42N Observations
Sunday, December 10, 2017

Guarding the Indiana Military Museum WWI Trenches

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Behind the Indiana Military Museum in Vincennes, Indiana, visitors can walk through a replica of the fighting trenches of Europe used ...
Friday, December 8, 2017

USS Iowa BB-4 Part of Stereo Card...and History

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Before the WWII battleship (now a museum) of the same name, the USS Iowa name was first bestowed to a new class of war fighting ships ove...
Thursday, December 7, 2017

Locomotive 3006's Wanderlust Days Gone Since 1960

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For 57 years (on December 18th) Burlington Northern's locomotive 3006 has sat idle at the Galesburg, Illinois depot. After completing...
Sunday, December 3, 2017

Glass Study from Creek Bed Artifact to Light Play Artwork

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Yesterday while searching for arrowheads at nearby Indian Creek in southeast Cedar Rapids, I found this item sticking out of the creek be...
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Monday, September 11, 2017

Late Summer Bee Rendezvous with Goldenrod

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This bee has no problem with a snootful of goldenrod pollen. During these last few weeks of summer the goldenrod is in full bloom around ...
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Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Eclipse over Fairmont, Nebraska

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A total solar eclipse is something to behold. I have seen partial solar eclipses and thought highly of them, especially if the foreground...
Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Fairmont Nebraska Welcomes Diamond Rings at Great American Total Solar Eclipse 2017

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What a spectacular event! A total solar eclipse is something that everyone should experience. At a well planned, town hosted site in Fairm...
Tuesday, August 15, 2017

Dad and Son Hit the Links at Iowa Veteran's Home

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On top of the hill at Marshalltown's Iowa Veterans Home is a huge lawn decorated with war monuments, mature shade trees and war relic...
Saturday, August 12, 2017

Iowa Elk at a Summer's Rest

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Photo assignment - snap anything outdoors. So I headed north and found a male elk watching over his herd at the Alexander Wildlife Area a...
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Saturday, August 5, 2017

And in the End There's Dissolution

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The closing down of a partnership for all the world to see is documented in this letter from three Beatles to the lawyer of the fourth Be...
Friday, August 4, 2017

The Business of Pre-Beatlemania

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What hasn't been written about the Beatles? One of the items on display in the touring Beatles exhibit featured at Davenport's ...
Thursday, August 3, 2017

The Day After Christmas at Stone's River

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This is what the day after Christmas looks like at the Stone's River National Battlefield in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Seven months a...
Sunday, February 26, 2017

Corner Music in Chattanooga

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A street performer in downtown Chattanooga, Tennessee sings a two verse song during a recent visit. I can't really understand his ...
Sunday, February 19, 2017

A Stone's River Battlefield Cannon Study

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A big draw for this Midwesterner is visiting any Civil War battlefield. In this case the reward is spending time in the Stones River Na...
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