Locally Grown

Before our series celebrating Kearney’s Sesquicentennial, Kearney Creates had already given some attention to Jon Bokenkamp, Claire and Shelley Fort, Javi Fox, Jerry Fox, Jenny Homan, Tom Miles, Jim a …

Categories: Art, Culinary, Education, History, Literature, Music, Photography, Theater

Elisha Hardekopf

Amplified ~ The journal and newsletter of the Office of Equity and Diversity September 2022 Words from Elisha Hardekopf, Director of Building a Community of Equity The Route to Authenticity When my gr …

Categories: Education, Literature, Poetry, Stories, Writers

Resolutions

Well, hi there and thanks for settin’ with me a spell here on the liar’s bench. I don’t remember if I ever wished you a happy new year, but I do hope you have a good one even if it’s not so new anymor …

Categories: Literature, Stories

Merryman Performing Arts Center

In 2006, Kearney Public Schools alumnus Robert M. Merryman and local institutional supporters, including the Ron and Carol Cope Foundation, and the Scott D. Morris family, joined hundreds of donors fr …

Categories: Art, Literature, Music

Rick Brown

Rick Brown began writing personal columns for the Kearney Hub after he sent a batch of letters to its editor, Mike Konz. In these letters-to-the-editor, he approached everyday subjects with more than …

Categories: Literature, Writers

Margaret’s Thanksgiving

You would think the oncoming season would make most folks around Cottonwood Corner think warm and happy thoughts. These holidays are of the merriest sort, after all. Yet I would not put too much confi …

Categories: Literature

Armin-Gerd Kuckhoff

Armin-Gerd spent the early years of his life in a monastery children’s home, later he spent most of his youth in boarding schools. After his parents divorced, his mother married the actor Hans Otto, w …

Categories: Education, Literature, Theater

Josef Jarab

In 1989, Jarab had become one of the leaders of the Velvet Revolution in Eastern Czechoslovakia. In 1994, he recounted a story about speaking to a crowd of over 300,000 people marching for freedom. As …

Categories: Education, Literature, Oration

Tom Miles

Tom Miles was raised here in Kearney at the corner of 24th Street and 2nd Avenue. That was in those days the Rectory for St. Luke’s Episcopal Church where Tom’s father, Richard, was the Rector. While …

Categories: Literature, Music, Writers

Carol Lomicky

Hearing Loop Advocacy Journey By Carol S. Lomicky I received my bachelor and master’s degrees from KSC and a Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. I retired from the University of Nebraska at …

Categories: Literature, Technology