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One family builds tradition at Iowa’s state parks

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By Brian Morelli
| The Gazette (Cedar Rapids, IA)
For one Iowa family, time in the great outdoors isn’t just a getaway — it is a way of life. Since 2008, Tyler and Katie DeMaris have been camping their way across Iowa’s state parks, continuing a theme from their own childhoods. At first, they just brought a tent and their family dog. As their family grew, they’d introduce their love of nature and “roughing it” to their four children: Harper (14), Miles (12), Hazel (10) and Ripley (5).
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'The Hinterland vibes are back': Iowa's biggest music fest returned with a vengeance for 10th year

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By Brian Morelli
| Little Village
This August, as campers and day-passholders streamed into the expanded grounds of Hinterland Music Festival, the question wasn’t just whether the music would be good. The lineups have always delivered — while becoming more diverse and high-profile over the years — and promised to do so again with the likes of Tyler, the Creator, Tracey Musgraves and Lana Del Rey topping the bill Aug. 1, 2 and 3.
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Hinterland 2024 had the hottest lineup yet. But has Iowa’s largest music festival gotten too big?  - Little Village

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By Brian Morelli
| Little Village
Live music was once the center of my young adult life. Road tripping from venue-to-venue. Mountains, gorges or rolling hills backdropping stages. Foggy memories of great music, and artists I’d forgotten by the time their sets ended. Drenched by sun or rain, it didn’t matter. The music was fuel for the soul. We’d laugh, dance and party like the night wouldn’t end. Sometimes it didn’t. If open to the experience, you’d feel like you were part of it all.
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