Inside the May/June 2006 Issue
Here are the stories that appear in our May/June 2006 issue. Click on Road Trip to read an excerpt from the May/June issue. Also check out our gallery of images of the Bike Ride Across Nebraska by Bobbi and Steve Olson.
Road
Trip
Tales of the Great American Road Trip, Nebraska-style.
By David Bristow
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Bobbi and Steve Olson's BRAN Photo Web-Only Feature
A selection of photos we were unable to fit in our feature on the Bike Ride Across Nebraska.
A Bike Ride Across Nebraska
Five hundred miles across Nebraska – on a bicycle? Why would hundreds
of people do this year after year? Nebraska Life’s Steve and Bobbi Olson
decided there was only one way to find out.
By Steve and Bobbi Olson
Reveille at Fort Hartsuff
Living historians bring the former frontier outpost back to life.
By Sheryl Schmeckpeper
The Shady Side of Nebraska Gardening
Jane Diesen discovered a new side to gardening when she moved to woodsy Plattsmouth.
By Molly Garriott
Broken Bow’s Contagious Optimism
The town square is busy and residents are excited about the future. What’s
gotten into these people?
By David Bristow
Sidney’s Blacksmith Artist
For Jerry Spiker, a traditional craft has become an art. Wrought iron never
looked so lifelike.
By Chris Amundson
A Butterfly Occasion
A look at Nebraska butterflies through the camera of photographer Jack Nordeen.
By David Bristow
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Model T Days
The old roadster cost $15 and ran on 25-cent gas. What more could a young man
in Grand Island want?
By Don Ziegler
Spring Creek Prairie
Near Lincoln, a restored prairie has become a tallgrass community center for
all of Nebraska.
By Stephen R. Jones
Ten Days in June
When the College World Series comes to Omaha, it’s more than baseball.
By Phil Weitl
Plus, Nebraska Kitchens (Recipes and stories), Nebraska Traveler (with Travel Tips by Mary Ethel Emanuel: Lady Vesty Days in Superior), Flat Water News (Nebraska City's Tree Theme Park, Tour Nebraska with Google Earth, Saving Old Baldy), Poems by Fred Zydek, Marjorie Saiser, Ed Block, the latest Nebraska books in Bookshelf, and a “Last Look” photo by Bobbi and Steve Olson