Episode 79: The Angel

A cemetery in Iowa City is famous — not really for anyone laid to rest there, but for a statue. The Black Angel is mysterious and otherworldly — and her metamorphosis, both physical and in legend, leaves us with a lot of questions. 


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Irving B. Weber, “How’s your building…” Iowa City Press-Citizen, 1974.

NA, “Nearly every poet…” Iowa City Daily Iowan, 1977.

NA, “Teresa Feldevert,” Iowa City Press-Citizen, 1979.

Lyle Muller, “Vandals damage ‘Black Angel…’” Iowa City Press-Citizen, 1983.

NA, “The Black Angel…” Iowa City Press-Citizen, 1996.

NA, “The Black Angel leaves…” The Leader-Post, 1997.

Bob Hibbs, “Saturday Postcard: The Black…” Iowa City Press-Citizen, 2003.

Emily Pearson, “Iowa City’s Black…” The Muscatine Journal, 2003.

Vanessa Miller, “Myth surrounds angel,” Iowa City Press-Citizen, 2004.

Suzanne Hogan, “How a black angel statue…” KCUR, 2016.

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