Along with his stories and fiction, George Ayoub published thousands of columns not only in his home paper, “The Grand Island Independent,” but in other papers in the chain such as the “Kearney Hub.” …
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Brad is a person who is larger than life and yet likes to be invisible. He has lived in Kearney most of his life and in that time, has branched out into many cultural endeavors and has been a blessing …
Growing up in Des Moines, IA. with a musical family, it seemed only natural for Mike to become a full-time musician. He traveled and performed with bands for many years. One such band (Flipside) becam …
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Terry Lee’s poems center on her personal experiences – love, life, family, nature, and even her pets. She gets Real. And thus she built her Yurt to give other writers and artists the silence of nature …
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Doreen’s love of Nebraska nature fuels her book “This River Beneath the Sky” about seasons on the Platte River.
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“The job of the writer is to notice crickets before they hop away. Keep a notebook handy – I say to my grad students. We want to tell our readers – Quick see this with me. But we also know that spark …
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Jason writes about poet Langston Hughes in his recent biography of Langston Hughes: Critical Lives in which he makes the case of Hughes as an accomplished poet and international literary figure.
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“Most writers – and many readers – groove a particular channel of popular fiction, but some of us are magpies. For me, what holds all pop lit I have consumed, taught, critiqued, and written, is a cert …
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“Being a musician in Kearney has been an amazing experience for me and given me the opportunity to play with many outstanding musicians and wonderful friends.” ~ Craig Link
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Nathan is able to research his interest in hobos, as an historian at the University of Nebraska-Kearney where he teaches courses on Nebraska history, digital and public history, and history of the Uni …
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