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.
Jeff Barnes
Author
 Omaha,
Nebraska
The Forts of Nebraska
402-571-1349 (Home) or 402-516-6465 (Cell)
husker80@cox.net
A
fifth-generation Nebraskan, Jeff Barnes is a former newspaper reporter and
editor, past chairman of the Nebraska Hall of Fame Commission, and former
marketing director for the Durham Western Heritage Museum. He traveled more
than 13,000 miles in researching and photographing “Forts of the Northern
Plains,” his first book.
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."
Cherrie Beam-Clarke
Storyteller and Independent Scholar
Fremont, Nebraska
Promise
in a New Land
The Courage
to Continue
Grit n Gumption
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 harmonica,
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
What Great Grandma and Great Grandpa
Read
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
402-280-2653 (Work)
johncalvert@creighton.edu
Jack Campbell
Community Volunteer & Sower Award recipient
Lincoln, Nebraska
The Allied
Invasion of Japan
 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)
Well-Behaved Women
Seldom Make History
(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
Nebraska: The Beef State
Photographing
the American Dream
The
Twisted Path of Ethanol
402-477-2150 (Home) or 402-471-4752 (Work)
jecarter@neb.rr.com
James P. Cavanaugh
Independent Historian & Attorney
Omaha, Nebraska
The Founding of
Omaha, 1854-1860
The Irish
in Nebraska, 1850-2000
The
Irish in Omaha, 1854-2004
The Irish
Odyssey: Where the Irish Came From
402-341-2020 (Home)
cavanaughlawfirm@aol.com
James P. Cavanaugh is a fifth generation
Nebraskan and a practicing attorney. He is on the board of the
Captain Meriwether Lewis Center for Missouri River Studies and is a member
of the Irish American Cultural Institute of Nebraska. He has been a speaker
with the Nebraska Humanities Council Speakers Bureau since 2002.
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. 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.
Mr.
Conrad
Creator, Mr. Conrad’s Musicademy
 Gering, Nebraska
402-332-8478 (Cell)
mrconrad2002@yahoo.com
Since age 6, Mr. Conrad
has performed for audiences large and small. He has also taught music for
preschools and elementary schools in many ways: voice, piano, theory, and
guitar instruction. From this experience, Mr. Conrad created Musicademy,
educational music programs for kids.
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
Lincoln Lore and
Legend
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.
Karen Wyatt Drevo
Librarian, Norfolk Public Library
Norfolk, Nebraska
Maria Rodaway: Prairie Pioneer
402-371-5155 (Home), 402-750-9071 (Cell) or
402-844-2108 (Work)
 kdrevo@ci.norfolk.ne.us
Seven generations of Karen Wyatt Drevo’s
family have lived in Otoe County, Neb. Karen grew up on a farm north of
Unadilla and received her early education in one-room Otoe County schools.
She has degrees in English and history from the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln. She currently lives in Norfolk, where she is a
librarian at Norfolk Public Library. Her life-long interest in her family
history was sparked by the family stories told by her grandmothers.
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
& Author
Norfolk, Nebraska
Excess Baggage: Riding the Orphan Train
 866-492-9546 (Work)
or 402-371-3701
(Home/Fax)
endorf@cableone.net
Charlotte Endorf is a
lifelong Nebraskan, a member of Toastmasters International (earning the
Distinguished Toastmaster award twice), and specializes in speaking to
elementary schools throughout Nebraska. Endorf and her daughter, Sarah, have
authored several books together: "After the Rain, Oh the Beautiful
Rainbow!", "Plains Bound: Fragile Cargo", and "By Train They Came: Volume
1." Endorf also developed a documentary on the Orphan Train riders for the
Madison County Historical Society.
Kelly Madigan Erlandson
Writer and Alcohol/Drug Counselor
Lincoln,
Nebraska
Playing
Around With Words: Reading, Writing and the Creative Process (with
Twyla Hansen and Karen Gettert Shoemaker)
402-429-4646
kme@inebraska.com
 Kelly Madigan Erlandson is the author of
"Getting Sober: A
Practical Guide to Making it Through the First 30 Days." She has been a licensed alcohol and drug counselor in Nebraska since
1983. She was awarded the distinguished artist award in literature from the
Nebraska Arts Council in 2006. Her poems and creative nonfiction have
appeared in Prairie Schooner, Crazyhorse, The Massachusetts Review, Best
New Poets 2007, Smartish Pace, Barrow Street, and 32 Poems.
Kelly’s poetry has been featured by Garrison Keillor on his national radio
broadcast, "The Writer's Almanac." Her
chapbook, "Born in the House of Love," won the Main-Traveled Roads
Award. She received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in
2008. Kelly is a frequent presenter at writing conferences, behavioral
health training events and recovery celebrations.
Bette Novit Evans
Associate Professor of Political Science
Creighton University
Omaha, Nebraska
Religious
Freedom: What is it?
Religious Intensity, Religious Diversity, and Religious Harmony: How Do We
Do 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.”
 Dave Fowler & Carolyn Johnsen
Independent Musicians & Music Scholars
Lincoln, Nebraska
The History and Romance of the
Fiddle: A Prairie Perspective
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, cowboy
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.
Jose Francisco Garcia
Cultural Historian
 Omaha, Nebraska
Nebraska’s Mexican American Legacy
402-651-9918 (Home) or 402-651-0042 (Cell)
razatimes@gmail.com
Jose Francisco Garcia is of
the 3rd generation descended from a Mexican family who moved to Kansas City,
Mo., during the early 20th century. A retired Union Pacific
employee and long-time Chicano activist, Jose has studied the movement of people
out of Mexico into North America and the effects of this migration on the
established culture, particularly in the heartland of America.
 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
Francisco
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.
 Joyzelle Gingway Godfrey
Storyteller
Lincoln, Nebraska
Speaking of Ella Deloria
402-470-3810 (Home) or 402-613-1424 (Cell)
Alan G. Gless
Judge, Nebraska District
Court & Independent Scholar
 Seward, Nebraska
Roscoe Pound
402-643-4060 (Work)
alanggless@windstream.net (preferred)
A Schuyler native
and University of Nebraska-Lincoln graduate, after practicing law, Gless became
a county court judge and then a district court judge. He has published in
“Nebraska Law Review,” “American Journal of Legal History,” “Behavioral Sciences
and the Law,” “Justice System Journal,” and served as volume editor of “The
History of Nebraska Law.”
Deborah Greenblatt
Independent Scholar & Musician
Avoca, Nebraska
James Whitcomb
Riley, the Fiddling Children's Poet
402-275-3221 (Home)
g-s@greenblattandseay.com
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.
Thomas M. Hansen
Fine Art Photographer
Lincoln, Nebraska
 402-466-5839 (Home)
Thomas Hansen
is an award-winning photographer with a fascination for small towns, old
sections of cities, and even cemeteries. Through his images he explores the
tension between the natural environment and the man made world, the effects that
weather and disuse have had on the small town landscape, and the urban
landscapes that are part of everyday life.
