by Sue | Oct 17, 2022 | Books & Writers
Rick Iekel writes wonderful local history— the kind teachers should use in their classrooms. In his first book, House with a Heart, Rick cleverly uses the house as the point of view character while travelers seek shelter in it from a storm. In the most engaging way,...
by Sue | Feb 9, 2020 | Books & Writers
For Rick Iekel, history is more than a record of events stretched along a continuum. Rather, it is the DNA of our humanity, all the “stuff” that makes us who we are. As a young boy, he observed his mother creating poetry. “I would see her in the kitchen, her head...
