In the 1930s, the notion of making an incubator for creativity in a region devastated by the Great Depression got tested in Nebraska. This episode looks at what happened there when the Writers’ Project came to town, through a group of creatives from contrasting backgrounds, including a hobo, a nurse and a hardware store poet – all under the watchful eye of a university professor and a celebrated novelist.

Nebraska State Historical Society Brown Bag Lecture by Jamison Wyatt March 17, 2016

from the NET archives

from the NET archives

UNL Textiles Clothing & Design Project

University of Nebraska-Lincoln professors Susan and John Wunder read about Bess Streeter Aldrich and Mari Sandoz from their book, "Nebraska Moments."

The Christmas of the Phonograph Records by Mari Sandoz read by Ellen Francisco

Helen Winter Stauffer, biographer of Mari Sandoz, reads from her introduction to "Letters of Mari Sandoz."

Collection contains letters from Sandoz on a variety of subjects; letters from her sister Caroline Sandoz Pifer to Denver author Caroline Bancroft; newspaper clippings from a series on Sandoz 1954-1969.