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 and Kelly Madigan Erlandson)
Creative Writing
(Residency program)
402-466-5839 (Home)
twylahansen@windstream.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
Hay Springs, Nebraska
African-American
Homesteaders and Cowboys of Nebraska
African-American
Pioneers and Entrepreneurs of Nebraska
Poetry of the African-American Cowboy
308-325-0675 (Cell)
or 308-638-4554 (Home)
vicki.h@hotmail.com
James W. Hewitt
Adjunct Professor of History
Nebraska Wesleyan
University
Lincoln, Nebraska
The Nebraska Supreme Court
402-476-0243 (Home)
 jhewitt@nebrwesleyan.edu
James Hewitt has been adjunct
professor of history at Nebraska Wesleyan University since 2001.
He holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Nebraska and has been a
Nebraska lawyer since 1956. He was president of the Nebraska State Bar
Association in 1985-86 and was vice president and general counsel of Nebco, Inc.
in Lincoln from 1961 to 2002. Hewitt is the author of numerous legal historical
articles and "Slipping Backward: A History of the Nebraska Supreme Court."
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.
Evelyn Hisel
Independent Scholar and Author
Oshkosh, Nebraska
Crazy Horse (1854-1877)
Mari Sandoz’s Childhood
Old Jules Sandoz
308-772-3334 (Home) or 308-458-9825 (Cell)
 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.
Andrew Jewell
Assistant Professor
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
Editor,
"The Willa Cather Archive"
Lincoln, Nebraska
Willa Cather's Life in
Letters
Willa Cather's My
Antonia:
The Story Behind its
Writing and Publication
Willa Cather in the Digital
Age
 402-472-5266 (Work)
ajewell2@unl.edu
http://cather.unl.edu
(Willa Cather Archive)
A life-long Nebraskan, Andrew Jewell is the
editor of The Willa Cather Archive. He has
published several articles on Cather and American literature, and is the
co-editor of “A Calendar of the Letters of Willa Cather: An Expanded Digital
Edition.” He is an assistant professor in the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries.
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
Nolan Johnson
Archaeologist
Nebraska State Historical Society
Lincoln, Nebraska
Nebraska: Archeology 10,000BCE-circa
1800CE
402-560-4177 (Cell)
ptnolanj@hotmail.com
Nolan Johnson holds a bachelor's degree from the
University of South Dakota and a master’s of professional archaeology from the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He works at the Nebraska State
Historical Society, doing archeological surveying, report writing, mapping and cataloging.
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 NET Television and has
won several awards for his work. He has served as a consultant on
films, including "Dances With Wolves."
Peggy Jones
Assistant Professor
UNO Department of Black Studies
Omaha, Nebraska
Aaron Douglas, UNL Class of ’22:
Visual Artist of the Harlem Renaissance
402-554-2996 (Work) or 402-346-8036 (Home)
 majones@unomaha.edu
Peggy Jones is an assistant professor of the University
of Nebraska at Omaha
Black Studies Department. She is also a faculty member of the women and gender
studies program and graduate studies. She received an individual artist
fellowship from the Nebraska Arts Council for her play, “The Journey,” about
Aaron Douglas.
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 (Work)
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 and is president of the Nebraska Women's Foundation. In
2000, she received the board of directors' distinguished service award from the
Midwest Sociological Society and in 2003 was recognized as the outstanding
professor of the year for the Nebraska State College System. In 2006, Karlen
received the Voyager Award from the Midwest Consortium for Service-Learning in
Higher Education.
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 (Work)
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
President 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
The Music of Poetry/The
Poetry of Music
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
Marie Krohn
Writer of Histories and Biographies
Neligh, Nebraska
 Louise Pound: The Iconoclast
402-887-5009 (Home) or 402-929-0161 (Cell)
marikn@frontiernet.net
Author and historian Marie
Krohn has spent her career as an educator, researcher, and reporter. Her written
works have appeared in journals, magazines, and newspapers nationwide. She is
among the foremost experts on the fascinating and notable life of another
Nebraska native, Louise Pound
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
Harry Gold: From Student
to Spy
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.
Terry Lane
Independent Scholar
Lincoln, Nebraska
 Meet Buffalo
Bill
402-421-3678 ext. 199 (Work)
terrylane@outdrs.net
Terry Lane has portrayed Buffalo Bill Cody since 1998 and has been the
official Nebraska State Buffalo Bill and the Nebraska Division of Travel and
Tourism “Nebraska Bill” since 2001. Lane’s education is in U.S. history, and
when not scouting the plains of Nebraska, he manages The Fort Old West Shop in
Lincoln.
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
Louis I. Leviticus
Professor Emeritus, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Curator, Larsen Museum
Lincoln, Nebraska
WWII—Through the Eyes of a Holocaust Survivor, Part I
WWII—Through the Eyes of a Holocaust Survivor, Part II
402-472-8389 (Work) or 402-421-1862 (Home)
lleviticus1@unl.edu
Betty Levitov
Professor of English
Doane
College
Lincoln, Nebraska
Africa On Six
Wheels: A Semester on Safari
402-475-6994 (home) or 402-826-8541 (work)
betty.levitov@doane.edu
After a bachelor’s degree in
English from Towson University in Maryland and graduate work at Columbia
University in New York, Betty Levitov lived, taught, and traveled in West
Africa. A professor at Doane College beginning in 1983, Betty began leading
travel/study courses to Africa. In 2007, the University of Nebraska Press
published Levitov’s travel memoir about taking students to Africa, titled
“Africa on Six Wheels: A Semester on Safari.”
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
Retired Geography Professor
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.
Sharif Z. Liwaru
President
Malcolm X Memorial Foundation
Omaha, Nebraska
Malik El Shabazz (Malcolm X)
800-645-9287
info@malcolmxfoundation.org
 Sharif Liwaru joined the Malcolm X Memorial Foundation in 1992
and has been president since 2005. He graduated from the University of
Nebraska at Omaha in 1997 with a bachelor's degree in Black studies. He is an
assistant director in the student organizations and leadership programs office
responsible for the university's organizations and cultural programs and is the
liaison between community organizations and students. He is currently pursuing
a master's degree in public administration with a concentration in non-profit
management.
Preston Love Jr.
Independent Scholar
North Omaha Community
Adam Clayton Powell, a Living History
Presentation
402-812-3324
Prestonlovejr@yahoo.com
Preston Love Jr. was formerly an IBM marketing
executive and Atlanta’s commissioner of planning under Mayor Andrew Young. In
1984 he became the national campaign manager of the Jesse Jackson for
President campaign. Preston is a community activist and a board member
of The Literacy Center in Omaha.
