• Cattle Trails and Songs of the West

    Lexington Grand Generation Center 407 East 6th St., Lexington, NE, United States

    Speaker: Joan Wells Sponsored by the Lexington Grand Generation Center

  • Weaving a Nation

    Hastings College 710 Turner Ave, Hastings, United States

    Join us in Hastings to hear the lesser-known stories of the forging of our nation and our state. Details here.

  • Black Homesteaders in the Great Plains of America

    Hastings Public Library

    Speaker: Eric Ewing, Executive Director of Great Plains Black History Museum Across every state in the Great Plains, African American homesteaders claimed land, built communities, and shaped a distinct chapter of American history. Though their numbers were smaller than those of the vast wave of White settlers, Black homesteaders established homes, cultivated farms, and created […]

  • Giving Voice to the Silenced Stories

    Hastings Public Library

    Speaker: Beth Dotan, Research Assistant Professor at the Norman and Bernice Harris Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln This program will take a glimpse into the collections of Holocaust survivors who settled in Nebraska and Nebraska WWII servicemen who liberated individuals interned in Nazi concentration camps, existing under inconceivable conditions. A […]

  • A Chicano Ancestral Perspective of 485 Years of Great Plains History

    Hastings Public Library

    Speakers: José Garcia and Linda Garcia Linda and Jose were each raised by Mexican American parents who grew up in both urban and rural settings, and who themselves were children of Mexican immigrants.Their deep understanding of the Spanish American experience—from the historical beginnings with the 1541 Coronado Expedition to the Fabled Land of Cibola (a […]

  • Raices de mi Pueblo

    French Memorial Chapel Hastings College, Hastings, NE, United States

    Authentic Mexican dancing performed by area children. The mission of Raices de mi Pueblo is to provide opportunity for the children to develop their self-esteem and confidence in their many talents and abilities.

  • An Evening with El Vaquero

    French Memorial Chapel Hastings College, Hastings, NE, United States

    Meet El Vaquero, America’s first cowboy, as portrayed by Angel Vigil. A composite of many different historic figures, El Vaquero is a Spanish colonial cowboy. These cowboys were the first Europeans to ride the open ranges and sleep under the stars. They learned to tame the wild horses of the plains and delivered vast herds […]

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