Everyone knows her face but few ever knew her name. The stoic-faced woman in Grant Wood's American Gothic was his sister Nan, perhaps one of his closet friends and observers. In My Brother, Grant Wood, Nan Wood Graham offers us an intimate glimpse of the artist in a full-life biography. Her portrait of her brother is as direct and poignant as the portrait he painted of her. Through her anecdotes and reminiscences, Graham not only revives the vivid personality of her brother, she also conjures an era when eastern Iowa was the center of an exciting new movement of art, known as regionalism. --- from book's back cover

My Brother, Grant Wood

Biographies & Memoirs

Graham, Nan Wood

Zug, John

McDonald, Julie Jensen

Arts & Literature

State Historical Society Iowa

Presents recipes for both simple dishes and gourmet specialties that reflect traditional as well as modern Finnish cooking.

Fantastically Finnish: Recipes and Traditions

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Roemig, Sue

Cooking Education & Reference

Penfield Books

History and customs of the Amana Colonies in Iowa.  Colorful pictures of the furniture, the wines, baked goods, etc that  they make.

Amana Colonies

Bourret, Joan Liffring-Zug

Compiled by Pat Martin. One chapter in this book is called "The Music is Alive." This well-written book is filled with lively stories of Czech traditions and celebrations, along with more than 100 recipes. Sixteen pages of gorgeous color photography put the reader in the middle of a dance floor and festival. Covers sites and people in the states of Iowa, Texas, Nebraska, Kansas, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Oklahoma. A must-see AND read!

Czechoslovak Culture: Recipes History and Folk Arts

Martin, Pat

Over 100 recipes, plus history, facts, festival dates, folklore, and instructions for folk arts, along with essays about growing up German-American, and guides to German-American sites in Iowa, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Texas, Washington, and Georgia.

Time-Honored Norwegian Recipes Adapted to the American Kitchen

Xan, Erna Oleson

Marstrander, Sigrid

Oleson, Erna

Gradual change from a communal way of life with strong respect for tradition. People were rarely alone in the old Amanas. Historic photographs. Amana Colonies are located in middle eastern Iowa. Though time took its toll on the communal life in the Amana Colonies, the spirit of strength and sincerity continues as a legacy to the new era in these seven villages in Iowa. The photograph at the end of the book conveys the spirit and sincerity imbued by this heritage. Children are pictured walking in the Schulwald (school woods, so named because the trees were planted by school pupils) pine forest. "The trees became tall and erect, and they whispered in the wind, and walking beneath their lacy boughs became one of the soft delights of communal Amana." The trees of the Schulwald were felled for lumber, at the request of the United States Government during World War II, but the visual impressions and historic testimony of a people's heritage are preserved in The Amanas Yesterday. Today, the Amana Colonies are Iowa's largest tourist attraction with more than a million visitors annually. Visitors find a heritage preserved in the museums, former communal kitchens and living quarters, furniture factories, woolen mill, family-style restaurants, unique stores and shops, traditional meat processing plants and bakeries, wineries, industriously farmed land and a major industry in the nationally successful Amana Refrigeration Plant. Paperback, 8 1/2 x 11", 48 pages. ISBN 09-60385-88-6 ISBN-13: 9780960385881

The Amanas Yesterday

Arts & Photography

Liffring-Zug Bourret, Joan

Painting

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