Speakers are alphabetized by last name.
Town of residence and contact information is provided for each. For a
detailed program
description click on the program title.
Singer-Songwriter
Kearney, Nebraska
308-865-8294 (Work) Kathryn Benzel
Mike
Adams's Americana style combines folk and country with jazz and blues in
a dynamic acoustic sound. Adams's song-stories describe the fragile
beauty of the disappearing Plains, the integrity of hard work and the
pleasure of working together. Adams played traditional American music
in a collaborative performance, "Prayers for the People: Carl Sandburg's
Poetry and Songs," with Kathryn Benzel and Charles Peek at the Red Cloud
Opera House, the Theatre of the American West in Republican City and the
Merryman Performing Arts Center in Kearney.
Jonis
Agee
Professor of English and
Creative Writing
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, Nebraska
Pirate
Cows of the Sandhills: How a Novelist Gathers Material
402-472-3191 (Work)
or 402-797-2416 (Home)
jagee2@unl.edu
Jonis
Agee is the author of the novels "Sweet Eyes," "Strange Angels," "South of
Resurrection," and "The Weight of Dreams," and collections of short fiction
that include "Pretend We've Never Met," "Bend This Heart," "A .38 Special
and a Broken Heart," "Taking the Wall," and "Acts of Love on Indigo Road,"
which won the Gold Award from ForeWord magazine in 2004. She has also
published two books of poetry, "Houses" and "Mercury." Born in Omaha, she
was educated at the University of Iowa (BA) and the State University of New
York at Binghamton (MA, PhD). Among her many awards are an NEA grant in
fiction, a Loft-McNight Award, and a Loft-McNight Award of Distinction.
Three of her books were named notable books of the year by The New York
Times, and "The Weight of Dreams" won the 2000 Nebraska Book Award.
Diane
R. Bartels
Retired Teacher
Lincoln, Nebraska
Sharpie:
Nebraska's Queen of the Air 402-489-3059 (Home)
dbsharpie@aol.com
Diane Bartels is a lifelong Nebraskan who grew
up wanting to fly airplanes. She earned her pilot certificate in 1966 and
with that evolved a commitment to aerospace education and the preservation
of Nebraska's rich aviation heritage. In 1991, Diane was recognized as
Nebraska's Teacher-Scholar by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The award made it possible for her to write and publish "Sharpie: The Life
Story of Evelyn Sharp, Nebraska's Aviatrix." Diane belongs to several aviation
organizations, has been published in journals and periodicals and has presented
at national conferences. She served as principal consultant for the NETV
documentary film "Sharpie: Born To Fly."
Douglas R. Beals
Preservation Alliance of Lincoln
Lincoln, Nebraska
The People
Who Made It Work: A Centennial History of the Cushman Motor Works
(with Mary Kay Quinlan)
402-472-5392
Cherrie Beam-Clarke
Storyteller and Independent Scholar
Fremont, Nebraska
Promise
in a New Land
The Courage
to Continue 402-727-2820 (Home)
cherrieclarke@hotmail.com
Cherrie Beam-Clarke
doesn't lack for stories as she has spent nearly 2 5
years gathering and recording historic tales from Nebraska families. Cherrie
boasts of being a "true Nebraskan," as she has lived in both ends of the
state and is a fourth generation farm girl. The pioneer stories are factual and
reflect the diversity
of the people and land from western to eastern Nebraska. Cherrie is an
educational storyteller who speaks with an Irish brogue, dresses in period
attire and delivers spell binding one-act plays that make audiences laugh
and cry. Speaking for more than 25 years to all ages, her venues include
elementary, especially 4th grade, through high school, libraries, museums,
adult and youth church groups, senior centers, banquets and festivals.
Cherrie traveled Nebraska as a storyteller on the wagon train commemorating
the 150th birthday of the Oregon Trail. She is co-founder of John
C. Fremont Days, one of Nebraska's largest annual historical festivals, and
founder of "A Day in the Past," an annual day for 4th graders. She is
recipient of a number of community and statewide awards for historical
preservation.
Beverly Beavers
Teacher, Superior Public Schools
Superior, Nebraska
A Visit
With Lady Vestey 402-879-4625 (Home) or 402-879-3025 (Work)
Born and raised in Superior, Beverly Beavers was fascinated by the tale of
the Superior girl who became the world’s highest paid female executive of
her era.
Bill Behmer
Musician Lincoln, Nebraska
American
Folk Music (with Gwen Meister)
The Mountain
Dulcimer (with Gwen Meister)
402-420-5442 (Day or Evening)
plainsculture@inebraska.com
Bill Behmer is a founder
of LAFTA, the Lincoln Association
for Traditional Arts. He served as the organization’s artistic director for
more than 10 years and received the 1998 Mayor’s Arts Award from the Lincoln
Arts Council for his volunteer work promoting old-time folk music. In
addition to fiddle and h armonica,
Bill plays the mountain dulcimer and is a three-time Midwest dulcimer
champion. He has done extensive research into the history and playing styles
of this American folk instrument. Gwen Meister is a folklorist
and an active member of the American Folklore Society. She was folk arts
coordinator for the Nebraska Arts Council in Omaha and now is Executive
Director of the Nebraska Folklife Network in Lincoln. Gwen plays the
autoharp, bodhran (pronounced “boron,” an Irish drum) and several other
instruments. Gwen and Bill have been performing together for more than 25
years. They sing and play a variety of old time and traditional folk music,
and explain the history of their instruments and their songs.
Professor of English
University of
Nebraska-Kearney
Kathryn Benzel teaches literary criticism, 20th
century literature, American and British fiction, interdisciplinary
studies and women's studies. Benzel received her B.A. and M.A. from the
University of Toledo in Ohio and her Ph.D. from the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She participated in two Nebraska
Humanities Council Summer Seminars and presented "Prayers for the
People: Carl Sandburg's Poetry and Songs" with Mike Adams and Charles
Peek at the Red Cloud Opera House, the Theatre of the American West in
Republican City and the Merryman Performing Arts Center in Kearney.
Roger Bergman
Director,
Justice and Peace Studies
Program
Creighton University
Omaha, Nebraska
When
Is War Just?: Christian Ethics of War and Peace
402-280-1492
rbjps@creighton.edu
Roger Bergman is the founding director of the Justice
and Peace Studies Program at Creighton University. He teaches courses in
Catholic social ethics and Christian ethics of war and peace. For many years
he has organized the annual Morality of War Seminar for seniors in
Creighton’s Army ROTC program. An activist and educator for more than two
decades, Bergman has made hundreds of presentations to church groups,
schools, clubs and academic conferences.
