Creating the Black Utopia of Buxton, Iowa from Arcadia Publishing Artist_Amy Rice between wild and cultivated

between wild and cultivated

Portrait of a Harlequin Great Dane

tested for water-tightness

Japanese woodblock prints

Creating the Black Utopia of Buxton, Iowa from Arcadia Publishing Artist_Amy Rice between wild and cultivatedSome have called Buxton a Black Utopia. In the town of five thousand residents, established in 1900, African Americans and Caucasians lived, worked and attended school together. It was a thriving, one of a kind coal mining town created by the Consolidation Coal Company. This inclusive approach provided opportunity for its residents. Dr. E. A. Carter was the first African American to get a medical degree from the University of Iowa in 1907. He returned