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Fishing Tales in Nebraska
Fishing Tale, 1867
A brief note on the pleasures of fishing appeared in the Nebraska City News, May 25, 1867. The piece is unsigned, but the author may have been J. ...
Timeline Tuesday: Baseball in Early Lincoln
Edward Manley, a Chicago educator, was the son of Samuel Manley, one of the five men that composed the faculty of the University of Nebraska when classes first began in ...
Timeline Tuesday: Tractors
One of the most useful farm machines, the tractor, was developed prior to World War I. Probably the first big demonstration of gasoline tractors in the United States was ...
Timeline Tuesday: Darryl F. Zanuck
Darryl F. Zanuck (1902-1979), a native Nebraskan, produced some of Hollywood's most important and controversial films. He helped found 20th Century Fox and remained a ...
Marker Monday: Ash Hollow
Marker Text
Note: Some markers have not aged well. History is written by people, and people have biases and blind spots. This marker mistakes a bit of folklore ...
Marker Monday: The Leavenworth and Pike’s Peak Express
Location
Texas Ave, Stratton, Hitchcock County, Nebraska 40.148300, -101.2348
Marker Text
In the spring of 1859 William H. Russell and John S. Jones established ...
Throwback Thursday Photo, George Churley and Puppets
Today’s Throwback Thursday photo features puppeteer George Churley surrounded by a few of his many creations. George served as producer, writer, and talent for “Kalamity ...
Vietnam: The Fight for the Land
Ken Burns’ latest documentary, “The Vietnam War,” premieres in September 2017. But in the early 1960s, Omaha TV station KMTV aired a special on Vietnam called “The Fight ...
Five Ways to Experience the History of Nebraska
#1 Chimney Rock
Feel the awe and curiosity the pioneers experienced when they saw the most famous landmark on the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails.
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Hunger’s Coffin
By the start of the twentieth century the pain of death had been softened for many Americans. Professional undertakers, rather than family members, laid out and attended ...
Beauty and the Beast
The Red Cloud Opera House on February 4, 1888, was the scene of an amateur theatrical entitled Beauty and the Beast. Small-town opera houses hosted such entertainments ...
Bedbugs
The current resurgence of bedbugs in the United States has brought the little pests once again into the limelight after decades of obscurity. Our pioneer ancestors, ...
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