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SUMMARY:Archaeology Fair
DESCRIPTION:Meadowlark Hearth Living Environment Foundation is hosting an Archaeology Fair at Legacy of the Plains Museum. The event is free and open to the public. Activities include:\n•  Friction Fire-Making\n•  Flintknapping\n•  Arrow Making\n•  Atlatl Throwing\n• Cordage and Basketry\n• Ochre Hand-Spray Art\n• Seed Processing
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/archaeology-fair-2/
LOCATION:Legacy of the Plains Musuem\, 2930 Old Oregon Trail\, Gering\, NE\, 69341\, United States
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SUMMARY:Momotaro at Legacy of the Plains Museum
DESCRIPTION:Circle Theatre invites the Gering and Scottsbluff community to a full day of creativity and cultural exploration with Momotaro at Legacy of the Plains Museum\, a hands-on workshop celebrating Japanese arts\, folklore\, and performance. This engaging event\, inspired by the beloved Japanese folktale of Momotaro and led by artists of all abilities\, will run from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Saturday\, November 8\, and is free to the public. \nThe daylong series of workshops will immerse participants in traditional and contemporary Japanese art forms. Visitors can fold origami characters\, learn Odori (traditional Japanese dance)\, craft Bunraku-style puppets and Noh theatre masks\, sing folk songs such as Teru Bozu and Oni no Pantsu\, and conclude with haiku poetry and reflection. The day will culminate in a short performance demonstration of Momotaro: The Peach Boy of Japan by members of Circle Theatre’s ensemble. \n“This workshop is about connecting culture\, creativity\, and community\,” says Circle Theatre Co-Artistic Director Courtney Stein Cairncross. “It’s a chance for families to explore Japanese art traditions while discovering the joy of storytelling through movement\, music\, and puppetry.” \nCircle Theatre’s Momotaro programming is part of a year-long celebration of global folklore and inclusive performance.  All activities are designed to be accessible for participants of all ages and abilities.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/momotaro-at-legacy-of-the-plains-museum/
LOCATION:Legacy of the Plains Musuem\, 2930 Old Oregon Trail\, Gering\, NE\, 69341\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Legacy of the Orphan Trains: Gering
DESCRIPTION:Novelist and humanities scholar Alison Moore and singer/songwriter Phil Lancaster have combined audio visual elements\, historical fiction and musical ballads into a collaborative performance that brings the Orphan Train movement\, a largely-unknown chapter in American history\, to public awareness. The presentation tells the story of the 250\,000 orphans and unwanted children who were put on trains in New York between 1854 and 1929 and sent all over the United States to be given away. After the presentation\, there is an informal discussion about the origin and demise of the largest child migration in history and the part it played in the formation of the American Dream. The human struggle to belong\, to define one’s self in the place we call home is exemplified in the stories of these children that have shaped all of our lives. The presenters will take questions from the audience and will invite relatives and acquaintances of Orphan Train Riders to share their stories. \nAlison Moore\, MFA\, is a former Assistant Professor of English/Creative Writing in the MFA Creative Writing Program at the University of Arizona and a current Humanities Scholar. She lives in Austin and has been touring nationally since 1998 with the multi-media program “Riders on the Orphan Train” that is currently the official outreach program for the National Orphan Train Complex Museum and Research Center. She has also developed public outreach programs for the Orphan Train Heritage Society of America\, Inc. and for ArtsReach\, a Native American literacy project in Southern Arizona. She is the author of four books. She received two National Endowment for the Arts Fiction Fellowships in 1993 and 2010 and the Katherine Ann Porter Prize for Fiction in 2004. In 2007/2008 she received the J. Frank Dobie Paisano fellowship from the University of Texas at Austin and the Texas Institute of Letters. In 2012 she received the Charles Loring Brace Award for helping to preserve the stories of the Orphan Trains. \nPhil Lancaster was born in Texarkana\, Arkansas and studied art and music at L’Ecole De Beaux Arts in Angers\, France. He became a member of a bluegrass band that toured throughout France and produced an album entitled “Bluegrass Oldies Ltd./Traveling Show.” After returning to the U.S. he met three Arkansas musicians and the acoustic quartet “Still on the Hill” was formed in Fayetteville. They released their first CD in 1997\, the second in 2000. The group performed at national and international folk festivals. In 2007 he received an Arkansas Arts Council Fellowship in Music Composition. He is co-producer of the documentary film “Gospel\, Biscuits and Gravy” about Ozark gospel singer Ernestine Shepherd and presenter of “Riders on the Orphan Train\,” the official outreach program for the National Orphan Train Complex.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/the-legacy-of-the-orphan-trains-gering/
