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‘Nebraska Tales’ Explores the Legacy of Mari Sandoz on Nebraska Public Media
LINCOLN, Neb. (March 21, 2025) – Celebrated author and American West historian Mari Sandoz continues to form our understanding of Plains historical past. The April 3 episode of Nebraska Public Media’s award-winning native tv collection “Nebraska Stories” reveals her enduring legacy, the affect of her writings and what the longer term holds for her work.
In April, “Nebraska Tales” episodes air on tv at 8 p.m. CT on Thursdays, April 3, 10, 17 and 24, on Nebraska Public Media.
The April 3 episode of “Nebraska Tales” additionally introduces a pair from Arnold who retains their minds sharp by constructing Lego creations collectively. With greater than 500 units, the duo works facet by facet, snapping items into place, sorting tiny bricks and bringing their concepts to life.
On April 10, the collection investigates the meat science that led to the event of the favored flat iron steak and follows a 53-foot-long Trailer of Terror alongside the rolling hills of northern Nebraska close to Wausa. The haunted cell attraction is the brainchild of a household from Atkinson who dares locals to step inside.
The theme for the April 17 episode of “Nebraska Tales” is “A Day on the Museum,” with tales in regards to the world-class Sheldon Artwork Museum on the campus of the College of Nebraska-Lincoln, an exhibit at Norfolk’s Elkhorn Valley Museum that focuses on the lifetime of comic and late-night discuss present host Johnny Carson and artwork on the Flatwater Folks Artwork Museum in Brownville.
On April 24, the final “Nebraska Tales” episode of the month introduces a 96-year-old former instructor and Husker cheerleader whose legacy lives on within the college students she mentored. Judy Batten was on a group that pioneered the Lincoln Public Faculties gifted pupil program and was a founding father of the Lincoln Youngsters’s Museum.
Additionally in April, the collection tells tales about North Omaha via a tour with Preston Love, Jr., a record-breaking Seward native with a ardour for axe throwing, the tragic 1913 Omaha twister via a survivor’s letters and the Sandhills Open Street Problem. Different “Nebraska Tales” deal with a blind baseball coach and the restoration of a Forties tractor retrieved from the Alaska wilderness and as soon as owned by America’s final homesteader.
The masterful storytellers who work on “Nebraska Tales” journey statewide, serving as the fashionable archivists of Nebraska’s tales – each current and previous. Loved by viewers throughout the state for its feature-based, character-driven storytelling, “Nebraska Tales” covers artwork, science, historical past, sports activities, efficiency, nature and extra.
New episodes repeat Fridays at 7:30 p.m. CT on Nebraska Public Media.
“Nebraska Tales” is funded partly by The Margaret and Martha Thomas Basis and the Invoice Harris and MarySue Hormel Harris Fund for the Presentation of Cultural Programming. The collection can also be funded partly by the Teammates Mentoring Program, Phelps County Memorial Well being Middle and Uncover Northwest Nebraska.
The collection is on Facebook, at NebraskaPublicMedia.org/nebraskastories and accessible for streaming on the Nebraska Public Media app.
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