The Palimpsest . here the Amanapeople lived their old world lives. Count LadislausUjhazy, friend of Kossuth, led his Hungarian exiles,shipwrecked by their revolution against Austria in1848, to Iowa and began a settlement known as NewBuda in Decatur County. And in Adams County theFrench Icarians built their log cabins about a com-mon dining hall and tried to live out their com-munistic ideas. The long-robed Trappist monks established theirmonastery and are still practicing their vow of si-lence at New Melleray near Dubuque. The AmishMennonites with hooks and eyes on their garmentsand whiskers u
The Palimpsest . here the Amanapeople lived their old world lives. Count LadislausUjhazy, friend of Kossuth, led his Hungarian exiles,shipwrecked by their revolution against Austria in1848, to Iowa and began a settlement known as NewBuda in Decatur County. And in Adams County theFrench Icarians built their log cabins about a com-mon dining hall and tried to live out their com-munistic ideas. The long-robed Trappist monks established theirmonastery and are still practicing their vow of si-lence at New Melleray near Dubuque. The AmishMennonites with hooks and eyes on their garmentsand whiskers under their chins drive their autos intoIowa City for their Saturday shopping. Denmarkand the other Scandinavian countries, and Irelandand Switzerland and Bohemia have sent their contri-butions. Some elements have been transitory butmost of them have been assimilated. They have be-come a part of the homogeneity — a populationprairied by general prosperity as the land wasprairied by the ancient glaciers. J. C. :;;^ltlt;r;J|:|Pl2# c^DiMrEMrs / J^ _^^ JohnC. Parish - Remii|isceiipe -; ^ JqHnJ?. Irish _ 01^23 Comment jHlfEblTdR^ N Published MoinrHLYAr lowACmr ByTHESlMEHlfficB SdiEIYwtoWA ^ ENTERED AS SECOND CLASS MATTER JULY 28 1920 AT THE POST OFFICE AT IOWA CITY IOWAUNDER THE ACT OF AUGUST 24 1912 THE PURPOSE OF THIS MAGAZINE The Palimpsest, issued monthly by the State His-torical Society of Iowa, is devoted to the dissernina-tion of Iowa History. Supplementing the other pub-lications of this Society, it aims to present the materialsof Iowa History in a form that is attractive and a stylethat is popular in the best sense—to the end that thestory of our Commonwealth may be more widely readand cherished. Benj. F. Shambaugh Superintendent THE MEANING OF PALIMPSESTS In early times palimpsests were parchments or othermaterials from which one or more writings had beenerased to give room for later records. But the eras-ures were not always complete; and so it became thefascinatin
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