Wapello

US 61 is closed to traffic in both directions from northern city limits of Wapello, Iowa to south of IA 92 due to flooding.

Iowa DOT Announces Road Closures After Flooding Hits 2008

There was another stop after Wapello that night, in Muscatine, where people holding candles lined the highway; and then it seemed to grow too late for crowds.

On The Road Again 2008

But there stood John Bruce on the shoulder of Highway 61 in Wapello, Iowa, holding his right hand-which had just shaken Bill Clinton's-as if he didn't quite know what to do with it.

On The Road Again 2008

But like many farmers outside the tiny town of Wapello, last year he didn't rake a single dollar out of his fields, thanks to the flood of '93.

To The River, The Spoils 2008

Ilan Brat/WSJ Only one acre of Kenneth Meeker's 1,200 acres of corn and soybeans near Wapello, Iowa, survived flooding.

Flood-Ravaged Farmers 2008

In Wapello, John Bruce never got a chance to unload his gripe.

On The Road Again 2008

From the time Josie was seven she was taken to see whatever Wapello was offered in the way of the drama.

Cheerful—By Request Edna Ferber 1926

But the merry-eyed woman had vanished -- she of the Wapello colouring that had persisted during all these years.

Cheerful—By Request Edna Ferber 1926

She had danced and sung with a pert confidence, and the _Courier_ had pronounced her talents not amateur, but professional, and had advised the managers (who, no doubt, read the Wapello _Courier_ daily, along with their _Morning Telegraph_) to seek her out, and speedily.

Cheerful—By Request Edna Ferber 1926

Any one who has ever lived in Wapello, Iowa, or its equivalent, remembers the old opera house on the corner of Main and Elm, with

Cheerful—By Request Edna Ferber 1926