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Interviews, Interviewers
We would love to have more interviews on the site! We have many wise, inspiring, long-time Baha’is in Iowa who won’t be with us forever and it would be such a gift to get them recorded for…
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I encourage you to register as a user on this site! We know people are visiting but not who. We’d love to have you leave comments and suggestions. We’d especially love to have you contribute your stor…
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Every week or two we will be make an updated post to the blog announcing new content since the last update post. If you want to receive these posts automatically in your email, you may subscribe to th…
Read MoreWhat’s New?
As we welcome new members and visitors, and transition to prioritizing this more accessible website over the Facebook group where we began, we’re adding new features and inviting all Iowa Baha&#…
Read MoreWe’re live
It’s official! We’re up and running and so glad you came to visit. Welcome! I had no idea, last May when I ventured into this project, that there would be such great response and interest …
Read MoreBeta Testing
It’s exciting to have the site in the process of beta testing! Can’t wait to be ready to announce that we’re “open for business.” I’m not really a blogger, but my t…
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Lots going on…
Since the recent coverage for our Project in THE AMERICAN BAHA’I, we’ve had lots of activity. A continuing upsurge in visitors to the website; adding Andrea to the team; and most recently, adding Matt Percic, archivist for the Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of Des Moines; wishing Meghan a grateful goodbye as she steps away…
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Welcome to Our New Team Member!
Great news! Our History Project team has a new member! Andrea is a Physics major at Grinnell College and skilled with computers. She heard my presentation at our Unit Convention and approached me with her interest. Andrea has met with Mike via Zoom and is busy learning about our WordPress site and exploring its nuts…
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Greetings!
I hope you’ve had a chance to look through the current issue of THE AMERICAN BAHA’I. It’s exciting to see our young project featured along with two long-standing efforts, in San Francisco and Atlanta, to build and maintain archives for the purpose (quoting staff writer Layli Miron) of “preserving the legacies of spiritual ancestors for…
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Please Keep It Coming!
Dear Friends, I appreciate your patience as I try to keep up with the wealth of material made available to me from the Des Moines Baha’i Archives. I’ll be working through that for months, I’m sure. Not enough hours in the days and weeks, not enough energy for the opportunities! What I’m not seeing much…
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Historic Conference
Dear Friends, I just returned from a lovely and historic conference in Kansas City–the first ever gathering of all the Assistants to the Auxiliary Board Members for the Prairie States Region. We were blessed to have Counselor Nwandi Lawson with us, as well as all four Auxiliary Board Members who serve the Prairie States: Leila…
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Who can Help?
Marie Scheffer, who is working on a comprehensive history of the Faith in Sioux City, asked me to post this question for her: I am looking for the correct last name of the woman who was elected to the Assembly in 1972, when Sioux City first tried to form an Assembly which, for various reasons,…