A few Sundays back I cruised around Warren County with Shannon harvesting their town signs. Yes, the county that many people have wondered why I hadn’t wandered around has been harvested. I was waiting for Shannon to accompany me and assist me on harvesting their town signs as she lives… Read More »Town Sign Project: Warren County
A few Saturdays back I cruised around Butler County with Carla harvesting their town signs. Here are some facts about Butler County: + Population is 14,628 (2019 estimate). That makes Butler County the 54th most populous county in Iowa. Below Kossuth County and above Harrison County. + The county seat… Read More »Town Sign Project: Butler County
A few Saturdays back I cruised around Ida County with Teresa harvesting their town signs. There aren’t many. Ida County only has 5 towns. Ida County might be best known for the castle buildings in Ida Grove. Here are some facts about Ida County: + Population is 6,901 (2019 estimate)… Read More »Town Sign Project: Ida County
A few Saturdays back I cruised around Sac County with Teresa harvesting their town signs. I knew Sac County was the home of the Largest Popcorn Ball in the World, but I did not know that popcorn was so huge to the development of the entire region. I found references… Read More »Town Sign Project: Sac County
Here is Part 2 in the story of my Grandma Bennett’s second marriage. Jealous Woman Shoots Ex-Boone Man Sioux City, Jan. 12 Maurice Handschin, 37, packing house worker, was in critical condition in a Sioux City hospital today after being shot through the body last, night assertedly by Mrs. Martell… Read More »Town Sign Project: Calhoun County
When I started THE TOWN SIGN PROJECT I had no intention of photographing the courthouses and the Freedom Rocks of each county. It was just something that evolved over time, because of a few small factors here and there that I don’t need to get into. However, since I have… Read More »Liberty Stones
A few Saturdays back I took a solo trip around Humboldt County to harvest their town sign collection. Humboldt is one of the smaller counties when it comes to square miles, but it still manages to pack 13 incorporated towns in. It really should be a bigger county but the… Read More »Town Sign Project: Humboldt County
A few Saturdays back, before I took my entries for this year’s huge embarrassing failure at the Iowa State Fair Photography Salon to the Cultural Center and well before I went to Saydie’s wedding, I tooled around Lucas County and harvested their town signs. It was a pretty busy day.… Read More »Town Sign Project: Lucas County
After laying my pick down for the week (cue Loverboy) on a recent Friday, I cruised up to Grundy County and harvested their town sign. I didn’t have my ritualistic Hardee’s breakfast due to the time of day, but I did have Hardee’s for supper, which was technically a loss,… Read More »Town Sign Project: Grundy County
I recently took a Friday off from the Computer Mine and Jesse and I spent the day tooling around Poweshiek County (and Benton County) harvesting their town signs. It was a very enjoyable trip, because it included ice cream! As all great road trips should. Here are some facts about… Read More »Town Sign Project: Poweshiek County
I recently took a Friday off from the Computer Mine and Jesse and I spent the day tooling around Benton County and another county harvesting their town signs. It was a very enjoyable road trip. Here are some facts about Benton County: + Population is 26,076. + The county seat… Read More »Town Sign Project: Benton County
I recently drove around the massive Tama County to harvest their town signs. It was a solo trip and I was surprised to discover that there are apparently many cities in Tama with Czech roots. I mostly think of the Meskwaki when I think of Tama County. That and the… Read More »Town Sign Project: Tama County
I recently drove around Marion County to harvest their town signs. Marion County includes two of the more famous Iowa towns, Pella and Knoxville. Here are some facts about Marion County: + Population is 33,309. + Pella is the largest city. + Knoxville is the county seat. + Named for… Read More »Town Sign Project: Marion County
Clarke County includes Murray, Iowa. The Murray town sign was the last town sign I harvested on the last road trip I took with my Mom. I recently returned to Clarke County to get the one town sign I was missing. Here are some facts about Clarke County: + The… Read More »Town Sign Project: Clarke County
Adair County includes Orient, Iowa. The Orient town sign was one of the town signs I harvested on the last road trip I took with my Mom. I had already taken pictures of most of the town signs in Adair County before going there recently to take pictures of the… Read More »Town Sign Project: Adair County
Union County is the last county of I completed with my Mom. We went through a few counties on that road trip, so there are still a couple individual town signs from that trip to share, but Union County is the final county that we took to completion. I had… Read More »Town Sign Project: Union County
This set of Town Sign Pictures is from the last town sign harvesting road trip I went on with my Mom. We went through a couple counties on that Saturday. The first one was Madison County: Here are some facts about Madison County: + The population is 15,679. + The… Read More »Town Sign Project: Madison County
A couple weekends ago I hit the open road to harvest the town signs of Franklin County that I was missing. There are 10 towns in Franklin County and 2 Census Designated Places. Here are some facts about Franklin County: + The population is 10,680. + The county seat is… Read More »Town Sign Project: Franklin County
A couple weekends ago I was able to hit the open road and harvest the town signs of Audubon County. There probably won’t be an easier county to harvest than Audubon County. There are only 5 towns and almost all of those are on Highway 71. Here are some facts… Read More »Town Sign Project: Audubon County
I need to start today by wishing Andy a happy birthday. Happy birthday Andy! I hope your birthday is as amazing as you want it to be! +++++++ Last weekend I got to get out and harvest more town signs. This time I hit up Guthrie County. Here are some… Read More »Town Sign Project: Guthrie County
Last weekend the weather finally cooperated enough for me to get out on the open road and doing some good old fashioned town sign harvesting. On Saturday. The weather immediately went back to being terrible on Sunday. But on Saturday, it didn’t snow and the temperature was above -30 degrees… Read More »Town Sign Project: Hardin County