Trails and Rails Museum

Keynote address with Clayton C. Anderson, “Nebraska’s Astronaut” (Read More)

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Clayton C. Anderson, known as “Astro Clay®” and “Nebraska’s Astronaut,” will join the Trails & Rails Museum – Buffalo County Historical Society on Sunday, November 1, to help celebrate the opening of NASA’s traveling exhibit, The Hubble Space Telescope: New Views of the Universe. He will give a keynote address at 2 p.m. about his story of perseverance, discovery, and exploration. This all-ages event is free. For more information, visit the historical society and museum's website: https://www.bchs.us/

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Vaquero: The Genesis of the Texas Cowboy (Read More)

“Vaquero” was created by the Wittliff Collections at the Alkek Library, Texas State University-San Marcos, presented in partnership with Humanities Texas. It features sixty-two digital carbon prints with bilingual narrative text that reveal the muscle, sweat and drama that went into roping a calf in thick brush or breaking a wild horse in the saddle. The exhibit traces the long history of vaqueros, or cowboys, into the earliest phases of westward expansion onto this continent, and the legacy of early cowboys in the development of western locales like central Nebraska. Paired with this traveling exhibit is a Buffalo County rodeo history display that keeps the equine theme alive. The exhibit opens to the public at 5 p.m. on May 1 and runs through June 15. Museum hours are Monday-Saturday 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. and Sunday 1 - 5 p.m. Admission is $10 for the general public, $5 for children 3-12, and free for children 2 and under and for members.

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