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
The Klondike
Goldrush through the Eyes of Robert W. Service, Bard of the Yukon
402-558-7209 (Home)
clynn7209@aol.com
David Marsh
Musician
 Denton, Nebraska
Music From
Around the World
Music of the Civil War
Music
of the Germanic Lands
Music of Ireland
Music
of the Plains
402-797-5112 (Home) or
402-499-3262 (Cell)
marshnmusic@aol.com
Matt Mason
Poet
Omaha, Nebraska
Performance Poetry or: How I Learned to Stop
Worrying and Love the Slam
Why Poetry Is More Entertaining Than TV
402-453-5711 (home)
mtmason@gmail.com
Marla Matkin
Independent Scholar and Performer
Hill City, Kansas
Cattle Towns
and Soiled Doves
Frontier
Military Posts (and the Women Who Called Them Home)
Libbie's
Story
Storytelling (Residency program)
785-421-5513
 rfd12@hotmail.com
Marla Matkin comes by her love of history honestly,
having been born in Dodge City, Kan., and raised nearby. She could never
seem to get enough of the legend and lore surrounding the region and its
people. This deep connection to the area can be traced back to her great-grandparents
who homesteaded in Southwest Kansas in 1876. Add to this her love of drama,
and she makes a compelling case for the ladies she portrays. A graduate
of Fort Hays State University with a degree in education, she is inspired
to instruct as well as entertain audiences throughout the Midwest, West
and most recently at the Smithsonian.
Michael F. McDonald
Singer, Songwriter, Storyteller
Yankton, South Dakota
605-664-7672 (Home)
oisins_remnant@yahoo.com
Michael McDonald hails from Yankton County, S.D.,
growing up on a couple of farms with six brothers and a sister. He is a Vietnam
era veteran, a graduate of the University of South Dakota, and is employed by
the U.S. Postal Service. He and his wife, Deb, are parents of three and live
in Yankton.
Jim McKee
City of Lincoln Historian
Lincoln, Nebraska
The Amazing
Library of Thomas Jefferson Fitzpatrick
The
History of the Nebraska State Capitol
The
History of the University of Nebraska
Looking
at Lincoln: Images From the MacDonald Studio
Why
Is Lincoln the State Capital and Not Yankee Hill?
402-488-4636 (Home)
jimmckee@windstream.net
 Jim McKee is owner of Lee Booksellers. He is the author of more than 800 articles and books on Lincoln
and Nebraska history and numismatics including "Lincoln: A Photographic
History," "Visions of Lincoln," "Lincoln: The Prairie Capital," "Havelock: A Photo History and
Walking Tour," and "Remember When." His weekly history column has appeared
in the Lincoln Journal-Star Sunday newspaper since 1993. He has been a
local history adjunct professor at Southeast Community College in Lincoln
since 1970. He presents about 50 talks a year to church, civic, professional
and historical groups.
Sue McLain
Collector of Vintage Clothing
Beatrice, Nebraska
 A Century
of Fashion, 1870-1970 (with Barbara Trout)
402-223-5121 (Home)
yesterdayslady@alltel.net
www.yesterdayslady.com
Sue McLain, owner of Yesterday’s
Lady, a vintage fashion museum/store in Beatrice, has been traveling the Midwest
since 1991 sharing her extensive collection of clothing from 1840 through
1980 and teaching groups about the history of fashion. Sue has been
collecting fashions since 1985 and they are currently housed in an 1887
historic building in downtown Beatrice.
Patrice McMahon
Assistant Professor of Political Science
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, Nebraska
Security
in the Post-Cold War Era
402-472-3235
or 402-472-2343
pmcmahon2@unl.edu
Patrice McMahon is an
Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Her research interests include the causes and effects of identity on
international relations, transnationalism, democracy promotion, and human
rights. Her recent publications include “Taming Ethnic Hatred: Ethnic
Cooperation and Transnational Networks in Eastern Europe” (Syracuse University
Press, 2007) and “American Foreign Policy in a Globalized World”, edited with
David P. Forsythe and Andrew Wedeman (Routledge Press, 2006).
Gwen Meister
Folklorist
Lincoln, Nebraska
Nebraska Folklife and Folk Arts (Residency program)
Welcome to
Nebraska!: Our New Immigrant Cultures
402-420-5442 (Day or Evening)
plainsculture@inebraska.com
 Gwen Meister is a folklorist with an master's degree in cultural
anthropology from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. An active member of
the American Folklore Society since 1991, Gwen was folk arts coordinator for
the Nebraska Arts Council in Omaha for more than four years. Now she is
executive director of the Nebraska Folklife Network in Lincoln, a statewide non-profit organization that creates educational materials on
Nebraska’s ethnic cultures for use by classroom teachers across Nebraska.
(See the NHC’s
Cultural Encounter Kits.) Gwen works closely with both newer
immigrant groups and established ethnic organizations in her work of
documenting, promoting and presenting the ethnic cultural traditions in
Nebraska.
Lyn Messersmith
Cowboy Poet & Freelance Writer
Alliance, Nebraska
The Heart's
Compass: Women on the Trails (with Deb Carpenter)
Hell on Women
and Horses
Legends and Leaders of the
West (with Deb Carpenter)
Well Behaved Women
Seldom Make History
(with Deb Carpenter)
Family History (Residency program)
308-762-2583 (Home)
ezrein@bbcwb.net
 Lyn Messersmith is a third-generation Cherry County
rancher and a freelance writer who has fed a lot of hungry cowhands and
has been one herself. She holds a degree in mental health and has worked
in that field and as curator of the Cherry County Historical Museum. Lyn
enjoys passing on the oral traditions of the cattle industry and has been
featured at Cowboy Poetry Gatherings all over the West, as well as in Canada.
Her belief that we are who we are because of where we've been, has involved
her in an ongoing quest to explore pioneer women's diaries and the lives
of historical figures.
 Doug Meux
Independent Scholar
Omaha, Nebraska
Hugh Glass, Mountain Man: The Man
Who Met a Grizzly
John C. Fremont: The Pathfinder
402-991-3343 (Home)
dlmeux@juno.com
Ronald Miller
Professor Emeritus
Chadron State College
Chadron, Nebraska
History
of Conflict in Northern Ireland
308-432-2384 (Home)
rmiller@csc.edu
Ron
Miller taught sociology at Chadron State College for 32 years, including the
course "Ethnic and Minority Group Relations," which inspired development of the
program, "History of Northern Ireland’s 'Troubles'." One-fourth Irish himself, and
with a spouse who grew up in an Irish neighborhood in Philadelphia, in 2002 he
accompanied his mother-in-law, wife and daughter on a visit to the Republic of
Ireland. With worried Republic of Ireland relatives behind, the family set off
on side trips to Northern Ireland to photograph sites of ethnic conflict in
Belfast and Londonderry (Derry). At one point, while experiencing a close-up
view of the business end of a British soldier’s automatic weapon, he thought the
relative’s worries might be justified. A native of Watertown, S.D., with
bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in sociology from, respectively, the
University of South Dakota, the University of Toledo (Ohio), and Washington
State University, Miller combines an academic perspective with photographic
and musical documentation to present and analyze the background and outcomes of
strife in Northern Ireland.
