80,000 Christmas lights on one single tree in Hanlontown, Iowa.

80,000 Christmas lights on one single tree in Hanlontown, Iowa.

Every town in Iowa boasts about how many thousands of lights they have during the holidays – but Hanlontown, Iowa has perhaps the biggest collection of lights on one single tree. It’s referred to as the POET tree by many, as it was started, built, and is maintained by the employees of the POET Bioprocessing plant…

How Humphrey Parker’s walking stick became the tree in the middle of the road
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How Humphrey Parker’s walking stick became the tree in the middle of the road

I received a copy of “The Parker Family Tree: The Parker family of Cass County, Iowa. Its origins and passages” by Mary Rendleman Gilchrist. Congrats to Mary, this is an extremely well-researched and put-together history of the Parker family who is credited with planting the tree in the middle of the road. It’s one of…