Before attending Men on Boats at the Des Moines Playhouse' newly renovated black box Studio Theatre this past weekend, I ...

May 11 -- Powell supervises the unloading of his boats and supplies from a Union ... August 8 -- Redwall Cavern, John Wesley Powell: "The water sweeps rapidly in this elbow of river, and has ...

Led by John Wesley Powell, a one-armed crazy-faced explorer with an excitable soul, this motley bunch faces treacherous Colorado River rapids and the unexplored American frontier. Governed by ...

John Wesley Powell is born on March 24 in Mount ... and suggests a new plan for settling Western territories. Powell is one of 33 men to found the National Geographic Society.

Rock and Roll Rapids and Handmade Nature - ten women on four boats craft a contemporary journey of John Wesley Powell's 1869 expedition through the Grand Canyon. “…Marvelously destabilizing ...

"Men on Boats" will offer spectators "a wild ride down the Colorado River with a satirical take on the 1869 John Wesley ...