NCTA hosts history program March 1

February 24, 2017

By NCTA News

Nebraska history and its 150^th birthday will be observed Wednesday at the Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture in Curtis.

The public is invited to join elementary school children and college students for the March 1 program which begins at 1 p.m., said Ron Rosati, NCTA Dean.

“We invite the community and students to celebrate Nebraska’s heritage on Statehood Day through music and story,” Rosati said. The program is hosted with Medicine Valley Elementary School.

Nebraska became a state on March 1, 1867. NCTA became a high school in 1913, and evolved into a college in 1965.

Attendees and students from Medicine Valley Elementary School will be entertained and informed through “Echoes of an Era” by Paul Siebert of Lincoln.

Siebert incorporates the Nebraska State seal and flag as a back drop for a musical and storytelling living history program of a family’s journey from Russia to Nebraska in the 1870′s.

The Nebraska Agriculture Industry Education Center is located at Siminoe Drive and University Streets.

The program will conclude by 3 p.m., and is funded with a grant from Humanities Nebraska.