My siblings and I attended Emerson Hough Elementary in Newton, Iowa, and I recall being taught at least a little bit about who Emerson Hough (1857-1923), the school's namesake, was. He was a person with many callings: teacher, lawyer, outdoorsman, writer, and conservationist. Hough was born in Newton, graduated from the Newton schools, and went on to publish several novels. Two of these (