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.

Nearly a century ago, a Lincoln developer planted the seeds for a majestic neighborhood that would withstand the test of time.

Story by Matt Spencer

Soar with the Strategic Air and Space Museum’s restoration crew.

Story and Photography by Mike Whye

With Nebraska pride, he looked for local products to revise the menu’s offerings and stumbled across Blue Valley Aquaculture in Sutton. Jeff Schelkopf’s steelhead trout was just what Brink was looking for.

In their gliders, the Omaha Soaring Club finds peace in the skies above Blair.

Story and Photography by Mike Whye

A quarter-century after its creation, this Sandhills lake is coming of age.

Story by David L. Bristow

Life in the Omaha Royals means months away from home, a grueling schedule. . . and the chance to fulfill a boyhood dream.

Story by Tina King

Photography by Alyssa Schukar

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

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

Story and Photography by Mike Whye

“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