If you live in Iowa City long enough, you’re bound to discover the work of local historian and preservationist Marybeth Slonneger. A native of Chicago who came to the University of Iowa to study art in the 1980s, she has made a career of researching and publishing her writing on the history of Iowa City […]
Marybeth Slonneger
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Looking back: Marybeth Slonneger’s new book about Iowa City history is half time capsule, half love song
Stop by Prairie Lights Bookstore on Sunday, Nov. 22 at 3 p.m. for a special Finials reading featuring several of the retrospective’s contributors. By Gemma de Choisy and Kent Williams Iowa City is home to some 71,591 of us (give or take a census). To Marybeth Slonneger, it’s more—a 176-year-old ongoing public art project. Slonneger […]
