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Cool Off with Nebraska’s Ice Industry

Cool Off with Nebraska’s Ice Industry

Today a manmade lake in Saunders County is part of a recreation area, but the lake itself was not made for recreation. It was made for ice. Memphis State Recreation Area is a fine place for fishing and boating, but it’s also an unusual legacy of Nebraska’s meatpacking...
Timeline Tuesday: An 1880s Hair Hoax

Timeline Tuesday: An 1880s Hair Hoax

Five young women style hair in a tent in this photo taken near Monroe, Nebraska around 1905. RG5762-16   It was the style during the 1880s and 1890s for women to augment their own long hair with carefully matched hair from other humans or animals. Nebraska women...
Yutan Tornado – March 23, 1913

Yutan Tornado – March 23, 1913

Most Nebraskans remember the devastating tornado outbreak of March 23, 1913, for the destruction it wrought in Omaha, but there were other communities devastated by the Easter Sunday Tornado. One such community was Yutan, a city in Saunders County with a population of...