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Jane Smiley: The Mill

Jane Smiley: The Mill

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Location
The Mill Restaurant
120 EAST BURLINGTON ST.
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When I met Steve, he was getting his BA in the art department, and was singing at the Mill with various partners. As I had spent college going to basketball games, so I spent most of my time in Iowa City in a booth at the Mill, listening to Steve or our friends play on the stage. He had a set of friends, too, not Workshoppers, but native Iowa Citians – a motorcycle club, fellow cooks and bartenders at the Mill, an art student or two, girls he dated and slept with, relatives. People from most of our friend groups lived with us off and on the whole time we rented the American Legion Road house. We also had cats and a Great Dane.

 

 

Smiley, Jane. “Iowa City Days,” The Writing University website