Increasing conflict threatens promise of quiet life in rural Iowa

ST. CHARLES — The road out of St. Charles still carries the old promise of rural Iowa.

It’s a stillness Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep brought to movie screens in “The Bridges of Madison County,” farmhouses tucked into open, idyllic fields and a quieter life.

Here, Diane Fitch, a Madison County supervisor, said she found the peace she lacked as a child growing up with an abusive father who struggled with alcoholism…

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