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

    How We Celebrate

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

    The Gage County Museum will join the nation in commemorating 250 years of American independence with a special summer exhibition. This exhibit will highlight how our communities have celebrated patriotism, […]

  • The plow shaped visitor center is in the foreground. A pale pink sky can be seen behind it as the sunsets. Sunset at the Homestead Heritage Center. NPS Photo/H Hendricks

    America 250 Homestead Days

    America 250 Homestead Days
    Homestead National Historic Park 8523 West State Highway 4, Beatrice, NE, United States

    Homestead National Historical Park is hosting a full weekend of free activities, demonstrations, and performances that allow visitors to explore how the ideals and hopes of the American Revolution continued through the era of the Homestead Act, extending into the 1980s and beyond. Homestead National Historical Park will be celebrating America’s 250th birthday with expanding […]

  • The plow shaped visitor center is in the foreground. A pale pink sky can be seen behind it as the sunsets. Sunset at the Homestead Heritage Center. NPS Photo/H Hendricks

    America 250 Homestead Days

    America 250 Homestead Days
    Homestead National Historic Park 8523 West State Highway 4, Beatrice, NE, United States

    Homestead National Historical Park is hosting a full weekend of free activities, demonstrations, and performances that allow visitors to explore how the ideals and hopes of the American Revolution continued through the era of the Homestead Act, extending into the 1980s and beyond. Homestead National Historical Park will be celebrating America’s 250th birthday with expanding […]

  • Willa Cather sculpture. She has a walking stick in one hand and a book or papers in the other. A partially buried wagon wheel is near her feet.

    “O Pioneers” screening and discussion

    Midwest Theater 1707 Broadway, Scottsbluff, NE, United States

    The Gering Civic Plaza Sculpture Project Committee - Crystal Sandberg, Rita Stinner and Gretchen Peters, - installed a Littleton Alston sculpture of Nebraska author Willa Cather in Gering to celebrate the 250th Anniversary of American Independence and 50th Anniversary of Nebraska’s Interstate-80 sculptures. This free event helps celebrate the statue's installation. The movie “O Pioneers” […]

  • Willa Cather sculpture. She has a walking stick in one hand and a book or papers in the other. A partially buried wagon wheel is near her feet.

    Really Big Willa Cather Book Club Event

    Gering Civic Center 1050 M St, Gering, NE, United States

    The Gering Civic Plaza Sculpture Project Committee - Crystal Sandberg, Rita Stinner and Gretchen Peters, - installed a Littleton Alston sculpture of Nebraska author Willa Cather in Gering to celebrate the 250th Anniversary of American Independence and 50th Anniversary of Nebraska’s Interstate-80 sculptures. This free event helps celebrate the statue's installation. Read Cather’s My Antonia […]

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