The What's Good Project

The What's Good Project

The Oskaloosa Municipal Band began in 1864. 1864. The first city bandstand was built in 1882 in the center of the city park when the city park was a field. This fancy one, likened in 1970 to a cupcake by (now defunct) Des Moines Tribune write

Oskaloosa, Iowa

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Rolling Fork, Mississippi

Sumner, Mississippi

What is it about Water Valley that has attracted such new, creative industry? I wanted to know more, and as luck would have it, I was fortunate enough to meet Beth Mayeaux and Robbie Fisher, relatively new residents themselves, via social media. Bet

Water Valley, Mississippi

Over the decades, high school students built a vast hiking and mountain biking trail system; the Ames astronomy club built an observatory; and the Kiwanis built a handicapped accessible trail, all of which aid in conservation education for Story Cou

McFarland Park, Iowa

The Porkies

The Porkies

The Mississippi Delta

The Delta

There was always something different about Greenville and the Delta in general. I knew this intuitively, but I couldn’t really put my finger on what it was until much later in life. My father, the consummate Southern storyteller, describes Greenvill

Greenville, Mississippi

Marks, Mississippi

Pine Lake State Park was established in part to preserve a tract of old growth white pine trees growing unusually far south along the Iowa River.

Pine Lake State Park, Iowa

Rathbun Lake, Iowa

Rathbun Lake, Iowa