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 November episode online, click below.
The Liberators
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1500 Nebraska veterans were recently flown to Washington, DC aboard seven "Heartland Honor Flight" to visit the World War II monument.
Hundreds of these veterans gathered in Omaha at a dinner to celebrate and share memories.
Before the day is over -- a surprise reunion and rarely seen photographs of a haunting moment in time.
Visit the National WWII Memorial Web site
Visit the Institute for Holocaust Education Web site
The Greening of the Dust Bowl
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Beginning with highlights from the legendary depression documentary "The Plow That Broke the Plains," we revisit the effects of the Dust Bowl on Nebraska. We then discover how the University of Nebraska College of Agriculture helped salvage the devastated land in the late 1930s.
Today, we see how the University is leading the world in groundwater research including new ways of “seeing” drought endangered areas through satellite infrared imagery.
Loren Eiseley’s Reflections on the Depression (from Reflections of a Bonehunter, 1992)
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In the 1930s the world turned dark with depression. Men without jobs became drifters. Loren Eiseley was just 19 years old when he became a vagabond hopping freight trains across America. Surprisingly, he found a special kind of “freedom” in this wandering lifestyle.
Visit the Loren Eisely Society
White Buffalo Girl
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In May of 1877, hundreds of Ponca people—men, women and children—were forced to leave their Nebraska homeland and sent on a nightmare journey into Indian Territory. Four days into the journey a baby girl named White Buffalo Girl died.
Joe Starita, author of an acclaimed new book about Standing Bear, takes us to White Buffalo Girl's grave in Neligh – and tells her story.
Visit the Nebraska Commission on Indian Affairs Web site
(Note: We would like to thank the Nebraska State Historical Society for allowing us to make use of an archival photograph of Standing Bear and his family in this program segment.")
Giving Thanks at a One Room School (from Last of the One Room Schools, 1995)
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A glimpse into America’s educational past worthy of Currier and Ives as we attend a holiday potluck dinner at one of the last one-room schools in Nebraska – Burr Oak School in Custer County.
Included in the festivities is a picture taking session with the grandparents – tough people who lived through both the Great Depression and World War II.
Piano in Tow
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Because of her passion for music and appreciation of how it has shaped her life, a UNL Piano Professor tows her nearly-1000 pound grand piano across Nebraska to share her love of classical music with audiences in rural communities who often have less access to live performance opportunities.
Coming Up on Nebraska Stories!
In our January episode (#104) you'll see these stories:
- KANEKO – Open Space for the Mind: Omaha artist Jun Kaneko is internationally renowned for creating the largest freestanding ceramic art pieces in the world. His monumental design extends to the stage, to opera, and to entire city plazas. His openness to new ideas has led him to begin building what he calls “an open space for the mind” in Omaha’s old market. What’s that, you may ask? To Jun Kaneko that is an open question…
- The Middle of Everywhere: You wouldn’t necessarily know it, but Lincoln, Nebraska is a federally-designated refugee settlement city. This is the story of people you may not know, but who live around the corner or just down the street from us.
- Paths of the Displaced: When she was still in high school, Natalia Ledford began a documentary about some of her classmates--survivors of one of the bloodiest civil wars in African history. In this excerpt from "Paths of the Displaced" we meet Sudanese refugees starting a new life in Lincoln, Nebraska. As she filmed their courageous stories, Natalia began to see her own life in a dramatically different light.
- Calving Season: In January, one of the coldest months of the year, a process more suited to warmer weather unfolds in ranch country. It often requires a midwife who wears boots and spurs, and who can go without sleep for a couple of months.
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