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Below
is a list of announcements or other items added to this web site:
December 3, 2011
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Helen has posted three more chapters from her
book about the road she grew up on. She wrote the material years
ago and did the page layout for her book in about 2004. But this
is the first time that these particular chapters have been
posted on-line. One
is areflection about early childhood woven around stories about
baby pigs. The second
is about the middle three farms along the road where the
Cornwell, Harrold, and Howard families lived. The
third is about the
barn at the Howard farm. It is the last barn standing along the
five mile stretch of road where Helen grew up. Now all Helen has
to do is write the last chapter of her book.
index
of on-line chapters
December 2, 2011
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Helen has posted another
chapter
of her book about the road she grew up on. She wrote the piece
"Wrestling with a Heritage" in 1996. It explores a
love-hate perspective she has had regarding a range of issues in
her family and rural community, including that of what she
interpreted, rightly or wrongly, as male privilege.
November 28, 2011
November 20, 2011
February 13, 2010
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Helen has posted a
video that she produced in 1991 for the Britt Draft Horse
Association in Britt, Iowa, and a
video that she produced in 2000, using home movies that the
superintendent of her hometown school in Rolfe, Iowa, filmed in
the 1950's.
February 9, 2010
September 17, 2009
August 1, 2009
July 8, 2009
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Helen posted a few more
YouTube videos of events in her hometown of Rolfe, Iowa: the
last services at the Rolfe Presbyterian Church in 1995, the 2000
Greater Rolfe Days Parade, and RAGBRAI (a bicycle event) goes
through Rolfe in 2007.
May 11, 2009
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Helen recently produced some
YouTube videos related to
the Iowa Supreme Court's decision on April 3 regarding marriage
equality.
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Also, she posted some photos of and a journal
entry about her garden. Eventually, she may post more quasi-blog
entries. Check the index or
this week's entry.
April 20, 2009
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Helen recently produced an 18-minute video for
Practical Farmers of Iowa that profiles one of its members,
Angela Tedesco, who operates a
Community Supported Agriculture project near Granger, Iowa.
Helen has also encoded the 30-minute video she produced in 2001
for Audubon County Family Farms and has
posted it on-line. Both the video about Angela and ACFF can
currently be played via Windows Media Player or YouTube on this
site. Simply follow the links.
March 26, 2009
| The White House garden is a reminder of the Victory
Gardens that American families grew during World War
Two. In that era, victory meant defeat of Germany and
Japan. In this era, victory can mean finding successful
strategies to deal with the dire social, economic, and
environmental challenges that confront the nation and
world. Gardening and the use of locally-grown food have
many values–some that can be important in facing those
challenges.
The taste is exceptional; the nutrition,
superb. There is more control over food safety,
less waste in packaging, lower consumption of
fossil fuels to transport the food, and benefits
to our state’s environment, economy, and
communities. The use of locally-grown foods can
also counter the trend of parts of America, even
our Midwestern rural areas, becoming like
colonies dependent on urban and corporate food
producers. It is scary to imagine a future era
when Iowa would have no farmers in the business
of raising quality food for those who live here.
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January 24, 2009
April 6, 2007
October 22, 2006
August 31, 2005
July 30, 2005
July 27, 2005
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We have slightly revamped the web site and added a
page about purchasing prints of
Helen's photography. Both the photography page and the
notecard page point
to the same images.
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We have added a section of six
panoramic photos. Helen started
experimenting with panoramic work a year ago when she purchased a
Canon Digital Rebel camera and discovered that it came bundled with
software to stitch together a sequence of photos.
June 21, 2005
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Finally, the prototype version of one of our web
site dreams is in place. It is an E-Postcard
feature that allows visitors to
select one of Helen's photographic images and send it as a cyber
postcard with message and all. Give it a try, and give us some
feedback if you would like. Thanks.
June 9, 2005
June 2, 2005
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Helen will be one of the featured artists at Big Table
Books on Main Street in downtown Ames during the Artwalk sponsored
by the Octagon Art Center. The event will be from 5-9 pm on Friday,
June 3. There will be live music in Tom Evans
plaza, local artists displaying their works in 34 downtown
businesses, refreshments, and more! The event runs from 5 - 9 pm and
is something the whole family can enjoy!
