Reddy’s Grocery Store John Reddy owned and operated a neighborhood grocery store on 4th Avenue in Kearney for many years. I first met him when my dad would take me and my sisters for dime purchases of …
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Coming from the south parking area, passing the joyful squeals from the splash pad, you cross the Wayne and Virginia McKinney bridge to see unfolding before you the new Botanical Gardens. All of this …
Categories: Art
According to Mikaela Richmond, Art Teacher at Kearney’s Park and Northeast Elementary Schools, student art is exhibited twice annually, once at the mall and, historically, once at the Museum of Nebras …
• Adventures in the West: Stories for Young People. Eds. Susanne George Bloomfield and Eric Melvin Reed. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, Fall 2007. Adventures in the West brings together tw …
Categories: History, Literature
This title speaks to the variety of Chuck’s experiences, the difficulty of making something out of such a variety, the affections that prompted the chronicle from start to completion. “This poetry and …
Categories: Literature
In Poetry for Kids: Carl Sandburg you’ll find many classics, some of which you may remember from your childhood, including Young Bullfrogs, Shenandoah, Jazz Fantasia, Fog, and 31 more of Sandburg’s fa …
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In this 2015 production of “Prayers for the People” Sandburg’s collection of poems in “Slabs of the Sunburnt West” demonstrate his love of that landscape and regional lifestyles. This last performance …
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Produced by Kate Benzel, this 2011 Sandburg performance, focuses on his Chicago Poems and blues songs from his American Songbag 1927.
Categories: Literature, Music
This is the first of the Prayers for the People performance produced by Kate Benzel. We celebrate Carl Sandburg’s songs, poetry, and proverbs from the Great Plains and Nebraska by bringing to the Nebr …
Categories: Literature, Music
Sandburg’s affection for the West – its poetry and songs – is revived in this 2014 production, 85 years after his 1929 visit to Colorado. Appropriately this fantastic program takes place in the shado …
Categories: Literature, Music