Main Topic: Our State

Topic: Nebraska Journey Stories, Immigrant Experience, & Westward Expansion

Speaker: Charles E. Real

Discovering the Celtic World in Nebraska

With the defeat of the ancient tribes of Gaul by Julius Caesar, the Celtic people were forced to the edges of the known world in Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Britain. Charles Real takes listeners on an 8,000-year journey that explores the origins and culture of the Celts and how the sons and daughters of the Celtic fringe influenced place names, early pioneers and settlers on Nebraska’s prairies and in its river valleys.