Troublesome Creek - PBS website http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/trouble/filmmore/index.html [ Edit ] Site Reviews(0)
...The Jordans rented a farm near Rolfe for 20 years. More About the Film Troublesome Creek. By the late 1980s, Iowa farmers Russ and Mary Jane Jordan had accumulated a large debt. Faced with losing their farm, The Jordans came up with a dramatic solution to hold onto their family farm as massive foreclosures swept the nation.
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Troublesome Creek - A Midwestern http://members.aol.com/westcity/creek.htm [ Edit ] Site Reviews(0)
...The Jordans rented a farm near Rolfe for 20 years. Red River, High Noon, Gunsmoke Westerns, where the bad guys sometimes won but never prevailed. Troublesome Creek is a Midwestern. It's the story of the Jordan family's struggle to save their Iowa farm. From crossing the Mississippi in 1867 to driving to Daddy Date Night in 1967. From fighting off the Crooked Creek Gang in the 1880's to fighting off the bank today. Now, with their backs against the wall, the Jordans confront the very worst with their very best. Troublesome Creek is wry and emotional without being sentimental. It's a cliffhanger about history, loss and the humor and deep character that settled America, and now preside at its unsettling....
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What A Character - Hank Worden http://www.what-a-character.com/cgi-bin/display.cgi?id=982802870 [ Edit ] Site Reviews(0)
...A familiar face in numerous westerns, Hank Worden’s film and television work ran from the 1930s until the early 1990s. Born Norton Earl Worden in Rolfe, Iowa, he attended Stanford University and the University of Nevada where he studied engineering. Worden worked as a rodeo bronco rider, and it was while he and Tex Ritter were performing in a rodeo at New York’s Madison Square Garden that they were both selected to appear on Broadway in 1930 in Green Grow the Lilacs. His films included such classics as Red River, Fort Apache, Duel in the Sun, and The Searchers. His final screen appearance came in 1991 on the television series Twin Peaks as "The Elderly and Senile Room Service Waiter.”
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Barr Bicycle and Fitness, Inc. - History http://www.homestead.com/kenyoncooper/history.html [ Edit ] Site Reviews(0)
...Brief mention of a bicycle shop in Rolfe, as follows, "Moore was well known in central Iowa as a bicycle racer from Des Moines, racing in most major competitions locally in the 1890's. He briefly had a bicycle store up at Rolfe, Iowa with a partner named Glen Tidrick, and it was in the rear of Rich's Hardware Store. It was called Moore & Tidrick, and existed briefly in 1896."...
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Iowa Orphan Train Research http://www.celticcousins.net/paloalto/orphans.htm [ Edit ] Site Reviews(0)
...Our home here in Rolfe, Iowa is the Iowa Orphan Train Research
Center & Archives where I maintain the records of the children that were
brought to Iowa on the trains (1853-1929) from Boston, New York & Chicago.
There were approximately 10,000 brought just to Iowa.
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Iowa Barn Foundation http://www.iowabarnfoundation.org/ [ Edit ] Site Reviews(0)
...The primary mission of the Iowa Barn Foundation is to educate the public about Iowa’s vanishing barns and to provide barn restoration matching grants to help property owners restore their barns. In addition, property owners who use their own funds to restore or rehabilitate barns that would otherwise qualify for a matching grant are eligible to receive an Iowa Barn Foundation Award of Distinction. Take a look at some of the restored barns that have been featured on the 2001 and 2002 All-State Barn Tour.
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Iowa Women's Archives - Trimble Family Papers http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/iwa/findingaids/html/Trimble.html [ Edit ] Site Reviews(0)
...The Trimble Family papers date from 1879 to 1999 and measure one linear inch. The collection contains the reminiscences of Gladys Trimble Leith entitled, "Stories Told by Gladys, 1989" and "Memories of Mom," by Marie Jeffers. The sketches contain the sisters' recollections about their mother Mary Pyle Trimble as well as their own childhood experiences. They also recount intimate details of growing up female on a northwestern Iowa farm-farm chores, health and illness, marriage, childbirth and other humorous incidents. This collection also includes photocopies of letters from Mary Trimble to her grandson about his intention to become a jet pilot and photocopies of family photographs, a brief Pyle family history, and death certificates of various family members.
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Rolfe (Iowa) Community School - ISU Special Collections http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS600.html [ Edit ] Site Reviews(0)
...The collection contains Series 1 - Color Slides and description of slide content (1956-1959). The collection consists of 432 color slides and descriptions of the slide contents documenting the 1956-1959 school years at the Rolfe, Iowa, Community School. Events documented include: the Junior Class Play, the Grand Operetta, the Senior Trip, Spring Band Concert, Senior Class Play, Senior Breakfast, sports, and Homecoming celebrations.
The history of the Rolfe, Iowa schools dates back to 1860 when Rolfe (at its former location three miles northeast of town) hired the first teacher in the county with classes held at the log house of William M. Hait.
The Independent School District of Rolfe was established at the current town location in 1884. Students met in a two-story building made of lumber from the courthouse at Old Rolfe - the original site of the Pocahontas County seat.
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MapQuest http://mapquest.com/ [ Edit ] Site Reviews(0)
...Find street maps and driving directions to Rolfe here....
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Four Faces of Pocahontas http://www.co.henrico.va.us/manager/pokeypix.htm [ Edit ] Site Reviews(0)
...Many different depictions of Pocahontas exist today. Pictured clockwise from top left: Mary Ellen Howe (1994), Robert Matthew Sully (1850s), Thomas Sully (1852), Jean Leon Ferris (c. 1921) courtesy of William E. Ryder and the Virginia Historical Society....
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