[Langdude]

Thanks for posting, Langdude. Barnes City didn't have a grocery store, so we drove 20 miles to the big town/county seat of Oskaloosa (popul. 5000) for the food we didn't grow ourselves. Small world.

That's awesome. I have yet to make the pilgrimage there. According to the last census, the population is up over 10,000 now, and growing!

To bring it somewhat back to the initial topic of the thread, Oskaloosa was the birthplace of Eddie Anderson, a College Football Hall of Fame coach at Iowa (and elsewhere, including Holy Cross). Anderson was an All-American at N.otre Dame under Knute Rockne; ND only lost one game while Anderson was there - to Iowa. He played briefly in the NFL before heading off to medical school in Chicago (Rush Medical College), where he also coached football (and basketball) at DePaul at the same time! Anderson was always a practicing physician in addition to football coach (often working at the University of Iowa hospital in the morning before coming to football practice in the afternoon), and served in WWII as a medic.

Iowa's had a lot of great people come out of it.

-m.

[Langdude]

Thanks for posting, Langdude. Barnes City didn't have a grocery store, so we drove 20 miles to the big town/county seat of Oskaloosa (popul. 5000) for the food we didn't grow ourselves. Small world.

That's awesome. I have yet to make the pilgrimage there. According to the last census, the population is up over 10,000 now, and growing!

To bring it somewhat back to the initial topic of the thread, Oskaloosa was the birthplace of Eddie Anderson, a College Football Hall of Fame coach at Iowa (and elsewhere, including Holy Cross). Anderson was an All-American at N.otre Dame under Knute Rockne; ND only lost one game while Anderson was there - to Iowa. He played briefly in the NFL before heading off to medical school in Chicago (Rush Medical College), where he also coached football (and basketball) at DePaul at the same time! Anderson was always a practicing physician in addition to football coach (often working at the University of Iowa hospital in the morning before coming to football practice in the afternoon), and served in WWII as a medic.

Iowa's had a lot of great people come out of it.

-m.