Archive: People

Bruce E Whitacre

During poetry month, April 2023, Kearney Public Library welcomed a new poet among us. It…

Duane Bierman

I was appointed Director of Bands at UNK in the fall of 2010. One of…

People: Duane Bierman Categories: Education, History, Music
Ron Crocker

Part One Spring, 1966 Being a graduate student at the University of Iowa was a…

Hargis Westerfield

Hargis Westerfield. ScotsIrish-Huegenot-Dutch. He began the Second World War as a clerk typist and ended…

Jake Jacobson

Jake Jacobson was born in Iola, Kansas in 1949. When he was eight years old…

People: Jake Jacobson Categories: Art Tags: MONA, UNK Kearney
Lawton Parker

Lawton Silas Parker was born in Fairfield, Michigan in 1868. When he was about five…

Kern Harshbarger Kearney Nebraska
Kern Harshbarger

When his family moved westward when Kern was 15, settling in North Platte allowed him…

Daniel Garringer, Artist and Teacher
Daniel Garringer

Born in Nebraska City, Garringer’s parents and his two brothers moved to Kearney in 1968.…

People: Daniel Garringer Categories: Art, Education