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RECOMMENDATIONS 8. Apply for Silos and Smokestacks National 11. Investigate the interest of independent
Heritage Area grants to create additional media producers such as Fourth Wall
Document and research interpretive narratives� Films and Iowa Public Television in
1. Establish a subcommittee of the Byway 9. Fully flesh out and interpret local incidents creating documentary programming on
Board or management team to establish related to nationally significant events the unique relationship between the True
goals and set priorities for interpretation. such as the Lincoln Highway, Mormon Inspirationists and the Meskwaki.
2. Apply for additional funding to prepare an migration, and Underground Railroad. 12. Develop and interpret the story of Iowa’s
interpretation plan for the IVSB. 10. Research and prepare new and revised conservation efforts in the IVSB and
3. Based on the interpretive plan, select interpretive narratives about significant efforts to reclaim prairie, wetlands, and
wildlife habitats (particularly birds).
major themes and develop texts and and recently identified or recognized
images for interpretive signage and historic and cultural resources (see 13. Develop and interpret some of the stories
install along the IVSB. Utilize the CDRom): General Land Office Survey of courage and resilience as suggested
1999 field inventory of the Iowa Valley maps/notes, “ghost towns,” pioneer by local residents at recent community
Scenic Byway’s visual features and the cemeteries, rural churches, Patterson events. Examples include :
maps presented in this CMP to identify Trading Post, Meskwaki Village Site, and ○ The Meskwaki land purchase
appropriate locations for interpretive other historic archaeological sites, historic ○ Meskwaki Code Talkers
signage. personages such as the Meskwaki Code
Talkers, seasonal use of resources, and ○ Surviving the 2008 flood
4. Fully research and interpret the story native crafts�
of the interaction between the True ○ Surviving the change from Amana’s
Inspirationists and the Meskwaki. communal structure to the current
corporate/private system
5. Update current historical interpretive
narratives at the Amana Colonies to
showcase the relationship between the
Meskwaki and the True Inspirationists.
6. Develop the agricultural and early
industrial stories of the Corridor as part
of the Byway’s new designation as the
first included as a Silos and Smokestacks
Heritage Area partner site.
7� Develop interpretive information on
Century and Heritage Farms in the IVSB,
and, with permission of landowners,
acknowledge such properties with
signage.
