by David Bristow | May 24, 2023 | Blog
By David L. Bristow May 24, 2023 Fifty years ago the women’s basketball team of tiny John F. Kennedy College in Wahoo traveled to China for a series of games against the Chinese women’s national team–a story that combines international politics, changing...
by evolempirecreative | Oct 29, 2022 | Blog
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...
by evolempirecreative | Oct 29, 2022 | Blog
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...
by evolempirecreative | Oct 29, 2022 | Blog
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...
by evolempirecreative | Oct 29, 2022 | Blog
The year 2014 is the centenary of the beginning of World War I. Although the war began in Europe with a chain of events arising from the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, the rest of the world...
