Settler’s footsteps to be traced during Durham lecture

Sara Brandes Crook of the Nebraska Humanities Council, shown here dressed as Nebraska settler Barbara Kagi Mayhew Bradway, will don here historic-themed clothing for a March 11 lecture at UNMC on the life of settlers in the state.

Transport yourself back to a wilder time during a Durham Western Heritage Museum noon lecture on Tuesday, March 11.

Join Nebraska Humanities Scholar Sara Brandes Crook as she immerses herself in a first person portrayal of one of Nebraska Territory’s early permanent white female settlers and describes the frontier period as she lived and breathed it.

The settler, Barbara Kagi Mayhew Bradway, not only recounts the challenges of day-to-day life but explores for the listener the Underground Railroad as she saw it through the eyes of her brother, John Kagi, a close confidant to famed abolishionist John Brown.

The lecture will take place in the Wittson Hall Amphitheater and is offered through the Time Travelers partnership, which provides free museum admission for medical center employees, students, and their immediate family with a valid identification badge, while also offering lectures, workshops and other events on the medical center campus.

Partnership calendar The following is a list of upcoming events held through the partnership between the medical center and the Durham Western Heritage Museum: March 11 — “In the Footsteps of a Female Settler” by Barbara Mayhew of the Nebraska Humanities Council, noon to 1 p.m. , Wittson Hall Amphitheater (Room 3034) March 25 — “Nebraska through Song and Story” by Dan Holtz of the Nebraska Humanities Council, noon to 1 p.m., Wittson Hall Amphitheater April 22 — “Millionaires and Mansions,” a Gritty City Tour on Ollie the Trolley, noon to 1 p.m., $5 cover charge for the tour, which will begin outside the Durham Research Center

Dr. Crook is a professor of history at Peru State College and has been a Nebraska Humanities Scholar for 15 years.

Employees are encouraged to bring their lunches and enjoy the seminar.

An evening lecture is also scheduled at the museum at 6:30 p.m. on March 11 in the Stanley and Dorothy Truhlsen Lecture Hall.

Please contact Andrea Boschult at 444-5071 or e-mail at aboschult@dwhm.org to reserve a seat for the evening lecture.

Check-in begins at 6 and seating begins at 6:15 p.m. The Durham Western Heritage Museum is at 801 S. 10th St. in Omaha.

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