet also available
©Joan Liffring-Zug Bourret photo
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RESTORING THE TALLGRASS PRAIRIE
An Illustrated Manual for Iowa and the Upper Midwest
$20.00
Iowa is the only state that lies entirely within the natural region of the tallgrass prairie. Early documents indicate that 95 percent of the state close to 30 million acres was covered by prairie vegetation at the time of Euro-American settlement. By 1930 the prairie sod had been almost totally converted to cropland; only about 30,000 acres of the original great green sea remained. Now, in this gracefully illustrated manual, Shirley Shirley has created a step-by-step guide to reconstructing the natural landscape of Iowa and the Upper Midwest.
Chapters on planning, obtaining and selecting plants and seeds, starting seeds indoors, preparing the site, planting, and maintenance set the stage for comprehensive species accounts. Shirley gives firsthand information on soil, moisture, sun, and pH requirements; location, size, and structure; blooming time and color; and propagation, germination, and harvesting for more than a hundred wildflowers and grasses.
Shirley's sketches all drawn from native plants and from seedlings that she grew herself will be valuable for even the most experienced gardener. While other books typically feature only the flowering plant, her careful drawings show the three stages of the seedlings, the flower, and the seedhead with seeds as well as the entire plant. This practical and attractive volume will help anyone dedicated to reconstructing the lost emerald growth of the historic tallgrass prairie.
By Shirley Shirley, 346 pages, 111 line drawings, 5 tables, 1994
ISBN: 0-87745-469-8
ISBN: 978-0-87745-469-4
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SARAH'S SEASONS
An Amish Diary and Conversation
$14.50
Have you ever kept a diary? With that question author Martha Davis sets out on her journey into the quietly remarkable life of an Old Order Amish woman know to us as Sarah Fisher. Sarah not only kept a diary but welcomed Martha to read it and to view the world through her eyes. The even, peaceful tenor of Sarah's diary entries and the closeness to nature of her life and work will make readers question the pace and values of their own lives, and the degree of social interconnectedness in Sarah's world will offer a model for many of us outside it.
Sarah's brief daily notations, recorded on a calendar throughout 1976 and 1977, reveal an ongoing account of her seasonal routine. In many ways the straightforward simplicity of her writing is a reflection of her life near rural Kalona, Iowa, a life filled with what Martha Davis calls look-easy tasks undertaken without the conveniences of electricity, phones, or automobiles. For Sarah, diaries are a record. A diary can settle a question, a disagreement, she tells Martha. You look back and see what took place. That's history.
Through their conversations, Martha soon discovered she had more in common with Sarah than diary writing. Though Davis lived in the mainstream culture, an English person as the Amish say, like Sarah she grew up on a farm in rural Iowa during the 1950s and 1960s. Like Martha, Sarah had spent several years as a teacher.
In Sarah's Seasons Martha Davis shares their common experiences and common interests gardening, quilting, and cooking. Alongside Sarah's diary, Martha presents their shared recipes and conversations as well as reflections on her own more modern existence. Because of her friendship with Sarah, the author found a new sense of belonging to and purpose in the mainstream world. In the end, Sarah's diary becomes for Martha a meditation on time and community.
Martha Davis is a high school English teacher who lives in Des Moines, Iowa.
CONTENTS
Foreword by Maxine Greene
Acknowledgments
1.Coming to Know Sarah
January and February
2. Sarah the Teacher: Mother and Guide
March and April
3. Sarah the Quilter: The Season of Quilting
May, June, July, and August
4. Sarah the Gardener: The Season of Growing
September and October
5. Sarah the Entrepreneur: The Fisher Kitchens
November and December
6. Sarah the Writer: Circle Letters and Poetry
Afterword
Works Cited
A Bur Oak Book. 198 pages, 20 photos, 4 drawings, 5 1/2 x 8, 1997. By Martha Moore Davis.
ISBN: 0-87745-742-5
ISBN: 978-0-87745-742-8
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SEASONS OF PLENTY
Amana Communal Cooking
$22.95
Seasons of Plenty provides colorful descriptions, folk stories, appealing photgraphs and illustrations, excerpts from journals and ledgers, recipes for good food like savory dumpling soup, mashed potatoes with browned bread crumbs, Sauerbraten, and feather light apple fritters.
Written by Emilie Hoppe and Illustrated by Rachel Ehrman. From the Bur Oak Books Series. 236 pages, 8 x 10, 1998.
ISBN: 1-58729-564-4
ISBN: 978-1-58729-564-5
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WILDFLOWERS AND OTHER PLANTS OF IOWA WETLANDS
Sylvan T. Runkel and Dean M. Rosa
$27.95
Wildflowers and other plants of the Iowa wetlands. This book is part of the Bur Oak Guides Series.
By Sylvan T. Runkel and Dean M. Rosa. 388 pages, 8 3/4 x 5 3/4, 1999.
ISBN: 1-58729-556-3
ISBN: 978-1-58729-556-0
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