Susanne George Bloomfield
Professor of English
University of Nebraska at Kearney
Holdrege, Nebraska
Elia Peattie:
Pioneer Journalist
A Journey
to Burntfork: The World of Elinore Pruitt Stewart
Kate M. Cleary:
Nebraska Writer and Humorist
Writing
Personal and Family History Narratives
Family
History (Residency program) 308-995-8547 (Home) or 308-991-4647
(Cell)
stbloomfield@hughes.net
bloomfields@unk.edu
Susanne George
Bloomfield is a full professor an d
holds the Martin Distinguished Professorship at the University of
Nebraska-Kearney (UNK). She is the author of three biographies published by
the University of Nebraska Press: "Impertinences…” 2005; “Kate M. Cleary….”
(1997); and “The Adventures of the Woman Homesteader….” (1992). She also
co-edited “The Platte River: An Atlas of the Big Bend Region” (1993); “A
Prairie Mosaic: An Atlas of Central Nebraska’s
Land, Nature, and Culture” (2000); “A Presidential Visit” (2002); "From the
Beginning: A History of Excellence at the University of Nebraska at Kearney"
(2005); and “Adventures in the West! Stories for Young Readers” (2007). She
and her husband enjoy trail riding on their paint horses.
Pat Boilesen
Independent Musician & Composer
Albion, Nebraska
Sing Me a
Story: The Ballad of Yesterday and Today
402-395-6558 or 402-741-0006 (both Home)
pboiles@cablene.com
www.patboilesen.homestead.com
Pat is a
native Nebraskan, a writer, and a musician with an interest in her
historical heritage. She found that the old traditional songs that tell
stories (ballads) often tell the story of our ancestors and how their trials
and their endurance
shaped life on the Plains. Pat began writing her own ballads, knowing that
her stories will also help contribute to keeping our heritage alive. She
writes of real people, places and events, past and present, some exciting,
some sad, and some simply fun! In her presentation, Pat shares the old
ballad with the new and lets her audience share in the story those ballads
tell. She presents her program to suit any age group, making certain it is
full of learning for school children, full of nostalgia for the adult, and
thought provoking for all. Pat has won countless awards for her songwriting
and poetry and conducts workshops at festivals and events across the plains.
She is a recording artist with international airplay. Pat also conducts
residencies for the Nebraska Arts Council's Artists-in-Schools/Communities
Program.
John Calvert
Assistant Professor of History
Creighton University
Omaha, Nebraska
America
in the Eyes of an Islamic Fundamentalist
Change
and Revolution in the Modern Middle East
Palestine
and the Arab-Israeli Conflict 402-280-2653 (Work)
johncalvert@creighton.edu
Jack Campbell
Community Volunteer & Sower Award recipient
Lincoln, Nebraska
The Allied
Invasion of Japan
What Is a
Picture Worth?
402-423-2282 (Home) or 402-423-1800 (Work)
Jack Campbell has served two terms on the Nebraska
Humanities Council and, thereafter, the Nebraska Foundation for the Humanities,
and was president of the foundation from 1993 to 1995. He is on the board
of the Nebraska Cultural Endowment, raising support for the Nebraska Humanities
Council and the Nebraska Arts Council. Jack is a retired insurance executive,
is active in civic organizations and is a board member of the Cooper Foundation.
He received the Sower Award from the NHC in 2001 for his long-time activities
and commitment to the cultural programs of the state.
Paul V. Campbell
Professor of Criminal Justice
& Chair, Department of Sociology, Psychology &
Criminal Justice
Wayne State College
Wayne, Nebraska
The
Role of the Church and School in Rural Nebraska
402-375-7297 (Work)
pacampb1@wsc.edu
Paul
Campbell has a bachelor's degree in engineering from the
U.S. Military Academy, West
Point, N.Y., a master's degree in sociology and a doctorate in sociology and social
psychology from Utah State University. Paul has done research on emotionally
disturbed teenagers, death row inmate families, gender socialization of
careers among preschool, second-grade and fourth-grade students,
cross-gender violence among pre-teens, rural crime reporting, campus
violence, crime victimization of tourists and dating violence. For more than
20 years, he has been a
volunteer for Haven House, a domestic violence and sexual assault shelter
agency. On the Wayne
State College faculty since 1980, Paul teaches about family violence, the
war on drugs, rural sociology, juvenile delinquency and technology. He
is a six-time nominee for the State Colleges Teaching Excellence Award,
and students twice have selected him the Outstanding Faculty Member of
the Year.
Deb Carpenter-Nolting
Writer & Songwriter
Bushnell, Nebraska
The Heart's
Compass: Women on the Trails (with Lyn Messersmith)
Legends and Leaders of
the West (with Lyn Messersmith)

308-673-5057 (Home)
deb@leadersandlegends.com
Deb Carpenter-Nolting has been sharing her original work
throughout the West for several years. Deb, in partnership with poet Lyn Messersmith, performs an educational program about women who traveled and
settled the Plains, and the two have developed another program
about leaders and legends who helped shape the American West. Both programs
are available through the Nebraska and South Dakota Humanities Councils.
John E. Carter
Special Projects Coordinator,
Nebraska State Historical Society
Lincoln, Nebraska
Photographing
the American Dream 402-477-2150 (Home) or 402-471-4752 (Work)
jecarter@neb.rr.com
James P. Cavanaugh
Independent Historian & Attorney
Omaha, Nebraska
The Irish
in Nebraska, 1850-2000
The
Irish in Omaha, 1854-2004
The Irish
Odyssey: Where the Irish Came From 402-341-2020 (Home)
socseclaw1@aol.com
Dale Clark
Director
of Wessels Living History Farm, President of Traveling Historical Programs,
Inc., and Independent Scholar Grand Island, Nebraska
Lewis
and Clark's Corps of Discovery Through the Eyes of a Crew Member
Ordinary
Heroes
A Young Man's
Journey on the Oregon Trail 308-384-2655
(Home) or 308-380-9062 (Cell)
jjdclark@msn.com
Dale Clark has a B.A. and M.A. in education
from the University
of
Nebraska at Kearney and has been involved in education for more than 40 years. He
taught in the Hastings Public Schools, was the education director at the
Stuhr Museum of the Prairie Pioneer, and is currently director of Wessels
Living History Farm at York, Neb. Dale has a lifelong interest in
history. He has participated in several wagon trains traveling the Overland
Trails and is active in reenactment activities of the
commemoration of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Dale organized the company
Traveling Historical Programs Inc. so that he might bring history alive to
audiences in Nebraska and surrounding states.
