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A Blizzard Can (Sometimes) Be Fun
Young people have a different perspective on the hardships of winter. During the legendary winter of 1949, Charlie Wright was sixteen years old and staying at his ...
Clouds of Grasshoppers in 1874
By David L. Bristow
“In a clear, hot July day a haze came over the sun,” Addison Sheldon recalled. “The haze deepened into a gray cloud. Suddenly the ...
Conserving a Midwestern Family Legacy
The Gerald Ford Conservation Center recently preserved two documents from the life of Lillie Gillilan Chambers (1885-1972). The first was her high school diploma, which ...
Nebraskans’ Booze Hiding Spots
The passage of the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution outlawed the manufacture and sale of liquor nationwide, but statewide prohibition was ...
Looking Back on the Blizzard of 1888
Below are three different looks at how the Blizzard of 1888 affected Nebraskans. One is from the Superintendent of the Nebraska State Historical Society (History ...
Mysterious Case of Pearl Forcade
In early January 1885 teenage prostitute Pearl Forcade was killed by a drunken man at "Mollie's Hall" in Lincoln. When her brothers arrived at Wyuka cemetery to claim ...
A Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Story Played Out in Western Nebraska in 1968
This article appears in the Winter 2023 issue of Nebraska History Magazine, a quarterly publication of History Nebraska. Family-plus members receive four issues per ...
Marker Monday: John G. Neihardt Study
Marker Text
The building was erected on this site in the 1890s for August Hartman and used as a residence by various owners until 1964. Poet John G. Neihardt ...
Pari-mutuel vs. Unicameral. Which is Which?
In the 1934 election, Nebraskans voted on two measures with funny-sounding names: a unicameral legislature and pari-mutuel betting. Both measures passed. It has long ...
A Winter Fire in Downtown Omaha, Nebraska
Early on January 4, 1940, a fire broke out in the Henshaw Hotel. The hotel, located at 1511 Farnam Street in Omaha, Nebraska, was one of many hotels in the downtown ...
A New Year’s Eclipse
The most memorable feature of New Year’s Day in Nebraska in 1889 was a solar eclipse that occurred between three and four o’clock in the afternoon. The Omaha Daily ...
Sleighing Fun
When pioneer Nebraskans wanted to get somewhere in a hurry, they waited for snow. When it snowed, sleighs appeared, adding ease and pleasure to winter ...
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