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This sad incident brings to mind the words of another historian, named Douglass Adair, who once had the gall to admit the low priority he and his fellow historians place on teaching. In a somewhat impromptu speech at a meeting of the Organization of American Historians 25 years ago, Adair confided his feelings about teaching to his fellow historians. The "semi-educated adolescents" (that's us, the students) may be won over by the "low arts of pedagogical showmanship," said Adair. Essentially, any historian worth his dissertation topic would admit that research and not teaching is the distinguishing feature...
...sign in stately Old English letters has been hung up on the worn red brick building, the leaky roof has been repaired, and the staff has thumbed gingerly through crumbling back issues, gathering fragments of history to print again. The Adair County Free Press of Greenfield, Iowa, is just about ready for its 100th birthday next week. Same newspaper, same family of editors, no sellout to a chain, no fortunes made or lost, circulation steady at 3,200 in a county of 9,500 and a town of 2,200. The back issues form a tapestry of small events...
...Adair County Free Press will continue to tell that story as it begins its second century; a couple more Sideys are coming along. The story will be in the birth notices and the deliberations of the school board, in the obituaries too. Diligent readers, like those in Greenfield, can keep tabs on who starts out on the prairies and who ends up there...
Signs of America's Old West start as far east as Adair, Iowa, where an old railroad wheel marks the spot on which Jesse James held up his first moving train in 1873. Sweeping along the interstate at a sedate 65 m.p.h., a westward-bound traveler may then dally at Omaha's splendidly revitalized Old Market, which evokes gold seekers and prairie pioneers heading out aboard the Union Pacific railway circa 1865. But by the time you reach Al's Oasis at Oacoma, S. Dak., on a bluff over the glistening Missouri River, all doubt vanishes as quickly as adherence...
...Most exhibitions can only afford two or three of us," says Renee Roca, half of the 1986 American ice dancing champion team. "But because the Jimmy Fund is a charity, the whole world team goes. The show's quality level is phenomenal." Roca and her partner Donald Adair have participated in the Jimmy Fund show three times. This year, however, they have had to cancel their appearance because Roca has tendonitis...