Inside the January/February 2011 Issue

Here's an overview of the stories that appear in our January/February 2011 issue. Click here to subscribe to Nebraska Life Magazine and receive this issue delivered to your mailbox.

Crafting Beer Tales

Central City

Omaha once was a beer king, but craft brewing now rules this city.

Story by Matthew Spencer Photographs by Nick Adams


 

Omaha’s Grand Theater

Paxton

Step inside Omaha’s Orpheum Theater to a world of spectacular elegance.

Story and photographs by Mike Whye

 


The Unicameral

Grand Island Ghosts

Nebraska remains the nation’s only nonpartisan, one-branch legislature, but who really built our little House on the prairie?

Story by Jean A. Lukesh and Matthew Spencer

 

William Kloefkorn
Grand Island Ghosts

Nebraska's literary lion breathes in the fullness of time.

Story by Matthew Spencer and Photographs by Nick Adams

 

Warming Up to Winter
Oglala National Grassland

For many Nebraskans, the beauty of winter is magical.




The Danes of Dannevirke

Kastrick

The same spirit with which Danish farmers built a hall in 1901 has led this community to restore it.

Story and photographs by Alan J. Bartels




Light From the Shadows
Big-hearted Lessons from Valentine

An artist with failing eyesight captures the Panhandle’s beauty with her oil pastels.

Story by Matthew Spencer Artwork by Mary Louise Tejeda Brown

 

Hastings

Brownville

Move over Kool-Aid! The city of your birthplace has other cool stuff in the mix.

Story by Matthew Spencer Photographs by Steve and Bobbi Olson

 

Plus, Nebraska Kitchens, Storyteller (Saga of the Blue Lagoon), Nebraska Traveler (Hamiliton County's Prairie in Winter, Digging into the Past at Morrill Hall) Flat Water News (Nebraska Heroes, 37-star High Bidder, Orchard Man's Milky Way), Poems (The Farm, Portrait, The New Freyholtz Place, Barns) plus the latest Nebraska books in Writers and Artrists,University and College Guide and a “Last Look” photo from Alex Matzke.

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