Nebraska Stories
Shifting Sands & More
S1 • E9 Jul 18, 2010
Volleyball Coach John Cook finds a way to bond his team together by taking them on the UNL Ropes Challenge Course. Embark on an awe-inspiring journey across our beautiful state aboard the one of the grandest steam engines in existence, Union Pacific's renowned Challenger No. 3985. This Nebraska Stories vignette tells the story of how Sarah Switzer Sortum and her brother, Adam Switzer, are hard at work making changes on their family's Burwell ranch to embrace new conservation methods and encourage eco-tourism. One of Willa Cather's most famous novels begins on a train as the author remembers a childhood friend. That women's name was Annie Pavelka - the world knows her as "My Antonia". Constructed during the Great Depression, the colorful Jacob Fisher Rainbow Fountain is a huge part of the summer scene in the town of Hastings as well as a symbol of the early progress of rural electrification.