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After a hiatus this winter for many things, including
getting her computer upgraded, Helen is resuming work on the
postcard shown at the top of this page of Iowa barns. She has
decided to switch from using black and white photos to using color
images. We hope to have the postcard available for sale by the end
of June, if not before.
January 25, 2005
January 24, 2005
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Iowa Governor Tom Vilsak has proclaimed 2005 as "The
Year of the Barn and Family Farm." Helen has designed the
postcard shown above and will be making it available within the next
several weeks. The postcard is 4 1/4 x 6 inches which meets the
Postal Service standards. The card is being printed at Heuss
Printing in Ames, and soon we we determine how to price the card.
Helen also has color photo notecards of six of the scenes. You can
see them in the
notecard gallery in
the section of photos of
farm buildings.
January 13, 2005
November 16, 2004
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We've added a new
image to the notecard
gallery. Helen took the photograph of a barn and silo in Hardin
County in central Iowa when she was on her way from Gilbert to Cedar
Falls yesterday. She went to see the Gilbert High School team win
the semi-final game of the state tournament at the UNI-Dome, but
instead of taking Interstate 35 and four-lane Highway 20, she
traveled the less direct county highways, looking for photo
opportunities.
November 2, 2004
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Helen edits an unofficial web site for Gilbert, Iowa,
where she lives. The town of 987 people is just north of Ames. She
has written an election-day
essay that offers a grassroots, year around, attitude toward
divisiveness. Interested people can go to the Gilbert Gazette and
read the piece.
October 25, 2004
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Today we took the CD with the file for calendars
of Helen's rural Iowa photographs
to the printers and should have copies within a few days to sell
directly or through Big Table Books in Ames.
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We also have prepared a calendar of images from
watercolor paintings by
Helen's mother, Marion A. Gunderson, of Rolfe.
October 21, 2004
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We are creating a 12-month
calendar of Helen's photographs
of rural Iowa that includes scenes of grain elevators, corn
cribs, barns, and field work. The calendar should be available
within about 10 days.
October 4, 2004
October 2, 2004
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A 12-month photo
calendar of images of Gilbert, Iowa, and the surrounding rural
area. Hopefully, Helen will soon have at least one other
calendar ready for 2005. We'll keep you posted.
September 29, 2004
July 3, 2004
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More garden
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Helen has been taking photos of town and farm
scenes around Gilbert and is getting some enlarged as well as
made into notecards for sale locally when the town celebrates
its 125th
anniversary on
July 30-31, 2004. So if you are in the area, stop at the
Daisychains and Laughs coffeebar to see some of the notecards,
and stop at the Consignment Gallery to see the enlargements.
Both places are on Main Street, just south of city hall.
Eventually, Helen will post these new images as well as others
such as an image of pink and red hollyhocks that she took
yesterday.
May 28, 2004
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Helen has created a
section
about the tornado that hit rural areas south of her hometown of
Rolfe, Iowa, on May 21. The material is on the Rolfe Alumni Web
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There are also some new garden
photos on this site.
May 19, 2004
May 15, 2004
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Helen will be one of three artists at a reception
at
Big Table Books on Main Street in Ames, Iowa, on Friday,
June 4, from 5-9 pm. The event is part of the Ames Artwalk with
lots of artists at many downtown locations that evening. The
Artwalk is sponsored by the
Octagon Center for the Arts. Big Table Books carries several
of Helen's color photo notecards. For the Artwalk, Helen will
some of her new images for sale either as photo notecards or
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We've posted 46 new images that Helen has added to
her notecard
gallery. Some are ones she has taken in the past year. A
few, such as those from the Living History Farms, are ones that
she took many years ago. Interested persons can arrange to have
matted enlargements made of these images. We have also posted an
index to the new photos in
pdf format and an Excel (version 3)
spreadsheet.
And there is a spreadsheet
index to her entire
portfolio of over 250 images that can be used for color photo
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We've just put up a new feature. It's a
quasi-webcam of Helen's
container garden. During the course of the season, she will
photograph her garden and post some images.
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