New York Times:
- Bites Restaurant Report – Prairie Canary in Grinnell Iowa
- Cure for Urban Blight: Plant Lots of Sculpture This fall, a 4.4-acre site in downtown Des Moines will become a sculpture park, with works by Willem de Kooning and Louise Bourgeois.
- Escapes > 36 Hours: In Oak Park, Ill. Some 10 miles from the Chicago Loop, Oak Park has galleries, boutiques, restaurants, live music and a world-class zoo, as well as the homes.
- FRUGAL TRAVELER; Outside Tucson, A Family Goes Underground Kartchner Caverns was worth the price of $10 to drive into the remote 550-acre park in the Whetstone Mountains
- Old Kansas, Still Growing Tall THINK all of Kansas is flat? Think again. The Flint Hills, in the eastern part of the state…
- IF YOU GET ILL IN BRITAIN For many years, foreign visitors to Britain have been covered by that country’s…
- Royals: Will Wills and Kate Make Up for Charles and Di? A reporter remembers the other wedding from three decades ago and how many women fretted for Diana Spencer. They seem to be rooting for Kate Middleton now.
- A Year After the Flood, Cedar Rapids Struggles Huge amounts of money have been allocated to help victims of last year’s disastrous Iowa floods, but little has been dispersed
- Hard Times: From Wall Street to Elm Street Middle-class America is spooked by all the bad news from the rest of the world. The nightmare is creeping in and places like Des Moines are hunkering down
- Iowa: What Happens When a Town Implodes Eight months after one of the biggest immigration raids in U.S. history, the town of Postville has yet to recover from the collapse of its biggest employer
Rails-to-Trails Magazine: cover story about Iowa’s Raccoon River Valley Trail. Click here
The Guardian: Are you too east coast for the midwest, or too midwest for the east coast? After a job took her from Connecticut to Kansas, Betsy Rubiner has spent three decades in the midwest. But Trump’s presidency has exacerbated feelings of not quite belonging wherever she goes. *
Real Simple:
- 5 Ways to Expand Your Social Circle
- 5 Ways Your Celebrity Fascination is Actually Good for you.
- Family Traditions from Around the World
- How to Plan a Vacation with Adult Kids
- How to Survive Your High School Reunion
- https://www.realsimple.com/work-life/family/medium-dog-breeds
- https://www.realsimple.com/work-life/family/outie-belly-button
- https://www.realsimple.com/work-life/entertainment/scary-movies-for-kids
- https://www.realsimple.com/work-life/entertainment/best-kids-movies
- https://www.realsimple.com/work-life/entertainment/funny-kids-movies
The Minneapolis Star Tribune
SWEDEN: Off the Beaten Path in Stockholm
IOWA: Iowa State Fair, Iowa Farm Crawl, Iowa’s Caucus Bistro Eastern Iowa Art Road Trip, Iowa’s Mississippi River small towns, Des Moines’ Public Art Route, Iowa’s Hotel Grinnell Iowa Barn Tours
MICHIGAN: Suburban Detroit’s Saarinen House,
WISCONSIN: Mount Horeb, Wisconsin
ILLINOIS: Chicago’s Andersonville Neighborhood
KANSAS: Grassroots Art in Lucas, Kansas
MICHIGAN: A Trip to Traverse City, Michigan
MINNESOTA:
MORE IOWA:
Biking Through Lanesboro on the Root River State Trail
Exploring the birthplace of John Wayne in Winterset, Iowa
Midwest Traveler: Get Artsy and Sporty in Iowa City
Iowa City’s reborn Hancher Auditorium
Weekend away: Farm bounty in southwest Iowa 2013 Click here to read!
Fresh air, exercise and an art bridge 2012 On Iowa’s High Trestle Trail, bikers encounter not only cornfields and cows, but also a striking span over the Des Moines River.
In Iowa, sleeping with Wright 2011, In Mason City, the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Historic Park Inn gets a multimillion-dollar face-lift. http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/travel/135314803.html
The Des Moines Register: Iowa farmers’ highlights from trip to sister state Yamanashi.
Delta Sky magazine story: five pdf installments peru1peru2peru3peru4peru5 (To read, click first on peru1, then on peru2, etc…)
Peru Rising, by Betsy Rubiner, Delta Sky April 2013
Delta Sky magazine special section on Iowa, including a story by Betsy on what to see and do; where to eat and stay in Iowa. January 2013: All eyes are on Iowa, where unemployment is low, clean energy innovators are flourishing and a heartland work ethic pervades.
A likely worker shortage sparked by retiring baby-boomers has lit a fire under Des Moines’s civic leaders. The city is working to lure back young Iowans and attracting global talent by developing its downtown and promoting the jobs available in the many industries that flourish there. Other big draws: low-cost housing, plus the city’s long-touted reputation for family-friendliness and a “19-minute commute.”
http://www.kiplinger.com/magazine/archives/best-cities-2010-des-moines-iowa.html#ixzz1JXmGrV88
My journalism career began as a 22-year-old intern for the New York Times London Bureau, where my first story landed on the front page, back in the days when non-staffers didn’t get bylines. (Fortunately I have a rare paper copy in a scrapbook and an editor’s note.)
