Inside The November/December 2004 Issue
The Nov/Dec 2004 issue is our thickest magazine ever—80 pages of Nebraska Life, plus the 24-page GROW Nebraska catalog (featuring hundreds of Nebraska-made products, just in time for Christmas shopping). Here's what's inside:
Fans, tailgaters, vendors, ticket scalpers, a marching band…and a football game, of course. A Husker football Saturday in Lincoln.
Story by David Bristow, photography by Jeremy Buss
Two Fort Robinsons
Cheerful tourist destination or place with a haunted past? Fort Robinson is both.
By Paul Higbee
Chadron's Hip Old Hotel
Olde Main Street Inn's proprietors are half the story.
By Bernie Hunhoff
Independent McCook
Southwestern Nebraska city is proud of its self-reliance.
By David Bristow
Frank Lloyd Wright's McCook Masterpiece
How could such a modern home be nearly a century old?
By David Bristow
Home of the Whiffletree Cockeye
The unique is normal at Weeping Water's Meeske Hardware.
By Steve and Bobbi Olson
Invitation to Adventure
A Highway 2 motorcycle adventure across Nebraska.
By Rick Windham
Reflecting the Farm
“I see the farm as the center of my personality,” Bruce Cudly says. “It taught me to be patient, to be quiet, to observe.”
Photo and story by Peter G. Beeson
The Sand Cafe
“The bravest man I ever knew as a middle-aged cowboy from the Nebraska Sandhills…”
Fiction by Michael Cartwright
Urban Wilderness
Inside Bellevue's Fontenelle Forest, you'll forget the city is near.
By Sheryl Schmeckpeper
The Republican Caravan
Campaigning in 1950s Nebraska — dusty roads and lots of chicken-and-gravy sandwiches.
By Ruth Raymond Thone
Comstock Flower Floozies
How a main street fire led to a community garden.
By David Bristow
The Pie Lady of Eustis
Judith Ogden's pies are legendary. We've got recipes.
By Christopher Amundson
Cutting Corners is a Christmas Tradition
“If I'm ever going to get ready for the holidays, I have to cut a few corners… As every woman knows, the best way to do that is to stop cleaning.”
Humor by Lori Clinch
Plus…
“ Widower ,” a narrative poem by Andy Pollock, with photography by George Burba. Flat Water News (Fairbury couple visits every Nebraska town, courthouse and state park; The Ainsworth Goat Raffle; Windlass Hill Legends; Lighthouses on the Sea of Nebraska; Nebraska Governors Frighten Oregonians, and other stories. Bookshelf : the latest Nebraska books. Travel Tips by Mary Ethel Emanuel: Gretna's Holy Family Shrine. Traveler : Holiday Festivals, Lakota Red Nations Powwow.