By CHUCK OFFENBURGER JEFFERSON, Iowa, March 19, 2014 — So there we were, on March 6, a group of about 60 of us from Greene County, all dressed nicely and wearing green carnations. We were sitting in a much larger crowd, a lot of them men in suits, filling a beautiful meeting room at The Meadows…
By CHUCK OFFENBURGER COOPER, Iowa, March 25, 2014 – All Iowans must have felt the same pride I did Tuesday morning when the new statue of our Nobel Peace Prize winner Norman Borlaug was unveiled and dedicated in “National Statuary Hall” of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. The grand ceremony, which was attended by top…
By CHUCK OFFENBURGER COOPER, Iowa, March 3, 2014 —The Iowa girls high school state basketball tournament happens this week at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines, and that brought Iowa Public Television to Greene County last week to talk some history. Why here? One reason is that I’m here, and I wrote the 2002 book…