My Times colleague Connie Stewart has a nice piece about the Fenelon Place Elevator in her hometown of Dubuque, Iowa.

Times obituary writer Elaine Woo profiles Cahuilla Indian leader Katherine Siva Saubel, one of the few speakers of the Cahuilla language, who died at the age of 91.

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