Gene O. Morris
President, Morris Media
McCook,
Nebraska
The Editor
Who Stopped the Floods: The Harry Strunk Story
Archway to
Excellence: The Visions of Gov. Frank Morrison
308-340-5972
(Cell) or 308-345-3437
(Home)
geneomorris@yahoo.com
After 45 years as a newspaper
publisher and Chamber of Commerce executive, Gene O. Morris has embarked on a
career as a writer, speaker and media consultant, after 17 years as publisher of
the McCook Daily Gazette.
Wynema Morris
Independent Scholar & Associate Fellow
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Walthill, Nebraska
American
Indian Values for the 21st Century
Social and
Political Structures of the Omaha Tribe
Understanding
American Indian Tribal Governments
402-846-5985 (Home) or 402-846-5853 (Work)
windwalker@huntel.net
Wynema Morris
is a member of the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska and lives on the Omaha Reservation at
Walthill. She is an active speaker and
teacher regarding traditional, historical and political issues of American
Indians. She is an associate fellow for the Center for Great Plains Studies at
the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. As a former executive tribal administrator
and vice chairman of the Omaha tribal
government, she speaks on a wide range of subjects regarding American Indians.
Morris received both her BS and her MA from the Northern Arizona University at
Flagstaff, Ariz., where she grew up on the Navajo
Reservation.
Neville F. Murray
Director, Loves Jazz & Arts Center
Omaha, Nebraska
Issues of
Equity, Inclusion and Multiculturalism
West
Indian Caribbean Art and Culture
402-933-4906 (Home) or 402-502-5291 (Work)
nevillemurray@cox.net
Greg Nestroyl
Living History Re-enactor
Omaha, Nebraska
General George Crook: His Life and Times
402-333-9228
(Home) or 402-384-9999 (Work)
nestroyl@msn.com
Nestroyl, an Omaha native, has always had an interest in local and American
history. Following in the footsteps of leaders like Abraham Lincoln, he has
become a self-educated historian. Reading and absorbing topics in special areas
of interest in the history of America’s West including American Indian wars,
the Civil War, and westward expansionism has become Nestroyl’s passion. Nestroyl
has participated in training by the Douglas County Historical Society and the
Lewis and Clark Training Academy.
Fred Nielsen
Lecturer in History
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Omaha, Nebraska
Abraham Lincoln,
America's Greatest Political Orator
Completing,
Remembering , and Forgetting the Civil War
The
Origins of American Environmentalism
402-554-2593 (Work) or 402-556-4072 (Home)
fnielsen@unomaha.edu
 Fred Nielsen
earned his Ph.D. at the University of Kansas. A member of the history
department at the University of Nebraska at Omaha since 1992, he has taught
numerous courses, including environmental history, "The Civil War and
Reconstruction," "America in the Sixties," and "American History Viewed Right and
Left." From 2001 to 2006, he was an interviewer on "Talking History," a
nationally syndicated radio program.
Dawn Nielsen
Teacher
Blair, Nebraska
Voices
From the New Land: Danish Immigration to Nebraska (with John Mark Nielsen)
402-426-4825 (Home) or 800-759-9192 (Work)
jmnielse@dana.edu
A 1974 graduate of Dana College, Dawn Nielsen
teaches 12th grade English and English literature at Blair Community High
School. In 1977 she received a Marshall Fellowship for study in Denmark,
where she worked with a number of Danish children's theaters. In May 1989,
she was selected by the students of Blair High School to receive their
teacher of the year award, and in June 1992, the White House Commission
on Presidential Scholars named her a distinguished teacher.
John Mark Nielsen
Professor of English
Dana College
Blair, Nebraska
Voices
From the New Land: Danish Immigration to Nebraska (with Dawn Nielsen)
402-426-4825 (Home) or 800-759-9192 (Work)
jmnielse@dana.edu or
director@danishmuseum.org
John Mark Nielsen is executive director of The
Danish Immigrant Museum in Elk Horn, Iowa, and professor of English at Dana
College. A 1973 Dana graduate, Nielsen received his M.A. from Creighton
University and his Ph.D. in English from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. In
1977 he was awarded a Marshall Fellowship for study in Denmark, and in 1983-84
he was a Fulbright lecturer in American literature at several colleges in
Denmark. During that time he was a consultant to the National Museum of Denmark
in preparing "The Dream of America," an exhibit on Danish emigration to the
United States. He has written extensively on the Danish American immigrant
experience since that time. More recently, the Carnegie Foundation for the
Advancement of Teaching named him the 1999 Nebraska professor of the year. In
2000 he was a Fulbright senior lecturer in American literature at Mercy College
of Calicut University in India.
Olga Olivares
Independent Scholar & Family Support Specialist
Lincoln, Nebraska
Mexican-American
Christmas Traditions
"Mexican
Sayings (Dichos)"
Pride in
the Mexican Culture
402-202-6933 (Cell)
 Olga Olivares was born in Texas and migrated to
Nebraska at an early age. She was educated in Nebraska with a focus in
human services and multi-cultural skills. Olga has worked more than 20
years as a service provider, a Mexican cultural educator, and has served
on local, state and national committees who serve the needs of Nebraskans.
She was a commissioner on the Mexican-American Commission and has worked
with Nebraska Ethnics Together Working on Reaching Kids, The White House
Conference for a Drug Free America, the Nebraska Historical Society and
the Nebraska Humanities Council. She has received many awards of recognition
for her work including the 1985 and 1989 Nebraska Hispanic Women of the
Year.
Carol Miles Petersen
Bess Streeter Aldrich Biographer
Omaha, Nebraska
Bess Streeter
Aldrich: Biography
402-896-0801 (Home)
carmpeter@aol.com
 Patricia Pixley
Curator, General Crook House Museum
Omaha, Nebraska
A Day In the
Life of a Victorian Lady
402-571-2742 (Home) or 402-455-9990 (Work)
Patricia Pixley’s interests include the study of antiques, furniture
refinishing and teaching. Pixley’s classes include art history, painting and
drawing, history and appreciation of antiques and picture framing. She has
researched Midwestern wallpapers for publications including “Sautter House
Five: Wallpapers of a German-American Farmstead,” published by the Douglas
County Historical Society.
Oscar Rios Pohirieth
Musician
Lincoln, Nebraska
Andean Folk
Music and Cultures of South America
402-489-0986
info@kusitaki.com
www.kusitaki.com
Band director Oscar Rios Pohirieth grew up in
Veracruz in southern Mexico, where he learned to play Andean music after
hearing it from both exiled Chilean groups and Mexican folk music ensembles.
