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 April episode (#106) online, click below.
Crane Song
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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
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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.
Extraordinary Stitches
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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.
Taming a Mustang
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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
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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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