| 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 May episode (#101) online, click below.
Fantasia in Clay
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Gerit Grimm was born and raised in Germany. Her exposure to the culture of the United States was gained solely through viewing American cinema. The act of joining this American lifestyle, bridging the gap between movie fantasy and everyday reality, is at the core of the explorations of her current work.
Watch Gerit Grimm at work
Cowgirl Up
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The story of Tina Vanderpool, a bronc- and bull-rider. Vanderpool came late to the sport of rodeo, but works hard to improve her skills and fearlessly throw her hat in the rodeo ring.
Nebraska’s Tuskegee Heroes
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Before 1940, African Americans were barred from flying for the U.S. military. But in 1941, an Army Air Forces (formerly Army Air Corps) program was started in Tuskegee, Alabama to train African Americans to fly and maintain combat aircraft. In this segment, Paul Adams (right) and Charles Lane (left) recall the racism they encountered on the ground in contrast to the freedom they felt in the sky.
Read about the Tuskegee airmen on our "Nebraska Studies" Web site!
The Blizzard of 1949
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Like the Dust Bowl, with its blinding black winds that lasted for years, or the biblical plague of locusts, the 1949 blizzard raged from January through the spring. The monumental drifts it left in its wake finally melted...in July.
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Two Convicts in a Haystack
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A story told by Ted Kooser (Garland, NE), and John Lavicky and Herb Hrnicek (Dwight, NE). In one of the many snow storms that struck the Great Plains in 1949, two convicts of the penitentiary in Lincoln escaped and walked to Dwight in prison flip-flops. They were taken in by the community, thawed out and stuffed with duck, kraut and kolache. Eventually the Nebraska National Guard plowed the road and the convicts were taken back to prison, reluctantly.
Blizzard Voices of 1888
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Nebraska poet and essayist, Ted Kooser, the 13th U.S. Poet Laureate, reads from his collection of poems recording the devastation unleashed on the Great Plains by the Jan. 12, 1888 blizzard. The Blizzard Voices is based on actual reminiscences of the survivors as recorded in documents from the time and written reminiscences from years later. Here are the haunting voices of the men and women who were teaching school, working the land, and tending the house when the storm arrived and changed their lives forever.
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