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Christian Music Festival shows variety -- July 30, 2011 Hastings hosts the second annual Nebraska Christian Music Festival. The musical styles will vary from Hard Rock to Acoustic Country – and as NET Radio's Jerry Johnston reports, that reflects the variety of one of the largest segments of the music business. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Fort Robinson Fourth -- July 2, 2011 Fort Robinson was established in Nebraska's Panhandle in 1873. NET Radio's Jerry Johnston talked to curator of the Ft. Robinson Museum Tom Buecker about Independence Day celebrations there through the years. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Chautauqua in Aurora -- June 18, 2011 Jerry Johnston talks with Megan Sharp of the Plainsman Museum in the southeast Nebraska town of Aurora about Chautauquas past and present. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Remembering Bill Kloefkorn -- June 4, 2011 He was a poet, a professor, a mentor, and – for 17 years – the voice of NET Radio's Poetry of the Plains. Jerry Johnston has this remembrance of Nebraska State Poet Bill Kloefkorn. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading for Traveling (Nebraska) -- May 21, 2011 Jane Renner Hood recently retired as head of the Nebraska Humanities Council. She talks with NET Radio's Jerry Johnston about her recent travels, and books she recommends as companions to some of her favorite destinations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading for Traveling (Chicago) -- May 21, 2011 Jane Renner Hood recently retired as head of the Nebraska Humanities Council. She talks with NET Radio's Jerry Johnston about her recent travels, and books she recommends as companions to some of her favorite destinations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading for Traveling (Africa) -- May 21, 2011 Jane Renner Hood recently retired as head of the Nebraska Humanities Council. She talks with NET Radio's Jerry Johnston about her recent travels, and books she recommends as companions to some of her favorite destinations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading for Traveling (Nebraska) -- May 21, 2011 Jane Renner Hood recently retired as head of the Nebraska Humanities Council. She talks with NET Radio's Jerry Johnston about her recent travels, and books she recommends as companions to some of her favorite destinations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading for Traveling (Chicago) -- May 21, 2011 Jane Renner Hood recently retired as head of the Nebraska Humanities Council. She talks with NET Radio's Jerry Johnston about her recent travels, and books she recommends as companions to some of her favorite destinations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading for Traveling (Africa) -- May 21, 2011 Jane Renner Hood recently retired as head of the Nebraska Humanities Council. She talks with NET Radio's Jerry Johnston about her recent travels, and books she recommends as companions to some of her favorite destinations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Remembering Reinhold Marxhausen -- April 30, 2011 Nebraska lost one of its best known artists this week. As Jerry Johnston reports, Reinhold Marxhausen is being remembered for finding, creating, and sharing beauty. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | More Poetry for Spring -- April 23, 2011 An extended conversation with more poems with Twyla Hansen and Pam Herbert Barger. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Poetry for Spring -- April 23, 2011 Nebraska writers Twyla Hansen and Pam Herbert Barger read their poetry about the season. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Young Native American film producer finds inspiration -- April 2, 2011 When Princella Parker joined a team of NET Producers working on a major documentary about Standing Bear, she got a surprise bonus. She learned about Susette LaFlesche, and found inspiration in her story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Feminist Economist studies land use and families in Africa -- Mar. 19, 2011 A UNL Economist looks at the facts and figures from a feminist point of view. Jerry Johnston talked with Dr. Ann Mari May to find out more about that point of view, and how it's affecting her research. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nebraska on the Women's Suffrage Frontline -- Mar. 12, 2011 Women weren't guaranteed the vote in national elections until 1920. Nebraska voters – all men – went to the polls almost 40 years earlier to decide if women should vote in state elections. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | UNL Prof on his own immigrant experience -- Feb. 26, 2011 Sergio Wals teaches in the Political Science and Ethnic Studies program. He talks about his experience immigrating to the United States – from international student to the path to citizenship. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Extended interview with Chanticleer Artistic Director Matthew Oltham -- Feb. 12, 2011 An extended interview with Chanticleer's Artistic Director Matthew Oltham, who discusses the Chanticleer sound, connecting with audiences, and his time coaching choirs and choir directors. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Getting musical advice from one of the best -- Feb. 12, 2011 The choral group Chanticleer has been filling performance halls and selling CD's like crazy for over 30 years. The group's artistic director, Matthew Oltham, was at the University of Nebraska Lincoln Music School this past week. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Surviving the Cold -- Jan. 22, 2011 How did they do it? How did people who lived on the Great Plains hundreds of years ago deal with the wind, snow, and cold of winter? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Family History as Nebraska History -- Jan. 15, 2011 The mementos and stories that help a family understand its past can also be part of the wider view of history. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | "We the People" Civil Rights Exhibit -- Jan. 7, 2011 A new exhibit at the Nebraska Museum of History in Lincoln outlines the history of civil rights in the state. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | "With Malice Toward None" tells story of Lincoln's life -- Feb. 5, 2011 A girl once wrote a letter to a man suggesting he'd be more successful if he grew a beard. The little girl was 11 year old Grace Bidell. The man…was Abraham Lincoln. Jerry Johnston has more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Kwanzaa: An American holiday with African roots -- Dec. 18, 2010 NET Radio's Jerry Johnston talked with someone who celebrates Kwanzaa to get an insider's point of view. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Social cause behind Dickens’ Christmas Carol -- Dec. 10, 2010 Doing something about the injustice of child labor was the starting point for A Christmas Carol. In the end, the book changed the way Christmas is celebrated. Grant Gerlock reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Lincoln teacher volunteering with Operation Smile -- Dec. 03, 2010 From Nebraska to Mumbai to Calcutta. A Lincoln teacher is in Mumbai, teaching at a high tech school. NET Radio's Jerry Johnston reached her via Skype to talk about leading a school group in volunteering to help among the poorest of the poor. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Hanukah and the "December Dilemma" -- Dec. 03, 2010 Hanukah begins at sundown on Wednesday, December 1 - or if you're going by the Jewish calendar, the 25th of Kislev. Nebraska's Jewish community will be lighting candles and exchanging gifts for the next eight days. A Lincoln rabbi says the way Hanukah is celebrated comes from a creative tension with Christmas. Jerry Johnston reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Dr. James Riding In on the displacement of the Pawnee -- Nov. 20, 2010 The land we now call Nebraska was once called the Great American Desert. But as the United States expanded across the Great Plains, "Desert" became farmland. That's one way of telling the story--but not the only way. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Dr. James Riding In on the displacement of the Pawnee -- Nov. 20, 2010 The land we now call Nebraska was once called the Great American Desert. But as the United States expanded across the Great Plains, "Desert" became farmland. That's one way of telling the story--but not the only way. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Organ builder Gene Bedient retiring -- Nov. 13, 2010 After 40 years of building pipe organs for churches, concert halls, and homes, Gene Bedient is retiring. But his pipe organ business will continue - in the hands of trusted, long-time employees. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The beginnings of multicultural education in Nebraska -- Nov. 6, 2010 One of Nebraska's leading civil rights leaders, Leola Bullock, died recently. Bullock's passion for education continues to make a difference -– and it all started with her childhood experience of racial segregation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Remembering civil rights leader Leola Bullock -- Oct. 29, 2010 One of Nebraska's most vocal, persistent, and patient civil rights leaders has passed away. Leola Bullock lived in Lincoln, but her sphere of influence was much wider. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Storytelling central to Plum Creek Literacy Festival (extended version) -- Oct. 2, 2010 John McCutcheon and Carmen Deedy speak at the Plum Creek Literacy Festival. The festival brings together eight thousand students, teachers, and literacy advocates to celebrate books and reading. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Storytelling central to Plum Creek Literacy Festival (short version) -- Oct. 2, 2010 John McCutcheon and Carmen Deedy speak at the Plum Creek Literacy Festival. The festival brings together eight thousand students, teachers, and literacy advocates to celebrate books and reading. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Great Plains: America's Lingering Wild -- Sept. 11, 2010 A book by a Lincoln nature photographer is making a splash nationwide, winning awards for both photography and scholarship. Michael Forsberg spoke at the University of Nebraska this past week, and NET Radio's Jerry Johnston was there. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Poet Billy Collins coming to Nebraska (full version) -- Sept. 18, 2010 His popularity as a guest on Prairie Home Companion and the volume of his book sales puts Billy Collins in a rare position. He's a poet who can fill concert halls for readings. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Poet Billy Collins coming to Nebraska (short version) -- Sept. 18, 2010 His popularity as a guest on Prairie Home Companion and the volume of his book sales puts Billy Collins in a rare position. He's a poet who can fill concert halls for readings. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | From school to work - a reading list -- Sept. 4, 2010 The new school year is just underway -- and it's Labor Day! The connection? The odds are, the better your education, the higher your income. Still, students grumble about classwork they don't find relevant to the working world. NET Radio's Jerry Johnston talked to the head of school libraries in Lincoln, Mary Reiman, to get her thoughts on what students can read to learn about the real world of work. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Great hands, quick moves - a top recuit for the position of pianist -- Aug. 28, 2010 The Nebraska recruits getting the headlines at this time of year are usually wearing shoulder pads and helmets -- and vying for a spot on the Husker football team. This story profiles another kind of recruit -- one who also has great hands and flashy moves. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Maccabi games: competition, comradery and community service -- August 7, 2010 Omaha's baseball diamonds, tennis courts, and soccer fields were busy last week. Junior and Senior High-aged kids from all over the U.S. and several foreign countries were competing in Nebraska's largest city. The occasion was the Maccabi Games - a chance for Jewish youth to meet, compete and serve. The service project was in Lincoln's historic Wyuka Cemetery. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Nebraskan who became a hero in Iran: Howard Baskerville -- July 31, 2010 He went to Iran (then called Persia) in 1908 to teach in a missionary school. Instead, he enlisted to fight with anti-government insurgents. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Fisher Fountain: Hastings' symbol of hope for nearly 80 years -- July 17, 2010 Built during the Depression and Dust Bowl days, Fisher Fountain is a Hastings landmark. It's also the largest fountain of it's kind between Denver and Chicago. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Omaha Black History Museum collection saved, being preserved -- July 10, 2010 Hundreds of historic documents and artifacts detailing the lives of African Americans in Nebraska have been salvaged from near destruction. Robyn Wisch has the story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The scrap drive of 1942 -- July 3, 2010 After the attack on Pearl Harbor, a call went out to collect scrap metal for the war effort. A new documentary shows how Nebraskans led the way forward for the rest of the country. Jerry Johnston reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Aurora home to Baha'i community for 35 years - Pt. 2 -- June 19, 2010 Thirty five years ago, a religious group found fertile soil for growth in a small town in Eastern Nebraska. A message of gender and racial equality was part of the faith's appeal. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Aurora home to Baha'i community for 35 years -- June 19, 2010 Thirty five years ago something surprising happened in a small eastern Nebraska town -- a religious community was born around a faith very few had heard of. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | History Harvest means more data, more stories, more understanding -- June 5, 2010 If Antiques Roadshow married the department of history at UNL, what would their children look like? For more on the digital history project at UNL, go to http://railroads.unl.edu. There you will find railroad history and maps compiled through digital history methods. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nebraska Veterans Cemetery at Alliance -- May 29, 2010 A new Veterans Cemetery is under construction in the Nebraska Panhandle on the site of an airfield built for World War II combat training. Jerry Johnston traveled to the site of The Nebraska Veterans Cemetery at Alliance and filed this report. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Pipe Organ builder Gene Bedient to retire -- May 22, 2010 After 40 years of building pipe organs for churches, concert halls, and homes, Gene Bedient is retiring. But his organ building business will continue - in the hands of trusted, long-time employees. Jerry Johnston reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nebraska City's Mayhew Cabin -- May 15, 2010 The Kansas-Nebraska act was signed this month in 1854. Nebraska became a territory, and whites began settling across the Missouri River . What wasn't settled yet was the question of slavery. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Omaha's South 24th St. is business, cultural hub -- May 8, 2010 Omaha's South 24th Street has been reborn as a business and social hub for immigrants - just like it used to be. The recent revival is due to both the city's investment and community's perseverance. Robyn Wisch takes us on a tour of the historic, bustling neighborhood of South Omaha. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nebraska students meet Elie Wiesel -- May 1, 2010 Meeting Nobel Peace Prize winner, author, and holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel was a rare opportunity for a student group from Lincoln Southwest High. Nebraska teachers continue to work to find the most appropriate and effective way to teach the Holocaust. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A fresh look at The Good Samaritan -- April 24, 2010 New Testament scholar Amy-Jill Levine says the story, simple as it seems, is complex and challenging. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Holocaust survivor Judy Meisel to speak at State Holocaust Commemoration -- April 10, 2010 Meisel keeps a busy schedule speaking to student groups and working with gangs. She and her sister escaped a camp, found refuge in Denmark, and emigrated to Canada, then the US. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | NPR's Guy Raz on Three-Minute Fiction -- April 3, 2010 Weekend All Things Considered host Guy Raz talks with Jerry Johnston about creating a complete work of fiction that can be read aloud in three minutes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Graffiti Art, Graffiti Crime -- March 13, 2010 Three recent arrests related to graffiti have an Omaha art studio wanting to push for legal places for graffiti artists to express themselves. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Photographing Nebraska's Czech Cemeteries -- March 6, 2010 A photo exhibit by Lincoln resident Jean Lewis tells a story of one of Nebraska's lively - and varied - immigrant groups. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Banjo guru Bela Fleck focuses Omaha ears on African music -- February 27, 2010 Elementary, high school, and college students are all getting in on learning about Africa by focusing on Africa's music. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The 1882 Nebraska Suffrage Campaign -- February 20, 2010 Even though defeated, a campaign to give Nebraska women the vote catapulted Nebraska suffragists to national and international prominence. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading to Dogs -- February 6, 2010 Schools and libraries are finding that children find the fun in reading when they read to dogs. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Serving God by serving soup -- January 30, 2010 One of those killed in the Haiti earthquake was a seminary student who had served in Lincoln. A community lunch program is one of his Nebraska legacies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Play about Nebraska premieres in Massachusetts -- January 23, 2010 The play, "1905" is about Nebraska immigrants learning to live together and accept the new technology of a century ago. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Digging into the data: UNL a leader in digital history -- January 9, 2010 UNL Historian Dr. William Thomas will lead an international study using the latest computer search techniques to find patterns in existing data in the history of railroads. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Revitalizing Omaha’s 16th St. – Again -- January 2, 2010 Investors want to ride the rising tide of the Omaha arts district by investing in 16th St. The Apollon, a new project, is slated to open this year. The developers hope to avoid the mistakes made on the same street by urban planners in the 1980's. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Christmas Journey to Ft. Robinson -- December 19, 2009 John Carter with the Nebraska State Historical Society tells two stories of bringing Christmas cheer to military outposts - including a trek to Nebraska's Ft. Robinson. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Norfolk Chant Choir -- December 12, 2009 A small choir at a Norfolk Catholic Church is finding a place for contemplation in singing thousand year old unison chant. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Crafts and Handwork go online -- December 5, 2009 There's a new home for the 21st century sewing bee – online. People who knit, crochet, and make crafts are getting ideas and selling their work on the internet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Ted Kooser: Poetry problems -- November 21, 2009 Kooser on comparing a fisherman to his boat. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | William Kloefkorn: Poetry problems -- November 21, 2009 Kloefkorn on a hospital room experience. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | UNK Poet Don Welch: Poetry problems -- November 21, 2009 Finding the right words isn't always the easiest thing to do, even for writers. For one veteran Nebraska poet, it took a near fist-fight before the right words would come. Jerry Johnston has more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Governor's Lecture 2009: Matt Miller -- November 17, 2009 Full audio of this year's Governor's Lecture in the Humanities: The Tyranny of Dead Ideas by Matt Miller. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Kaneko: Inviting creativity in a new Omaha space -- November 14, 2009 Internationally known artist Jun Kaneko is opening a revamped Omaha warehouse to serve as a center for creativity in the arts, science, and business. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Matt Miller on dead ideas -- November 7, 2009 Miller delivered this year's Governor's Lecture in the Humanities about ideas, in his opinion, that hold back progress and poison public debate. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | History Detective Gwendolyn Wright -- October 31, 2009 Gwendolyn Wright on being a PBS History Detective and a professor of architectural history. She also talks about Frank Lloyd Wright's influence on suburban design and green architecture. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | History Detective Gwendolyn Wright complete interview -- October 31, 2009 More detail on her views of Frank Lloyd Wright and Modern Architecture – and more on being a PBS History Detective. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Henderson School Mural -- October 3, 2009 A fifty year-old mural in Henderson's Heartland School is getting a facelift from the original artist. Students are finding that even after 50 years, the mural is still relevant. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nebraska couple featured in Ken Burns' documentary on the National Parks -- September 26, 2009 Edward and Margaret Gehrke of Lincoln traveled to National Parks in the early days of the automobile. He took photos, she wrote an expressive journal. Burns draws on both to help tell the story of the impact of the National Parks on park visitors. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Historic homesteader's cabin being moved -- September 19, 2009 A historic cabin is being moved to a new location at Homestead National Monument near Beatrice. The new location will be out of the flood plain, and back on the prairie where it belongs. NET Radio's Jerry Johnston visited the work site this week, and prepared this progress report. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Private funds keep Omaha library open – for now -- September 5, 2009 A North Omaha branch library was set to close for the rest of the year. Now, the Florence branch will stay open. It's a story of private money coming to the rescue of a public institution – but the last unwritten chapter may still hold some surprises. Robin Wisch reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nebraskans supporting house building in Guatamala -- August 29, 2009 Jim Hille, a retired Lincoln architect, is the catalyst behind a growing connection between Nebraskans and an effort to build houses for Gautemala's poorest. The program is soon to become an International Study/Service option for University of Nebraska Lincoln students. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Sarah Chayes on Tribal Culture in Afghanistan -- August 15, 2009 People in Afghanistan will vote for their next president on 8/20/09. The US has increased its military presence, and the Taliban has promised to disrupt voting. Earlier this year, former NPR Afghanistan correspondent Sarah Chayes was in Nebraska. In this interview with NET Radio's Jerry Johnston, she talks about Afghanistan's tribal culture. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Sandhills Ballad -- July 25, 2009 A new novel by the editor of a prominent literary journal is set in the Nebraska Sandhills. The main character, a young woman who loves ranching, has to built a new life after a tragic car accident. NET Radio's Jerry Johnston interviews the author, Ladette Randolph. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Piano Teachers Remembered -- July 18, 2009 Hastings College Music Professor Robin Koozer talks about his hometown piano teacher, and the difference piano teachers make in Nebraska's cultural life. Koozer is the scholar in residence for New Harmonies, a travelling exhibit highlighting music making in Nebraska. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Pawnee Powwow -- July 11, 2009 The Pawnee were officially welcomed back to Nebraska with a powwow at the Great River Road Archway Monument in Kearney. Jerry Johnston prepared a montage of people's reaction to the event. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Voices of New Citizens -- July 4, 2009 Homestead National Monument near Beatrice became a courtroom for a special ceremony this past Flag Day. Twelve people raised their right hand, swore allegiance to the United States of America, and became citizens. Jerry Johnston prepared this audio montage of the voices of New Americans. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Zora Neale Hurston at Chautauqua -- June 27, 2009 The Kansas-Nebraska Chautauqua brought author and folklorist Zora Neale Hurston to stages in Broken Bow and Plattsmouth. The overall theme for this year's Chautauqua is the Great Depression. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Remembering Vivian Strong -- June 20, 2009 Forty years ago, North Omaha broke out in riots at the news that a 14-year-old Black girl was shot and killed by a police officer. Now, for the first time, Strong's sister talks about the events that left a permanent mark on Omaha's predominantly African-American neighborhood. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Photographing Nebraska's Economy -- June 6, 2009 A group of UNL journalism students and their professor are touring the state looking to photograph the human side of economic changes. Jerry Johnston reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | WWII Vets reunite with people liberated from death camps -- May 30, 2009 Nebraska's World War II veterans have been visiting the World War II Monument in Washington courtesy of the Honor Flight program. Last weekend, there was a final reunion of the Honor Flight veterans. There was also another reunion - a small group of vets met with some of the people they liberated from Nazi concentration camps. Robyn Wisch reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Balancing morale and morals in the USO during WWII -- May 23, 2009 Volunteering to dance with soldiers at USO clubs was supporting the troops. Dancing with strangers was a risk to your reputation. That was the balance that young women and the USO had to strike. Jerry Johnston reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Grandmothers caring for grandchildren -- May 9, 2009 Many families will celebrate Mother's Day this weekend. But in over two million American homes, grandparents are the ones are getting children out of bed and ready for the day. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Omaha a leader in interfaith dialogue -- April 27, 2009 Christians, Muslims, and Jews share a common spiritual ancestor: Abraham. Even though the faiths are different, sharing a common background has allowed room for dialogue. Dialogue is everywhere, but sharing a common place of worship - that is pretty unique. And it's happening in Omaha - or at least, that's the dream. Robyn Wisch has the story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | From first African-American Nebraska football player to small town doctor -- April 20, 2009 Memorial Stadium fills with thousands of Nebraska football fans for the annual spring scrimmage. There's a special measure of pride for small towns in Nebraska represented by a player on the field. Jerry Johnston has this story of one Nebraska football player, and the surprising, and lasting, impression he made on his small town. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | An artistic twist on telemarketing -- April 13, 2009 Everyone knows the frustration of those unwanted telephone sales calls. But what if instead of a sales pitch, you heard an inspirational quote? From Omaha, Robyn Wisch reports on a new, artistic twist on telemarketing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Native writers gather at UNK to observe and write about the sandhill crane migration -- March 23, 2009 A group of writers, mostly from indigenous backgrounds, are witnessing the crane migration along the Platte. These writers find connection to their own culture in the movement of the cranes. Jerry Johnston reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Speaking about Genocide -- March 16, 2009 Mark Wilkens was the only American who remained in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide. He is the first in a Lincoln Public School series of speakers on the topic of genocide. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Sarah Chayes complete interview -- March 9, 2009 Sarah Chayes was an NPR reporter in Afghanistan during the 2001 attack and overthrow of the Taliban. Then she left NPR to do relief work there. In this interview with NET Radio's Jerry Johnston, she explains her decision to leave NPR, her opinions of the Obama administration's approach to Afghanistan, and the complicated allegiances of tribal membership and national identity. