The No Name Bluegrass Band
A pre-Chautauqua event! Enjoy the No Name Bluegrass Band with your family and friends! Free and open to the public at the Gering Civic Plaza.
Events
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Young History Detectives Summer Camp 2025 (registered students only)
Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center 6001 Dodge Street, Omaha, NE, United StatesYoung History Detectives is a youth enrichment program for grades 7-12 (ages 12-17). YHD participants learn research skills, history, and oral storytelling. Oral Histories preserve community history uniquely. We explore storytelling through art, music, dance, gaming, creative writing, illustration, yoga, meditation, sound therapy, and photography. Each day blends calm and creativity—with daily yoga, mindfulness, and […]
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Taking Pride in Nebraska LGBTQ+ History
Virtual ProgramIn “Taking Pride in Nebraska LGBTQ+ History” panelists will share information about LGBTQIA2S+ history, research, community programming, and the traveling exhibit Pride and Joy: Nebraska History highlighting their unique perspectives as archivists, public historians, curators, and scholars. The presentation is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Questions can be submitted for panelists during […]
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History of the Nebraska State Fair
Immanuel Village 6803 N. 68th Plaza, Omaha, NE, United StatesSpeaker: Jim McKee Sponsored by Immanuel Village
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In Conversation: Author Anna Farro Henderson with Exhibiting Artist/Poet Trey Moody
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts 724 S 12th St, Omaha, NE 68102, Omaha, NE, United StatesAuthor Anna Farro Henderson (Core Samples: A Climate Scientist’s Experiments in Politics and Motherhood) will speak with Trey Moody , poet, Associate Professor, Arts and Sciences at Creighton University, and exhibiting artist in From the Great Lakes to the Great Plains: The Visible Currents of Climate Change. Admission is free; RSVPs are encouraged. Visit the event website to RSVP.
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Weaving Activity for Kids & Families
West Nebraska Arts Center 106 East 18th Street, Scottsbluff, NE, United StatesFun, free event for the whole family.
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Young History Detectives Summer Camp 2025 (registered students only)
Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center 6001 Dodge Street, Omaha, NE, United StatesYoung History Detectives is a youth enrichment program for grades 7-12 (ages 12-17). YHD participants learn research skills, history, and oral storytelling. Oral Histories preserve community history uniquely. We explore storytelling through art, music, dance, gaming, creative writing, illustration, yoga, meditation, sound therapy, and photography. Each day blends calm and creativity—with daily yoga, mindfulness, and […]
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Lewis & Clark: What Was Their Value Worth? Seaman, York, Sacagawea & Pomp Stories
Legacy of the Plains Musuem 2930 Old Oregon Trail, Gering, NE, United StatesThe Corps of Discovery was a fascinating group of individuals. But there were four members of the corps that were “valuable” but not paid. Hunt discusses these four members and tells stories of their adventures. She also dispels a few myths about these members. This program is appropriate for all ages. Presented by Renae Hunt
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Early Japanese Settlers in Nebraska
Legacy of the Plains Musuem 2930 Old Oregon Trail, Gering, NE, United StatesAlthough the majority of Japanese immigrants settled in Hawaii, California, and the West Coast, some pushed further inland, to work on the railroad and coal mines, ending up in Nebraska. A few died from illness, the Spanish Flu, train accidents, their gravestones written in Japanese characters. Others returned to Japan or moved to larger cities. […]
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Guadalupe Dancers
Midwest Theater 1707 Broadway, Scottsbluff, NE, United StatesEnjoy traditional music while the Guadalupe Dancers perform! The Los Guadalupanos is a Traditional Mexican Folklore dance group out of Western Nebraska.
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Meet El Vaquero: America’s First Cowboy
Midwest Theater 1707 Broadway, Scottsbluff, NE, United StatesFree family fun with an educational thread! El Vaquero is a conglomeration of many different cowboys who first roamed the continent. You'll be enthralled as he is brought to life by Angel Vigil. Audience members will be invited to ask questions of El Vaquero, as well as Angel Vigil.
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Women’s Rights and the Saucy Mrs. Adams
Legacy of the Plains Musuem 2930 Old Oregon Trail, Gering, NE, United StatesFive years after Abigail Smith married John Adams, the American colonies adopted the British law of coverture. This law held that no female person had a legal identity. Married women owned nothing—not even the clothes on their backs. More importantly, they had no rights over their own bodies, or custody of the children they bore. […]
