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The Reminisce Society presents?
The story of transportation in Iowa starts nearly 12,000 years ago, with nomadic peoples roaming the area. 2,500 years ago rivers became transportation routes for trade. Transportation remained human and animal powered until the 1800s, when the first steam boats plied Iowa?s navigable rivers. Now Iowa is home to transportation by highway, water, air, public transit, rail, and trail, much of it built, maintained, or overseen by the Iowa Department of Transportation (DOT).
The history of Iowa?s various modes of transportation--and the DOT itself--is the focus of the next Reminisce Society program as Iowa DOT librarian Leighton Christiansen presents ?Rivers, Roads, & Rails: A Journey in Transportation? on Tuesday, November 26th at 10:00 a.m. at the Ottumwa Public Library.
This year the Iowa DOT celebrates 100 years of connecting the people of Iowa to each other and the world. The photos, items, and stories that Christiansen will share highlight the many ways the history of Iowa transportation has touched nearly all aspects of Iowa commerce, life, and leisure. From native Americans and early traders traversing Iowa?s rivers pre-1800, to railroads linking cities and towns in the latter half of that century, to Model Ts getting stuck axle-deep in Iowa?s mud roads in the 1920s, the history of transportation in our state is an interesting and remarkable story. Please plan to join Christiansen as he presents his highly acclaimed tale of Iowa?s rivers, roads, and rails. Reminisce programs are free and open to all. For further information, please call the library?s Reference Desk at 641-682-7563, extension 205.
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Reminisce Society -- November 2013
The Reminisce Society presents?
Rivers, Roads, & Rails
The story of transportation in Iowa starts nearly 12,000 years ago, with nomadic peoples roaming the area. 2,500 years ago rivers became transportation routes for trade. Transportation remained human and animal powered until the 1800s, when the first steam boats plied Iowa?s navigable rivers. Now Iowa is home to transportation by highway, water, air, public transit, rail, and trail, much of it built, maintained, or overseen by the Iowa Department of Transportation (DOT).
The history of Iowa?s various modes of transportation--and the DOT itself--is the focus of the next Reminisce Society program as Iowa DOT librarian Leighton Christiansen presents ?Rivers, Roads, & Rails: A Journey in Transportation? on Tuesday, November 26th at 10:00 a.m. at the Ottumwa Public Library.
This year the Iowa DOT celebrates 100 years of connecting the people of Iowa to each other and the world. The photos, items, and stories that Christiansen will share highlight the many ways the history of Iowa transportation has touched nearly all aspects of Iowa commerce, life, and leisure. From native Americans and early traders traversing Iowa?s rivers pre-1800, to railroads linking cities and towns in the latter half of that century, to Model Ts getting stuck axle-deep in Iowa?s mud roads in the 1920s, the history of transportation in our state is an interesting and remarkable story. Please plan to join Christiansen as he presents his highly acclaimed tale of Iowa?s rivers, roads, and rails. Reminisce programs are free and open to all. For further information, please call the library?s Reference Desk at 641-682-7563, extension 205.
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- "trains Across Iowa" -- Reminisce Society
For our March program the OPL?s Reminisce Society is pleased to have Humanities Iowa speaker, Rudolph Daniels, present the program, ?Trains Across Iowa,? on Tuesday, March 24, at 10:00 a.m. in the library?s meeting room. The Ottumwa Public Library has...
- "iowa History In A Cloth Bag" -- Reminisce Society March 2014
For our March program the OPL?s Reminisce Society is pleased to present Humanities Iowa speaker Michael Zahs. Zahs will present ?Iowa History in a Cloth Bag,? at the upcoming Reminisce program, Tuesday, March 25, at 10:00 a.m. in the library?s meeting...
- Reminisce Society To Host Black Iowa History Program
African American history in Iowa dates back to before Iowa became a state. The first African American to come to Iowa was York, a slave of William Clark (Clark of the Louis and Clark Expedition). Iowa played an important role in the Underground Railroad...
- Reminisce Society -- March 2013
The Ottumwa Public Library?s Reminisce Society, in conjunction with Humanities Iowa, is proud to host Civil War historian O.J. Fargo for a program on Tuesday, March 26th, at 10:00 a.m. in the library?s meeting room. Fargo?s presentation is entitled...
- Underground Railroad In Iowa -- Reminisce Society -- October 2012
It was neither ?underground? nor a ?railroad,? yet the Underground Railroad transported passengers to a destination they had only heretofore dreamed of: FREEDOM. Over 100 Iowans helped with the Underground Railroad in our state, assisting runaway slaves...