In 1993 he founded the first Nebraska-based Andean folk group after meeting
a traveling group of Ecuadorian musicians and realizing his desire to share
his love of Andean traditional music with others. He finds that performing
in Nebraska creates cultural bridges to Latin America and fosters an understanding
of Andean cultures.
Oliver B. Pollak
Professor of History
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Omaha, Nebraska
The Holocaust:
A Personal Documentary
The Epic
of Nebraska Courthouses: 1854-2000
402-333-5166 (Home) or 402-345-1717 (Work)
obpomni@aol.com
 Oliver B. Pollak was born in England to Ruth and
William Pollak during World War II. His parents were refugees from Germany
and Austria. The family emigrated to America in 1952. After living for
a while in Ohio they settled in Los Angeles. Oliver earned his doctorate
in history at UCLA and his law degree at Creighton University. He has written
10 books and more than 100 scholarly articles and writes popular columns
for several publications. He is a co-founder of the Nebraska Jewish Historical
Society and has served on the boards of the Nebraska Humanities Council
and the Nebraska Center for the Book.
Mary Kay Quinlan
Associate Journalism Professor, UNL & Oral Historian
Lincoln, Nebraska
Introduction
to Oral History
The People
Who Made It Work: A Centennial History of the Cushman Motor Works
402-420-1473 (Home)
OHAEditor@aol.com
Charles E. Real
Adjunct History Instructor
Metro Community College
Omaha, Nebraska
Discovering
the Celtic World in Nebraska
A
Civil War Irish Soldier’s Journey to Nebraska
402-573-8442
creal@cox.net
 Chuck Real has an undergraduate degree
in education from the University of Nebraska-Kearney, where he majored in
history and political science, and a graduate degree in history from the
University of Nebraska at Omaha. He taught high school history and government in
the Albion Public Schools and recently retired as vice president for corporate
services of Omaha-based Continental General Insurance Co. He
teaches both credit and non-credit business and history courses at
Metropolitan Community College, including American history and history of world
civilizations.
Laureen Riedesel
Director, Beatrice Public Library
Beatrice, Nebraska
Clues to
Clara: The Rediscovery of Local Women's History
Introduction
to Nebraska Authors
Mary
Bewick Bridges White
Swedish
Pioneers in Nebraska
402-223-3584 (Work) or 402-228-2433 (Home)
Dorothy Rieke
Writer
Julian, Nebraska
Ghosts, Goblins
and Ghouls!
Nebraska
Farm Families During the Depression
402-242-2439 (Home)
 After graduating from Nebraska City High School
at the age of 16, Dorothy Rieke began her career as a teacher in a rural
school. Later, she completed bachelor's and master's degrees at Peru State College
and additional courses from the University of Nebraska and the University
of Oklahoma. She taught in high school for nine years and spent more than
30 years teaching English in the Auburn Middle School. Voted teacher of
the year, she retired after 44 years. She is a freelance writer of nostalgia,
travel, religious and food articles. She is published in more than 50 magazines.
 Robert C. Ripley
Capitol Administrator
Nebraska State Capitol
Lincoln, Nebraska
The Making
of a Monument
402-488-5131 (Home) or
402-471-0419 (Work)
Robert Ripley is a native of Lincoln and a registered professional
architect.
Edith Robbins
Independent Scholar
Grand Island, Nebraska
The "Little
Dutchman's" Civil War: Translating Private August Scherneckau's Diary of
the First Nebraska Volunteers, 1862-1865
308-381-0137
edithrobbins@speakeasy.net
 A native of Berlin, Edith Robbins has been interested in the history of
immigration and assimilation of Germans in this country. She has worked for
the research center at the Stuhr Museum of the Prairie Pioneer in Grand
Island and has published numerous papers. August Scherneckau's diary has
been published as a book "Marching with the First Nebraska" in April 2007,
edited by James E. Potter, senior historian at the Nebraska State Historical
Society, and Edith Robbins. She is a member of the editorial board for
the Grand Island Independent, writing editorials as well as historical articles
for that newspaper.
Ron Rockenbach
Independent Scholar
Lincoln, Nebraska
The Common
Soldier in the Civil War
402-488-1637 (Home)
ronrockenbach@yahoo.com
 Ron Rockenbach
began Civil War re-enacting in 1994 after seeing the movie "Gettysburg." His
first regional or national
reenactment was at Memphis, Tenn., with the First Nebraska Infantry Regiment
based in Omaha. He has visited more than a dozen national battlefields
including Lexington, Athens, New Madrid, Lone Jack, Harrisville and the
Kansas City areas in Missouri, Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Chattanooga,
Lookout Mountain and Chickamauga in Tennessee, Kennesaw Mountain in Georgia
and Gettysburg in Pennsylvania.
Warren Rodgers
Independent Scholar
Grand Island, Nebraska
Fencing,
the Windmill and the Steel Plow
The Horse:
Dominant Hoof Prints Through History
308-382-1527 (Home)
 Warren Rodgers is a native of southeastern Nebraska. He attended Falls
City High School and Hastings College, and did graduate work at the American
Institute for Foreign Trade, in Glendale, Ariz., the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
and the University of Nebraska at Kearney. From 1958 to 1974, he taught
U.S. and Nebraska history at schools in Ogallala and Grand Island. In 1975,
he began working at the Stuhr Museum of the Prairie Pioneer in Grand Island
in all areas of museum work, including research, interpretation, education,
preservation, collections and outdoor exhibits. In 2002, he retired as
assistant director of the Stuhr Museum.
Maurine Roller
Independent Scholar
Alliance, Nebraska
Reminiscences
of an Oregon Trail Pioneer
Rheta Childe
Dorr: The Struggle for Suffrage
308-762-7126 (Home) or 308-760-8686 (cell)
mroller@bbc.net
 Maurine Roller received a master's degree in liberal
studies from the University of Oklahoma, with specialization in women’s
history and cultural geography of the Great Plains, and a bachelor's in American
history from Regents College, State University of New York (SUNY). She
portrays two characters in NHC programs. Rheta Childe Dorr, an Omaha native,
was a turn-of-the-century suffragist and internationally known writer. Cora
Garvey, a composite pioneer woman who traveled the Overland Trail in 1850,
was developed from more than 400 women’s diaries and journals that Roller
researched while working on her master’s thesis.
Otto Rosfeld
Balladeer, Poet & Storyteller
Valentine, Nebraska
Sandhills
Song
Treading
Lightly or Stomping
402-376-1997 (Home)
twooldrosfelds@yahoo.com
 Otto Rosfeld was born and raised in Rushville,
in what is known by literary people as Sandoz country. Otto has a bachelor
of music degree from Chadron State College with graduate hours from schools
in Greeley, Colo., and Kearney, Neb. After more than 30 years as a public
school teacher, Otto took early retirement to pursue full time his love
for the performing arts. An independent scholar and musician, he has been
performing his programs since the early 1990s.
