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    2026 Bright Lights summer camp (registered students only)

    2026 Bright Lights summer camp (registered students only)
    Lincoln - multiple locations Lincoln, United States

    Bright Lights provides unique, motivating, hands-on summer learning camps for K-8th grade students, including in humanities subjects like literature and writing, history, and world cultures and languages. The camp application deadline is at least one week before each week’s camps begin (subject to availability). For details about camps, visit the Bright Lights camps list.

    $10 – $300

  • Sorting Out Race exhibit

    Every day thrift stores across America receive donations of objects that display racial imagery— antique advertising cards, collectible salt-and-pepper shakers, vintage children’s books, and mugs with sports team mascots. Are […]

  • 22nd Annual Sidney Gold Rush Days

    22nd Annual Sidney Gold Rush Days
    Legion Park 2301 Legion Park Rd., Sidney, NE, United States

    Sidney Gold Rush Days is a family-oriented outdoor festival. It is held in Legion Park, Sidney, Nebraska, during the second weekend of June. The festival emphasizes the history of the Sidney to Deadwood Gold Rush Trail in the late 1870’s. Lots of activities are provided for children. Activities include free entertainment, wagon rides, hands-on historical […]

  • Opening Day: Spark! Places of Innovation

    Custer County Historical Museum 445 South 9th Ave., Broken Bow, NE, United States

    Spark! Places of Innovation will be on display at Custer County Museum in Broken Bow June 12-July 25, 2026. Spark! Places of Innovation is part of Museum on Main Street, a collaboration between the Smithsonian Institution and State Humanities Councils nationwide. It is based on an exhibition by the National Museum of American History. Support […]

  • 22nd Annual Sidney Gold Rush Days

    22nd Annual Sidney Gold Rush Days
    Legion Park 2301 Legion Park Rd., Sidney, NE, United States

    Sidney Gold Rush Days is a family-oriented outdoor festival. It is held in Legion Park, Sidney, Nebraska, during the second weekend of June. The festival emphasizes the history of the Sidney to Deadwood Gold Rush Trail in the late 1870’s. Lots of activities are provided for children. Activities include free entertainment, wagon rides, hands-on historical […]

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    28th Annual Buffalo Commons Storytelling and Music Festival

    28th Annual Buffalo Commons Storytelling and Music Festival
    McCook NE McCook, NE, United States

    The 29th Annual Buffalo Commons Storytelling and Music Festival is packed with opportunities to laugh, have fun, learn and remember. Journey through the dusty trails, starlit nights, and campfire tales of the American cowboy with nationally-renowned cowboy storytellers and musicians. Their gripping tales and raw, authentic songs from the trail is the ultimate tribute to […]

    Free – $45
  • The words USA 250 How We Celebrate, along with red white and blue patriotic ribbons and stars.

    Gage County Historical Society and Museum 250th Event

    Gage County Museum North 2nd Street, Beatrice, NE, United States

    A full day of history, community, and celebration. Please RSVP your attendance to the afternoon 2pm- 4pm sessions and evening programs at 402-228-1679. 9:00 AM “How We Celebrate: Honoring the 250th Anniversary of the US” Exhibit open exclusively for neurodivergent guests 10:00 AM Community Welcome on the Lawn “How We Celebrate: Honoring the 250th Anniversary […]

  • SPARK! Places of Innovation

    Custer County Historical Museum 445 South 9th Ave., Broken Bow, NE, United States

    Explore the story of human history through rural American inventions and innovations. "Spark! Places of Innovation" is based on a Smithsonian exhibition. It will be at the Custer County Historical Society and Museum June 13-July 25, 2026.

  • Col. Thomas Doane: Massachusetts Engineer to Nebraska Civic and Educational Leader

    Hastings Public Library

    Step back to 1872 and experience a Chautauqua portrayal of Thomas Doane, the chief engineer of the B & M Railroad and famous Hoosac Tunnel Project. Doane was responsible for 240 miles of railroad and telegraph from Plattsmouth to Kearney. He was the co-founder of the town of Crete, Nebraska, founder of the first bank […]

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