The Iowan Archives

March/April 2009

contents
volume 57 / number 4

features
26  Keeper of the Gubbegott
      Susie Johnson preserves Stanton’s Swedish culture.

30  Organic Music
      The instrumental truths of Dobson Pipe Organ Builders

36  One Hundred Years of Vicissitude
      Century-old Drake Relays fits a youthful millennium.

departments

2   FROM THE EDITOR

3   CONTRIBUTORS

4   LETTERS

6   POTLUCK
     Dishing up news, events, people, and ideas

12  MOVING FORWARD
      Ready to Run

24  THEN/NOW
      Gone But Not Forgotten

44  OUR TOWNS
      Restoring Faith

45  PORTFOLIO
      Architectural Elements

53  IOWAN GUIDE
      A directory of attractions, B&Bs, and events

64  ROADSIDE
      Reinventing the Wheel

ON THE COVER
Drake’s Leyden Tolhurst, a native of Auckland, New Zealand, captures the university-college 1,500-meter run title at the 2008 Drake Relays. Photo by Chris Donahue, courtesy Drake University.

 

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