Born and raised in Kearney for 22 years, I moved east to explore and experience new life conditions. First, Omaha and then Massachusetts. I attended Kearney schools with a primary interest in science, …
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Nancy McCammon-Hansen discovered her love of writing early in life. By her senior year at Kearney High, she was co-editor of the school newspaper. Journalism was one of her majors at Kearney State Col …
Categories: Writers
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
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
Solomon Butcher is the most famous photographer to live and work in Kearney, known nationally for his images of homesteaders and early settlement in and around Custer County, Nebraska. Nearly all of B …
Categories: History, Photography
He was born in 1942 in Clonmel, Ireland, and was raised and educated in England. After a brief period as a novice in a Franciscan monastery, he graduated from the University of London with a Bachelor …
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
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 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
Archduke Johann Salvator von Habsburg comes from Bad Ischel in the heart of the Salzkammergut in Austira, and now resides in the Salzkammergut, lives in Traunkirchen and owns a hunting lodge that belo …
Categories: History