Doug Rung
Independent Scholar
Geneva, Nebraska
Nebraska
and the Civil War
Nebraskans
Remember World War II
402-759-0597 (Cell)
 Doug Rung was born in Lincoln and received
a bachelor's degree in education with majors in history and geography and a master
of education degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He taught
social studies courses for 28 years in Geneva Junior-Senior High School.
Rung worked for M-C Industries (Sunflower Marketing) in Geneva for 10 1/2 years
before retiring in 2007. He is on
the board of directors for the Fillmore County Historical Society and is
a member of a Civil War re-enactors unit. He has traveled in a covered wagon
on the major immigrant trails in Nebraska and recently followed part of
the Lewis and Clark Trail from Nebraska to Idaho.
Ben Salazar
Publisher
Nuestro Mundo newspaper
Omaha, Nebraska
Latinos:
Searching for the Good Life in Nebraska
402-731-6210 (Work)
Omaha
businessman Ben Salazar is a native of Scottsbluff. He earned his bachelor's
degree in sociology and his juris doctorate degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Salazar
is a Chicano activist, having worked with Nebraska
organizers of farm workers since the late 1960s. He has worked with such
diverse organizations as Legal Aid in Phoenix, where he represented the
elderly and disabled; Lincoln Action Program; Chicanos por la causa; the
public defender's office; and the Arizona attorney general's office. He is
the publisher of Nuestro Mundo, a Spanish-English newspaper in Omaha. He is
also a mediator and continues in his role as an advocate for Latinos and
Spanish-speaking people.
Kurt Sandquist
Adult Ministry Pastor, Lincoln Berean Church
Lincoln, Nebraska
Nebraska
Jails: The History and Evolution of Local Nebraska Jails--150
Years
of Change
402-483-6512 (work) or
402-488-7459 (Home)
kurtsandquist@yahoo.com
Chris Sayre
Musician
Lincoln, Nebraska
A Musical
Journey Across America: Songs That Helped Shape a Nation
Nebraska's
Musical Smorgasbord: Music From Various Ethnic Groups in Nebraska
402-477-6777 (Home)
cksayre@windstream.net
 Lincoln native Chris Sayre has been
performing music professionally for 30 years. He has dedicated much of
that time to the promotion and preservation of traditional folk music from
Western Europe and North America. His many awards include three time Folk
Artist of the Year, Entertainer of the Year and Hall of Fame recipient,
as well as several first-place finishes in contests throughout the Midwest.
Self-taught on more than a dozen instruments, Chris consistently leaves
his audiences wanting more.
Roy Scheele
Associate Professor of English & Poet-In-Residence
Doane College-Crete
Crete, Nebraska
Across the
Sandhills: Words and Music (with Randall Snyder)
402-477-1102 (Home) or 402-826-8262 (Work)
roy.scheele@doane.edu
 Roy Scheele
is poet-in-residence and associate professor of English at Doane College in Crete. His poems have been
widely published in such journals as Poetry, Prairie Schooner and The Sewanee
Review and in a number of anthologies, including "To the Clear Fountains:
100 American Poems" (The Dolphin Press, 2002). He also has published criticism,
as well as interviews with contemporary poets Miroslav Holub, Hayden Carruth,
W.R. Moses and W.D. Snodgrass.
John Schleicher
Head, Special Collections, McGoogan Library of Medicine
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, Nebraska
Germans
From Russia in Nebraska
History of the University of
Nebraska Medical Center
Robert Ramsay
Livingston, M.D.
402-614-2704 (Home) or 402-559-7094 (Work)
jschleicher@unmc.edu
 John Schleicher is a native Nebraskan born in
Superior and raised in Plattsmouth. He graduated from Hastings College
with a bachelor's degree in social science and education and received a master's in history
from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He was exhibits and programs
assistant at Western Heritage Museum in Omaha from 1990-1992, then was
executive director of the Dodge County Historical Society and director
of the May Museum in Fremont from 1992-1994. From 1994-2002, he was the
education and statewide services coordinator in the museum division of
the Nebraska State Historical Society. He has been involved with
several historical and preservation organizations, including the Preservation
Association of Lincoln, the American Historical Society of Germans from
Russia, the American Association for State and Local History and the Nebraska
Museums Association.
David Seay
Independent Scholar & Musician
Avoca, Nebraska
Nebraska
Territory Stories
The "Tradition"
in Traditional Folk Music
Train Songs and Tales of the Westward Rails
Folk Traditions Through Music
(Residency program)
402-275-3221 (Home)
g-s@greenblattandseay.com
 Combining
his passions for music, history, and storytelling, David Seay has presented NHC
Speakers Bureau programs since 1997. He is a master artist with the Nebraska
Arts Council's Artist-in-the-Schools Communities Residency Program and performs
with his wife, Deborah Greenblatt, in the popular musical duo Greenblatt & Seay,
which has participated in the Nebraska Arts Council's Touring Program for more
than 20 years. David plays over a dozen instruments, teaches private music
lessons, and conducts workshops in harmonica, songwriting, beginning folk dance,
and hands-on-the instruments.
Wally A. Seiler
 Independent Scholar
Alliance, Nebraska
Mark Twain
on the Lecture Circuit
308-762-7572 (Home)
or 308-762-4400 (Work)
Wally Seiler is a businessman, past chair of the Nebraska Library
Commission, and past winner of a nationwide Mark Twain look-alike contest at
Calaveras Jumping Frog Jubilee in Angels Camp, Calif.
Karen Gettert Shoemaker
Independent Writer & Teacher
Lincoln, Nebraska
Playing
Around With Words: Reading, Writing and the Creative Process (with
Twyla Hansen and Kelly Madigan Erlandson)
402-489-0859
kss516@yahoo.com
Karen Gettert Shoemaker’s
first collection of short fiction, "Night Sounds and Other Stories," was
published in the United States in May 2002 and republished in the United Kingdom
in 2006. Her fiction, nonfiction and poetry have appeared in numerous literary
magazines, including Prairie Schooner, The London Independent, The Nebraska
Review, Fugue, The South Dakota Review, Foliage, Arachne, Kalliope and The West
Wind Review. A native of north central Nebraska, she received her bachelor's
degree in journalism, her master's degree and her Ph.D. in creative writing from
the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She taught literature and writing classes at
UNL for nine years and currently teaches with the University of Nebraska’s MFA
in Writing Program. She has received numerous awards for her writing and her
teaching, including a Nebraska Arts Council Award, the Vreeland Award and the
Mari Sandoz/Prairie Schooner Award for fiction, and a Nebraska Press Association
Award for nonfiction. Her story, "Playing Horses," was chosen by the editors of
Best American Short Stories as one of the 100 Distinguished Stories of 2001.
