Nebraska Stories tells compelling personal stories of Nebraskans around the state, the life stories of Nebraska artists, and historical and contemporary stories. Video and descriptions for future episode segments will be added as they become available.
This half-hour “magazine-style” series presents new, short-form video segments, highlighting people, ideas and events that inform Nebraskans’ sense of place and their unique perspective on American life as it is lived on the Great Plains.
Nebraska Stories is NET Television’s plan to present audiences both on-air and online with a half-hour monthly series that will combine the best original production with selected excerpts from the wealth of material in the NET Heritage Library archive of programming about our state.
To watch the entire February episode (#105) online, click below.
Red Elephant
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Two or three times a year Dr. Charles Wood hops on a plane in Lincoln and travels halfway around the world—to Zambia, in the heart of Africa. Wood is a University of Nebraska scientist working on the front lines of the HIV/AIDs epidemic.
In the summer of 2009, a crew from NET television followed Dr. Wood to Zambia and saw first-hand what he’s doing for Africa, and what Africans are doing for themselves.
Ernie Chambers
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A look back at Ernie Chamber’s life as a community organizer in Omaha through his long tenure as a senator in the Nebraska Unicameral. Footage from Still Militant After All These Years combines with a capstone interview with Chambers to explore what he most wants to accomplish post term-limits.
Only in Nebraska
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In the first half of the 20th century, George Norris was Nebraska’s best-known, best-loved, and sometimes most-hated politician. As a staunch Republican who was described as a fighting liberal, Norris defied stereotypes.
In this segment from a 1995 NET documentary former State Senator David Landis portrays Norris in his fight to create the only one-house legislature in America.
RARE: An Essay by Joel Sartore
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An essay by National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore on the country’s most endangered creatures. These are the last ones, the last of their kind, some of them likely to pass into extinction without our knowing they existed.
This essay, inspired by a multi-year National Geographic project documenting the Earth's vanishing biodiversity, shows what we can do if we act now to save these unique creatures -- and ultimately, ourselves.
Coming Up on Nebraska Stories!
The exact air time/date for the April episode (#106) has yet to be determined. In this forthcoming episode you'll see the following stories:
- A Life in Stitches – Grace Snyder learned to quilt while growing up in a sod house in the Nebraska Sandhills. At the International Quilt Study Center in Lincoln we explore the life and work of this pioneer woman now recognized as one of the 20th century's most accomplished quilt makers.
- Crane Song – Each spring hundreds of thousands of Sandhill cranes soar into central Nebraska – and some years they arrive in the snow! Follow Nebraska wildlife photographer Mike Forsberg as he captures spectacular images of the cranes from his blind in the Platte River Valley.
- Dance of the Cranes – On the way to the Omaha airport you’ll see a sculpture that seems to soar into the sky. Five stories high and weighing 15 tons, "Dance of the Cranes" was once the largest bronze sculpture in North America. Watch as artist John Raimondi imagines and builds his masterpiece in this special from the NET archives.
- Taming a Mustang – Want to own a piece of the American west? Every year the U.S. Bureau of Land Management rounds up wild horses and puts some of them up for adoption. Take a trip back to 1998, as a Nebraska rancher Don Shaw adopts four mustangs and tries to tame them.
- Steamboat Trace – Some of Nebraska’s least known trails are the most interesting. Explore the historical Steamboat Trace Trail in southeast Nebraska, a former railway that is now a popular hiking and biking trail between Nebraska City and Brownville, Nebraska.
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