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GAMARAI
XVI - August 18 - 21
Our
16th Great Annual Model A Ride Around Iowa will be traveling to
Eastern/Central Iowa. We will leave from Ankeny, IA on August
18th.
The
registration fee is $40 per person. Deadline to register is August
1st.
Send registration fee, names and cell phone number, if different from
last year, to: Joe Lamb, 7210 N W 21st St, Ankeny Iowa 50023-9644. Make
checks payable to the Central Iowa Model A Club.
Make your own motel reservations. We have blocked 35 rooms for the
club. Release date is July 19. Be sure to state you are in the Central
Iowa Model A Club for our negotiated rates.
August 18, Super 8
Motel, Washington, Iowa (319) 653-6621
August 19, Country
Inn, Cedar Rapids, Iowa (319) 363-3789
August 20, Holiday Inn
Express, Newton Iowa (641) 792-3333
Itinerary is as
follows:
Meet at the Burger
King in front of Menards on Delaware Avenue in Ankeny. Driver's
meeting is at 7:45am.
August 18 - our first
stop will be near Oskaloosa at the Nelson Pioneer Farm. The site of
structures from the 1850s include an 1853 brick home, barn, log cabin,
one room school, country store, stagecoach stop, blacksmith building and
museum featuring farm machinery and many other items of interest. You
don’t want to miss Iowa’s only mule cemetery. We will have lunch in
Oskaloosa.
August 18 - our second
stop will be near Sigourney at the Dumont Museum. Here you will see a
vast collection of restored tractors, toys, dolls, pedal cars, horse
drawn vehicles and model railroads. Lyle and Helen Dumont are recognized
as two of the foremost collectors in the U.S. They built a 24000 square
foot building to display their life long collection. They were friends
to Roy Rogers and Dale Evans and have a vast collection of their
memorabilia. This will be an enjoyable stop with a rare collection of
Oliver tractors, garden tractors and single cylinder gas engines.
August 18- We will
spend the night in Washington, IA. billed as “the cleanest city in
Iowa”. Along the way we will see many Washington County barn quilts.
Thursday evenings during the summer feature a farmers market in the
picturesque city square, followed by an evening of live local
entertainment and an old fashioned municipal band concert. We can enjoy
the entertainment after dinner or pick up a snack and take your lawn
chair to the square to eat while the bands play.
August 19 - We will
start out with a short drive to Kalona for breakfast. Kalona is the
largest Amish settlement west of the Mississippi River and is considered
the quilt capital of the Midwest. Its newly repaved downtown area will
be a pleasant visit for us. The town provides a variety of shops of
antiques, quilts, handcrafted items, fabrics and collectables. The
Kalona Historical Village has 15 buildings with a train depot, church,
cottages,, Wahl Museum, Mennonite Museum, quilt museum and the largest
spool cabinet collection in America. We will also have a chance to see
the Max-Cast Foundry, the only art foundry not connected with an
educational institution. Near town is a furniture shop, whose owner also
restores “woodie” station wagons. You will be on your own to wander the
town at will for several hours.
August 19 - We will go
on to Iowa City for lunch. It has been said that no visit to Iowa City
is complete without visiting the Black Angel. Located in Oakland
cemetery, this memorial has several legends associated with it. One
story says a grieving husband spent his savings to place a white angel
over the grave of his wife, only to have it turn black overnight because
of her unrevealed infidelity to him. Another story says that anyone who
touches the angel will drop dead unless he or she is a virgin. A happier
bit of folklore says that you are not a true University of Iowa coed
until you have been kissed in the shadow of the angel’s wings. The real
story is that is was commissioned by a Bohemian immigrant for the graves
of her son and husband, but when it arrived in Iowa City, she refused to
pay for it because it was not what she had ordered.. Eventually the
court ordered her to pay $5000 to the sculptor and she had it erected in
spite of her dislike for it. Does her posture admonish or beckon, forbid
or retreat?
August 19 - The
Devonian Fossil Gorge was exposed by the flood of 1993 when massive
amounts of water spilled over the Coralville Lake dam. Flooding in 2008
further eroded the area below the spillway and swept clean the rocks to
better reveal a geologic treasure of ancient seabed filled with
thousands of Devonian age fossils.
August 19 - In Cedar
Rapids we will tour the Ushers Ferry site to take a step back in time.
This historic village is a collection of early 20th century buildings
that have been moved here from surrounding towns to show the simple life
of 100 years ago. The village was inundated by flood waters three years
ago and is being painstakingly rebuilt by volunteers. We will stay
Friday night in Cedar Rapids.
August 20 is the
annual Amana Colonies Model A Day hosted by the Hawk A Model A Ford
Club. The seven historic villages of the Amana Colonies were founded by
German immigrants as a religious communal society in 1855. In addition
to joining over 100 Model As from seven states, we will have the
opportunity to experience the crafts and cultures of the colonies,
purchase antiques or hand made crafts and enjoy wonderful food and
drinks while visiting with great Model A folks.
August 20 - Later that
evening we will drive to Newton for an enjoyable night at a drive in
theater. We had this experience two years ago and had so much fun with
our tailgate party that we decided to do it again. We will spend
Saturday night in Newton.
August 21 - We will have a leisurely drive back to Des Moines and say
our farewells.
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