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Sarah Chayes on Afghan tribes -- March 9, 2009 Sarah Chayes was an NPR reporter in Afghanistan during the 2001 attack and overthrow of the Taliban. Then she left NPR to do relief work there. In this portion of her interview with NET Radio's Jerry Johnston, she describes the complicated allegiances of tribal membership and national identity. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | From NPR's voice in Afghanistan to soapmaker -- March 9, 2009 Sarah Chayes has been living and working in Kandahar, Afghanistan since 2001, when she covered the fall of the Taliban for National Public Radio. In 2002 she left journalism to help rebuild the shattered country whose fate will help determine the shape of the 21st century. In an interview before her March 4 EN Thompson Forum address at the University of Nebraska Lincoln, Jerry Johnston asked Sarah Chayes about her work in Afghanistan and her opinion of current US policy there. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | First Muslim Chaplain in the National Guard -- March 2, 2009 An officer in the Nebraska National Guard is training to be the first Muslim Chaplain in the Guard's history. Jerry Johnston has this profile. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Religion professor discusses Darwin and God as part of UNL series -- February 19, 2009 This month is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is marking the event with a series of lectures exploring the impact of Darwin's Theory of Evolution on science, religion and society. Dan Crawford, a senior lecturer in the Classics and Religious Studies department, discusses the impact during a lecture Thursday afternoon. Reporter Sarah McCammon recently talked with Crawford, and asked him to explain why some religious people are uncomfor ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin on Lincoln, Obama, and leadership -- February 16, 2009 It's a big week for Lincoln, Nebraska - the biggest city named for the 16th President. A weeklong commemoration of the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth is underway. Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin caps off the celebration with a Sunday evening lecture at the Lied Center. Her Pulitzer Prize winning book "Team of Rivals" tells the story of President Lincoln's cabinet which included his political rivals. NET Radio's Jerry Johnston asked Goodwin about learning the book was a favorite ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nebraska's Capitol: Telling the state's story in tile and stone -- February 9, 2009 Nebraska's first two capital buildings were built on the cheap, and fell apart. As they say - the third time's the charm. Jerry Johnston reports. | Visit http://www.bisonwerks.com/ for more on Lee Lawrie and Greg Harm's book "Lee Lawrie's Prairie Deco." | Visit http://www.capitol.org/ for more on the Nebraska State Capitol, and for links on arranging a tour. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Sower's shy sculptor: Lee Lawrie -- February 2, 2009 He's big, he's brass, and he's Nebraska's most famous sculpture - The Sower. But the man who created The Sower would be happy that very few people know his name. Jerry Johnston reports. | For more on Lawrie, and more on Greg Harm's research and book, go to Bisonwerks.com. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | UNL on-line Czech course wins prize, keeps heritage alive -- January 12, 2009 For more on UNL's efforts to keep Nebraska's Czech heritage alive, visit http://www.unl.edu/Czechheritage. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Unedited interview with Professor Gerald Shapiro -- December 22, 2008 Jerry Johnston's complete unedited interview with University of Nebraska Lincoln writing professor Gerald Shapiro about his story "The Latke Maven," featured on NPR's Hanukkah Lights. | NPR's Hanukkah Lights programs: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16617488 | More on Gerald Shapiro's collections of short stories: http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/Bad-Jews-and-Other-Stories,672085.aspx Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nebraska author's Hanukkah story on NPR special -- December 22, 2008 Hanukkah begins at sundown December 21st. The NPR special Hanukkah Lights contains a story by University of Nebraska Lincoln writing professor Gerald Shapiro. NET Radio's Jerry Johnston talked with Shapiro about the story behind the story. | NPR's Hanukkah Lights programs: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16617488 | More on Gerald Shapiro's collections of short stories: http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/Bad-Jews-and-Other-Stories,672085.aspx Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Milton at 400: two readings -- December 15, 2008 Four hundred years ago this week, the author John Milton was born. His first published work told the story of another birth - a birth being celebrated around the world this month. Jerry Johnston has more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nebraska world traveler on a new mission -- December 8, 2008 To read more about the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, and to see Dean Jacobs photos and read his blog entries (and a LOT more) go to travel4life.org. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Leading Native American dancer heads to Baghdad as cultural ambassador -- November 24, 2008 The Kevin Locke Native Dance Ensemble which performed in Nebraska earlier this month, has been performing in Baghdad this week. From Wayne, Nebraska, Mike Marek reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Getting broadband internet to rural Nebraska -- November 17, 2008 Going wireless may be the best solution to the problem of getting broadband high-speed internet in rural Nebraska. Jerry Johnston reports. For more on Laurence Malone's view on the connection between rural broadband and rural electrification download the PDF at http://arxiv.org/ftp/cs/papers/0109/0109064.pdf. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The missing precinct in Nebraska's first election -- November 10, 2008 Senior Nebraska Historical Society researcher James Potter discusses the 1866 Governor's race (J. Sterling Morton vs. David Butler), the outcome of which set the stage for future politics in the state. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Cartoon characters and cake frosting -- November 3, 2008 Former Nebraska Secretary of State Allen Beermann tells stories of some creative enforcement of the state's election laws. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns to speak in Lincoln this week -- October 13, 2008 Visit http://nebraskahistory.org/oversite/whatsnew/Ken-Burns-Poster.pdf for more on the Nebraska State Historical Society fundraiser where Burns will speak. For more about Ken Burns, go to http://www.pbs.org/kenburns. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Getting Paid in Cake -- October 11, 2008 Visit http://netnebraska.org/recipebox to submit your recipe and family story. | MRS. MCK'S RAISIN CAKE | INGREDIENTS: 1 box of Raisins 3 cups Water 2 cups White Sugar 1/2 cup shortening (Crisco) 1 teaspoon Salt 1 teaspoon Soda 1 teaspoon Cinnamon 1 teaspoon Nutmeg 1 teaspoon Clove 1 teaspoon Allspice 4 cups flour 1 cup nuts (optional) | INSTRUCTIONS: Cook raisins in the 2 cups of water until nearly dry. Mix sugar and shortening together, then add salt, soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, c ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Kerrey Pedestrian Bridge: Omaha continues to turn toward the Missouri -- October 3, 2008 There's a new way to cross the Missouri River - a three thousand foot long pedestrian bridge connecting Omaha and Council Bluffs, Iowa. From the heights of the new bridge, Robyn Wisch reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Genealogists partner to put more homestead records online -- September 29, 2008 An army of genealogists is starting to sift though a mountain of homesteading documents. Families descended from Nebraska homesteaders will be the first to benefit from what they find. Jerry Johnston has more. | To view Broken Bow homestead records, go to http://cdrh.unl.edu/homestead. | For the Homestead National Monument website, go to http://www.nps.gov/home. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Recreating the taste of Africa from memory -- September 15, 2008 Home cooking means African cooking for one Nebraska family, even though they grew up eating conventional American food. Jerry Johnston has more. | Here's the recipe for the stew in this story, Beth's African Stew: Brown onions and garlic in oil. Add diced sweet potatoes and brown. Add diced chicken and brown Add - 1 tbs chili powder 1 tbs cumin 1 can chopped tomato or salsa 1-2 cans white beans or garbanzo beans Cover with chicken broth and cook 1 hour. Add 1-2 cups creamy peanut butter and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Poet Laureate Ted Kooser at Omaha poetry slam -- September 8, 2008 "Blizzard Voices" opens next week - an Opera Omaha oratorio based on poems by Ted Kooser. The former United States Poet Laureate, and favored Nebraska son took the stage at a slam poetry and indie rock night in Omaha this week. By the end of the evening, walls between poetry, rock, and opera were falling. From Omaha, Robyn Wisch has more. | For more on "Blizzard Voices," go to http://www.operaomaha.org/. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Photos tell story of Blacks in Lincoln 1910-1925 -- August 18, 2008 Forty years ago, a couple of boxes of photo negatives sold for $15 at a garage sale. The pictures turned out to be a historical goldmine. | Deciding that John Johnson was the photographer is a change from previous scholarship. At one time, the photographer was though to be Earl McWilliams, thus the collection on Doug Keister's website is called the McWilliams collection. Keister thinks McWilliams was a collaborator with Johnson in the photographs, but Johnson was the actual photographer. | ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nebraskan has Chinese visa trouble because of Olympics -- August 11, 2008 The Beijing Olympics are off and running - and jumping. Jerry Johnston reports that a Nebraskan who saw one of the olympic sites being built will have to watch events from her Omaha home. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Strategic Discussions for Nebraska: Immigration -- August 4, 2008 Strategic Discussions for Nebraska website: http://www.unl.edu/sdn Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Lakota language has new dictionary -- July 28, 2008 A new dictionary of the Lakota language just hit the bookshelves. The dictionary's editors hope the twenty thousand words and definitions will help keep the native Sioux language alive. South Dakota Public Radio's Charles Michael Ray reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Chautauqua brings Will Rogers to Hastings -- July 14, 2008 The best known radio personality of the 1930's was in Hastings recently, as the Chautauqua brought Will Rogers to town. To read more about the history of Chautauqua in Nebraska and about this year's Chautauqua, visit http://www.nebraskahumanities.org/programs/chautauqua.html. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Chautauqua brings FDR, Huey Long to Hastings -- July 7, 2008 To read more about the history of Chautauqua in Nebraska and about this year's Chautauqua, visit http://www.nebraskahumanities.org/programs/chautauqua.html. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Great Plains in detail: The journals of Prince Maximilian -- June 28, 2008 For more on Maximilian's Journals and Karl Bodmer, and the current exhibit at the Joslyn Art Museum, visit http://www.joslyn.org/exhibitions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Chautauqua coming to Falls City, Hastings -- June 21, 2008 People in Falls City and Hastings will get a chance over the next two weeks to see history unfold - Chautauqua is coming to town. For a complete rundown of the schedules in Falls City and Hastings, visit http://www.nebraskahumanities.org/programs/chautauqua.html. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Day JFK Died -- May 31, 2008 John Sibbit is a Nebraska rancher featured in the NET Television documentary "Beef State." He tells the story of how the news of JFK's assassination put his ranch in economic peril. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | New Monument for African American Homesteaders -- May 24, 2008 A new monument marks the previously nameless graves of African American homesteaders. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Your Word is Your Bond -- May 17, 2008 In cattle country, where business is settled on a handshake, a person's word is their bond. This story is drawn from interviews for Beef State, a documentary project of NET and the Nebraska Historical Society. For a preview, go to http://www.netnebraska.org/beefstate. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Preserving Native American history -- May 12, 2008 The Nebraska Historical Society is in the beginning stages of restoring its collection of over 3,000 artifacts from 14 tribes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | '68: The Year Nebraska Mattered -- May 5, 2008 For more, visit http://www.netnebraska.org/campaign08. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nebraska Moments - Nebraska history made short and sweet - and accurate -- May 5, 2008 For more about the book, go to http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Omaha's Marlin Briscoe now subject of feature film -- April 21, 2008 Omaha native Marlin Briscoe, first starting African-American quarterback in the NFL, is now the subject of a movie. Omaha's best know actor, John Beasley, is behind the film. Beasley played football with Briscoe in Omaha. For more about the film, visit www.marlinbriscoemovie.com. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A tradition of quilting for a cause -- March 31, 2008 The grand opening of the new International Quilt Study Center occurred yesterday in Lincoln. The Center is the home to the largest publicly held quilt collection in the world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Poems on paintings could win prizes -- February 18, 2008 A picture may paint a thousand words, but a few well chosen words about a painting could win a prize. For more information about the contest, go to www.sheldonartgallery.org. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Grandaughters of black homesteader are link to history -- February 11, 2008 A Nebraska family traces its roots to a man standing at a crossroads in history . . . the intersection of slavery and homesteading. (Photo: David and Hannah Patrick, courtesy of Plainsman Museum.) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | African-American homesteaders in Nebraska -- February 4, 2008 For more information about homesteading, go to www.nps.gov/home. For information about a program on Nicodemus, Kansas and black homesteaders, visit http://www.nps.gov/home/parknews/blackhistory.htm. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Chemist, Artist explore chemistry in the movies -- January 14, 2008 You expect a little chemistry between characters in a movie. There's more chemistry in the movies than you might expect, according to Dr. Mark Griep and Marjorie Mikasen. For more on Chemistry in the Movies, visit http://chem-mgriep2.unl.edu. For more on Marjorie Mikasen's art, visit http://chem-mgriep2.unl.edu/Hardedge.html. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Police face challenges serving people who don't speak English -- December 17, 2007 Nebraska Police Departments are facing the tough challenge of serving people in their communities who don't speak English. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The journey that saved Curious George -- November 19, 2007 The little monkey from children's literature had a narrow escape as his creators fled the Nazi invasion of Paris . . . Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | "Presidential Courage" -- October 8, 2007 Michael R. Beschloss recently gave a speech about his book "Presidential Courage" -- and the past U.S. presidents that have displayed a great deal of it. Bechloss' talk was the twelfth in the Governor's Lecture in the Humanities, sponsored by the Nebraska Humanities Council, the University of Nebraska, and Creighton University. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nebraska WWII Vet: Lessons Learned -- September 24, 2007 Roger Peters was an Army Corporal serving in Europe as WWII ended. He tells two stories, and the lessons he learned from his interaction with a German soldier and concentration camp survivor. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Nebraska Tuskegee Airman Remebers Racism, and WWII -- September 22, 2007 Sixteen million Americans fought during World War II. Now, fewer than three million - less than a quarter - are still living. With most of them in their eighties, time is running out to hear their stories. To tell your World War II story, go to netnebraska.org/thewar Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Only Resident of Monowi Nebraska -- September 3, 2007 Elsie Eiler talks about being the only resident of her town, and the five thousand volume lending library there. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Ponca Powwow Preserves, Teaches Tradition -- August 27, 2007 The powwow is the latest milestone in the Nebraska tribe's road back from government termination 30 years ago. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Wheelchair softball team going for gold -- August 20, 2007 In the coming week, a group of wheelchair-bound athletes from Nebraska will battle softball teams from across the country to try and take back the national title. 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