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SUMMARY:Archaeology Fair
DESCRIPTION:Meadowlark Hearth Living Environment Foundation is partnering with Legacy of the Plains Museum to bring an archaeology fair to Gering. \nThis free\, family-friendly educational event will run from 11 am to 3 p.m.\, with guided tours being offered at 11:15 a.m. and 1:15 p.m. \nActivities will include: friction fire making\, flintknapping\, arrow making\, atlatl throwing\, cordage\, ochre hand-spray art\, seed processing.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/archaeology-fair/
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SUMMARY:Nebraska Stories: Rescuing Japanese Hall
DESCRIPTION:Nebraska Public Media has created a special “Nebraska Stories” episode\, “Rescuing Japanese Hall.” This program follows the grassroots efforts of Nebraskans of Japanese heritage to save the historic Scottsbluff hall\, culminating in its relocation to the Legacy of the Plains Museum. It also explores the enduring influence of Fr. Hiram Kano\, a Japanese immigrant whose dedicated service to Nebraska still resonates today. \nThe broadcast premiere of “Nebraska Stories: Rescuing Japanese Hall” is Thursday\, May 15 at 8pm CT / 7pm MT on Nebraska Public Media or stream on-demand on PBS.org or the PBS app. \nSubsequent broadcasts will take place: \n\nFriday\, May 16\, 07:30 pm on NE-PBS\nSunday\, May 18\, 01:30 pm on NE-PBS\nFriday\, May 30\, 07:30 pm on NE-PBS
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-stories-rescuing-japanese-hall/2025-05-30/
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CATEGORIES:Grants
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SUMMARY:Nebraska Stories: Rescuing Japanese Hall
DESCRIPTION:Nebraska Public Media has created a special “Nebraska Stories” episode\, “Rescuing Japanese Hall.” This program follows the grassroots efforts of Nebraskans of Japanese heritage to save the historic Scottsbluff hall\, culminating in its relocation to the Legacy of the Plains Museum. It also explores the enduring influence of Fr. Hiram Kano\, a Japanese immigrant whose dedicated service to Nebraska still resonates today. \nThe broadcast premiere of “Nebraska Stories: Rescuing Japanese Hall” is Thursday\, May 15 at 8pm CT / 7pm MT on Nebraska Public Media or stream on-demand on PBS.org or the PBS app. \nSubsequent broadcasts will take place: \n\nFriday\, May 16\, 07:30 pm on NE-PBS\nSunday\, May 18\, 01:30 pm on NE-PBS\nFriday\, May 30\, 07:30 pm on NE-PBS
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-stories-rescuing-japanese-hall/2025-05-18/
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SUMMARY:Nebraska Stories: Rescuing Japanese Hall
DESCRIPTION:Nebraska Public Media has created a special “Nebraska Stories” episode\, “Rescuing Japanese Hall.” This program follows the grassroots efforts of Nebraskans of Japanese heritage to save the historic Scottsbluff hall\, culminating in its relocation to the Legacy of the Plains Museum. It also explores the enduring influence of Fr. Hiram Kano\, a Japanese immigrant whose dedicated service to Nebraska still resonates today. \nThe broadcast premiere of “Nebraska Stories: Rescuing Japanese Hall” is Thursday\, May 15 at 8pm CT / 7pm MT on Nebraska Public Media or stream on-demand on PBS.org or the PBS app. \nSubsequent broadcasts will take place: \n\nFriday\, May 16\, 07:30 pm on NE-PBS\nSunday\, May 18\, 01:30 pm on NE-PBS\nFriday\, May 30\, 07:30 pm on NE-PBS
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-stories-rescuing-japanese-hall/2025-05-16/
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CATEGORIES:Grants
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SUMMARY:Nebraska Stories: Rescuing Japanese Hall
DESCRIPTION:Nebraska Public Media has created a special “Nebraska Stories” episode\, “Rescuing Japanese Hall.” This program follows the grassroots efforts of Nebraskans of Japanese heritage to save the historic Scottsbluff hall\, culminating in its relocation to the Legacy of the Plains Museum. It also explores the enduring influence of Fr. Hiram Kano\, a Japanese immigrant whose dedicated service to Nebraska still resonates today. \nThe broadcast premiere of “Nebraska Stories: Rescuing Japanese Hall” is Thursday\, May 15 at 8pm CT / 7pm MT on Nebraska Public Media or stream on-demand on PBS.org or the PBS app. \nSubsequent broadcasts will take place: \n\nFriday\, May 16\, 07:30 pm on NE-PBS\nSunday\, May 18\, 01:30 pm on NE-PBS\nFriday\, May 30\, 07:30 pm on NE-PBS
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/nebraska-stories-rescuing-japanese-hall/2025-05-15/
LOCATION:Statewide on Nebraska Public Media Television\, NE\, United States
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SUMMARY:Nebraska Stories: Rescuing Japanese Hall
