Beth Cody’s research and publications In the News

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A short article about my research about T.R. Otsuka was published in the main newspaper of his hometown, Kochi, Japan. Here’s a translation. Kochi Shimbun 高知新聞, January 9, 2024
My name was mentioned in this news story about the renovation of the Japanese garden at the Muscatine Art Center, for my research about the history of the garden. WQAD, November 17, 2023
“Book Review” by Christian Tagsold
Journal of the North American Japanese Garden Association,
No. 10, 2023 (click image for article pdf)
“Recovering the Works of T.R. Otsuka” by Beth Cody
Journal of the North American Japanese Garden Association,
No. 10, 2023 (click image for article pdf)
Back to the Past in Newly-Rehabilitated Japanese Garden
by Lynn Bartenhagen, River Cities’ Reader, October 26, 2023
“Muscatine Art Center Opens Two Exhibitions Spotlighting Local History”
by Lynn Bartenhagen, River Cities’ Reader, August 25, 2022
“Lost landscape: Rock Island Arsenal’s Quarters One once boasted river garden, formal flower beds”
by Alma Gaul, Quad City Times November 7, 2021
“Laura Musser’s garden; Historic Japanese landscape will be preserved under 2-year plan”
by Alma Gaul, Quad City Times, October 27, 2021

“Gardens Through Iowa History”
by Veronica Lorson Fowler ia magazine 2022

“Exploring Iowa Gardens Of The Past”
Radio interview with Charity Nebbe, “Talk of Iowa,” Iowa Public Radio, May 12, 2021

Zoom talk “Iowa Garden Styles of the Past”
(link to watch on Youtube)
State Historical Society of Iowa “Iowa Stories” April 8, 2021

Book Review in The Annals of Iowa
by Heidi Hohmann, The Annals of Iowa, vol. 80, no. 1 Winter 2020
Iowa History Journal Book Reviews
by Michael Swanger, Iowa History Journal September/October 2020
Lose Yourself in the Dazzling Iowa Gardens of the Past
by Scott Kunst, August 11, 2020, Friends of Old Bulbs Gazette
Burlington noted for green thumb
by Beth Cody, July 14, 2020, The Hawk Eye (Burlington)

Q-C gardens gone but not forgotten
by Alma Gaul, Jul 11, 2020, Quad-City Times (Davenport)

Past and present, gardening increases in Council Bluffs
by Beth Cody, July 5, 2020, The Daily Nonpareil (Council Bluffs)
‘Iowa Gardens of the Past’: Author explores lost, historic Iowa gardens
by Melody Parker, June 21, 2020, The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier
Des Moines Sunday Register
June 14, 2020

Iowans’ gardening boom is true to our state’s roots
by Beth Cody, June 14, 2020, Des Moines Sunday Register

Love of gardening blossoms into a book
by Kalen McCain, June 11, 2020, The News (Kalona)
Peek into the past: Book documents historic gardens of Iowa
by Alison Gowans, June 7, 2020 Cedar Rapids Gazette
Iowans increase gardening in crisis — as they did in years past…
May 7, 2020, Grinnell Herald Register
It’s a great time to return to our gardens
May 17, 2020, Telegraph Herald, Dubuque

Pandemic Hobbies: Iowans Going Back to Their Roots with Gardening
by: Whitney Blakemore, May 1, 2020, 13 WHO-TV, Des Moines

Iowa gardens of the past live again in all-encompassing book
Judy Terry, Special to the Iowa City Press-Citizen, April 30, 2020