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Roy R. Behrens

Arts and Artists, Features
January 4, 2023

Looming Large: The Outdoor Megasculpture Student Projects of Bill Close

In the spring of 1994, when I was in my 40s and had moved back…

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Roy R. Behrens January 4, 2023
Arts and Artists, Features, Iowa People and Profiles
June 3, 2022

Paintings in Sand: The Meticulous Work of Andrew Clemens

The technique of sandpainting is as old as the hills, in the sense that it…

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Roy R. Behrens June 3, 2022
Books and Writers, Features, Iowa People and Profiles
March 4, 2022

Allen Ginsberg in Cedar Falls: Beatniks, Socialists, and “All That Hair”

As a high school student in Iowa, I was an avid follower of MAD Magazine.…

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Roy R. Behrens March 4, 2022
Books and Writers, Features, Iowa Profiles and People
February 4, 2022

Gertrude Stein: An Author’s Fondness for Her Iowa Friends

The American writer Gertrude Stein was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, across the river from Pittsburgh.…

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Roy R. Behrens February 4, 2022
Arts and Artists, Features, Iowa People and Profiles
January 6, 2022

Oscar Wilde, Whiskey & the Peacock Room

In the final decades of the 19th century, the Aesthetic Movement was regarded by some…

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Roy R. Behrens January 6, 2022
Arts and Artists, Features
December 6, 2021

A Tale of Twain Wives: Mark Twain, Albert Paine, and Klecksography

Mark Twain, the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, was born in November 1835, coincident…

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Roy R. Behrens December 6, 2021
Features, Iowa People and Profiles
October 4, 2021

Artist Clemens Gretter: Ripley’s Ghost . . . Believe It Or Not

Clemens Gretter was the (unheralded) artist who drew the newspaper cartoons for Robert Ripley’s Believe…

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Roy R. Behrens October 4, 2021
Features, Iowa People and Profiles
August 4, 2021

The Hubbards of Roycroft, An Arts & Crafts Community with Iowa Ties

In 1887, 26-year-old Alice Moore resigned as a primary school teacher in Cedar Falls and…

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Roy R. Behrens August 4, 2021
Features, Iowa People and Profiles
July 9, 2021

Tea & Frankfurters: The Story of Gertrude Käsebier’s Portraits of the Lakota Sioux

On the evening of June 25, 1906, during a performance at Madison Square Garden in…

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Roy R. Behrens July 9, 2021
Events
June 3, 2021

Old Fort Atkinson: My Family’s Brief Occupation of an Army Outpost

In 1919, Iowa-based writer Woodworth Clum was touring the state as director of the Greater…

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Roy R. Behrens June 3, 2021
Features, Iowa People and Profiles
February 1, 2021

The Camoufleur: Carol Sax, Ottumwa’s Dazzling Designer

American novelist Edna Ferber, who was originally from Kalamazoo, Michigan, moved with her family to…

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Roy R. Behrens February 1, 2021
Arts and Artists, Features, Iowa Profiles and People
January 12, 2021

The Corn Parade: Orr Fisher’s Wacky WPA Mural

American astronaut Peggy Whitson was born in south central Iowa, in Ringgold County, and attended…

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Roy R. Behrens January 12, 2021
Features, Movies, Movie Reviews, Filmmakers
December 2, 2020

Nature Boy: The Enchanted Life of Eden Ahbez

In 1938, George McGrew, a pianist and dance-band leader, was living in Hampton, Iowa, when…

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Roy R. Behrens December 2, 2020
Features, Iowa People and Profiles
November 5, 2020

Honoring Navajo Traditions: Chronicles of an Immersive Education in New Mexico

Franc Johnson Newcomb (née Frances Johnson) was born in 1887 near Tomah, Wisconsin. Her father…

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Roy R. Behrens November 5, 2020
Features, Iowa People and Profiles
August 4, 2020

Buffalo Bill in Iowa: Tales of a Western Folk Hero—and His Doppelganger

Iowa-born Wild West showman William Frederick Cody, famously known as Buffalo Bill, was fortunate not…

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Roy R. Behrens August 4, 2020
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