In 1921, 18-year-old Marie Wick checked into a Fargo hotel while travelling to visit her aunt. What happened that night in Room 30 would become…
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I am an author and historian who writes about long-forgotten and out of the way events and places. I love the bizarre, the unusual, and the downright weird. I write a regular blog at my website, www.johnbrassardjrcom.wordpress.com, and also manage a facebook page about things of historical interest called The Kitchen Table Historian.
Earlier this year, I was driving down Illinois Route 84, heading north toward the town of Fulton. The road runs alongside the Mississippi River along…
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In 1918, Americans on the home front were supporting their troops fighting in Europe while waging a war of their own against a deadly pandemic.…
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As America prepared to fight World War I, the deadliest pandemic the world has ever seen arrived silently. 50 million people died. Do some of…
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Mt. Zion is a small cemetery outside of Newton, Iowa. For decades, farmers and their families have buried their loved ones there, allowing them to…
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I have always loved Adams County. Located in the southwestern portion of the state, Adams county is the least populous county in Iowa, containing just…
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When I was attending Iowa State University, I decided that I needed to take up running. Up until that point, running was never my thing.…
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History is a forgetful creature. While there is much about our past that we know, there is so much more that we don’t. If the…
Leave a CommentOne night several years ago – longer ago than I want to care to admit – I had an experience with something that I couldn’t…
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I’m not afraid of the dark. I take my trash out in the middle of the night without a flashlight, treading the familiar ground of…
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