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Iowa Hall of Pride netINS, Inc. Butler House on Grand B&B Sam's Barber Shop Breitbach's Country Dining Douglas T. Bates III, Attorney KMA Radio's ''Chuck & Don Show'' The Monks of New Melleray Abbey
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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"Poggensee's Postcards"
an eagle family that is nesting in Loess Hills near Sioux City. Don Poggensee is reintroducing us here to an eagle family he first showed us last spring, in their new nest in the Loess Hills near Sioux City in northwest Iowa. "This spring, the pair has three young to feed, and they will be busy," Poggensee writes. "I shot this with a Canon 600 millimeter lens, from about 80 yards away, from the top of a bluff looking down into the nest. The distant shot shows what a normal lens would see."
The gorgeous photographic views of Iowa and its people which are appearing as "Poggensee's Postcards" on this Internet site are the work of photographer Don Poggensee of Ida Grove in northwest Iowa. Poggensee has been studying and working in both photography and aviation for nearly 40 years. His favorite places to shoot include Alaska, the Arctic and Prince Edward Island, but Iowa has provided him with his most frequent scenes and subjects. He estimates he has over 200,000 shots of Iowa in his photographic library. He was corporate pilot for 30 years for Gomaco, the Ida Grove company that manufactures road-building equipment used around the world as well as classic trolley cars. He is retired from corporate flying and now manages a digital photo lab for Gomaco. He's also involved in a framing and matting studio, as well as a stock photo business called Wind Rider Images. His photos have been published in over 60 magazines, in about 20 books and on many calendars, greeting cards and posters. He also writes an occasional guest column here on this Internet site. You can e-mail him at donpog@netllc.net
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