
For Our Members
Upcoming Meeting Information
We hope you’ll be able to attend. Past Meeting Information The Iowa Compact Day meeting was held Saturday, November 4, 2023, at the Machine Shed Restaurant in Urbandale. Guest speaker Kate Levasseur has researched the lives of some of the famous and not-so-famous residents of two of Central Iowa’s historic cemeteries - Woodland Cemetery in Des Moines, and the Jordan Cemetery in West Des Moines. Ms. Levasseur told stories of Civil War soldiers, groundbreaking female activists and those who were part of the fight for freedom as part of the Underground Railroad in her presentation titled "Tombstones & Tales of Woodland & Jordan Cemeteries.
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