Watersheds - Ralston Creek
Introduction “Recovering Ralston Creek,” Laura Rigal, Associate Professor, Departments of American Studies and English, University of Iowa
1. THE ORIGINS OF RALSTON CREEK
Michael O’Connell; Joe Jenson
2. WHAT’S IN A NAME? THE ‘RALSTON’ IN RALSTON CREEK
Ashlea Lawrence
3. NATURAL COMMUNITIES OF RALSTON CREEK
Lindsey Castellano: Beaver
Nicole Hosette: Fish and Fish Kills
Michael French: Frogs, Crawfish, Turtles
4. HUMAN COMMUNITIES I: RACE, CLASS, GENDER, AND WATER
Maggie Mineart: The Captain Irish Farm and Mrs. and Mr. Haddock
Whitney Overmire: Zella White Stewart
Ana Rodriguez: Dr. Bowen and Bob Bream
5. HUMAN COMMUNITIES II: INDUSTRIAL & COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT
Brittni Stille The Close Factory and Early Industries along Ralston Creek
Liz Kenyon: The Coal Plant, Toxic Waste and the Iowa/Illinois Apartments
6. THE CO-OP AND THE CREEK
Jamie Branch; Alex Romans
7. TROUBLESOME CREEK
Kelsey Godwin: Irving Weber’s Ralston Creek
Katie Mothershead and Jason Willcox: A History of the Floods
Mark Smith: The 1972 Flood
8. POLITICS OF RALSTON CREEK I
Darcy Hansen: “Bridge People”
Meggen Weeks: Graffiti and Youth Culture
9. POLITICS OF RALSTON CREEK II
Sarah Voight, Glendale Park
Max Nedved, Mapping the Creek
Kierra Baker, Ralston Creek and The “Flow” of Bureaucracy