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Inside This Month's Issue

April/May 2025

Inside This Month's Issue

April/May 2025

Their Tours of Duty Continue

These friends discovered that supporting fellow servicemen wasn't over once they returned from Vietnam.

Io-Ways...Backroads and Byways

Featuring a springtime photo tour off the beaten path. You'll see Dutch festivals...a burst of blooming trees...and much more!

Come Visit These Historic Covered Bridges

As this enthusiastic reader can attest, it is a trip well worth your time!

Reviving a Downtown Gem

With an appreciation for the past, this couple created their dream diner on Washington's historic town square.

Also In This Issue
And More!

Reader Reminders

Featured Contributors

Cristen Clark

My name is Cristen, and I’m an Iowa farmer. In my family we raise corn, soybeans and pigs. I love cooking, writing and sharing contest winning recipes with people I know. Memories made in the kitchen are some of the most treasured memories I have. I am a mom of two—a daughter who loves pigs and sports, and a son who loves pigs, tractors and…tractors. He gets that nowhere strange as I, too, love big tractors.

Steve Gottschalk

Steve is a self-taught weather observer and student of weather folklore from Lowden. His observations come from his decades-long hobby of keeping meteorological logs and studying old weather records and almanacs. He teaches readers about weather trends, planet movements and what the forecast means for our crops!

Mary Helmuth

Mary writes our Amish Diary, cataloguing a week in her life for each issue. You won’t see her picture, because Amish adults don’t wish to have close-up photos taken of themselves, but what you will get is a peek inside the daily life of our Amish neighbors. Mary, along with her husband and children, raise dairy goats and have a flock of 2,000 laying hens.

Becky McKay

Becky McKay is our Apr/May featured cook from Norwalk. Becky has enjoyed a career in nursing and learned to cook by watching her father and sister-in-law put together meals. Becky's teenage grandson insists that his grandma's Pecan Pie Brownies are the best around!

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