Anita Sue Clement
Independent Scholar
Grand Island, Nebraska
Everyday
Lives of Western Women
The Victorian
Child 308-381-1688 (Home)
clemrdas@charter.net
A graduate of Kearney State College, now the
University
of Nebraska at Kearney, Anita Sue Clement has a lifelong interest in history, particularly
of the western states and their people. She has been a public school teacher
and an instructor and interpreter at the Stuhr Museum of the Prairie Pioneer.
Her programs focus on the everyday lives of women and children, the economic
and personal events that shape those lives, and the effects on their contemporaries
and descendants. The programs can be adapted to audiences from grade four
through adults, and include stories, hands-on artifacts and slide photographs.
William A. Clemente
Professor of English
Peru State College
Peru, Nebraska
Feathers
and Verses
Creative
Writing (Residency program) 402-872-2233 (Work)
bclemente@oakmail.peru.edu
www.hpcnet.org/peru/schoolartsandsciences/language/clemente
http://www.flickr.com/photos/clemente/sets/72157594459243119/
Bill Clemente earned a PhD in comparative literature from
the
University of Oregon and is a professor of English at Peru State College,
where he has taught since 1993. Bill teaches a wide variety of classes,
including creative writing and children’s literature. He also enjoys
Caribbean literature and science fiction, on which he continues to publish
articles. His hobbies are photography and bird watching—and toying with
blogs and podcasts. You can see some of his bird pictures at the website
listed above. In addition to working with college students, Bill has for the
past 20 years given creative-writing sessions at elementary schools.
“Feathers and Verses” combines creative writing with his hobbies. Bill also
enjoys sharing his bird pictures and talking with adult groups.
Janice Collins-Brooks
Adjunct Instructor
Metropolitan Community College
Omaha, Nebraska
African-American
Gospel Music
Tell Me a
Story 402-453-3920 (Home)
Dawn R. Connelly
Art Specialist, Lincoln Public Schools
Adjunct Professor, College of Saint Mary, Lincoln Hickman, Nebraska
The
Burckhardts: An African-American Epic 402-261-3266 (Home) or 402-499-7754 (Work)
dconnel@lps.org
Dawn
Connelly has been teaching art education to all grade levels
since 1982 in
several public schools in Nebraska. She also was an art professor at Andrew
College in Cuthbert, Ga., and taught for Southeast Community College in
Lincoln. Her teaching experience extends to Stuttgart, Germany, where
she taught on a military post. Dawn teaches middle school art for
Lincoln Public Schools. She is an adjunct professor for Nebraska Wesleyan
University and The College
of Saint Mary. The program "The Burckhardts" developed from a project
in which 4th and 5th grade art students painted banners honoring notable
Nebraskans from different ethnic backgrounds. Dawn and her family had spent
Martin Luther King Jr. Day at the Great Plains Museum in Omaha in 1999,
researching an African American to honor on a banner when she came upon a
photo of a beautiful black woman with a warm smile. Her name was Anna Burckhardt and she was a teacher and oil painter. When Dawn realized Anna's
husband, Rev. Oliver Burckhardt, was also a notable Nebraskan through his
work with race relations, his connections with five governors and his
religious contributions, she was convinced this couple needed to be honored.
Tom & Patricia Cook
Emeritus Professor, Wayne State College (Tom)
Semi-Retired Musician (Patricia)
Wayne, Nebraska
Encountering
China With the Cooks 402-375-1171 (Home)
tigertom43@hotmail.com
Tom
Cook, a native of Des Moines, taught at Wayne
State College from
1990-2007. He served as Wayne State’s first women’s golf coach, concluding
his career in 1991-93 with three straight undefeated seasons. Tom won his
academic division’s teaching award and was nominated for a statewide
teaching award. Pat Cook, a native of Milwaukee, is a former music teacher
and frequent volunteer musician. She has taught music in public schools and
community colleges as well as privately, and served numerous church choirs
as a soloist and/or director. The Cooks traveled in 1998-99 to Hangzhou,
where they both taught English at Zhejiang University, the largest
university in China. While there, Pat learned some Chinese music and taught
Western music to Chinese musicians. More recently Tom and Pat also taught
three semesters at Hunan University in Changsha, where Tom won the 2002
Lotus Award as an outstanding foreign teacher in Hunan Province.
Sara Brandes Crook
Professor of Social Sciences
Peru State College
Peru, Nebraska
Nebraska's
Winding Road to Statehood: In the Footsteps of a Female Settler
402-873-4539 (Home) or 402-872-2279 (Work)
scrook@oakmail.peru.edu
Meenakshi (Meena) Nath Dalal
Professor of Economics
Wayne State College
Wayne, Nebraska
Caste, Class
and Gender: Women's Work in India
Cultural
Practices in India
Goddess
Worship 612-532-2449 (Cell) or 402-375-7509 (Work)
medalal1@wsc.edu
Spencer Davis
Professor of History
Peru State College
Bellevue, Nebraska
Abraham
Lincoln: The Personal Side
African-American
Soldiers in the Civil War: Fighting on Two Fronts
Ralph Ellison's
Invisible Man
Understanding
Emancipation: Abraham Lincoln and Sojourner
Truth (with Vivian Davis)
402-293-6713 (Home)
Spencer Davis has a bachelor’s degree from Brown
University, a master’s degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and
a doctorate from the University of Toronto. He has published articles
on Olaudah Equiano and Ma Rainey and is a contributor to Encyclopedia USA.
His area of specialization is African-American history. He is co-founder
and coordinator of the Black History Workshop of Zion Baptist Church in
Omaha.
Vivian Davis
Employee, Bellevue Public Schools
Bellevue, Nebraska
Understanding
Emancipation: Abraham Lincoln and Sojourner Truth (with Spencer Davis)
402-293-6713 (Home)
Vivian Davis is a graduate of the Duchesne Academy
of the Sacred Heart, where her major was speech and dramatics. She has
been an officer of the Omaha Chapter National Council of Negro Women and
is a member and officer of the Omaha Chapter of the Links, Inc. She is
featured in the book "Visions of Freedom on the Great Plains," an illustrated
history of African Americans in Nebraska. Vivian has been a volunteer and
performer with the Omaha Community Playhouse and was co-hostess of
the “Black on Black” television variety program.
