Phil Stong

• Aug-1996
• / General Fiction
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First published in the spring of 1932, Phil Stong's whimsical and wise State Fair was an immediate success. Hollywood released a film that fall starring Will Rogers as Abel Frake and a champion hog from an Iowa farm as the famous Blue Boy, the finest...

• Jun-2015
• / Historical
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As a nine-year old city boy travels from Des Moines, Iowa by train to visit his grandfather's farm in the early 1900s, he imagines how he will impress his cousins ? with stories of skyscrapers and trolley cars, automobiles and the Union Park Zoo,...

• Jun-2015
• / Historical
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When a case of measles closes the grade school in Pittsville, Iowa during a raw and cold March winter, the excitement over a few days away from school is suddenly overshadowed by the flooding of the Des Moines River. During the summer, the river was...

• Jun-2015
• / General Fiction
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Bert was nine years old and really needed a dog. So along came No-Sitch. He was a dog that mooed and galloped, loped, singlefooted, paced or cantered and often tried to do them all at once. As a puppy he stood about two-fee...

• Jun-2015
• / Historical
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Separated from her husband in New York and between jobs, Louise Storr finds herself at the steps of her grandfather's Iowa farm. Grandpa Storr, full of years and wisdom, is a patriarch who has been the master of the Storr lands for generations. Wi...

• Jul-2015
• / Historical
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During the early 20th century, county fairs were anticipated with a passion that might only be compared to the modern fans' fervor about an approaching Super Bowl. For most rural families the excitement built all year long, transmitted throu...

• Jul-2015
• / General Fiction
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The neon lights and promised excitement of Hollywood are sure different from the peepers and the cicadas of an Iowa night ― lots better ― at least according to Pa Boyers who had retired to the tinsel city after a fulfilling but hard life as an Io...