Pat Kinney

Pat is the Oral Historian for the Grout Museum District.

Blog posts by this Author:

• Mary Berdell blazed a trail for women, minorities, disabled in Waterloo

  "The responsibility of government to the governed cannot be defined in action for one segment of the community and in promises for another segment. Neither can government decide for the governed when the latter shall be satisfied with what it gets."

• Civil rights hero has Waterloo roots

  Russell R. Lasley of Waterloo is a largely faded if not forgotten figure in the national labor and civil rights movements --- but not to those who knew him.

• Tri-City Clothing a decades-long destination for defining duds

  It's been 40-plus years since Harry and Renee Carson's business, which started out of the back of an automobile, opened up shop in a building on old Logan Avenue. It's been eight years since the Carsons had to re-start and relocate that business after a devastating fire a few weeks before Christmas.

• Family awaits ID of missing Iowa WWII Navy aviator

  Family members of Iowan Alden Pearl Anders are still waiting for him to come home - 77 years after he and his crewmates were shot down off Indonesia, in the Pacific theater of World War II.

• The Sullivan Brothers: 80 years later, 'people do care, and people do remember'

  Maybe they were brash. Maybe they were foolhardy. Maybe they were just five more victims in a war with hundreds of millions of victims. But maybe, just maybe, George, Francis, Joseph, Madison and Albert Sullivan were heroes as well.

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