Winfield Delle
Retired Teacher
Scottsbluff, Nebraska
Nebraska
Folklore, Folk-lies and Fakelore
Nebraska
History in Cemeteries
Vietnam
Veterans Memorial: Its History and Meaning 308-635-0683 (Home)
Winfield Delle was born in Pennsylvania, served in the Navy during the
Korean War, and received his master's degree in history and geography from
Chadron State College. Delle taught at the high school and college levels
for 38 years, and has traveled to 19 countries.
Learthen Dorsey
Retired Professor of History & Ethnic Studies, UNL Lincoln, Nebraska
All That Jazz
Has African Roots
Ethnicity,
Fratricide and National Integration: Rwanda in Historical Perspective
Exploring
African Art
Which
Way South Africa? 402-477-0179 (Home)
Darrel W. Draper
Living History Re-enactor
Omaha, Nebraska
Daniel
Freeman: America's First Homesteader
George Drouillard:
Hunter, Interpreter and Sign-Talker for Lewis and Clark
Nebraska:
Crossroads of the Western Fur Trade
J. Sterling Morton, Author of Arbor Day
The
History of Nebraska as Told by Peter A. Sarpy
402-553-8117 (Home)
petersarpy@aol.com
Darrel W. Draper, a fifth generation Nebraskan,
retired Navy officer and University of Nebraska at Omaha graduate uses
his talents as storyteller and actor to educate and entertain. He has performed
for national and state government agencies, museums, schools, youth groups,
festivals and is a popular banquet and luncheon speaker. He specializes
in costumed portrayals of historical figures that played major roles in
the events that shaped our state and nation. He is considered an expert on the history of the Lewis
and Clark expedition and has personally retraced thousands of miles of
their trail by canoe and on foot.
Lorraine J. Duggin
Poet, Writer, Lecturer & Folk Artist
Omaha, Nebraska
Growing
Up Czech in Nebraska 402-397-6153 (Home)
Lorraine Duggin is a poet and writer who teaches
writing mainly to immigrants and international students in English-as-second-language
programs at Metro Community College and the Latina Resource Center in Omaha.
She has been publishing her own poetry, fiction and essays for many years
and has taught at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and Creighton University.
She is a master artist with the Nebraska Arts Council’s Artists in Schools/Communities
program and also in the Iowa Arts Council’s AIS/C program. Duggin also
dances with the Omaha International Folk Dancers and three other folk dance
groups in Omaha that perform in Nebraska and the region.
Phyllis Dunne
Musician Omaha, Nebraska
Didgeridoo
and Dulcimer, Too (with Robert Dunne)
Making Music
Come Alive 402-551-8095
music@bydunne.com
www.bydunne.com
Phyllis Dunne sings songs that reveal our heritage. The
Appalachian mountain dulcimer is her accompaniment. Phyllis has played all
over Europe on three different tours and has several recordings and a book.
Her CD "Joyously Dunne" was named recording of the year by the Omaha World-Herald. Dunne is a Woody Guthrie folk-singing champion, national traditional
performer of the year for lap dulcimer, two-time Midwest dulcimer champion,
and an artist with the Nebraska Arts Council. She was a vocal music teacher
in the schools and a piano teacher at the University of Nebraska at Omaha
and the College of St. Mary. She studied music at UNO and the Julliard
School of Music. Now she teaches piano, dulcimer and voice lessons at home.
Robert Dunne
Musician
Omaha, Nebraska
Didgeridoo
and Dulcimer, Too (with Phyllis Dunne)
Dunne "Dooing"
It 402-551-8095
music@bydunne.com
www.bydunne.com
Robert Dunne plays the didgeridoo (an Australian
Aboriginal wind instrument), bullroar and clapsticks. He talks about
Aboriginal traditions and explains how to play the didgeridoo. In 1995,
Dunne became an old-time country music and pioneer exposition miscellaneous
instrument champion. Dunne has performed with many international performers
and was featured on the "best local recording of 1995" (Omaha World-Herald). Dunne carves his own instruments from wood, but he demonstrates
how to make them easily from inexpensive materials such as PVC pipe, which
can be decorated in Aboriginal style.
Charlotte
M. Endorf
Independent Scholar
Norfolk, Nebraska
He Ain't
Heavy, Father...He's M' Brother!: A History of Girls & Boys Town
866-492-9546 (Work)
or 402-371-3701
(Home/Fax)
endorf@cableone.net
Charlotte Endorf has her
own Internet-based business in which she links individuals with Fortune 500
companies, teaching them how to profit from the Internet. Endorf has been a
member of Toastmasters International for more than 10 years and has been
named a Distinguished Toastmaster. She has given dozens of speeches within
the club, to civic organizations and during speech competitions. She and her
family are lifelong Nebraskans.
Bette Novit Evans
Associate Professor of Political Science
Creighton University
Omaha, Nebraska
Dangerous
Words: Freedom of Speech
Religious
Freedom: What is it?
402-551-9940 (Home) or 402-280-2570 (Work)
Bette Novit Evans’ academic specializations include constitutional
jurisprudence and political philosophy. Her research has focused on
constitutional rights and liberties. Evans has published articles on the
concept of equality, equal employment opportunity law and policy, and the
concept of race in law, and the book “Interpreting the Free Exercise of
Religion.”
Donald B. Fiedler
Attorney and Actor
Omaha, Nebraska
William
Jennings Bryan: A Nebraska Enigma 402-346-6263
fied-law@cox.net
Donald Fiedler has practiced law in Omaha since
1970.
He also bears a great
resemblance to William Jennings Bryan. Fiedler
has acted for more than 30
years and has won numerous awards, including
the prestigious Fonda McGuire
Award for best actor at the Omaha Community Playhouse.
His favorite genre
is a one-person show. Fiedler is acclaimed for
his portrayal of Clarence Darrow. He has performed
this one-person play in more than 25 states.
Dave Fowler & Carolyn Johnsen
Independent Musicians & Music Scholars
Lincoln, Nebraska
Bach to Bluegrass
On
Defining a Plains Fiddle Style 402-477-1805 (Home) or 402-472-3347 (Work)
Ron & Leigh Anne Frame & Sarah
Kovar
Independent Musicians & Music Scholars
Lincoln, Nebraska
Cowboy Rhythm
402-730-3818
cowboyrhythm@msn.com
ronaldframe@msn.com
Singing the songs of the
West, with Old West history, cowbo y
poetry, and western-style yodeling, Cowboy Rhythm entertains audiences of all
ages about our western heritage. From nostalgic cowboy ballads to songs from the
singing cowboy era, this trio draws its music from such pioneer greats as Gene
Autry, Sons of the Pioneers, Roy Rogers, and Patsy Montana, to name a few.
