Thank you to everyone who stopped by the museum this Memorial weekend and thank you to all the people who helped make it a memorable event. We started the festivities with the parade and a “buggy ride.” Then Rob Williams entertained us with dulcimer music, although he wouldn't take our requests to play “Freebird” for some reason. Speaker David Wells from the Nebraska Humanities Council gave an excellent presentation on the Vietnam War to a standing room only crowd. I believe

WWI Army Nurse Corps We believe Mabel is the center nurse in this photo, but cannot be certain because we have very few pictures of her to compare with. However according to her niece she may not even be in this picture. I will update this article if a photo that is definitely her is located. Mabel's grandfather, Wilhelm (or William) Riber. Mabel Riber was born on the 21st of February, 1899 in Ruskin to Nels and Mary Ann Riber. She was the third of seven children and her gran

Our annual meeting was held Sunday, March 22 and was well attended by the public. The meeting was called to order at 2:00 by one of our co-chairman Steve Renz who gave a summary of our activities over the last year. He highlighted the video interviews being conducted by Ken Scroggins and stated that we will be continuing to document our living history in the coming year. The minutes of last year's meeting were read by our secretary Camie Kroeger and our treasurer Dave Healey

Civil War, Corporal Co. I 114th IL Inf Job Allen Job Allen was born on January 1st, 1840 in Wabash County, Indiana to Job and Clarissa Allen. He was the sixth of eight children, having one brother and six sisters. As a young man he moved to Illinois with his parents and siblings and in July of 1862 he enlisted in Company I of the 114th Illinois Volunteer Infantry. He mustered in at Camp Butler on September 18th and on November 8th left with his regiment for Memphis, Tennessee