The Wapsipinicon Almanac : selections from thirty years

The Wapsipinicon Almanac Selections from thirty years

Book - 2023

"The Wapsipinicon Almanac was published by Route 3 Press in Anamosa, Iowa for more than 25 years. It was handmade on antique letterpress equipment by Timothy Fay and featured stories, reviews, essays, and poems. The first issue, published in 1988, sold out, and the publication subsequently became a staple of the Iowa literary scene. Each subsequent issue was a carefully curated collection of critical essays, short stories, book reviews, Iowa history, news blurbs, poetry, beautiful artwork, and charming black and white advertisements of the mom-and-pop businesses who supported the Almanac and serve their communities in every aspect from the arts to agriculture. Fay crafted each issue with a sharp but also lighthearted focus on Midwester...n concerns-culled from a variety of perspectives. Now, Midwesterners will be able to peruse the best of the Wapsi in one volume-both text and images-along with an introduction from Tim Fay that will acquaint them with his rare, artisanal process and this valuable repository of Iowa voices and history"--

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Subjects
Journalism > Iowa.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / American / General.
Journalism.
Travel.
Iowa > History.
Iowa > Description and travel.
Iowa > Literary collections.
Iowa.
History.
Literary collections.
Genres
History
Literary collections
Published
Iowa City : University of Iowa Press [2023]
Language
English
Physical Description
xi, 249 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
ISBN
9781609388874
  • Introduction
  • Talk of the Township, 1992-2010
  • A Thinking Man's Look at the "Good Old Days": A Conversation with Mel Peet
  • The Last Days of the Schultz Brothers Variety Store
  • Sit for Awhile and Rock
  • About Tadpoles, Disasters, and Billy Sunday
  • Rose
  • The Letter from New York
  • Greener Than Green
  • The Would-Be Caesars of Millard
  • Diamonds Are Not Forever: The Changing Role of Baseball in Small-Town Iowa
  • Local Ghosts
  • Welcome to Engle Country: A Review and an Appreciation
  • Interstate
  • Wadena!
  • My Two Years in a Box
  • The Iowa Sky
  • Driving across Iowa
  • Lucy's Scarf
  • Houses on the Hills
  • Is This Heaven ? Then It's Not Iowa
  • Demolition: The Sixth Season in the City of Five
  • A Peaceful Jog in the Country
  • Rest in Peace
  • Memo…from the Director of the Center for Prairie Studies
  • Rockin' the Corridor: A Music Critic Remembers
  • Just in Case: Alone at Christmas
  • A Common Thread
  • Night Moves at the Riverside Show Lounge
  • I Due
  • The Judge vs. God, Television, and Fashion
  • Women Who Wore Aprons
  • The Third King
  • Things I Didn't Learn in School
  • The Naming of Birds
  • Seeking Asylums
  • Christmas Found on a Trailways Bus
  • County Fair
  • Wapsipinicon
  • Filling the Cumberland Gap
  • Talk of the Township, 2010-2018
  • Contributors

From "Wapsipinicon" by John Peterson Who remembers when the Wapsipinicon ran wild over glacial rubble, The genius of its continent, And the deep pools simmered with pike Even through farm country, Before marginal land was planted, And fields sprouted stand pipes, And a tile line ran to every ditch? From "Talk of the Township" Our friend Jim Walters of rural Johnson County, writing in a publication for Iowa bird enthusiasts on middle America's hunger for new, habitat-removing housing developments, notes: "Our modern place names tell us less about what's there than what's lost--Pheasant Ridge (no pheasants), Walden Woods (no woods), Apple Ridge (no apples), Willowbrooke Pointe (no willows, no brook, no point)." Excerpted from The Wapsipinicon Almanac: Selections from Thirty Years All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.

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