Combine the spirit of the cowgirl singer with old-time banjo and acoustic
guitar, and Cowboy Rhythm brings to life images of the real and imagined west.
Cowboy Rhythm has performed at numerous events and celebrations across the
country. They are also members of the Nebraska Arts Council.
Dr. Richard Fruehling
Physician
Grand Island, Nebraska
Medical
Care on the Lewis and Clark Voyage of Discovery
308-384-9296 (Home)
Dr. Richard Fruehling set up and served as director of Grand Island’s family
practice residency program, which was the first residency in the Rural
Health Education Network. Fruehling’s program has graduated highly
qualified physicians into rural practice, the vast majority of whom are now
practicing in Nebraska.
Bill Ganzel
Author & Photographer Lincoln, Nebraska
Dust
Bowl Descent 402-474-0697 (Home)
bganzel@ganzelgroup.com
Bill Ganzel is the author of the book "Dust Bowl
Descent." In the book, he tracked down some of the same people and places
that were first photographed during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
Through his contemporary photographs and oral history interviews, an audience
can get a sense of what it was like to live through one of the most desperate
times in our nation's history. Ganzel is the owner of The Ganzel Group
Communications of Lincoln.
Linda M. Garcia-Perez
Storyteller & Retired Children's Librarian
Omaha, Nebraska
Storytelling
and the Hispanic Oral Tradition
402-651-9918 (Cell)
artesana5@msn.com
Ricardo L. Garcia
Professor of Education, Teachers College
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, Nebraska
The Art &
Practice of Hispano Storytelling
Vaquero to
Buckaroo - Hispanic Roots of Cowboy Culture 402-421-9526 (Home) or 402-472-9074 (Work)
rgarcia@unl.edu
Ricardo L. Garcia, a native of New Mexico, taught
in high schools, colleges and universities for 39 years. At the University
of Nebraska-Lincoln, he devotes his scholarship to the art and practice
of storytelling. He's the author of two professional education texts and
four works of fiction:
"On the Way to San Franciso
Bay," "Coal Camp Days, A Boy's Remembrance," “Brother Bill’s Bait Bites Back,”
and “Coal Camp Justice.”
He has presented
programs to a wide range of audiences, from pre-K, elementary and
secondary schools, libraries, church groups, prisons, senior citizen groups and
family literacy programs in 35 states from Alaska to Puerto Rico and from
California to Pennsylvania.
Bruce Garver
Professor of History, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Omaha, Nebraska
Contemporary
Politics and Society in the Czech and Slovak Republics
Czech-Americans
in Nebraska
Modern Czech
Art and Architecture 402-558-1895 (Home) or 402-554-4824 (Work)
bgarver@unomaha.edu
Nancy S. Gillis
Director, John G. Neihardt Historic Site
Walthill, Nebraska
The Voice
of Native American Women 402-846-5907 (Home) or 888-777-4667 (Work)
neihardt@gpcom.net
Nancy S. Gillis joined the Neihardt foundation
as assistant
director in May 1997 with a background in both education and
corporate administration. She leads workshops on teaching about Native Americans and speaks to schools and civic groups on Neihardt’s
work and a variety of related topics. She is also on the faculty at Wayne
State College, the Nebraska Indian Community College and Northeast Community
College teaching U.S. history, and Native American history
and culture. Of Cherokee and Creek heritage, Gillis moved to Nebraska in
1987 to work with the Winnebago people for the Reformed Church in America
and serves as their delegate to both that denomination’s Native American
Council and the Commission for Race and Ethnicity and is a mentor for religious
studies curriculum writers.
Deborah Greenblatt
Independent Scholar & Musician
Avoca, Nebraska
James Whitcomb
Riley, the Fiddling Children's Poet
402-275-3221 (Home)
g-s@alltel.net
Deborah
Greenblatt has been teaching, performing, composing, record ing
and writing professionally since 1971. She is a master artist with the Nebraska
Arts Council's Artist in the Schools/Communities Program. Deborah was the first
woman to win the Nebraska State Fiddling Championship, the first woman to win
the Mid-America Fiddle Championship and is a member of the Mid-America Old-Time
Fiddler's Hall of Fame. She performs with her husband as Greenblatt & Seay, and
with the Greenblatt String Trio. She is a consultant for the Denison School of
Strings in Iowa and past president of the
Nebraska American String Teachers Association.
Leonard J. Greenspoon
Professor of Jewish Civilization, Theology &
Classics
Creighton University
Omaha, Nebraska
The Ancient
World in American Popular Culture
The Bible
in Popular Culture
402-384-9890 (Home) or 402-280-2304 (Work)
ljgrn@creighton.edu
Leonard Greenspoon holds the Klutznick Chair in
Jewish Civilization at Creighton University. He lectures on a variety of
topics related to the Bible and to Bible translation, including Jewish
translations, from the earliest to the most recent. In addition, Greenspoon
is an authority on religion and popular culture, with an emphasis on the
Bible in comic strips and elsewhere in newspapers and on the ancient world
in modern media (including films, art, television and literature).
Evelyn Harris Haller
Professor of English,
Chair, Fine Arts/Humanities Division
Doane College-Crete
Lincoln, Nebraska
Hildreth
Meiere: The Woman Artist Who Had Eight
.....Commissions for the Nebraska State Capitol
Introduction
to Classical Mythology
Leslie and
Julia Stephen: A Victorian Man and Woman
Louise
Pound, Nebraska Athlete & Scholar: Biography
Louise
Pound, Nebraska Athlete & Scholar: Living History
Willa
Cather and Quilts 402-477-7079 (Home) or 402-826-8266 (Work)
evelyn.haller@doane.edu
Robert Haller
Professor of English Emeritus
University of
Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, Nebraska
Hartley Burr
Alexander: A Living History
Human Rights and Indian Rights: Las
Casas to Standing Bear
402-488-4258 (Home) or 402-472-1814 (Work)
rhaller@unlserve.unl.edu
Bob Haller has retired from UNL, where he was a fellow of the
Center for Great Plains Studies and director of medieval and Renaissance
studies. He maintains a program of writing and research, and is currently
working to explain and elaborate the contributions of Hartley Burr Alexander to
the culture of the Great Plains, beyond serving as “thematic consultant” for the
Nebraska State Capitol.
