Holidays

People across the U.S. watch Fourth of July fireworks. But few know what goes into the production.

Whether it's romantic or platonic, love is all around during February. Pianist Dan Knight highlights this feeling by playing listeners' favorite love songs.

Even though there are few things that are green and growing outside this time of year, the holidays inspire many of us to bring new plants into our homes.

The holiday season is evergreen trees’ time to shine. But one tree — the eastern redcedar — has come to be considered a nuisance as it spreads across the Great Plains.

Iowa author Bess Streeter Aldrich wrote, "Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart, filled it, too, with melody that would last forever."

Horticulture Day is a decades-old fixture, even surpassing the history of Talk of Iowa.

Small businesses make up the majority of businesses in Iowa.

Playwright George Bernard Shaw once said, "Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself."

Indigenous Peoples' Day is Monday. Activists in the Native American community want the holiday to permanently replace Columbus Day on the calendar.

The 99-year-old film that was lost for decades is making its way to a small Iowa town for the first time. First released in Austria in 1924, The City Without Jews is a silent-era satire with a complicated history.