The Iowa winter of 2009-2010 may well go down in the history books along with information found in the many books we have in the library about Iowa and its history. This display just shows a few of the selections we have available. Our county as well as a few others around us just experienced a record breaking ice storm that hit on Wed. the 20th and as of today, Mon. the 25th, is still affecting our rural residents who are still without any electrical power. In fact strong winds and snow flurries today has kept utility workers from continuting their efforts to work on downed electric poles, etc.
Because of having to endure the "hardship" of no electrical power for 2 1/2 days myself, I was motivated to read one of the Laura Ingalls Wilder books- The Long Winter. Needless to say reading such a book which is based on real life experiences of people living before the invention of electricity helps one to be more appreciative of our modern facilities and especially our heavy equipment resources and the crew of people available to run the equipment.
I also want to draw attention to the book above in the middle of the middle shelf entitled Iowa's Road Guide to Haunted Locations by Chad Lewis and Terry Fisk. We, and two other county libraries were privileged to have the author, Chad Lewis, present a program about some of those "haunted Iowa locations". I would recommend this book especially to those of you who love to travel to unique locations.
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