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How the donut man from Bunkers Dunkers in Jefferson helped land RAGBRAI XXXVI for an overnight stop here!
Our hometown of  What’s the deal with the black & white saddle shoes?  Click here for the story of our farm in Greene County, Iowa. Here's looking at life at Simple Serenity Farm  Carla Offenburger got the lawn work season started Sunday, April 20. We saw rhubarb and lilac bushes budding, but the bad news is that we realized we must have the three ugliest trees in Greene County. Click here for larger format Earlier photos in this series 
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The route for the 2008 RAGBRAI -- that's the Des Moines Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa -- includes our Greene County seat of Jefferson as an overnight stop on Monday, July 21. An estimated 15,000 to 20,000 people will be in Jefferson that night. Read the amazing story here about a chance encounter three years ago in Florida, where our vacationing local donut king Randy Bunkers warmly greeted a stranger who was wearing a RAGBRAI T-shirt. The fellow happened to be RAGBRAI director T.J. Juskiewicz -- and now, hurrah! RAGBRAI is coming our way!
There’s the annual Cooper Prom (for all ages), concerts, basketball, suppers, ice cream socials and people coming through all the time on the Raccoon River Valley Trail. Here is the story on the little community in Greene County, Iowa, that is now home for the Offenburgers.
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One of Iowa’s best B&Bs 4507 Grand Avenue Des Moines, Iowa 50312 (515) 255-4096 info@butlerhouseongrand.com www.butlerhouseongrand.com The Offenburgers’ home away from home in Des Moines, the Butler House on Grand is an elegant 78-year-old Tudor home built by one of the capital city’s leading families. It has been lovingly restored as a bed-and-breakfast by Clark and Lauren Smith, who bought it in 1996 and live there with daughters Darby, 7, and baby Brigid. The Smiths’ progress was followed in a series of articles in the Des Moines Register. The Butler House was named the Des Moines Symphony Alliance’s Designer Show House in the fall of 1999, and its living room, dining room, library, hallways and seven guest rooms are filled with the work of area designers and artists. Andrew Offenburger never misses a chance to sit down and play the baby grand piano. The Butler House on Grand is across the street from the Des Moines Art Center and beautiful Greenwood Park and, as the Smiths say, “Close to everything in the Des Moines Metro!” The rooms are quiet and comfortable, the food is great and the friendliness of the Smiths is unsurpassed by any innkeepers anywhere.
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