Inside the November/December 2007 Issue
Here's an overview of the stories that appear in our November/December 2007 issue. Click on Ervin Goeller – A Life Carved in Stone to read an excerpt from the November/December issue and for a slideshow of images from Bobbi and Steve Olson. Or click on Bread from the Back Alley to read an excerpt from the November/December issue. Or click on Holiday Potluck Recipes for a selection of more recipes from our special holiday potluck Nebraska Kitchens section.
Ervin Goeller – A Life Carved in Stone
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Ervin Goeller, the German-born artist of Sioux Lookout left an artistic legacy in Lincoln. By Linda Read Deeds |
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With
a wood-fired brick oven, a Hastings bakery strives to bake the perfect,
crusty loaf. By Tina King |
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More
recipes from our Holiday Potluck that we couldn't fit in the November/December
issue!
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Selections
from a new book of photography inspired by Nebraska’s historic places. By Bobbi and Steve Olson |
Creative Cambridge
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Something about this town’s personality seems to foster creativity and entrepreneurship – one example, of the town’s 983 residents, three are professional bronze sculptors. By David Bristow |
Looking Back on Sioux Lookout
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The story of a
famous North Platte bluff and the 15,000-pound monument that’s traveled
up and down its steep slope. By Linda Read Deeds |
Saving Christmas at the Oak Ballroom
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Schuyler’s Depression-era project put the town to work and gave people hope during hard times. But on Christmas Eve, 1935, none of it would matter if there was no money to pay the men. By Judy Zimola |
Mitchell's Unlikely Yarn
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After
years of raising sheep, the Brown family was struggling to make it. Their
new plan? To get into the wool textile business right about the time the
rest of the country
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On Fire with a Vision of Water
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C.W.
McConaughy and the story behind Nebraska’s largest lake. By Sheryl Schmeckpeper |
The Bird Lady of Schramm Park
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Ruth
Green has banded more than 100,000 birds . . . and she’s happy to
tell you why. By Pasquale Mingarelli |
Plus, Nebraska Kitchens (Holiday Potluck), Storyteller (The Transformation of Uncle Bert by Don Ziegler), Nebraska Traveler (Minden Holiday Performances, Omaha Theater Ballet) Road Trip (Spencer to Niobrara . . . The Long Way by Alan J. Bartels), Flat Water News (Outfoxing Christmas Tree Thieves, Message in the Trees, Getting Bombed in Dickens, A New Record-Setting Basketball Season), Poems by Cheryl Arends, Mary Avidano and Neil Harrison plus the latest Nebraska books in Bookshelf, and a “Last Look” photo from Justin Wambolt
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