Aurora Nebraska
There is something to be said about the kind of determination and stubbornness that we have come to foster within my cute little nephew Sammy. My case in point would be today, when he somehow got it into his head that he wanted to write about Aurora Nebraska. But since he thought that we can’t write about Aurora Nebraska until we hit it in the game, he actually AIMED for Aurora Nebraska…and hit it on the second try (the first try being too weak and ending up on the floor). So Aurora, Nebraska it is!
Aurora Nebraska is the county seat of Hamilton County Nebraska. What makes Aurora, Nebraska so special is the fact that the largest hailstone ever measured – measuring with a diameter of seven inches and a circumference of about nineteen inches – fell in this fair city during a thunderstorm back in June 2003. We’re not kidding at all, the hailstone that fell in Aurora Nebraska was featured in an article for National Geographic, and that’s something.
Aurora Nebraska was also the home of the famed Twin Cottonwoods – two cottonwood trees that were alone together in the middle of the plains – that the town was built on. Now, the Aurora Nebraska Twin Cottonwoods have succumbed to mortality but remain immortal in a painting currently displayed in the Plainsman Museum. The Twin Cottonwoods Monument can be found on Streeter Park, where they used to stand.
I’m visiting Aurora, Nebraska with Sammy one day.