Nebraska Stories
Skate for Change & More
S4 • E5 Apr 14, 2013
Skate for Change - Skateboarders for the homeless? Meet Mike Smith, an Imperial Nebraska Native who inspires kids to combine skateboarding fun with social change. Batman Does Shakespeare - What do comic books and theater have in common? Bob Hall says they both tell stories which is why this Lincoln native has spent his life drawing characters like Batman and directing Shaespearean plays. With Helpless Terror - On Easter Sunday in 1913 , Beulah Adams was walking in an Omaha park when a tornado ripped up the world around her. She survived and shares her story in a letter to her mother. Dust Covered Dreams - Dust Bowl survivors in Nebraska suffered heat, drought and grasshopper plagues as authored Barbara Mohrman tells in this intimate family story discovered in a cardboard box. A Plague of Locusts - Experience the devastation locusts wrought on the Great Plains in 1874. Visualized with animation based on an eyewitness account written by a reporter who was who was visiting friends on their Nebraska homestead during the attack.
