Just curious: This occasional feature in the Des Moines Register aims to answer your questions about Iowa. Is there some place, event, lore, history or cultural quirk you're just curious about?

Dozens, if not hundreds, of questions come to mind at the mention of Amelia Earhart’s name. What happened to her plane? What caused the crash? Did Earhart and her navigator escape? Was she just ...

Do you want to see it?” Ric Gillespie asks, reaching for a black portfolio resting on the floor of his Pennsylvania farmhouse. He extracts a sheet of aluminum, about 18 by 24 inches—bent ...

George Putnam recognized that the growing collection of Amelia Earhart's trophies called for a more suitable storage solution. He commissioned a stunning trophy chest from the renowned woodworking ...

Amelia Earhart and her long-lost plane were last seen when they took off from Papua New Guinea in 1937 Abigail Adams is a Human Interest Writer and Reporter for PEOPLE. She has been working in ...

Amelia Earhart, a Kansas girl, discovers the thrill of aviation at age 23, and within 12 years has progressed to winning the Distinguished Flying Cross for being the first woman to pilot a plane ...