 John Simmons
Attorney and Adjunct Professor of History
Western Nebraska Community College
Scottsbluff, Nebraska
Nelson Mandela and the End of Apartheid
The Real Pirates of the Caribbean
308 632 3811 (Work)
jsimmons@simmonsolsen.com
Jeffrey H. Smith
Professor of History
Bellevue University
Bellevue, Nebraska
General
Victor Vifquain: Nebraska's 1st Medal of Honor Winner
 402-553-8713 (Home) or 402-557-7515 (Work)
Jeffrey Smith has chronicled the life of his ancestor, Gen. Victor Vifquain in
his book, “A Frenchman Fights for the Union: Victor Vifquain and the 97th
Illinois.” His most recent work is "The 1862 Plot to Kidnap Jefferson Davis,"
published by The University of Nebraska Press Bison Books, in which he co-edited
the memoir of Vifquain. His other books and articles range from Civil War topics
to the Civil Rights movement.
Randall Snyder
Composer-In-Residence
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, Nebraska
Across the
Sandhills: Words and Music (with Roy Scheele)
Encounters
With World Music
It's Only Rock
and Roll
They Call
it Stormy Monday: Evolution of the Blues
402-423-5564 (Home) or 402-472-5120 (Work)
rsnyder@unl.edu
Randall Snyder is head of the composition department at the
 University
of Nebraska-Lincoln, and was appointed the school's first composer-in-residence
in 1996. He was born in Chicago in 1944 and studied saxophone with his
father, a professional jazz musician. In high school he received a scholarship
to the Stan Kenton Band Camp and in 1962 was honored with a Downbeat magazine
Student Hall of Fame award. He attended Quincy College and the University
of Wisconsin, receiving a Ph.D. degree in 1973. He has also received fellowships
to study Korean music at the Traditional Performing Arts Institute in Seoul.
Snyder also teaches courses in jazz, ethnomusicology and rock and roll.
Some 100 of his of pieces have been published, with several commercially
recorded. His orchestral and chamber music has won several composition
contest prizes and in 1992 Snyder was the recipient of an NEA grant as
composer-in-residence with the Nebraska Chamber Orchestra. His music has
been played by various chamber ensembles, symphonies and jazz orchestras.
The Nebraska Arts Council has given him five fellowships. He also has been
active as a jazz performer, appearing as bassist in two documentary films
with Kansas City pianist Jay McShann.
Mary K. Stillwell
Independent
scholar and writer
Lincoln,
Nebraska
Bright
Leaves Flying: An Introduction to U.S. Poet Laureate, Ted Kooser
The
Conversation Through Time: An Introduction to the Poetry of Nebraska
402-476-4775
(Home)
mstillwell2@unl.edu
A native Nebraskan, Mary K. Stillwell has studied writing in
both New York and on the Plains and has published poetry in a wide variety of
journals. Her book of poems, Moving to Malibu, was published by Sandhills
Press. Stillwell, whose dissertation was on the work of four contemporary
Nebraska poets, holds a doctorate from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where
she is a lecturer.
Robert Stoddard
Professor Emeritus of Geography and Asian Studies
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, Nebraska
The Diversity
of Life in South Asia
 402-464-9419 (Home)
bob.stoddard@alltel.net
Robert Stoddard and his wife, Sally, who have
worked and traveled in South Asia for more than 50 years, can share
experiences and observations about India, Nepal, Bhutan, and Sri Lanka. A
talk, accompanied by slides and a question-and-answer format can emphasize
various aspects of culture and socio-economic characteristics of one or more
of these South Asian countries.
Phyllis R. Stone
Elder of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe
 Lincoln, Nebraska
Lifestyles
of Lakota Women
Our Plains
Indian Heritage
402-601-2156 (Cell)
ironshell@myway.com
Phyllis Stone is an elder of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, served on the Nebraska
Indian Commission, and was named Outstanding Indian Woman of Nebraska in
1985.
Kathryn A. Thomas
Associate Professor of Classical and Near Eastern
Studies
Creighton University
Omaha, Nebraska
The Survival
of the Ancient Public Libraries
402-342-5725 (Home) or 402-280-2130 (Work)
ktomas@creighton.edu
Ruth Raymond Thone
Author, Teacher & Activist
Lincoln, Nebraska
The
Beauty Myth: Women, Weight and Appearances
Women
and Aging: A Celebration
 402-421-2855 (Home)
Nebraska native Ruth Thone is a freelance writer,
radio commentator, workshop leader and author of three published books:
"Women and Aging: Celebrating Ourselves," "FAT: A Fate Worse Than Death?
Women, Weight and Appearance" and a collection of essays entitled "Being
Home." Mother of three adult women and grandmother of Charlotte Francesca and
Stella Blue,
she lives in Lincoln with her husband, Charley, a former U.S. congressman
and former governor of Nebraska. She is also active in several social justice
organizations.
Antonette Willa Skupa Turner
 Granddaughter of Annie Pavelka
Bladen, Nebraska
Antonia's
Czech Tulip Quilt
My Babicka,
Antonia
402-756-1642 (Home)
Antonette Willa Skupa Turner is the granddaughter
of Annie Pavelka, who was the Antonia in Willa Cather’s “My Antonia.” She
knew her grandmother personally and for several years has related her stories
connected with Cather and how Cather taught her to speak English.
Mary Green Vickrey
Musician and Eighteenth-century Popular Music Scholar
Vermillion, South Dakota
Songs Lewis
& Clark Might Have Sung
The Lewis
& Clark Songster: Greatest Hits of 1803
605-624-2540 (Home)
mary@marygreenvickrey.com
www.marygreenvickrey.com
 In
period costume, Mary Green Vickrey performs 18th century popular
music from Great Britain and the United States with energy and humor. In her
research at the British Library in London and in “Early American Imprints,” a
microfiche collection of 1639-1820 American publications, she has rediscovered
musical treasures that have not been performed for 200 years. She holds
a master's degree in interdisciplinary studies from the University of South Dakota with
an emphasis in music, history, and theatre and a B.A. from Vanderbilt University
with a major in American history. Mary has musical training in voice, guitar,
and banjo and writes and has recorded "Horizon Unbounded," a CD of original folk
music. She is the coordinator of the Sioux Falls chapter of the Nashville
Songwriters Association.
Les Vilda
Independent Scholar & Ambassador of the Santa
Fe Trail
Wilber, Nebraska
A Modern-day
Encounter With the Santa Fe Trail
 402-821-3058 (Home/Work)
eduexped@windstream.net
www.havedonkeywilltravel.com
Les
Vilda is a graduate of Doane College in Crete and has been a featured performer
in more than 750 living-history reenactments in 24 states. He portrayed a Fort
Hayes buffalo hunter in the movie "Dances With Wolves," has canoed 2,500
miles on the Missouri River and 500 miles on the Mississippi River, and has
traveled more than 2,000 miles along the Santa Fe Trail.
