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Daisy Lemme
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Description
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Daisy Lemme, mother of Allyn Lemme and mother-in-law of Helen Renfrow Lemme, standing in a yard in front of a fence. She has a crutch under one arm.
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Date Created
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1930
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PID
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grinnell:35554
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Title
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Decline and Renewal in the Heartland, Tutorial, Fall 2004, Decline and Renewal in the Heartland
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Description
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The first year tutorial, taken in the fall semester, is Grinnell College's only general academic course requirement. The college intends the tutorial to assist students in further developing their critical thinking skills and in improving their written and oral communication skills. Each of the tutorials offered in a given fall semester is based around a particular subject matter, which provides the vehicle by which the above goals are accomplished. The arrival of European Americans in the Upper Midwest in the middle of the nineteenth century led to dramatic changes in the region's ecology. In what was perhaps the most rapid and extensive degradation of a natural ecosystem in human history, in the space of 50 years settlers plowed under millions of acres of the native tallgrass prairie and replaced it with a diversified agricultural ecosystem on what proved to be some of the best farmland in the world.
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Date Created
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2004
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PID
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grinnell:317
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Decline and Renewal in the Heartland, Fall 2003 Syllabus, Tutorial, Fall 2003, Decline and Renewal in the Heartland
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Description
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The first year tutorial, taken in the fall semester, is Grinnell College's only general academic course requirement. The college intends the tutorial to assist students in further developing their critical thinking skills and in improving their written and oral communication skills. Each of the tutorials offered in a given fall semester is based around a particular subject matter, which provides the vehicle by which the above goals are accomplished. The arrival of European Americans in the Upper Midwest in the middle of the nineteenth century led to dramatic changes in the region's ecology. In what was perhaps the most rapid and extensive degradation of a natural ecosystem in human history, in the space of 50 years settlers plowed under millions of acres of the native tallgrass prairie and replaced it with a diversified agricultural ecosystem on what proved to be some of the best farmland in the world. As agriculture expanded, the prairie diminished.
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Date Created
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2003
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PID
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grinnell:316
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Title
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Electa C. Cook to Sarah E. Cook, January 1, 1859
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Description
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Electa writes to her sister-in-law Sarah about how much she misses Sarah and their family. She also writes about the clothing she owns, and what is owned by a woman she knows in town.
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Date Created
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1859
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PID
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grinnell:12319
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Title
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George W. Cook and Electa C. Cook to Sarah E. Cook, March 26, 1859
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Description
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George writes to Sarah that he has little to write, and reports that he and many others in town have been sick. The weather has been poor. He gives a report of the progress on the building of the railroad. Electa asks to be sent [clothes] patterns.
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Date Created
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1859
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PID
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grinnell:12361