One of the newer attractions in Beatrice, Nebraska is the Homestead Heritage Center. This building was built within the property of the Homestead National Monument of America, and was opened (and dedicated, as far as I know) just this year on the twentieth of May – yes, they picked this particular date to […]
On the twentieth of May 1862, the Homestead Act was signed by President Abraham Licoln and was turned into law. This Federal law allowed anyone – man or woman – to claim a freehold title to part of one hundred and sixty acres (or about sixty-five hectares) of land yet undeveloped at the […]
When one says “Nebraska”, there are several things that come to mind. One is the word “cornhuskers”, which alludes to its status as a farming state. Another is the word “sports”, as a wide variety of sports (professional and otherwise) are enthusiastically supported by Nebraskans. But perhaps the one term associated […]
The city of Aurora in Nebraska also known as the county seat of Hamilton County and the site of the largest hailstone ever measured (the hailstone, which has a diameter of seven inches and a circumference of about nineteen inches, fell in Aurora in 2003), may seem to be just any other American city with […]
Among the most fascinating things about the world are the places and objects that had lived before and are no longer living. The deaths of persons had always held the interest of mankind, whether in trying to detain it, accept it, or embrace it. But the deaths of things – the deaths of […]
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While it was the Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers pair that shot both performers up to the upper echelons of fame, their partnership was fairly brief; they made only ten films together, nine of which within a span of a little more than half a decade. This was, of course, because […]
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By the 1920’s, George and Ira Gershwin, along with Fred and Adele Astaire, had won the hearts of the public with shows like “Lady Be Good” (1924) and “Funny Face” (1927) in Broadway and London. This rise in popularity gave not only the Gershwins, but the Astaires as well, […]
The state of Nebraska has been a home to many famous Americans that were (and sometimes still are) influential in creating the culture that shaped much of what makes America what it is today. Born in the tenth of May 1899, in Omaha, Nebraska, Frederick Austerlitz Jr. became one of those people who did […]
Writer Willa Siebert Cather, despite supposedly having been born and having died outside the state, is quite possibly one of the most important and popular personalities associated with the State of Nebraska. Born on the seventh of December 1873 near Winchester, Virginia, Willa Cather moved to Catherton in Webster County, Nebraska with her parents […]
“Beautiful Nebraska”, Nebraska’s state song, was written in the 1960’s, when Nebraska Legislature considered choosing a state song for the celebration of Nebraska’s one hundred years of statehood. Around the same time, in 1960, a Russian immigrant named Jim Fras, who was a citizen of Lincoln at that point, found inspiration when he went […]