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Tag Archives: Great Depression
We Love Quilts! Part 3
Back in March I blogged about the opening of a new quilt exhibit called Beauty in Hard Times: Depression Era Quilts in Nebraska. I mentioned that this exhibit will run for two years and the quilts will change every six months. Well, six months are … Continue reading
Posted in Exhibits, Museum Collections
Tagged artifact, collections, Great Depression, museum, quilt
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Why Bother with Nebraska History?
“Why should we bother with the history of Nebraska or any other state?” writes historian Frederick C. Luebke. “What makes its history distinctive or different, let us say, from that of Iowa or Kansas? A skeptic might well argue that … Continue reading
Posted in Nebraska History, Publications
Tagged Great Depression, Nebraska statehood, Nebraska territory
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Republican River Flood, Part 2: Rescue in McCook
As promised in the May 25 post, “Republican River Flood – 75th Anniversary,” here is the story of how forty men were trapped on the roof of the power plant in McCook. A narrative by plant worker Louis B. Wolf … Continue reading
Posted in Photograph Collection
Tagged Great Depression, McCook, natural disaster, Republican River
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Republican River Flood – 75th Anniversary
On May 30, 1935, torrential rains fell in eastern Colorado and southwestern Nebraska; by early morning of the 31st, the usually peaceful Republican River was running bluff-to-bluff along its upper reaches. When the waters subsided two days later, over 100 … Continue reading
Posted in Historical Markers
Tagged Great Depression, McCook, natural disaster, Republican River
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We Love Quilts, Part 2
Last time I blogged I talked about how much we love quilts–here’s more proof. We’ve just opened a new exhibit called Beauty in Hard Times: Depression Era Quilts in Nebraska. This exhibit will run for two years and the quilts … Continue reading
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Tagged artifact, collections, exhibit, Great Depression, museum, quilt
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Free Gardens for the Unemployed
These hard times aren’t the first hard times Nebraskans have faced. And it’s not the first time community gardens have helped people put food on the table. On March 4, 1933, in the midst of the Great Depression, the City … Continue reading