Twyla Hansen
Independent Writer & Teacher
Lincoln, Nebraska
All
Across the Plains: Creative Writing
Playing
Around With Words: Reading, Writing and the Creative Process (with
Karen Gettert Shoemaker)
Creative Writing
(Residency program)
402-466-5839 (Home)
twylahansen@alltel.net
http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/NCW/thansen.htm
Twyla
Hansen was raised in northeast Nebraska on land her
grandparents farmed in
the late 1800s as immigrants from Denmark. Her latest book, "Prairie Suite:
A Celebration" is a poem-drawing collaboration with ornithologist Paul Johnsgard. Her book "Potato Soup" won the 2004 Nebraska Book Awards
competition for poetry. Her writing has appeared in a wide variety of
publications, including Prairie Schooner, Crab Orchard Review, Ascent,
Organization & Environment, Encyclopedia of the Great Plains, Crazy Woman
Creek: Women Rewrite the American West, and A Contemporary Reader for
Creative Writing. Her poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Her
previous poetry books are "Sanctuary Near Salt Creek," "In Our Very Bones,"
and "How to Live in the Heartland." Twyla earned her B.S.
and M.Ag. degrees
from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She lives and works in Lincoln, where her
wooded acre is maintained as an urban wildlife habitat and in 1994 was
recognized by the Mayor’s Landscape Conservation Award.
Vicki Troxel Harris
Independent Scholar
Cozad, Nebraska
African-American
Homesteaders and Cowboys of Nebraska
African-American
Pioneers and Entrepreneurs of Nebraska
308-784-4460 (Home)
vicki.h@charter.net
Donald Hickey
Professor of History
Wayne State College
Wayne, Nebraska
Nebraska's
Rich Heritage
A Visit With
Alexander Hamilton
The
Star-Spangled Banner: The Flag and the Song
402-375-4030 (Home) or 402-375-7298 (Work)
dohicke1@wsc.edu
Don Hickey holds a Ph.D. from the University of
Illinois. A specialist in early American history and American military
history, he is best known for two books, "The War of 1812: A Forgotten
Conflict" and "Nebraska Moments." He developed a living-history program
on Alexander Hamilton while on the Great Plains Chautauqua circuit in the
late 1980s and has been portraying Hamilton ever since. He also offers
a program on Nebraska's rich heritage that stresses the unique people,
places and events that have shaped the state's history.
Gail
Geo. Holmes
Middle Missouri Valley Historian
Omaha, Nebraska
Mormon
Communities and Trails in Nebraska
The Mormon
Trail at the Missouri 402-558-4081 (Home)
g2holmes@cox.net
Dan Holtz
Professor of English,
Peru State College
Nebraska City, Nebraska
From Bleeding
Kansas to Old Virginny: Songs and Stories of the Civil War
Nebraska
Through Song and Story 402-873-6831 (Home) or 402-872-2267 (Work)
dholtz@oakmail.peru.edu
Dan Holtz is a professor
of English at Peru State College, where he has taught since 1987.
He is the recipient of the
2000 Nebraska State College System Teaching Excellence Award and the co-director
of Peru State's Trails and Tales Tour and Teacher Institute, a
cross-disciplinary program in Nebraska history and literature offered in the
summers of 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, and 2004. He has performed and presented
programs for civic organizations and elementary and secondary schools across
Nebraska as well as at the Nebraska State Capitol, the Nebraska State Historical
Society, the Stuhr Museum of the Prairie Pioneer, Scottsbluff National Monument and the John Neihardt
Center. He also appeared at the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in July 1999
and at the Bob Devaney Center for the state quarter dedication ceremony in 2006.
Ron Hull
Senior Advisor to Nebraska Educational
Telecommunications &
Professor Emeritus of Broadcasting, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln,
Nebraska
Mari Sandoz:
A Personal Reminiscence
My Two
Friends: Mari Sandoz & John Neihardt
402-472-9333
ext. 315 (Work)
rhull1@unl.edu
Ron
Hull's broadcasting career began in 1955, when he
helped establish the eighth
educational television station in the United States: KUON-TV at the
University of Nebraska. For many years he was
program manager of the Nebraska ETV Network and later was
appointed station manager of KUON-TV and associate general manager of the
Network. He served for 18 moths as the television programming advisor to the
government of South Vietnam in 1966-67, and
during the 1980s was the program fund director at the Corporation for Public
Broadcasting in Washington, D.C. From 1996-1999 he
was an executive in the programming department of PBS
in Washington and left that position in 1999
when he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and taught international
broadcasting at Cheng Chi University in Taipei, Taiwan.
He returned to NET and the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He received the 2000 Sower
Award in the Humanities.
Renae M. Hunt
Scholar, Traveling Historical Programs Inc.
Grand Island, Nebraska
Lewis and
Clark: What was Their Value Worth--Seaman, York, Sacagawea and Pomp Stories
Overland
Trails: The Children on the Trail
308-384-6963 (Home) or 308-383-3421 (Cell)
naesignz@kdsi.net
Renae Hunt is a native Nebraska farm girl. She graduated from Stromsburg
High School and received a bachelor's degree in education from Utah State
University. She attended Gallaudet University for the Deaf in Washington,
D.C., and is a qualified American Sign Language interpreter. She has been
an active historical re-enactor and worked as a museum educator for several
years. She traveled on the Mormon Trail in 1997, and followed the Lewis
and Clark Trail as a graduate student in summer 2003. In 2002, she co-founded
Traveling Historical Programs Inc., which presented hands-on living history
programs and has done educational programs in a tri-state area. She has
also been a visiting professor at several colleges and universities.
Nancy B. Johnson
Independent Scholar of Great Plains & Women's
Studies
Central City, Nebraska
Myths of
Women's Madness on the Plains
Wright Morris:
Small-Town
Life Through the Eyes of a Nebraska Writer
308-946-2867 (Home)
crjnbj@cablene.com
Marilyn Johnson-Farr
Associate Professor of Education
Doane College-Crete
Lincoln, Nebraska
The
Complexity of Human Relations
Cultural
and Racial Isolation 800-333-6263 (Work)
marilyn.johnsonfarr@doane.edu
Matthew "Sitting Bear" Jones
Storyteller
Lincoln, Nebraska
Kiowa Tales
The
Otoe-Missouria Tribe: The Forgotten Nebraskans
Wahtohtana
hedan Nyut^achi mahin Xanje akipa (Otoe and Missouria Meet Big Knives)
402-475-7300 (Home) or 402-432-6981 (Cell)
mjones748@earthlink.net
Matthew “Sitting Bear” Jones is a Kiowa/Otoe-Missouria
Indian of Oklahoma and has been involved in the revival of the rich oral
tradition of storytelling for more than 20 years. He received a associate degree from Haskell
Indian Junior College, a bachelor's degree from Wichita State University and a
master's degree from the UNL in anthropology and adult education. Matthew has worked
on many television scripts for Nebraska Educational Television and has
won several awards for his work. He has served as a consultant on
films, including "Dances With Wolves."
