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Timeline Tuesday: Christmas for a Nebraska Soldier
Andrew S. Wadsworth in 1898 went with the First Nebraska Regiment to the Philippines as a soldier in the first phase of the Spanish American War. He had previously been ...
Marker Monday: Paragon Cemetery
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Paragon Lutheran Church evolved from Bow Valley Evangelical Lutheran Church, established in 1873. Founding families were Albert Erdenberger, ...
Flashback Friday: The Folk Songs of Great Plains Homesteading: Anthems, Laments, and Political Songs
“Uncle Sam is rich enough to give us all a farm.” So proclaimed a popular song from the early 1850s. In that era, good old Uncle Sam undoubtedly had deep enough pockets, ...
Flashback Friday: Folkways of a One-House Legislature – State Senator Bill Avery (LD-28)
Nebraska state senator Bill Avery represented Legislative District 28 (Lincoln) 2007-2015. A retired professor of politlical science at the University of ...
Timeline Tuesday: Business Education
Practical business education has changed greatly during the last century. Once mandatory, penmanship and typing courses have been replaced by instruction in keyboarding. ...
Marker Monday: Lyons
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Herb Brink Memorial Park near entrance to ballfield, Lyons, Burt County, Nebraska
View this marker's location 41.9362, -96.4822
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The first ...
Flashback Friday: Frank H. Shoemaker, Self-Made Naturalist and Photographer – Mary Ellen Ducey, Elaine Nowick, and Rebecca Bernthal
Frank Shoemaker ranks among important early Nebraskans who applied their interest in nature to learning more about the state and its environmental history. As an amateur ...
Timeline Tuesday: J. D. Calhoun on Arbor Day
"The Herald observed Arbor Day duly and regularly," reported editor J. D. Calhoun in the Lincoln Weekly Herald on April 26, 1890. In honor of the holiday, Calhoun ...
Marker Monday: The Great Plains
Location
Rest Area, Kearney, Buffalo County, Nebraska
View this marker's location 40.671154, -99.12191
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West-bound travelers will leave the prairie ...
Circles in Corn Leave Farmers Forlorn
Crop circles, flattened, geometric patterns in fields of standing grain, have appeared in Nebraska. One theory is that Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) created the ...
A Theater Where Every Movie is Scary
The Alliance Theater building began as the Charter Hotel in 1903 and became a theater in 1938. Theater employees have reported seeing shadowy figures, hearing footsteps ...
Ghost Abound In Nebraska Towns!
Ghost stories (and ghosts?) have been around through the ages. Here are just a few accounts of Nebraska's otherworldly citizens.
A Storyteller's ...
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