Jul 06, 2016 08:56AM ● By Max Sparber
You would think Omaha, safely ensconced in the Midwest, where no monkeys come from, wouldn’t have much of a monkey problem. But Omaha histor...
May 27, 2016 02:47PM ● By Max Sparber
It’s impossible to tell the early story of Omaha without discussing its residents of Irish ancestry. Sadly, Omaha’s first Irish neighborhood...
Mar 17, 2016 01:17PM ● By Max Sparber
Despite Omaha’s deserved early reputation as a city of crime and vice, it was also a city with a thriving religious community. Or, more prop...
Jan 08, 2016 04:27PM ● By Max Sparber
There is probably only one famous quartermaster in history: The character Q from the James Bond books and movies, currently played onscreen ...
Jan 08, 2016 04:18PM ● By Max Sparber
Every place has its urban legends, some quite famous. The Tower of London, as an example, has a group of ravens, and an urban legend to acco...
Dec 30, 2015 03:08PM ● By Max Sparber
It’s hard to believe the Ak-Sar-Ben Race Track and Coliseum has been closed for 20 years (the coliseum closed later, in 2002), as it was lon...
Nov 19, 2015 02:43PM ● By Max Sparber
The Fourth of July 1898 was quite a day for Omaha. The Trans-Mississippi Exposition opened its doors about a month earlier, and it would con...
Sep 10, 2015 02:35PM ● By Max Sparber
This article appears in the Sept./Oct. 2015 issue of 60-Plus.In the 1975 trucker song “Convoy,” a voice can be heard on a CB radio. “What’s ...
Jul 29, 2015 01:56PM ● By Max Sparber
This article appeared in Omaha Magazine July/August 2015 edition.Potter Field: It’s a lonely sounding pair of words for an even lonelier pla...
May 28, 2015 01:00PM ● By Ryan Borchers
This article originally published in May/June 2015 edition of 60-Plus.When we research our genealogical histories, we sometimes find we’re r...
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