Jeff Kappeler
Research Historian & Archivist
Valley, Nebraska
Away and
Across the Plains: Pioneer Trails Through Nebraska
Ho for America!
Northern European Immigrants to the Midwest in the 19th Century
402-359-2743 (Home)
Jeff Kappeler, a native Nebraskan, became interested in the state’s history
before the age of 10 and this topic has been a life long pursuit. Jeff
graduated from Midland Lutheran College with a bachelor's degree in elementary
education and taught for several years. He has served as curator of exhibits
at John Brown’s Cave Museum in Nebraska City, does exhibit and consultation
work for small museums, teaches elder hostel sessions through Midland
College, and has independent research projects on a continuing basis to gain
a better understanding of 19th century life in Nebraska.
Jean C. Karlen
Professor of Sociology
Wayne State College
Wayne, Nebraska
Women's
Work, Women's Worth 402-385-2657 (Home) or 402-375-7292 (W)
jekarle1@wsc.edu
Jean C. Karlen is a native Nebraskan who earned
bachelor's, master's and doctorate degrees at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
At Wayne State College since 1976, Karlen has been active in community
development and women's issues throughout her career. She is president
of the Nebraska Women's Foundation, a member of the Nebraska in Higher
Education Leadership Network and is on the American Association of University
Women state board. She is active in the Northeast Nebraska Development
Network, is the service learning coordinator for WSC, and has been a member
of the Midwest Sociological Society Board since 1989. She is the national president of the board for Pi Gamma Mu, a
social sciences honorary with chapters on 150 colleges campuses.
Fran Kaye
Professor of English & Great Plains Studies
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, Nebraska
Huckleberry
Finn and Racism 402-423-0643 (Home) or
402-472-3871 (W)
fkaye1949@yahoo.com
Michael J. Kelly
Assistant Professor of Law
Creighton University
Omaha, Nebraska
Genocide
as an International Crime
Resurrection
of the Pre-Emptive Strike Doctrine in International Law
U.N.
Security Council Reform 402-280-3455
mkelly@creighton.edu
Michael J. Kelly received his law degree with
distinction from
Georgetown University and his master's degree and bachelor's
degree from Indiana University. He was an attorney in the Indiana Department
of Environmental Management (1994-95), and director of legal research,
writing and advocacy at Michigan State University College of Law
(1996-2001). He is co-author of the book "Equal Justice in the Balance:
Assessing America's Legal Responses to the Emerging Terrorist Threat" (University
of Michigan Press 2004). He has published articles on a variety of issues,
including United Nations Security Council reform, federal law governing
disposal of ancient human remains, political downsizing, genocide and the
erosion of sovereign immunity. His Op-Ed columns have appeared in the Los
Angeles Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, San Diego Union Tribune, Detroit
News, Chicago Sun-Times and Houston Chronicle. Kelly teaches international
law, international environmental law, international criminal law, European
Union law, Native American law, and national security and foreign relations
law.
Jerome Kills Small
Instructor of Language, Philosophy and Native
American Thought
University of South Dakota
Vermillion, South Dakota
Children's
Stories, Animal Stories and Traditional Lakota Stories
Harvesting
Foods and Medicines in the Dakota Tradition
Dr. Charles
A. Eastman (Ohiyesa)
Songs,
Dances and Games of the Lakota
605-677-6976 (Work)
jkillsma@usd.edu
Jerome Kills Small is an Oglala Lakota from Porcupine,
S.D.,
on the Pine Ridge Reservation. A 1997 graduate of the University
of South Dakota with a master's degree in selected studies, he stayed to teach at USD, where he teaches Lakota language, American Indian thought, Siouan
tribal culture, Lakota history and a seminar on Black Elk. He also teaches
the Dakota language and American Indian cultures at the Nebraska Indian
Community College at Santee, Neb., and South Sioux City, Iowa. Jerome is
featured in the book "Wounded Warriors: A Time for Healing," and has a
story in the Silver Anniversary Anthology published by the South Dakota
Humanities Council. Kills Small has parts in the videos "Sucker Punched,"
"Nagi Kicopi (Calling Back the Spirit)," "Lost Landscapes" and "Bones of
Contention: Repatriation and Reburial." He sings with the Oyate Singers
of Vermillion, S.D. In the Great Plains Chautauqua, he portrayed Dr. Charles
A. Eastman, the first medical doctor of the Santee people of the Dakota
Tribe; and Tecumseh, a Shawnee chief and British general.
Richard Kimbrough
Instructor, Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Business
Administration
Crete, Nebraska
Country
Tales and Truths
From Every
Land
A Visitor
From Russia
Why We
Laugh 402-826-4428 (Home)
rbkimbrough@yahoo.com
Richard Kimbrough teaches
part-time at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in the College of Business
Administration. He is a native Nebraskan, having grown up on a farm near Big
Springs. He has taught for more than 50 years in schools ranging from Nebraska
to Illinois to California to several republics of the former Soviet Union. He is
a graduate of the University of Nebraska-Kearney with advanced work from the
University of California, the University of Maine, and Duke University. He is
the author of 11 books, including a national prize-winning juvenile novel. In
1991 he was one of 17 American educators to receive the Leavey Award for
Excellence in Education presented through the Freedoms Foundation of Valley
Forge, Pa.
Thomas N. King
Professor of Secondary Education
Doane College
Crete, Nebraska
General
U.S. Grant
402-826-3835 (Home) or 402-826-8206 (Work)
tom.king@doane.edu
www.tnking.com
Thomas N. King has degrees in history and
secondary education from Westminster College in Fulton, Mo., and a doctorate in
curriculum and instruction from Oklahoma State University. He teaches a Civil
War course for Doane College in Crete.
William Kloefkorn
Nebraska State Poet and Professor Emeritus of English
Nebraska Wesleyan University
Lincoln, Nebraska
O the Stories We Tell:
Did That Really Happen?
402-486-0256 (Home)
William Kloefkorn
lives and writes in Lincoln, where he is emeritus professor of English at
Nebraska Wesleyan University. He has written many collections of poetry
including "Covenants" (with Utah poet laureate David Lee). He has two
collections of short stories, "A Time to Sink Her Pretty Little Ship" and
"Shadow-Boxing," and three memoirs. His second memoir, "Restoring the Burnt
Child," was selected for
One
Book One Nebraska 2008 . Kloefkorn initiated
the poets-in-the-schools program in Nebraska and was named Nebraska State Poet
in 1982.
