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Outside Magazine places Davenport in nation's Top 20
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Press release submitted by Quad Cities CVB Outside Magazine places Davenport in nation's Top 20 Riverfront towns Outside Magazine, the nation's leading adventure travel magazine with a circulation of just about 700,000, has named Davenport, iowa as one of America's top 20 riverfront towns. The magazine in its October 2012 issue wrote that its mission was to select America's most progressive, adventurours, and livable river towns. Editors partnered with American Rivers to select ten towns, then turned to its readers to nominate another ten to round out the 20. Davenport, the article notes, defies the region's reputation for cornfields and grain silos with culture – the Figge Art Museum – rugged recreation – Friends of Off Road Cycling 30 miles of mountain bike trails. The article also notes the Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival and unreal bass and walleye fishing on the Mississippi River. (Note: the Quad Cities has hosted six national FLW Outdoors fishing championship in recent years and is set to host its seventh, the FLW Outdoors National Guard Walleye Championship Oct. 25-28, 2012.) "Bix, Blues and the lovely Mississippi " the article concludes. Of special note is the the fact that the October issue of the magazine is its 35th anniversary issue, certain to attract more readers and attention. Outside Magazine editorial offices are in Santa Fe, NM. The phone number is (505) 989-7100. The magazine's mission is to cover the people, sports, activities, politics, art, literature and hardware of the outdoors. The Top Ten riverfront towns are: Richmond VA Nevada City CA Boise ID Durango CO Missoula MT Nashville TN Milwaukee WI Asheville NC Hood River OR Ithaca NY Rounding out the Top 20 are: LaCrosse WI Bristol VT Great Falls MT Davenport IA Cle Elum WA Jackson WY Columbia SC Salida CO Sacramento CA Eugene OR 
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Today is Thursday, May 23, the 143rd day of 2013. There are 222 days left in the year.
1863 — 150 years ago: Messrs. J. and M. Rosenfield have moved their leather and hidestore to the building formerly occupied by Temple Bufords's store. They buy and sellhides, pelts, furs, wool, beeswax, lard, tallow, etc.
1888 -- 125 years ago: The Rock Island Lumber Company has recovered 5,000 of the8,000 logs that were carried away by the Mississippi River flood last week.
1913 -- 100 years ago: John J. Ullemeyer has been awarded the contract to furnish RockIsland fire and police department members with uniforms, at the city's expense.
1938 -- 75 years ago: Work on Aledo's new $38,000 swimming pool was started thismorning at South Park when ground for the pool was broken by Mayor John W. Murphy.
1963 -- 50 years ago: Students and teacher at Moline High School called today "MissLeona Day" day at the school in honor of the government teacher who retires at theend of the school term. Although she's been teaching for 43 years at the school, Miss Dayfound a new way of arriving at the school this morning. At 7:30 a.m., a police squad carpulled up in front of Miss Day's home and escorted her to school. A caravan of students' cars joined the procession along the way.
1988 -- 25 years ago: Barbecue cooking and riverfront antics are planned for Discover the
River Day Saturday in Leach Park, Bettendorf. A 5K run, wind surfing, a canoe race, hogcalling and more will round out the day under the Interstate 74 bridge.
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