Inside the March/April 2008 Issue
Here's an overview of the stories that appear in our March/April 2008 issue. Click on Sandhills Nights or Out for a Sundae Drive to read excerpts from the March/April 2008 issue. Click here to subscribe to Nebraska Life Magazine and receive this issue delivered to your mailbox.
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Far from city lights, Sandhills nights have their own brilliance. Photo Essay by Stephen R. Jones |
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Traveling the state in search of the Nebraska soda fountain experience. By Alan J. Bartels |
Kimball
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From oil wells to ballistic missiles, this Panhandle town has seen its share of boom and bust. It's ready for the next big break. By
Christopher Amundson |
Genoa's Indian School
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What is like to be a child far from home, among strangers who don't speak your language? Former students and local residents remember the school's complex legacy. By Jerry Wilson |
A Real Rootin'-Tootin' Classical Guitar-Playing Cowboy
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Omaha 's Hadley Heavin refuses to choose between the concert hall and the rodeo arena. He needs them both. By Leo Adam Biga |
Diggin' in at the Feed Barn
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Go ahead and eat with your fingers at this Mitchell restaurant. By Sheryl Schmeckpeper |
An Outsider's Quest
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Why John Sorensen wants you to admire Grand Island natives Grace and Edith Abbott as much as he does. By Moni Hourt |
A Night with the Cranes
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The sandhill crane migration is one of nature's great spectacles. Human spectators are awed to silence… it's the birds who won't shut up. By Mike Whye |
Plus, Nebraska Kitchens, Storyteller (Hope Chest by Steven Miller), Nebraska Traveler (International Quilt Study Center and Museum at UNL, Goehner's Spaghetti Feed) Road Trip (A Pine Ridge Weekend by Sheryl Schmeckpeper), Flat Water News (Erin Go Bragh! in Germaczechowegian Nebraska, Name the Nebraska Towns, Saving Whooping Cranes with Fireflies), Poems by Don Welch, Neil Harrison, Cheryl Arends and Jim Reese plus the latest Nebraska books in Bookshelf, and a “Last Look” photo from George Burba
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