Brian Kokensparger
Lecturer in Computer Science
Creighton University
Omaha, Nebraska
John A. Creighton:
Blazing the First Internet 402-280-3595 (Work) or 402-558-3834 (Home)
bkoken@creighton.edu
Lisa Kramme
Independent Scholar
Fremont, Nebraska
Tales from
Hans Christian Andersen 402-727-9392 (Home)
lisakramme@yahoo.com
Lowen Kruse
State Senator
Omaha, Nebraska
Changing
Attitudes in Nebraska's Public Policy for those in Need
Four
Reasons Our Taxes Go Up
402-453-4825
lowenkruse@cox.net
State Sen. Lowen Kruse grew up and farmed in Howard
County. He graduated from Boelus High School, Nebraska Wesleyan University
and Garrett Seminary on the Northwestern campus in Evanston, Ill. He has
served as United Methodist pastor in Buffalo, Custer and Douglas counties,
as a church consultant for Nebraska, and as a district superintendent in
northeast Nebraska and Omaha. Kruse is the author of three Nebraska
histories. He was elected to the legislature in 2000.
Thomas A. Kuhlman
Associate Professor of English
Creighton University
Omaha, Nebraska
Darryl Zanuck: Nebraska-Born Movie Tycoon
Stories of the Irish in Nebraska
402-558-3052 (Home) or 402-280-2526 (Work)
takuhl@creighton.edu
Doug Kuony
Independent Scholar & Living
History Interpreter
Fort Atkinson
Omaha, Nebraska
Major John Dougherty: Trapper
to Statesman, A Life on the Plains
402-660-2834
dkuony@cox.net
Doug Kuony has been active in the Living History program at Fort Atkinson
State Historic Park in Fort Calhoun for many years as a historical interpreter. For
reenactments of Lewis & Clark and War of 1812 events he has assumed various
personas. Since the mid-1990s he has portrayed Major John Dougherty. From 1997 through 2004 he
worked as an interpreter, event organizer, webmaster and program presenter
in the Lewis and Clark educational program Discovery Corps Inc.
Mellanee Kvasnicka
Chair of English Department
Omaha South High School
Omaha, Nebraska
The Role of
Education in the Life and Works of Willa Cather
402-557-3641 (Work)
Mellanee Kvasnicka is a teacher and department
chair in English at Omaha South High School. Her doctoral work deals with
Willa Cather and education,
a topic which combines two of her abiding interests.
She is president of the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial
and Education Foundation board of governors and is active in the Cather
community.
Terry Lane
Independent Scholar
Lincoln, Nebraska
Meet Buffalo
Bill 402-421-3678 ext. 199 (Work)
terrylane@outdrs.net
Terry Lane manages The Old West Shop at The Fort
Western Outfitters. Born in Oklahoma and raised in Texas and Southern California,
his lifelong love of the Old West is reflected in his hobbies of Western
action shooting, Old West gunfight reenacting and cowboy poetry. He has
a bachelor's degree from the University of Oklahoma and has lived in Nebraska
since 1973.
James D. Le Sueur
Assistant Professor of History
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, Nebraska
History
and Terrorism 402-472-3255
jlesueur2@unl.edu
Carole Levin
Professor of History
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, Nebraska
Elizabeth
I: Power, Politics and Sexuality
Jews in Medieval
and Renaissance England: Realities and Representations
Joan of Arc:
Saint, Witch, Madwoman, Hero? 402-435-7339 (Home) or 402-472-3494 (Work)
clevin2@unl.edu
Helen M. Lewis
Instructor of English & Humanities
Western Iowa Technical College
Sioux City, Iowa
Grace Abbott:
Children's Crusader
Voicing
a Cause, Voicing a Self: Jane Addams of Hull House
712-274-8733 ext. 1423 (Work)
lewish@witcc.edu
helen2000hum@yahoo.com
Helen M. Lewis teaches English and humanities
at Western Iowa Tech Community College in Sioux City, Iowa. She received
her degrees from the University of Maryland at College Park. While teaching
at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, she received a 1990 NEH Summer
Fellowship to study women Romantic poets at the University of Pennsylvania
in Philadelphia. An active public speaker in humanities, Lewis’s topics
cover such areas as square dancing and women’s studies through art, Westerns
and British Romanticism. Since 1999, Lewis has portrayed
Jane Addams for Chautauqua and humanities audiences from Oklahoma to North
Dakota. She also has developed a portrayal of Nebraska native Grace Abbott.
Robert Lind
Kearney, Nebraska
Cultural
Change in the Andes
Perspectives
on Globalization
308-236-7091
(Home)
lindr@charter.net
Before his recent
retirement, Bob Lind's teaching career spanned 36 years of full
time teaching at Kearney
State
College/ University of
Nebraska at Kearney.
During this time, he taught 16 different courses in geography; most of them
related to
regional, historical,
and
cultural
geography.
To
enhance
his
teaching,
he traveled extensively on
six continents where he observed, studied, and photographed diverse physical and
cultural phenomena. During his career, he
received a number of
fellowships and awards including being the first recipient of The Nebraska State College Teaching Excellence
Award.
Janet Lu
Professor of Library Information Technology
Nebraska Wesleyan University
Lincoln, Nebraska
Chinese
Culture and Language
Chinese
Immigrants in America
Intercultural
Communication
402-465-2407 (Work)
jcl@NebrWesleyan.edu
Janet Lu has lived in Lincoln since 1968 and is
an active promoter of Chinese cultural heritage. She has worked as the
public services librarian at Nebraska Wesleyan University since 1979 and
has taught library science for 16 years. She is vice president of the Lincoln
Chinese Cultural Association.
Thomas J. Lynch
Manager, Boys
Town Hall of History and Father Flanagan House Museum
Boys Town,
Nebraska
Father
Edward J. Flanagan of Boys Town, Nebraska
402-498-1186
(Work)
lyncht@girlsandboystown.org
Following graduation from the University of Nebraska at Omaha, Tom Lynch
became a museum associate in the newly opened Boys Town Hall of History
museum. Today he is manager of the Hall of History and Father Flanagan House
Museum, and volunteer coordinator for Father Flanagan’s Boys’ Home.
Stuart C. Lynn
Independent Scholar
Omaha, Nebraska
Buffalo
Bill Cody Reminisces About His Early Life on the Plains
The Klondike
Goldrush through the Eyes of Robert W. Service, Bard of the Yukon
402-558-7209 (Home)
clynn7209@aol.com
David Marsh
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