Current Classes

What you ask is Buffalo Commons?  Allan always has a funny anecdote up his sleeve, but Buffalo Commons isn’t one of them.  You’ll have the opportunity to hear Allan explore the topic, or as he puts it, “In 1987, two Rutgers University academics wrote and article for an obscure journal. Amazingly, the idea they proposed in the article blew up in the media (do you remember the uproar?). It prompted debate across the plains.”  In this session, we will discuss the Poppers’ idea, the controversy it generated, and what has happened on this issue since 1987!

Ever wonder how Kearney has developed over time? Want to know how development occurs and what steps are taken to build something in Kearney?  Melissa will be our guide as she discusses how Kearney has developed from a planning perspective through the development process and what it takes to turn a field into something else! A very informative presentation that, as citizens, we should all be interested in attending.

Begin Women’s History Month with a presentation from Carol about Beatrice’s own Clara Bewick Colby. She will discuss Colby’s struggles through women’s suffrage as well as the influence of her newspaper, Woman’s Tribune. Colby established and published the Woman’s Tribune in Beatrice, Nebraska, and the suffragist newspaper would survive 26 years, greatly influencing rural, isolated women by resolutely promoting the idea that suffrage and equality for women were moral rights in a democratic society.