Diane Fannon-Langton

While the opera house staged drama and musical productions, it also hosted local talent on its stage.

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In 1934, Grant Wood was the Iowa director of the Civil Works Administration, a New Deal program during the Great Depression.

Elizabeth Ink of Mount Vernon wrote about her life on the farm for 14 years. The columns appeared each Sunday in The Gazette, from 1949 to 1963.

The Johnson County city of Shueyville, population 800, had its own high school from 1888 to 1955.

Cedar Rapids named school after doctor/researcher

Roger J. Pierce started a company in Cedar Rapids in 1962 to create equipment for the study of the ocean and space. It last until 1973 when it ran out of money.

Norman Dake bought the house at 1643 Second Ave. SE from the Dorothy Yeager estate in 1986 and moved in.

The Addie May steamboat offered excursions and cruises on the Mississippi River from the 1940s until 1992, when the boat was sold and moved to Pennsylvania, where its days were numbered.

In 1945, 44 Cedar Rapids postmen walked a total of 2,640 miles to deliver mail in the city's 26 square miles. Mail was usually delivered twice a day. One postman estimated he had worn out 144 pairs of shoes in his 36 years of carrying mail.