WINTERSET, Iowa, Aug. 15, 2018 — Photographer Don Poggensee has been taking pictures of Iowa’s Amish people for years, most often in the rural communities they’ve established in northeast Iowa, like around Hazleton. But in early August, he spent a few days around Amish families in southern and southeast Iowa. “Every time I visit an…
By CARLA OFFENBURGER COOPER, Iowa, July 18, 2018 — My life seems to keep getting better. And I’m beginning to believe that it’s because I have cancer. Isn’t that odd? It’s my perspective, of course. I hope all those I know and love don’t have to get a cancer diagnosis to appreciate all they have.…
DENISON, Iowa, July 22, 2018 — Photographer Don Poggensee was along the way Sunday as the 46th RAGBRAI — that’s the Des Moines Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa — began with a hilly ride from Onawa to Denison. Today, Monday, July 23, the riders roll on to Jefferson for their next overnight stay. …
By CHUCK OFFENBURGER COOPER, Iowa, July 4, 2018 — Well, God bless America anyway. That’s the mindset good farmers like our neighbors Doug & Karen Lawton have to put themselves in this Independence Day. Yes, the corn looks way better than the old “knee-high by the 4th of July” standard of the pre-hybrids era of…