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Here are some (not necessarily) interesting web mentions of Walnut Iowa that I have found scouring the web. :)
Be warned that most of the links on this page are "off-site" and may have pop-ups, pop-unders, pop-throughs, etc.
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Wednesday, January 09, 2008
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From Yahoo 360 a small slideshow of pix from the most recent AmVets Antique Walk. http://ca.blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-nJ6k7ZIyeqi6LD1GLN1JbJyd?p=386
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Saturday, February 12, 2005
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More bits and pieces of Walnut gleaned from the web now located in the Walnut Community Forum
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The winter 2004 edition of the UNO Alum has an in-depth feature on UNO Grad and Walnut resident Orien Hodges. Christmas is something of a way of life for Hodges. An entrepreneur who has started several of his own businesses, his full-time gig is owner of Country Classics, touted as Iowa's largest year round Christmas store. The store, which he's owned for 16 years, operates in downtown Walnut, Iowa's "antique city" (46 miles east of Omaha). UNO Alum Forum Link
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LittleBlakeBook Blog trip to the Iowa State Fair warrants a stop in Walnut along the way. Not to mention a spot (#15) in the very nice photo collection of the trip.
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Thursday, January 20, 2005
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'Antiques Roadshow' to air peek into Midlanders' closets The third hour gives the owner of a photo of Edgar Allan Poe a heart-stopping surprise. This relic was valued at $30,000 to $50,000. "Antiques Roadshow" drew some 7,000 people to Omaha, which is one of four stops on the PBS series' 2005 schedule. Two of the highest-appraised pieces will be among those featured. Omahan Sally Guest purchased her daguerreotype photo of Poe at a small shop in Walnut, Iowa. She collects early examples of photography and at first didn't know whose image she had. But after researching her photo, she discovered that she had a rare Poe photo, taken about three weeks before he died in 1849. Omaha.com Article
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Sunday, December 12, 2004
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Article in the Beatrice Daily Sun If enough quality antique dealers came in to the area, he said, antique-related tourism would have the potential to give a major boost to the local economy. Such a phenomenon has occurred in other small communities, such as Walnut, Iowa, and Weston, Mo., which have revitalized stagnant economies in the last 20 to 30 years by putting the towns on the map as antique Meccas. In Walnut, located 50 miles west of Omaha, a communitywide effort in the mid-1980s to promote antique-related tourism turned a bleak economic outlook around, according to Eldon Ranney, an antique dealer in the town who once owned two shops. Today, the town of 900 people has 18 antique shops. Property tax valuation is now four times what it was before the antique boom.
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From Siouxland's Things To Do and See: Day Trips Section:
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Saturday, July 24, 2004
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The National Weather Service has an online image gallery of the damage from the May 08 2004 tornado: 
Link: http://www.crh.noaa.gov/oax/archive/walnut_tor/walnut_tor.htm
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Sally Guest finds Edgar Allan Poe in Walnut... Omahan Sally Guest's daguerreotype photo was appraised at $30,000 to $50,000 by C. Wesley Cowan of Cowan's Historic Americana Auctions of Cincinnati. Guest bought her daguerreotype at a small shop in Walnut, Iowa, a year and a half ago. She collects early examples of photography and didn't really know whose image she had. From Omaha.com story about the Antique's Roadshow visiting Omaha. Link: http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_pg=1458&u_sid=1144960
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Wednesday, May 05, 2004
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Walnut, Iowa. Only 2 minutes off I-80 in western Iowa, you have no excuse to drive by this picturesque antique mecca. As you enter town, pass along a lovely tree-canopied avenue bordered by homes that are "cute as a button". Then feel the "clickity-clack" that only a brick-paved street can provide. Suddenly you are surrounded by old storefronts bursting at the seems with antiques and oozing with nostalgia. From Small Town Gems
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Saturday, March 06, 2004
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I-80 Park City Utah to New York City Road Trip Walnut, Iowa East 50 miles from Omaha (I 80 Exit 46), the storybook town of Walnut, Iowa is home to a large number of antique shops. The brick-paved streets of this village are flanked by antique shops and small antique malls. Reflecting the buttoned-up nature of the inhabitants, most of the shops are well-organized and inviting with merchandise several cuts above standard antique mall merchandise. A series of charming, well-kept old houses with lovely porches and one fine example of the Greek Revival style line the main street off this Norman Rockwell-like mid-western hamlet. From Biddington's Art Gallery
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Journal of Cookie Jar Shopping
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