The Gordon Brothers If there was a beginning to what we might consider the “arts” in this family, and their influence in Kearney, it begins with Jerome. Jerome “Rome” E. Gordon-ca. 1877-1948 Jerome “R …
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Jeanne for instance. A graduate of Grinnell College and KSC, Jeanne was NTV’s host and producer of news and public affairs programming.
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
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 …
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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
When we launched the Kearney Creates website, one of our hopes would be that viewers would suggest people, groups, or works they think should be on the site. Fortunately, our hopes have not been disap …
At this stage in the life of the gray wolf. What? You expected me to begin “All the World Is a Stage”? But stages, in all shapes and sizes and for all purposes, are stages of life, in the same way sta …
The phone rings by my beside at 6:30 a.m. Monday May 1, 2022. The caller I.D. tells me it’s Bonnie Caplan. I had just added her to my contacts a few days before when Jackie Purdy had visited with me a …
The Kearney Cultural Partners is a group of local businesses that have joined together to bringing a rich assortment of art, music, dance, theater, movies, history, literature, and family fun to Kearn …
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Currently, Marilyn is organist at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Kearney, and a Collaborative Pianist at University of Nebraska-Kearney.
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