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by Tom Milest Kearney Creates Network
Margaret’s Thanksgiving

You would think the oncoming season would make most folks around Cottonwood Corner think warm…

People: Tom Miles Categories: Literature, Stories Tags: locally grown
Stages and Stagings

At this stage in the life of the gray wolf. What? You expected me to…

Categories: Music, Theater Tags: MONA
Kearney's Crane Capital Sign
Reflecting on the First Year of “Kearney Creates”

As we look down Central Avenue in Kearney, Nebraska, we see an endless roadway with…

Categories: Technology
Wendy Fort Dancing Truth to Power
Dancing in Kearney

“Our bodies are designed to move and there’s something intrinsic within us that wants us…

Categories: Art, Music, Theater
Original 1733 Magic Marker for Kearney on Highway Route 30
Kearney’s Musical Life – Mosaic of Music II

1733 Ballroom. People came from 100 miles around to dance there. Certainly the bands would…

Categories: Music
Five Cowboys playing and singing to their horses
Kearney’s Musical Life – Mosaic of Music 1

Early music in pioneer Kearney is found in the Native peoples’ music culture of the…

Categories: History, Music
Marion Canfield Smith, Artist
History of Art in Kearney

Kearney’s art is a wealth of its dramatic history and unique demonstration of topics and…

Categories: Art
Jennifer Homan, "Meandering Skies" 2014.
Kearney’s Landscape Art

Nebraska’s sky and clouds offer artists a magic panorama. Various landscape techniques from Europe influenced…

Categories: Art