As the Lincoln Journal Star reported on Monday, the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission is looking at allowing alcohol again in state parks, a move that would end a ban enacted in 1995. The commission wouldn’t be giving drinkers free rein, though: It would still ban alcohol in swimming areas, roads and parking lots; bringing [...]

A list of less well-known places to visit in Central Nebraska.

The crane migration in Central Nebraska is virtually unique — one of the Plains’ signature natural events. It draws observers from around the country and the world, yet relatively few from our own area.

As usual, Roger Welsch summed it up best: “I’m not sure there can be a Dannebrog without Harriett. It seems like she’s been there forever. She’s become an institution.” Welsch is the famous Dannebrog writer and folklorist, and the Harriett he’s referring to is Harriett Nielsen, longtime owner of Harriett’s Danish. Harriett retired on Halloween, [...]

Today is day one of the three-day, 300-mile-long garage sale that is Nebraska’s Junk Jaunt. This year’s event is the sixth run each year by the Loup Rivers Scenic Byway Committee of the Loup Basin Resource Conservation and Development Council (better known as the RC&D), and as I wrote last year, it’s no longer a new [...]

We’re nearing the end of summer, which means we’re also nearing the end of rural small towns’ community festival season. (This season never really ends, but it does slow down quite a bit from September to May.) I spend a lot of my time in the summer writing about these festivals, and I think they’re an [...]