American Countryside » Iowa

Rebuiling the Pine Creek Grist Mill

Tom — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 05:01:45 +0000

Retirees are often looking for a good cause to which to devote their time. Not many take up grinding flour from a 160 old water powered mill…

The Pine Creek Mill

Tom — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 05:01:51 +0000

People near Muscatine have always known of a place called Pine Creek Mill, but for most of the 20th century, it sat idle, with a little work done to keep the outside of the structure preserved. The mill came to life though when this group of volunteers devoted their time to the project

A Radio Quack in Muscatine

Tom — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 05:01:36 +0000

Today we say hello to out listeners in Muscatine, IA on KWPC. Eighty years ago it was a station called KTNT that flaunted the rules and blasted their signal to most of the country touting a cure for a deadly disease…

The Car with the Hill Gear

Tom — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 05:01:25 +0000

For many of Marvin Kreeger’s 84 years, he’s operated a car dealership in Muscatine, IA. It’s a successful business, but as he’ll tell you, it once was not so easy to sell a car in this town–especially if you had this specific model on your lot…

For Sale: A Field of Dreams

Tom — Mon, 24 May 2010 05:01:18 +0000

This Iowa farm family is asking $5.4 million dollars for their corn field. For that price you get the house, barns AND a magical baseball diamond. We go to a place that still hosts thousands of visitors, 22 years after a special game was played here…

Mount Pleasant’s Old Threshers Reunion

Tom — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 06:01:17 +0000

Today it is a farm event that easily doubles the size of this Midwestern city. But when it began back in 1950, they simply wanted to get a few old threshing machines here for a working display…

The Button Capitol of the World

Tom — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:01:41 +0000

There’s plenty of fertile farmland along the Mississippi River at Muscatine, Iowa, but a century ago, this city was known for something else…

The Roots of the 4-H Clover

Tom — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:01:03 +0000

The 4-H Program is now over a century old and many people recognize the familiar green clover that symbolizes those well-known clubs. But the story behind why 4-H has a clover and exactly what it means is a feature that not many people have heard…

A Midwestern POW Camp

Tom — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:01:40 +0000

They were prisoners of war, yet they were paid for their work; many of them forged friendships with the locals that would last for the rest of their lives….

The Father of the Green Revolution

Tom — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 05:01:02 +0000

One news anchored reported that this man may be responsible for saving more lives than anyone in the 20th Century. With the passing of Norman Borlaug earlier this week, we thought it would be appropriate to look back to an interview we did with him nearly 10 years ago…