Okay. You graduate from the small town of Giltner, Nebraska, major in architecture at UNL, and send out just four resumes. One of them to Jack Wilkins, with the architectural firm of Jack D. Wilkins a …
Categories: History
Category: History
Born on a farm in Minden, Nebraska, I moved to Kearney at age 13 when my father became Head of the Printing Department at Kearney State College. I spent my teenage age years riding my horse in the Pla …
Categories: Education, History, Literature
• Adventures in the West: Stories for Young People. Eds. Susanne George Bloomfield and Eric Melvin Reed. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, Fall 2007. Adventures in the West brings together tw …
Categories: History, Literature
The G.W. Frank Museum of History and Culture is a significant component of the Kearney area, and its story offers a long and rich historical look into Kearney’s early development. Located on the Unive …
Categories: History
Early music in pioneer Kearney is found in the Native peoples’ music culture of the Great Plains, so rich in diversity and developed from their cultural traditions – birth, death, rites of passage, se …
At the Buffalo County Historical Society – Trails & Rails Museum, local history is preserved every single day. The exhibits and archives tell us about the prominent art and cultural aspects of our …
Categories: History