Pat Kinney

Pat is the Oral Historian for the Grout Museum District.

Blog posts by this Author:

• Bill Knapp: 'Live every day like it's your last'

  Bill Knapp, the legendary Des Moines real estate developer and philanthropist, died Saturday, Nov. 15, at age 99. The character that drove his long career was forged in the fires of war on a Pacific island 80 years ago.

• Kids meet American heroes at Waterloo museum

  'Veterans Day' is every Wednesday as veterans, Museum School kids come together.

• Waterloo Sullivan family members feted at White House event, conference

  The descendants of Waterloo's five Sullivan brothers killed during World War II were among those hosted at a White House event honoring families of military personnel killed in combat or the line of duty.

• Waterloo honors WWII homefront at park

  More details to be announced at Sept. 6 events marking 80th anniversary of war's end at Waterloo's Veterans Memorial Hall and Sullivan Brothers Iowa Veterans Museum

• Fate dealt WWII sailor, family a reprieve

  Granddaughters of Sullivans' shipmate bring rare artifact to museum

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