Viva Dubuque
Welcome to the Dubuquer, a blog about the mystique of Dubuque, Iowa.
The title is derived from The New Yorker, a magazine of which founder Harold Ross famously delcared in the 1920s, “. . . is not edited for the old lady in Dubuque.”
Runner-up blog title: Viva Dubuque, taken from the October 25, 1992 New York Times article by J.M. Fenster, “Move Over, Vegas: Viva Dubuque; Casinos are cropping up everywhere from mountain saloons to Mississippi riverboats.”
March 5, 2007 at 9:22 pm
Hello! I am also in Dubuque. Nice start for your weblog!
March 6, 2007 at 10:16 pm
Thanks, Pamela. I like your site, too, at http://creativedubuque.com/. I’m looking forward to seeing your portfolio, and hope you post more photos at Flickr soon, especially of Dubuque.
March 15, 2007 at 8:40 pm
Ross obviously did not know that the old lady in Dubuque probably spoke German, played euchre, and thought a shot of schnapps in the morning, before Mass, was a great idea.
April 27, 2008 at 10:59 am
Interestingly, the TH special anniversary Dubuque magazine that was published in March, credited the New York Times, and not the New Yorker, with the whole Little Old Lady from Dubuque phrase. I don’t have the article anymore, though; I used it to start my grill. I use a chimney instead of lighter fluid. ;)
May 14, 2008 at 10:32 pm
And that’s so obvious — The New Yorker has much better cartoons! Duh! Are you reading this, TH reporters?
kibblesbits, your blog http://kibblesbits.wordpress.com/ is excellent! I can’t think of a more interesting perspective on Dubuque than that of a Quaker from Brooklyn. :)
I really need to write a post about Dubuque blogs. There are some good ones, but hard to find.
May 15, 2008 at 3:40 am
I would love to see a review and/or list of Dubuque blogs. At some point tomorrow I should make a feed of this for my reader — keeping track of blogs outside of livejournal isn’t easy for me.
There is a lot of creativity in Dubuque. I am so looking forward to Dubuquefest this weekend. Accessible art? Affordable, original art? It’s a DREAM of mine.
I want to make a post about how Dubuque NOW is everything I loved about Brooklyn YEARS ago. The community, the activities, etc. Now that I’m on a short break from school, I think I will.