Sawdust, the heavenly turf of the circus, is scattered in the center ring. Smell the popcorn. Be awed by the young woman on the flying trapeze. Welcome, children of all ages, to “Tent No. 63” at Festival of Trees.
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I have joined an elite club that I’d rather not belong to.
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Kevin Johnson, a 17-year-old Rock Island High School student, looks up while mounding the vanilla ice cream for a hot fudge sundae at Lagomarcino’s in Moline. The soda jerk says, “I can talk when I’m not so busy.” He sounds apologetic for not granting me the time.
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“My friend, Jean Hutchinson, and I were eating lunch in the cafeteria at Genesis West where we are auxiliary members,” says Paula Blinkinsop, Davenport. “The weather was awful — windy, cold and rainy. As we ate by the cafeteria window, we saw a bright green parakeet perched outs…
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Among my most prized possessions is a set of bookends. They sit on my bookshelves, which are a jumble of everything from “A Few Minutes With Andy Rooney” to a New English Bible. Alongside the bookends is a black candlestick telephone, the kind you see in old movies where an excit…
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Out and about, one night in the Quad-Cities, hippity-hopping from here to nowhere. Life is not dull in this land where not all is a big cornfield … a night that is elk chops and goodies among the spines and a chic look for an old standby.
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Hey, it’s time for hen house kickin’. Get to thinkin’.
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ERIE, Ill. — On a Tuesday morning when the sky was oatmeal gray, this little town turned red, white and blue.
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In the gloom of the big letdown - Iowa's glum loss to Northwestern - there is one story that has escaped the headlines.
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A few weeks ago I relented and followed the plea of Lonna Moeller of little Bennett, Iowa. She wanted me to rerun a couple of her favorite jokes.
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Good heavens! Even the holy cannot escape the scofflaws. But counterfeit money?
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I always wondered how I would write about something like this… I have cancer. There are varieties and stages of cancer, but I have it bad, and that ain't good. What I have is a very aggressive type of cancer. It scares the hell out of me.
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Jim Hodges had no craven interest in death, but he was fascinated by what was written about it.
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Jim Hodges had no craven interest in death, but he was fascinated by what was written about it.
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The benign gray tombstone is like so many among the oaks and pines at Pine Hill Cemetery in north Davenport. It is of some size and is engraved with a simple name: "Earhart." Around it are 10 smaller stone family markers with such first names as Alfred, Herman, Maria and Emogene.
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Slices of life in a hurrying mall …
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Before settling down for a day of much of nothing, the phone was jangling and e-mail was filling up with responses to a bit that had made the dark of print in this noospaper on Tuesday.
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Remembering a high school afternoon, early in the semester, the autumn of 1942 … World War II was not going well for America.
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Listen to fourth-graders tell what makes the Quad-Cities different than ANYWHERE, U.S.A. You're going to be surprised. They'll pass over the tall building with the clock in downtown Davenport. There's a good chance they'll vote for Tastee Freez - the one with the big lit ice cream cone - …
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They are bronze hands that could be anyone's hands. They honor Mary Lou Kleine, who had a compassion for people with disabilities.
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Bill Wundram, a lifelong Quad-Citizen, as he would call himself, has been on the staff of the Quad-City Times and its predecessors for more than 65 years. He has worked as a reporter and an award-winning features editor and currently writes five columns a week, down slightly from the seven per week he did just a few years ago. He has won countless writing awards and honors, has authored several books, and his work has appeared in national publications. Bill and his wife, Helen, have been married for 57 years. They have two adult children and four grandchildren.
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