Web-Only Features

We have more good material than will fit in the pages of Nebraska Life Magazine. Below are links to our web-only photos and stories – bonus material related to the features you'll find in the magazine. Check our Collector's Issues page for a complete list back issues and the stories they contain.

Look up, the next time you walk into the north entrance of the State Capitol. Remember who made the stone dance.

Story by Linda Read Deeds

Photography by Bobbi and Steve Olson

The secret of family, land and life in the Sandhills.

Story by Christopher Amundson

Photography by Christopher Amundson and Bobbi and Steve Olson

While the fires were still burning, Bobbi and Steve Olson traveled to Nebraska 's northwest corner. In a separate story, Moni Hourt relates firsthand accounts of the fires from her neighbors.

Story and Photography by Bobbi and Steve Olson and Moni Hourt

Nebraska 's Fourth of July City knows how to celebrate.

Story by Christopher Amundson

Photography by Bobbi and Steve Olson and Christopher Amundson

Shedding a century at Petersburg's Antique Tractor and Horse Plowing Bee.

Story by Jerry Wilson

Photography by Bobbi and Steve Olson

You have to get up early to catch up with Nebraska's collegiate rowers.

Story and Photography by Mike Whye

You have to get up early to catch up with Nebraska's collegiate rowers.

Story and Photography by Mike Whye

An exclusive look behind the walls of the Tecumseh State Correctional Institution.

Story and Photos by Bobbi and Steve Olson

After a plant closing earlier this year, out-of-town employers had a hard time finding people willing to move away from this northeast Nebraska community. West Pointers, we learned, have many reasons to be excited about their town's future.

Story by Curt Arens, Photography by Bobbi and Steve Olson

For the Brunssens of Randolph, gardening is a way of life.

Story by Curt Arens

Photography by Chris Amundson and Jack Nordeen

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.

Story and Photos by Bobbi and Steve Olson

“I didn't know you liked birds!” – How a Lincoln couple discovered their love of wildlife photography.

Story by David Bristow

Photography by Thane Kirchhoff and Carol Swigart

“Life is different in a town that can draw a rodeo crowd as large as its population," writes photographer Erik Stenbakken. The photographer spent several years photographing Nebraska's small town rodeos with an old leather-bellows camera made of wood and brass - traditional equipment to match the tradition of rodeo.

Story and Photos by Erik Stenbakken