Miles Maryott paintings
NSHS 10220-93, Source: NSHS Foundation
Miles Maryott was born in Burt County, Nebraska in 1873. During his early years he played professional baseball in a number ...
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Timeline Tuesday: A Bogus Detective Agency
Modern attempts to defraud the credulous by offering membership in a group with accompanying benefits in exchange for an upfront payment have long roots. The Omaha Daily ...
Flashback Friday: “Everything Seems to be Going Backwards These Days”: The Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben in Omaha – Thomas M. Spencer
Like much of the nation, Omaha in 1895 was struggling in the doldrums of the Panic of 1893, one of the worst and longest economic downturns in the nation’s history. Some ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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
Marker Text
West-bound travelers will leave the prairie ...
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 ...
Marker Monday: Lyons
Location
Herb Brink Memorial Park near entrance to ballfield, Lyons, Burt County, Nebraska
View this marker's location 41.9362, -96.4822
Marker Text
The first ...
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 Once mandatory, penmanship and typing courses have been replaced by instruction in keyboarding. ...
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 ...
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