Word: indianola
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...LOWE Indianola, Iowa...
...County Group ministry, he found no less than 21 Methodist churches serving a population of 17,000. Eight of the churches had closed; the remaining 13 were getting along with three full-time ministers and "supply" preachers. Pastor Carter, a teacher of sociology and Christian leadership at Simpson College (Indianola, Iowa), decided to throw his students into the breach...
Some lowans liked what they saw-others sent letters of protest to the show's director, Lester D. Longman, who is trying to convince his fellow lowans that there is more to art than Grant Wood ever dreamed of. Wrote Editor Don Berry of the Indianola Record Herald and Tribune (circ. 3,693): Such paintings could only come from the mentally unbalanced. (The paintings come from such old hands at modernism as Stuart Davis, Fernand Leger, Karl Zerbe and Salvador Dali...
Copper Boom. In Indianola, Miss., a restaurateur offered to sell a cup of coffee for an out-of-date Indianhead penny, discovered that a local coin collector had 2,000 of them for sale at three for a nickel...
...Louisiana, people who live along the bayous came into the little towns: French-speaking Cajuns with their families, alligator hunters, Chinese shrimp fishermen, muskrat trappers, oil drillers, smugglers. Almost every community bore the scars of some earlier storm. Children around Port Lavaca, Tex. had played in the ruins of Indianola (once considered a rival of New Orleans), which was blown off the map in 1886. In 1893, while dwellers on the shore of Barataria Bay south of New Orleans were dancing to celebrate the end of a storm, mountainous waves suddenly swept over, wiped out town and townspeople...