Good to see some Iowa fame on my favorite site. I'm from Walcott, IA, a small town outside Quad Cities and home to the World's Largest Truckstop, exit 284 on I-80. Nothing particularly amazing, though.
It was already mentioned but definitely check out the Foxhead Bar in Iowa City. Iowa City has one of the richest literary histories in America with its famous Writer's Workshop, and the Foxhead has long been the bar of choice for the Workshop's writers.
I wrote about the Foxhead for The Daily Iowan in my college days. The place has a fascinating history (they refuse to serve Busch products because of an argument that dates back to WWII) and they have an even richer literary history: George Plimpton playing, and cheating in a pool game, poker games with National Book Award winners, visits by Nobel Poet Laureates, and the owner personally kicking Hunter S. Thompson out of the bar.
To read the story I wrote for The Daily Iowan, check out: http://tinyurl.com/yqv8sy
And check out the Foxhead's Myspace page (sort of weird that it has a Myspace page): http://tinyurl.com/28px2q
Also in Iowa, John Wayne's childhood home in Winterset.
The Great Ape Trust in Des Moines, one of the world's premier great ape research center.
Effigy Mounds near Harper's Ferry, IA are 2,000 year-old burial mounds.
It was already mentioned but definitely check out the Foxhead Bar in Iowa City. Iowa City has one of the richest literary histories in America with its famous Writer's Workshop, and the Foxhead has long been the bar of choice for the Workshop's writers.
I wrote about the Foxhead for The Daily Iowan in my college days. The place has a fascinating history (they refuse to serve Busch products because of an argument that dates back to WWII) and they have an even richer literary history: George Plimpton playing, and cheating in a pool game, poker games with National Book Award winners, visits by Nobel Poet Laureates, and the owner personally kicking Hunter S. Thompson out of the bar.
To read the story I wrote for The Daily Iowan, check out:
http://tinyurl.com/yqv8sy
And check out the Foxhead's Myspace page (sort of weird that it has a Myspace page):
http://tinyurl.com/28px2q
Also in Iowa, John Wayne's childhood home in Winterset.
The Great Ape Trust in Des Moines, one of the world's premier great ape research center.
Effigy Mounds near Harper's Ferry, IA are 2,000 year-old burial mounds.