Tag: iowa
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Iowa Farm Invokes Safety, Warmth, and Connection for Guests Through Fine Dining
One woman’s dream job comes to fruition in the Midwest: establishing a private, homemade, farm-to-table diner that brings people together, uniting the community and reconnecting the guests with nature—including with her farm animals, that are pets, not food. Hidden among Iowa’s pig and factory farms is a small red barn where Kara Gruppe is cultivating…
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The Jail That People Pay to Go To
Offering realistic prison roleplay, this unique experience brings people from all over the world to Hampton, Iowa, to be locked up like a real prisoner. Have you ever wanted to be locked up in prison? To have your rights stripped from you, confined to a cell, with all activities deliberately planned out by someone else? …
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Death Becomes Them
On the third Tuesday of every month, a group of strangers gather to talk about death, dying, and the meaning of life. At my journalism internship over the summer, there was always one story no one wanted to pick up. The story pertained to the local Death Cafe that hosted regular meetings. Those in the…
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An Afghan Tale of Survival
After the Afghanistan government collapsed, the refugees escaped to Iowa. In August 2021, Fardin Ameer Karimy arrives in America. His first stop—the Fort Bliss army post in El Paso, Texas. In the middle of a windy desert, the sand drifts into the flimsy camp. In a bed littered with cockroaches, he lies among scattered bags…
