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• Spring Volunteer Training at the American Gothic House Center - March 19, 2008
• 2008 American Gothic House Art Contest - March 5, 2008
• Grant Wood Soup Smorgasbord - January 24, 2008
• Gingerbread Wonderland at the AGHC - December 3, 2007
• American Gothic Photos Available on Site - November 23, 2007
• Of “Intress” – Misty Water-Colored Memories Exhibit - Nov. 19, 2007
• Oak Savannah Planting at Center - November 14, 2007
• Eldon Does Something Cool - Plants Trees With Help From Trees Forever and Alliant Energy - September 18, 2007
• $5,000 Alliant Energy / Trees Forever Grant Awarded - Aug. 28, 2007

Read articles about the American Gothic House and the new visitors' center!

Ottumwa Courier

• Christmas around the area - December 10, 2007
• Photo help at Gothic Center thanks to grant - November 23, 2007
• Proud of Visitors Center at American Gothic House - October 7, 2007
• Thanks for supporting Gothic House Center - June 20, 2007
• Gothic Days celebration a picture-perfect affair - June 10, 2007
• Great day planned at Gothic Days celebration - June 8, 2007
• New center a highlight of next weekend’s Eldon Gothic Days - June 1, 2007
• Strom named Gothic House Visitors Center administrator - April 11, 2007
• Excitement growing in Eldon - January 11, 2007
• Construction of Gothic House Center under way - November 21, 2006
• Supporters share historic moment in Eldon - August 8, 2006
• Gothic House Visitor's Center receives funding - May 5, 2006
• Wapello Co. Supervisors to look at Gothic House's 28E agreement between Eldon and county - December 16, 2005
• Eldon receives $15,000 grant Visitor Center construction - December 7, 2005

Associated Press

• Struggling Iowa town finds hope in American Gothic painting - August 3, 2007 from USA Today
• American Gothic House Slide Show Video - August 2, 2007 from Dateline Florida
• A house, a woman, a man with a pitchfork -- and an icon - August 4, 2001
• Nan W. Graham 91, Model for Daughter In "Gothic," Is Dead - December 17, 1990

The New York Times

• From Curbside to Canvas: The House as Muse - July 28, 2005
• "American Gothic": A Man, a Woman and a Pitchfork- July 10, 2005

Miscellaneous

• Behind Grant Wood's canvas: Travels on Grant Wood's trail by Emily Grosvenor - September 2007 from ArtScene Iowa
• New Center Lets Visitors Go "Gothic" - June 5, 2007 from the Des Moines Register
• American Gothic: Genesis to nemesis by Roger Sandall - March 2006
• Vacant 'American Gothic' house home to American art history - August 7, 2005 from JS Online
• The Story Behind Grant Wood's 'American Gothic' - July 12, 2005 from NPR
• In the Background - June 17, 2005 from Preservation Online
• So, Does it Speak to You? by Thomas Hoving from the Los Angeles Times - June 13, 2005
  
• American Gothic - November 18, 2002 from NPR