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She gets many of herold-time recipes throughresearch and adapting hergrandmother’s long-agorecipes; they go back tothe staples of the timeperiod, with flour, sugar,salt, baking powder andyeast.

The cabin she works inwould be consideredsmall for a family, but asshe points out, familieswould use the space theyhad to the maximum. Aloft above is where thechildren would sleep;behind them would bewhere the family wouldstore items such as steam-er trunks.

The floor level containsthe main living quarters,with a bed, table andcooking equipment nearthe chimney. The womanof the house would carefor the children, cook andpreserve the harvest. Meatwould be butchered andthen preserved in lard.Root vegetables werehung from the rafters.

Casinger, formerly ofClinton and now ofByron, Ill., was in the1860s house, which hadbeen constructed on theHenry Bruebaker farm inGarden Plain and laterdonated to Wierenga to beset up in the canyon.Casinger was writing let-ters, demonstrating theuse of a quill pen, havingearlier made her dessert.

Vavra is the school-house teacher, and makessure to talk to the childrenas they try out the littledesks. Her chalkboard isfull of instruction in neat-ly printed handwriting.Primers are nearby andshe shows how childrenwould have been taught

the alphabet and soundout words.

She said one-roomschools could haveincluded children fromage 7 through high school.Younger children wouldnot have been enrolled inschool since their littlefeet could not carry themover the long walks toschool; often, childrenstopped going to schoolonce they graduated fromeighth grade.

Student attendance alsowas affected by farmworkfor the older boys andchildcare and cookingduties for the girls as theygrew older.

The Crafters showcasetheir skills on the 12 acresof land that from the mid-1800s to 1954 housed alimestone quarry whererock was crushed for fieldfertilizer, road beds, wingdams and levees. Trucks,trains and river bargeshauled it away. The quar-ry was abandoned in 1954because dynamiting wasdamaging both sides ofthe river. The area becamean eyesore to the commu-nity with its junk anddilapidated shacks,

according to the city’swebsite. In 1967, Haroldand Thelma Wierengabought the quarry. Theyconverted the machineshop into a usable work-shop and then built theirhome on the site of the oldrock crusher. Theychanged the quarry to pre-serve Midwestern history,emphasizing detail andauthenticity; and disturbnature as little as possibleas each building is added.Harold Wierenga died inJanuary 1999, his daugh-ter and son-in-law main-tained the canyon for sev-eral years. However, thevolunteer task of main-taining the canyon wassimply too much for thecouple. In October 2005the city of Fulton wasgiven ownership ofHeritage Canyon. TheEarly American Crafters’mission is to transportvisitors back to the 1800sby setting up in the build-ings that dot the land-scape of the area.

On Sunday, woodwork-ers could be found justdown the trail from theschool.

Gene Strohecker of

Elroy, Ill., demonstratedhow to turn pieces ofwood into usable items.On a blanket on theground nearby, visitorscould look at a collectionof items he had made,some decorative, othersuseful for everyday liv-ing. Others are made tomake visitors laugh, suchas the piece of a tree thathe smoothed out and hasplaced on the corner ofthe blanket. When peopleask him what it is, he tellsthem it is a skeleton of afoot. He also made adetailed miniature of ashaving horse, saying heis looking for someonesmall enough use it.

“You’ve got to have funwith your craft,” he said.

Bob Olesen of Sterling,Ill., was making a bowl ina nearby building, thefirst time he had madethat piece.

A large group of toolswere assembled nearby,with Olesen detailing theimportance of each to thecreation of the bowl.

Larry Jepsen and hiscousin, Daniel, drewquite the crowd as theymade brooms at thecanyon’s entrance.

While not members ofthe Early AmericanCrafters, they are invitedto the canyon a coupletimes of year to demon-strate broommaking, inwhich they use corn-broom plants that theytrim, layer around awooden handle, and wirein place before drying andstitching into a variety ofbrooms.

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Iowa works toreform mentalhealth careBy Ben JacobsonHerald Staff Writer

DESMOINES —Those directly affectedby Iowa’s mental healthsystem are being givenan opportunity to influ-ence its redesign.Through a series of pub-lic input meetings, men-tal health officials arecollecting ideas and con-cerns from the samepeople who will benefitin the future.

“It’s really an opportu-nity to hear observationsand recommendations,”said Rick Shults, admin-istrator for the Divisionof Mental Health andDisability Services.“...Getting this kind ofinput is very importantin the process.”

Four of five scheduledpublic hearings havewrapped up, with thefinal meeting scheduledfor Oct. 7 in CouncilBluffs.

Iowans coping withmental health issues orintellectual disabilitieswere invited to sharetheir views on theredesign, made possiblethrough legislationpassed in the most recentcongressional session.

Shults called the ses-sions “informational” sofar, and said that themeetings have beenwell-attended. He waspresent at the Waterloomeeting on Sept. 23,which had about 150attendees.

When the meetingshave concluded, Shultssaid that the ideas andinformation collectedwill be passed ontoworkgroups that willanalyze what he calledthe “themes” of themeetings. Then, duringthe final months of theyear, the interim sessionresponsible with over-seeing the redesign willhelp determine potentiallegislation.

“This will give us ourframework that we needto move forward with,”Shults said.

He added that officialsare dedicated to beingaware of consumer con-cerns, and addressingthem as well as possible.

The mental health anddisability servicesredesign is expected tobe ready for the 2013legislative session.Legislators hope to mod-ify the system from acounty based service to aregional service, hope-fully ensuring a consis-tent level of care. As thesystem stands, somecounties are able to pro-vide more funding forservices while otherhave difficulty meetingdemands.

Shults said that citi-zens need to be awarethat having a moreregional system does notmean that they will haveto travel great distancesto address mental healthissues.

“Services are stillgoing to be delivered atthe local level,” he said.“That’s something thatfamilies need to hear.”

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Gene Strohecker of Elroy, Ill., demonstrates how toturn pieces of wood into a spoon at Heritage Canyonon Sunday. CHARLENE BIELEMA/CLINTON HERALD

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He sends some of the beefthrough the grinder and intoa bowl. He then takes thatground meat and puts itthrough the machine again.All of Johnson’sProcessing’s hamburger isput through the grindertwice. Lou said it gives themeat a better mix and packsit together better.

After washing his hands,Lou hops into the assemblyline to help with packagingmeat. A customer comes inand Lou helps him. Just asthe customer is leaving, thestaff is preparing to start ona fresh half of beef. Lousaid they process approxi-mately six animals a day.

“It’s just a revolvingprocess all day long,” saidLou.

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