We drove I-80 a year ago and didn't see wind farms that are now in abundance between Omaha, NE and Des Moines, IA.
We have spent a couple of nights at Davenport, IA so that we can have some work done on our RV hydraulic systems on Monday. Sunday we visited the Hoover Presidential Library and Museum in West Branch, IA, near Iowa City. He is a president that I knew very little about so this was a very interesting stop.
Herbert Hoover graduated from Stanford with a degree in geology. He became a mining engineer, stateman, and 31st President of the United States. His parents died when he was very young and he was sent to live with an uncle in Newberg, OR. He made his fortunate and then devoted his life to service, a value he learned during his Quaker upbringing. He was erroneously blamed for the depression. Even Will Rogers, a lifelong democrat, was adamamt in Hoover's defense.
His wife, Lou, was the first woman to graduate from Stanford with a degree in geology. She is credited with starting the sale of Girl Scout cookies and was a true partner in her husband's food relief work after WWI and II. She also assisted her husband in the translation of a mining reference that is still a standard today from Latin to English .
While living in China, the Hoovers survived the Boxer Rebellion. Note the gun on Mrs. Hoover's hip she was to use that as a last resort.
This is the 14 x 20 foot cottage where Bert Hoover was born in 1874. There are three rooms and they are TINY.
There is an effort to maintain the town as in was during Hoover's time.
We drove I-80 a year ago and didn't see wind farms that are now in abundance between Omaha, NE and Des Moines, IA.
We have spent a couple of nights at Davenport, IA so that we can have some work done on our RV hydraulic systems on Monday. Sunday we visited the Hoover Presidential Library and Museum in West Branch, IA, near Iowa City. He is a president that I knew very little about so this was a very interesting stop. 
Herbert Hoover graduated from Stanford with a degree in geology. He became a mining engineer, stateman, and 31st President of the United States. His parents died when he was very young and he was sent to live with an uncle in Newberg, OR. He made his fortunate and then devoted his life to service, a value he learned during his Quaker upbringing. He was erroneously blamed for the depression. Even Will Rogers, a lifelong democrat, was adamamt in Hoover's defense.
His wife, Lou, was the first woman to graduate from Stanford with a degree in geology. She is credited with starting the sale of Girl Scout cookies and was a true partner in her husband's food relief work after WWI and II. She also assisted her husband in the translation of a mining reference that is still a standard today from Latin to English .
While living in China, the Hoovers survived the Boxer Rebellion. Note the gun on Mrs. Hoover's hip she was to use that as a last resort. 
This is the 14 x 20 foot cottage where Bert Hoover was born in 1874. There are three rooms and they are TINY. 
There is an effort to maintain the town as in was during Hoover's time.
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