Famous People of Dallas County is an ongoing series on people with county ties that have left their mark on the county, state and beyond. Iowa was not yet a state and the Town of Redfield in Dallas ...

Redfield actually got its name from the founder of a nearby settlement and almost became the Dallas County community that wasn’t. Confused? Most people know that Redfield was named after Col. James ...

Here I was, my first week in town, and this is the assignment: Profile James Redfield, the author of “The Celestine Prophecy,” a man who believes everything happens for a reason. There it is, right on ...

James Redfield was 43 when he published The Celestine Prophecy, which chronicles Nine Insights into a greater spirituality. Born in 1950, he grew up in a rural area near Birmingham, Alabama.Brought up ...