When Meredith Middle School ran in the first cross-country meet of the season last week, one Husky harrier literally ran out of shoes that were much too big. Another had a blowout when a flapping sole tore loose. …
Ah, autumn, the time of year when farmers harvest, pig(skin)s fly, trees blush – and bands march! On Friday nights and competition Saturdays the regiments armed with horns and drums are as technicolored as oaks and maples. Walk …
Brooklyn-based installation artist Dave Eppley and the Des Moines Art Center needed some finishing touches for a piece by Eppley that’s going to be displayed on the museum’s exterior façade later this fall. They envisioned them done by schoolchildren. …
One of the many lessons Americans who endured the Great Depression learned was how to make something out of seemingly nothing – to eat. Slumgullion was popular, an anything and everything stew fashioned from leftovers on the rare occasions …
