| 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 September episode (#102) – except for "In the White Man's Image," for which we don't have Web use rights – just click below.
The First Walk On
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Langston Coleman was a tough, African-American kid from the slums of Washington D.C. In 1963, Coleman hitchhiked from Washington DC to enroll at the University of Nebraska where he "walked-on" at football practice in hopes of making the Husker football team and getting a scholarship.
He went on to become one of the most legendary recruits for the Cornhuskers.
For more: http://netnebraska.org/walkons
A One-Room School
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In 1997, NET Television made a film about a year in the life of Burr Oak School in Custer County, Nebraska.
While this one-room school has long since been abandoned, it is not forgotten. We look back at a year in the life of the school and meet some of those kids today, all grown up.
I Am an American
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Since this country's earliest days, immigrants have come to America in search of a new and better life.
Through the Homestead Act of 1862, immigrants came from across the world to live the American dream of owning their own land.
And so it seems fitting that the Homestead National Monument in Beatrice, Nebraska would host a citizenship ceremony for immigrants who now call Nebraska home. We take a look at what it means to become an American today.
For more: http://www.nps.gov/home
A Day in Fontenelle Forest
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It is one of the largest private nature centers in the country and one of Nebraska's five National Natural Landmarks and it is located just minutes from downtown Omaha in Bellevue, Nebraska.
With miles of trails, boardwalks and more than 1000 plant and wildlife species nestled in a 1400 acre conservation area, the tree-filled canopies of Fontenelle Forest are an escape from urban life.
For more: http://www.fontenelleforest.org
In the White Man's Image
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A young boy is sent away to the Genoa Indian School in Nebraska where he learns the white man's way and returns home to discover that he can no longer communicate with his beloved grandparents.
For more: http://www.megavision.net/genoamuseum/index.htm
To learn more about the story behind Indian boarding schools which was excerpted from the 1992 documentary In the White Man’s Image produced by NET Television for PBS’s American Experience series, go to:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/IntheWhiteMansImage/ |
