Iowa City and the Amana Colonies
June 3rd 2010 Friday, June 4th
We visit the Hoover Presidential Library in West Branch, Iowa and find out about Herbert Hoover’s Shaker heritage and his early career as a mining engineer and businessman and his later career as President and as a humanitarian in two world wars. We visit the very modest Hoover family home and the Shaker meeting house preserved on the grounds of the Library.
We then drive t
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