Brown Bag mixes lunch, history
ByKiysiaMaly
staff writer
The Nebraska State Historical
Society is inviting you to lunch.
Each month, a lecture related
to Nebraska history will be given
by historians, educators, hobbyists
or museum staff.
Lectures will be held on the
third Thursday of evqrypionth at
noon in die Blackman Auditorium
at the Museum of Nebraska
History, 15th and P Streets, in
Lincoln. The public is welcome to
attend the free lectures and to pack
a lunch.
Brent Carmack, historic sites
coordinator for the museum, says
that students often attend the lec
tures. Educators and others inter
ested in Nebraska history also
come.
it Our mission is to offer an
outreach to education in Nebraska
history”
Brent Carmack
historic sites coordinator, Museum of Nebraska History
“A fairly core audience comes
every month,” Carmack said.
“People interested in a specific
topic also show up.”
For those unable to attend, the
lectures will be broadcast on
Lincoln Cablevision government
access Channel 5 on Wednesdays
at noon and 8:30 p.m., Fridays at S
p.m., and Saturdays at 6 p.m. The
lectures will be broadcast one
month after their initial presenta
tions.
The goal of the Brown Bag
Lecture series is to bring people to
the museum to learn about
Nebraska history. “Our mission is
to offer an outreach to education in
Nebraska history." Carmack said.
The next lecture will held July
20 and will be presented by Steven
J. Ramold, of the Library/Archives
Division of the Nebraska State
Historical Society. The topic will
be “Murder in a Small Nebraska
Town: Public Executions in
Nebraska."
Tuesday Tales brings storytellers to UNL
Sarah Bachman
Staff writer
Lincoln residents can put away
their reading glasses and relax
their eyes this summer without
having to giye up the pleasure of a
good bedtime story.
Beginning June 27 and run
ning through July 25, Lincoln resi
dents are invited to attend Tuesday
Tales. The story-telling series is
scheduled for every Tuesday
evening immediately following
Jazz in June.
Located on the steps of
Architecture Hall, the program
allows a different storyteller to
entertain audiences of all ages!
The speakers are all profes
sional storytellers, each with their
own topic and style.
The program’s purpose is to
“make the campus user-friendly to
not only die UNL community but
also the Lincoln community,’’ Kit
Voorhees, the director of Tuesday
Tales, said.
“We truly want the people to
feel that the campus belongs to
diem and not just to the students,”
she said.
Sponsored by the Arts Are
Basic Program, the month-long
program will begin with a “ghost
ing,” Vborhees said.
Sen. David Landis, of Lincoln,
will be telling ghost stories that
first evening.
Other storytellers include Rita
Paskowitz, Pippa White and
Nancy Duncan.
Paskowitz will be telling sto
ries of Jewish heritage.
White specializes in historical
stories ranging from immigrant
narratives to stories about famous
people in U.S. history.
Duncan, a National
Storytelling Award winner, will be
telling stories about historical
Native Americans.
“Storytelling offers a wonder
ful balance to our spectacle-orient
ed entertainment,” White said. “It
forces the listener to work a little
bit harder.”
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