How many Iowegians?
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Originally Posted by collettakay
Learned something new today. People from Iowa are called "Iowegians". I'll have to share that with my cousin. She moved to Ankeny, Iowa in February.
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Originally Posted by Rhonda
Oksewglad I am from SE Iowa. Almost to the Missouri border. We are about 50 miles north of Keokuk and 30 miles west of Burlington.
I have lived here all my life.
Grew up in this small Iowa town.
I have lived here all my life.
Grew up in this small Iowa town.
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Originally Posted by Rhonda
Oksewglad I am from SE Iowa. Almost to the Missouri border. We are about 50 miles north of Keokuk and 30 miles west of Burlington.
I have lived here all my life.
Grew up in this small Iowa town.
I have lived here all my life.
Grew up in this small Iowa town.
There are three routes we would take and I know them all really well!! My kids practically grew up there on the farm. We spent alot of time in Sigourney and What Cheer and Keota and Keswick. We still go up to Osky(local version of Oscaloosa) some but not as much as we did when mom and dad still lived on the farm. They moved into town(Sigourney) when my kids were in High School.
My husband's one brother still lives in What Cheer. I could tell you lots of stories aabout our tears in and around Sigourney!
Point of information that is interesting. Sigourney is an indian word and when they dug the lake outside of Sigourney they named it Lake Yenrougis (Sigourney backwards) pronounced yen-row-gus The Keota indians lived in this area long ago. We used to go fishing there alot
Sigourney is like another home town to me. It is about 80 miles from us. When my kids were little there were no Casey's or any stores open on Sundays so we knew where the parks were and we would have to find a road out of site of the highway for a bathroom for the kids! LOL We never made the trip without having to stop a couple of times!
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Originally Posted by Rhonda
Originally Posted by oksewglad
Originally Posted by Rhonda
Oksewglad I am from SE Iowa. Almost to the Missouri border. We are about 50 miles north of Keokuk and 30 miles west of Burlington.
I have lived here all my life.
Grew up in this small Iowa town.
I have lived here all my life.
Grew up in this small Iowa town.
There are three routes we would take and I know them all really well!! My kids practically grew up there on the farm. We spent alot of time in Sigourney and What Cheer and Keota and Keswick. We still go up to Osky(local version of Oscaloosa) some but not as much as we did when mom and dad still lived on the farm. They moved into town(Sigourney) when my kids were in High School.
My husband's one brother still lives in What Cheer. I could tell you lots of stories aabout our tears in and around Sigourney!
Point of information that is interesting. Sigourney is an indian word and when they dug the lake outside of Sigourney they named it Lake Yenrougis (Sigourney backwards) pronounced yen-row-gus The Keota indians lived in this area long ago. We used to go fishing there alot
Sigourney is like another home town to me. It is about 80 miles from us. When my kids were little there were no Casey's or any stores open on Sundays so we knew where the parks were and we would have to find a road out of site of the highway for a bathroom for the kids! LOL We never made the trip without having to stop a couple of times!
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I lived in Ankeny, Iowa between 1990-98. Great town with nice people.
My three children graduation from the school system. One of the reasons we lived in that town was for the school system. Older son attended four years of high school and younger children went through the middle and high school system.
Most of the people I met in Iowa were down to earth and sincere. If I hadn't had family obligations in Michigan, I would have stayed in that locale.
I haven't been back in a decade, but fondly recall those days :-)
My three children graduation from the school system. One of the reasons we lived in that town was for the school system. Older son attended four years of high school and younger children went through the middle and high school system.
Most of the people I met in Iowa were down to earth and sincere. If I hadn't had family obligations in Michigan, I would have stayed in that locale.
I haven't been back in a decade, but fondly recall those days :-)
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Originally Posted by Rhonda
Oksewglad I am from SE Iowa. Almost to the Missouri border. We are about 50 miles north of Keokuk and 30 miles west of Burlington.
I have lived here all my life.
Grew up in this small Iowa town.
I have lived here all my life.
Grew up in this small Iowa town.
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