This week’s photo shows future congressman and senator Tom Harkin asking support from my mother, Sue Perry. The photo was taken in 1974 at 406 W. Madison St. in Mount Ayr. Fifty-two years ago, politicians went door-to-door soliciting support. This is my seventh article surrounding my memories of Mount Ayr in the early 1970s.
My newspaper route afforded me the opportunity to see different neighborhoods, other than my own. My route was bordered on…
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