DESCRIPTION:Alongside a special “Japanese Hall” episode for season 16 of Nebraska Public Media’s cultural series “Nebraska Stories”\, several in-person events surrounding the story of the Japanese Hall and History Project on the Legacy of the Plains Museum campus will take place in Gering and Scottsbluff. Below is the schedule for events at Legacy of the Plains Museum. \n5-6 p.m. Meet and Greet \n6-7 p.m. Nebraska Stories Preview Screening and Panel discussion with: \n– Vickie Sakurada Schaepler\, Japanese Hall and History Project coordinator \n– John Miyoshi\, Japanese Hall and History Project construction manager \n– Sharon Ishii-Jordan\, retired Associate Dean and Professor Emerita of Education at Creighton University\, and Japanese Hall and History Project advisor \n– Julie Ushio\, author\, historian\, and Japanese Hall and History Project advisor \n– Kim Hachiya\, author\, Japanese Hall and History Project editor and advisor (moderator) \nIf you miss the in-person event\, the broadcast premiere of “Nebraska Stories: Rescuing Japanese Hall” will be Thursday\, May 15 at 8pm CT / 7pm MT on Nebraska Public Media or stream on-demand on PBS.org or the PBS app.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/japanese-hall-events-at-midwest-theater/
LOCATION:Midwest Theater\, 1707 Broadway\, Scottsbluff\, NE\, 69361\, United States
CATEGORIES:Grants
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SUMMARY:Japanese Hall events at Legacy of the Plains Museum
DESCRIPTION:Alongside a special “Japanese Hall” episode for season 16 of Nebraska Public Media’s cultural series “Nebraska Stories”\, several in-person events surrounding the story of the Japanese Hall and History Project on the Legacy of the Plains Museum campus will take place in Gering and Scottsbluff. The Japanese Hall exhibit will be open without charge for anyone attending events throughout the day. Below is the schedule for events at Legacy of the Plains Museum. \n10:30 Julie Ushio presents Graves of Early Immigrants in the LPM Great Hall; afterwards she will lead a walking tour of Fairview Cemetery. (Transportation on your own to the cemetery.) Meet at the parking lot nearest the cemetery office. \n1:30 p.m. Vickie Sakurada Schaepler will give a presentation “The Legacy of Japanese Immigrants in Nebraska including stories of WWII.” \n2:45 p.m. Sharon Ishii-Jordan and Kim Hachiya will present on Japanese and Japanese American Incarceration Camps of WWII \n4 p.m. Dedication of a Nebraska State Historical Society Historical Marker at Japanese Hall
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/japanese-hall-events-at-legacy/
LOCATION:Legacy of the Plains Musuem\, 2930 Old Oregon Trail\, Gering\, NE\, 69341\, United States
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SUMMARY:Righting a Wrong/Preserving a Legacy Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Righting a Wrong: Japanese Americans and World War II\, a traveling exhibition from the Smithsonian\, examines the complicated history and impact of Executive Order 9066 which led to the incarceration of 75\,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry and 45\,000 Japanese nationals following the attack on Pearl Harbor. Young and old lived crowded together in hastily built camps\, endured poor living conditions\, and were under the constant watch of military guards for two and a half years. Meanwhile\, brave Japanese American men risked their lives fighting for the United States. Some 40 years later\, members of the Japanese American community led the nation to confront the wrong it had done—and urged Congress to make it right. \nIn partnership with Legacy of the Plains Museum in Gering\, the exhibition “Preserving a Legacy: Japanese in Nebraska” expands on the story told by the traveling Smithsonian exhibition “Righting a Wrong.” The story of Japanese Americans in Nebraska is filled with hope and support in the state. This exhibit strives to tell these stories. \nJapanese Nebraskans lived mostly in western farming communities. They worked on farms and in stockyards\, in hospitality and domestic service\, in professions\, and as entrepreneurs. Omaha’s small Japanese community included Harry Watanabe\, who founded the Oriental Trading Company in 1932. Unlike the West Coast\, Nebraska Japanese were not incarcerated during World War II\, but some lost jobs and community leaders were arrested and questioned. Japanese immigrants were designated “enemy aliens.” Newspapers across the state reprinted warnings that they and their U.S.-born children might act as spies and saboteurs. Some Nebraskans responded with anti-Japanese hostility. Others spoke against mass incarceration and even hastened the release of those incarcerated by opening jobs to workers and enrollment to students. Nebraskans of Japanese ancestry have led the way in righting the wrongs of the 1940s\, honoring the rights and dignity of all Americans today. \nExhibit open during normal museum hours Tuesday through Saturday: \nTuesday and Wednesday: 9:00AM – 4:00PM\nThursday: 9:00AM – 8:00PM\nFriday and Saturday: 9:00AM – 4:00PM\nSunday and Monday : Closed\nClosed during state observed holidays. \nRegular museum admission applies.
URL:https://humanitiesnebraska.org/event/righting-a-wrong-preserving-a-legacy-exhibition/
LOCATION:Nebraska History Museum\, 131 Centennial Mall North\, Lincoln\, NE\, 68508\, United States
CATEGORIES:Grants
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