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What are the most famous landmarks in Iowa?

The Capitol building in Des Moines.The Old Stone Capitol in Iowa City, on the grounds of the University of Iowa.The Little Brown Church in Nashua.The American Gothic House in Eldon.The Loess Hills in western Iowa.The University of Iowa in Iowa City.Iowa State University in Ames.Numerous county Court Houses.The Villesca murder house.The John Wayne House in Winterset.The Covered Bridges around Winterset in Madison County.The Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines.The Bix Beiderbecke house in Davenport.The Des Moines River Valley. (Autumn color is amazing there.)The Des Moines Lobe which was the last intrusion of the last glacier in the state. The terminal moraine is in south Des Moines.The grounds of many private colleges around Iowa.The Missouri River on the Western border of the state and the Mississippi on the East.Le Mars Iowa, the ice cream capital of the world.Woodland Cemetery in Des Moines.Oakdale Cemetery in Davenport.Claes Oldenburg’s giant umbrella sculpture in downtown Des Moines, and other public sculptures there.The Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa where Buddy Holly sang his last song.

What are people surprised to learn about hiking in Iowa?

I am from Iowa and moved away and can now appreciate it's beauty.One of the things that I miss more than anything about Iowa is hiking ! Iowa has some of the most beautiful terrain. You will love tramping through the the thickdeciduous forests riddled with creeks and wildlife.If you like rolling hills to climb, if you like getting lost beneath a canopy of trees , and the sounds that the Ttimber makes. Sounds like; the Woodpecker, the Bluejay, Robin and Wren, the babbling crick, and the singing crickets, and humming locusts that give the forests a rythum that getts so loud that it drowns out the sound of the cars back at the hiway. If you like to see the soft green moss on the north side of the tree, or smell the the oyster mushrooms or morrells when they are in season, and we can't forget the sweet smell of the lillies of the vally that are standing and swaying in the clearings of tall green grass, Nor, could we forget the joy of seeing the firefly's blinking about and the joy and giggles of the children who chase them, or, wonder how God could create such a beautiful creature that he has his own neow lanturn to light up the sky. If you can get excited at every new wild flower you find, and like to guess the foot prints leading down to the stream over every Hill and down again, is place where the animals stop to drink and there the leave their mark pressed ever so gently into the beautiful, fresh smelling mud. Some are the Deer, and Raccoon, and the Fox, the Rabbits and beavers, andFrogs and even the little bettles who also leave their little scractch mark lines in the firm moist mud, as if to say, “I was here”. If you like all these things then you can hike for hours and not even notice that you have excersized at all because it is like a wonderland full of creatures and plants living together and if you love nature, then it will mesmerize and distract you and you may feel at peace for awhile and forget about the hussles and bussles of life, for, but a momoment and be glad.

What time the mailman run in my area?

There is not a specific time in which USPS passes by a house/street/neighborhood. If you know your letter carrier, you can simply ask them if your residence is in the beginning, middle or end of the route. This will give you an idea of when USPS can pass but it does not ensure it. Several reasons for this:A carrier may have to assist another person or another route and may choose to assist before starting their own route, thus delaying the expected timeframe.A carrier may have to leave the station earlier than expected for the route and thus the timeframe may be earlier than expected.A carrier may be off that specific day and their route may be split up among other carriers, thus either delaying or advancing the expected timeframe.

Not many people associate Iowa with gambling, but in fact they have eight casinos along the Mississippi river. Which Iowa city does not have a casino hotel?

Iowa City, Ames, Waukon, Elkader, Pocahontas, Solon, Audubon, LeMars, Madrid, Des Moines…..I could go on for a very long time. The original law in Iowa was that casinos must be on water… ergo the boats and the Mississippi and Missouri. Casinos on Native American land are exempt because tribal law supersedes Federal or State laws. That is why the Meskwaki Casino (first in Iowa) exists. Organized gambling has found it’s way around the original law with dog and horse tracks (both failures) the State Lottery ( big winner for the State), building an entire casino on an artificial pool of water (Riverside Casino), etc. But Iowa is nothing like Nevada or New Jersey. It’s pretty tame, and we like it that way.

What is the origin of the term "bush league"?

Bush league, like its opposite, the big league, comes from baseball. The bush is a synonym for the countryside (especially in Australia), in slang 'the sticks', and small-town and rural baseball teams, with neither the stars nor resources of their 'big-league' cousins were known generically as the bush leagues. Thus one finds this newspaper story, in 1902:1902 Lincoln (NE) Eve. News 21 Feb. 4/6: Sioux City will belong to the north tri-state league, composed of Rock Rapids, Sheldon, Le Mars, Iowa, Flandreau, Yankton and Sioux Falls, S. D., generally known as the ‘bush league.’The term soon moved into general, figurative use. Thus the humorist George Ade could write this:1912 Ade Knocking the Neighbors: [She] would have to make an immediate Demonstration of Form to avoid being permanently Benched or sent back to the Bush League. and no one would doubt that it dealt with a love affair rather than a ball game. Bush and bush league are now almost invariably found in non-baseball contexts.Those who played in such leagues, again both literally and figuratively, were bushers, a term that began by meaning a second-rate player, but went on to describe anyone seen as mediocre. Perhaps the most celebrated use, as far as baseball went, was that found in Ring Lardner's satirical baseball stories, collected in 1916 as You Know Me Al, and originally titled A Busher's Letters Home when the first of the stories appeared in the Saturday Evening Post in 1914. Jack Keefe, Lardner's fictional pitcher, was not however a busher, other than in the portrait that Lardner created for him, since he played in the major leagues.

Do you prefer frozen custard over soft serve ice cream?

I feel like you’re giving me two odd variables. On one hand, is the basic ingredients (“frozen custard”) and on the other is the service methodology (“soft serve”). Frozen custard can be served traditionally (in tubs, generally slightly firm unless like 80 trillion degrees below zero, which is a travesty) or as soft serve. Soft serve, on the other hand, can be frozen yogurt (which is proof of the apocalypse … a pox on its inventor†), ice cream (frozen dairy product with high-ish fat but no eggs) or custard (ice cream made with egg yolks).Most of the time I prefer frozen custard (which we human beings who aren’t working for the FDA call “mother fucking ice cream you goddamned pedants” because it’s fattier and richer. Fat is flavor. NOW, the world’s absolute, undisputed-ly greatest ice cream EVER is Mitchell’s Homemade Ice Cream in Cleveland, Ohio. I’ve had people —from NYC, Cali, Israel and everything in between— attempt to let me try their favorite. It doesn’t end well. I’m now banned in 26 states, three countries and the District of Columbia.“What do you get at Michell’s, Dan?”, asked nobody ever.“Why, I get the turtle sundae made with pralines & cream ice cream, add extra fudge, add extra caramel, add extra pecans, hold the cherry, add extra whipped cream.” (they make the whipped cream in house and I could just eat it by the tub.)†Seriously, why? Why!? You’re having fucking DESSERT. Whatever “benefit” you get from the yogurt isn’t worth (a) ruining a good dessert or (b) going to impart much benefit at all.