Iona Fortune
Performer, Costumer,
& Art Historian
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Burlesque at the Wagner Opera House | Moline, IL
In the American Midwest of the 1890s and early 1900s, an “opera house” was less a temple to grand opera than a multipurpose engine of… Read more.
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Dancers, Decency, and Double Standards: Iowa’s 1986 Nude Dance Scandal
In the spring of 1986, a bachelor party at a rural tavern outside Des Moines unexpectedly became the center of a statewide political firestorm. What… Read more.
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The Life and Career of Alene Hoover
Erna Alene Hoover—born in Harlan, Iowa, on April 12 or 13, 1912—emerged from the Midwest with a determination that would carry her onto some of… Read more.
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