After brother Dennis graduated from journalism school at the University of Iowa, he went to work for the Quad Cities’ — Davenport and Bettendorf in Iowa; Moline and Rock Island in Illinois; all converging on the Mississippi River — leading newspaper as a reporter. En route to the east coast on business trips, I stopped over for weekend visits to see his family, including baby Gabrielle. On one rainy May day, he drove me around the area in his VW bug. While there is nothing of particular photographic noteworthiness here, we do present evidence that the dismal quality of life in that part of the country was not just a rural phenomenon.
