Marker Monday: St Wenceslaus Catholic Cemetery Warsaw
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The cemetery was established in 1876, one year after the first settlers of the Czech club “Slovania” arrived in the Warsaw vicinity. The plot was donated ...
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Conservation Tools – Fume Extraction
Conservators use a lot of different tools and equipment when treating objects and artwork in the lab. This quarter’s blog posts from the Ford Center have been about ...
Patzel’s “Poo-ey” Piques Pigs’ Passion
When his last dynamic “Poo-ey” died away at the Omaha Auditorium on the night of September 11, 1926, Fred Patzel had won the title of World’s Champion Hog Caller.
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Blizzard of 1949
Blizzard, 1949. Francis Bateman, Box 142, Gordon, NE. Railroad tracks with snowdrifts towering above it to either side.
Custer County. Blizzard, 1949. A dog by ...
Fort Kearny as ‘a Sort of One-Horse Affair’
Fort Kearny was an important stop along the Platte River Road, the route shared by the Oregon, California, and Mormon trails. Some did not think it looked like a fort at ...
How a Lexington meatpacking plant changed Nebraska
Historians will mark the opening of the Lexington IBP plant on November 8, 1990, as a major event in Nebraska history.
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Marker Monday Capitol Hill
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This site on Capitol Hill was for a decade the location of Nebraska’s second territorial capitol. The building was erected here in 1857 and 1858 and ...
When the Territorial Capitol basement was a human litter box, 1859
In 1859 members of the legislature used the capitol basement's dirt floor as a latrine.
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How filing cabinets changed the world
This is a story of a piece of office infrastructure that quietly helped create the modern world. Nebraska newspapers first carried ads for filing cabinets in the ...
Fighting Words in Nebraska Territory
The motto on the Nebraska Territorial Seal, "Popular Sovereignty," was seen as a euphemism for the expansion of slavery.
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The gravestones with no names
This headstone once bore a child’s name, but it has been chiseled off. All other markers in the cemetery are likewise erased. Where is it?
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Senator Joseph McCarthy attacks President Truman on Omaha radio, 1951
By David L. Bristow, Editor
“You are not fooling anyone by screaming that McCarthy is lying,” said Sen. Joseph McCarthy into a KFAB microphone ...
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