For those who lived through it, the winter of 1948-1949 can be considered the worst in Nebraska history. Relentless snow, wind, and cold buried the state in feet of snow. Trump, 79, Feuds With His ...
Past ColumnsFor a couple of weeks in November, my husband and I talked about the weather this fall and compared it to the weather in November 1948. It was very much the same, warm and sunny — great ...
Vincent McKeown stands beside his car in a 20-foot deep snow canyon made by plows on Highway 275 10 miles west of Norfolk in February 1949. Editor's note: Originally published Feb. 23, 2014: On a sea ...
They say a person talks about the weather because there is nothing left to talk about, and until the last couple of days we never realized the real significance of such a statement. Now we know.
In the winter of 1949, B.B. King was playing guitar at a dance hall in Arkansas when a fight broke out. Two men were battling over a woman named Lucille and during the commotion knocked over a barrel ...
One man described living near the suburban St. Louis home where the 13-year-old boy arrived in the winter of 1949 (his Lutheran mother was a St. Louis native who married a Catholic). Another said she ...