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ADAIR COUNTY
Orient
Restaurants
●Gathering Table – 2773 290^th Street; 641-337-5019; wallace.org/restaurant.html; home-cooking using locally sourced ingredients and produce‎.



CEDAR & MUSCATINE COUNTIES
Wilton
Restaurants
●Wilton Candy Kitchen – 310 Cedar Street; 563-732-2278; opened in 1860; still in family; fizzy beverages (including version of that hawked by Elvis Presley’s manager, Colonel Tom Parker, before he met Presley (Hadacol)).



LINN COUNTY
Cedar Rapids
Bakeries, Coffee, Ice Cream, Juice & Tea
●Sykora Bakery – 73 16^th Avenue Southwest (Czech Village); 319-364-5271; sykorabakery.com; for kolaches and rye bread.
Restaurants
●Al’s Blue Toad – 86 16^th Ave Southwest (Czech Village); 319-265-8623; facebook.com/pages/The-Blue-Toad-LLC/171628579859‎; Czech.
Sights & Sites
●National Czech & Slovak Museum – 1400 Inspiration Place Southwest; 319-362-8500; ncsml.org.



MARION COUNTY
Pella
Bakeries, Coffee, Ice Cream, Juice & Tea
●Jaarsma Bakery – 727 Franklin Street; 641-628-2940; jaarsmabakery.com; notable for “Dutch Letter,” almond paste-stuffed pastry.
Sights & Sites
●Main Street – pella.org; postcard perfection.



POLK COUNTY
Des Moines
Restaurants
●Centro – 1003 Locust Street; 515-248-1780; centrodesmoines.com; Italian.
●Lucca – 420 East Locust Street; 515-243-1115; luccarestaurant.net; Italian.
●Lucky Dragon – 1452 2^nd Avenue; 515-288-3936; excellent Vietnamese cuisine.
●Proof – 1301 Locust Street; 515-244-0655; proofrestaurant.com; much-heralded African-Mediterranean endeavor.
●Zombie Burger – 300 East Grand Avenue; 515-244-9292; zombieburgerdm.com; burgers.



POTTAWATTAMIE COUNTY
Council Bluffs
Sights & Sites
●Union Pacific Railroad Museum – 200 Pearl Street; 712-329-8307; uprrmuseum.org; journey through 140 years of American history, from 1800s to 21^st Century; exhibits highlight nation’s 1^st intercontinental railroad construction (eastern terminus in Council Bluffs), as well as American West’s settling.



POWESHIEK COUNTY
Grinnell
Restaurants
●Prairie Canary – 2773 290^th Street; 641-337-5019; wallace.org/restaurant.html; since 2006, has offered lunch menus centered around fresh, organic produce grown in 4 acre, on-site garden and orchard; seasonal fresh fruits & vegetables, locally raised beef, lamb, pork & poultry, as well as desserts; extremely affordable.



SCOTT COUNTY
Davenport
Sights & Sites
●Figge Art Museum – 225 West 2^nd Street; 563-326-7804; famcollection.org; encyclopedic collection; among country’s oldest art institutions and America’s 1^st municipal art galleries; building is Modernist British architect David Chipperfield’s 1^st U.S. architectural commission; gets name from V.O. & Elizabeth Kahl Figge Foundation, local banking family of Swiss origin, with long cultural enrichment & philanthropy tradition; over 4K artworks, ranging from 16^th Century to present; best known for its extensive collection of Haitian, Colonial Mexican and Midwestern art, particularly pieces by Thomas Hart Benton, Ralph Albert Blackelock (must see), Marvin Cone & Grant Wood (including lattter’s only self-portrait; in 1990, Grant Wood’s estate, which included his personal effects and various artworks, became Figge Art Museum property through his sister Nan Wood Graham (woman portrayed in American Gothic); institution also houses substantial American collection (including works by Albert Bierstadt, James McNeill Whistler, William Merritt Chase, Winslow Homer, Andrew Wyeth, Ansel Adams, Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg & Jasper Johns), European art (including work by artists such as Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt, Claude Lorrain, Francisco Goya, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Sir Henry Raeburn, Toulouse-Lautrec & Pierre-Auguste Renoir), and works from East Asia (with pieces by Hokusai, Hiroshige & Kunisada); important pieces by Frank Lloyd Wright; also, significant paintings by American artists such as Jackson Pollock, Stuart Davis, Richard Diebenkorn, Peter Golfinopoulos, Sam Gilliam, Adolph Gottlieb, Joan Mitchell, Robert Motherwell, Ad Reinhardt & Marsden Hartley, as well as Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Max Beckmann, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Gauguin, Georges Braque, Marc Chagall, Giorgio de Chirico, Lyonel Feininger, Juan Gris, Alexej von Jawlensky, Fernand Léger, Joan Miró, Giorgio Morandi & Chaim Soutine.



WAPELLO COUNTY
Eldon
Sights & Sites
●American Gothic House – 300 American Gothic Street; 641-652-3352; americangothichouse.net.



WINNESHIEK COUNTY
Burr Oak
Sights & Sites
●Masters Hotel – 3603 236^th Avenue; 563-735-5916; lauraingallswilder.us; where Ingalls clan lived from 1866-1867.