Jan Wahl
Assistant Professor, Teachers College
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, Nebraska
From Mexico
to Nebraska
402-489-5950 (Home)
Jan Wahl has a special interest in ethnic groups in Nebraska. She has
written school curriculum about Native American tribes in Nebraska and wrote
and produced “Giveaway at Ring Thunder,” a film about a giveaway ceremony on
the Rosebud Reservation.
John Walker
Musician & Retired Professor of Philosophy
Nebraska Wesleyan University
Lincoln, Nebraska
Lordy Lordy,
Baby Baby: The Blues and Gospel Music
The Music of Poetry/The
Poetry of Music
402-466-7254 (Home)
jwblue@earthlink.com
www.prairiedogmusic.com
A
transplanted Okie who now calls Nebraska home, John
 Walker has been
performing his brand of country-blues music since the 1960s. His musical
roots go back to Bob and Johnny Lee Wills, Woody Guthrie, Huddie Ledbetter,
Bukka White, Brownie McGhee, and numerous small-town Oklahoma churches where
he grew up singing songs like "What a Friend," "Oh Happy Day," and "Just a
Closer Walk with Thee." His own songs reflect that upbringing in their
laid-back accessibility and Southern rural themes. They combine
foot-stomping rhythms with smooth melodies and expressive lyrics, all to the
accompaniment of a unique finger-picking guitar style. He has played in
auditoriums and bars and churches and festivals and living rooms and hay
fields across the country. John is a long-time traveler with the Nebraska
Arts Council's Touring Artists program and has performed at the John F.
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts as Nebraska's representative to the
center's State Days concert series.
Rick Wallace
Independent Scholar
Lincoln, Nebraska
African-Americans of Nebraska: 1854-1945
402-484-5019 (Home) or 402-436-2386 (Work)
rwallace1955@gmail.com
 C.A. Waller
Musician
Lincoln, Nebraska
I Got the
Blues, and I Can't Be Satisfied
402-325-6205 (Home) or 402-325-6204 (Work)
cawblues@prodigy.net
George D. Watson Jr.
Professor of Justice Studies
Chadron State College
Chadron, Nebraska
The
Constitution: Past and Present
308-432-6253 (Work) or 308-432-5098 (Home)
gwatson@csc.edu
Martha Ellen Webb
Historian and Exhibit Specialist
Omaha, Nebraska
Produce
for Victory: Nebraskans in WW II
The Life and
Work of Dr. Susan LaFlesche Picotte
402-551-0747 (Home)
or 402-250-9674 (Cell)
makinghistory@huntel.net
Martha Ellen Webb received her Ph.D. in the history
of science and European history from the University of Oklahoma. For 10
years, she taught history of science, medicine and technology, as well
as early modern European history and western civilization courses at the
university level. Webb moved to Nebraska in 1982 to teach at Creighton
University, and in 1990 she formed her own historical and museum consulting
firm, Making History Inc. Webb has completed intensive historical research
in many British and American archives and has published several scholarly
articles. In the 1990s, she presented a series of lectures on native American
medicine. In 1996 Webb was selected to provide scholarly and exhibit assistance
to four Nebraska museums in connection with the Smithsonian Institution's
“Produce for Victory” World War II exhibit. She is the author of three
books on heirloom conservation.
David Wells
Independent Historian
Omaha, Nebraska
America
and the Great War
Memorial
Day: Its Origins, Its Heritage, Its Legacy
Nebraska
and the Civil War
The
Trans-Mississippi Exposition of 1898 in Omaha
402-339-2936 (Home) or 402-978-7748 (Work)
wells55@msn.com
Phil Wendzillo
Director of Cultural Affairs
Ponca Tribe of Nebraska
Crofton, Nebraska
Ponca History
and Heritage
712-253-1134 (Cell)
philwendzillo@hotmail.com
Kenneth Winkle
Professor of History
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, Nebraska
The Great
Body of the Republic: Abraham Lincoln and the Great Plains
402-472-2414
(Work)
kwinkle1@unl.edu
 Kenneth J. Winkle is
professor of history and chair of the history department at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln. He has published three prize-winning books in the field of
19th century U.S. political, social, cultural, and military history–"The
Politics of Community: Migration and Politics in Antebellum Ohio" (Cambridge
University Press), "The Young Eagle: The Rise of Abraham Lincoln" (Taylor
Trade Publishing), and "The Oxford Atlas of the Civil War" (Oxford
University Press). His books have won the Society for Military History’s
Distinguished Book Award, the Abraham Lincoln Institute Book Award, and the
Allan Sharlin Award of the Social Science History Association. Winkle has
published his research in numerous history journals. As a public speaker, he has
addressed the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical
Association, the Abraham Lincoln Association, the Annual Lincoln Colloquium, the
Abraham Lincoln Institute, and Civil War roundtables nationwide and has spoken
at the Library of Congress and the Gettysburg Battlefield. Winkle has taught
more than a dozen courses in 19th century U.S. history, family history,
community history and quantitative methods.
James S. Wunsch
Professor of Political Science
Creighton University
Omaha, Nebraska
Contemporary
Africa
Third
World Poverty, America and Development
402-280-2836 (Home) or 402-551-1426 (Work)
James Wunsch is professor of political science, department chair, and
director of the African studies program at Creighton University. He has
studied, lectured and researched in Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, Kenya, Sudan, Botswana,
Zambia, South Africa and Swaziland. Wunsch is a former USAID
officer and Fulbright Fellowship holder.
 Joseph J. Wydeven
Bellevue University
Emeritus Professor of English and Humanities
Papillion, Nebraska
Wright Morris:
Nebraska Novelist and Photographer
402-331-9548 (Home)
aliceandjoe@cox.net
joe.wydeven@cox.net
 Janie York
Independent Scholar
Ithaca, Nebraska
Quilting
Your Legacy
402-623-4402
janielynntextiles@alltel.net
Edward Zimmer
Preservation Planner, Lincoln-Lancaster County Planning Department
Lincoln, Nebraska
Lincoln's
Historic Neighborhoods
Lincoln's
Diverse Past
402-430-7814 (Home) or 402-441-6360 (Work)
ezimmer@neb.rr.com
ezimmer@ci.lincoln.ne.us
 Ed
Zimmer has been the historic preservation planner for the Lincoln Planning
Department since 1985. He emphasizes outreach and education, presenting more
than 1,000 slide talks, walks, and bus tours for diverse audiences. He also
has been a volunteer member of the Lincoln School Board since 1996. Ed is a
native of Omaha and spent a decade studying and working in Boston, earning a
Ph.D. in American studies from Boston University in 1984. While in
Massachusetts he freelanced as a researcher and writer for clients including
Peabody Museum at Harvard University, Lowell National Historical Park, and
the Smithsonian's Museum of American History. |
