Nebraska: Standing Tall Again
Photographs by Joel Sartore
Text by Roff Smith
There are two things Nebraskans want you to know about their state’s geography. The first is that when the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers are playing a home game, Memorial Stadium in Lincoln becomes the third largest city in the state. There hasn’t been an empty seat there since a game against Missouri on November 3, 1962—a string of 220 consecutive full houses. The second is that Nebraska ain’t flat.
Nebraska is a land to be taken slowly, imaginatively. There are no mountain ranges in the distance to lure you on. Nebraska’s character is more subtle, closer to hand, and it holds all sides of American culture—the traditional, neighborliness of small towns and the modern, technological pull of commerce and the melting pot of diversity.
NGM 1998/11