Walnut News

After graduating from high school, in the small farming community of Walnut, Iowa, Vern Mertz joined the U.S. Navy.

A capricious Mother Nature, brandishing weapons of deluge, drought, scorching heat, and frost, has long possessed a power to destroy the livelihood of farming families populating small prairie towns like Walnut, Iowa.

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Myrtle Huber was a young nursing student in 1944 living in Walnut, Iowa, when she received a letter from another nurse, who was treating her older brother, a road-building engineer, for malaria in Burma at the time.

Iowa has become one of the leading producers of wind energy. The giant wind turbines are impossible to miss.