Along the banks of the Missouri River....
I am in Peru, Nebraska staying with my dear friends Kent and Becki. Peru, Nebraska is not an accidental tourist destination, rather it is a place you have to intend on visiting. Peru is a teeny tiny midwest town on the banks of the Missouri River and between cornfields. Peru is about an hour from Lincoln, Nebraska and not really off of any highway, nor on the way to anywhere. However, this little towm of 575 people has been the highlight of my trip. I have spent 2 days in Peru and will be sad to leave tomorrow morning. One of the most fascinating parts of the visit was seeing the National Arbor Day foundation and learning that Arbor Day was founded in Nebraska City, Nebraska by Sterling Morton as in Morton, Salt. What was so ironic for me was that just the day before in Chicago I visited the Morton Arboretuem and took Hank for a walk, but never anything to tell me the history. I was amazed a day later to be in another arboreteum started by the same man. I guess he loved trees! This was also a stop on the Lewis and Clark expedition and I visited the Lewis and Clark interpretive center. And as I rode my bike along the banks of the Missouri this morning I imagined floating along the river....
And in this remote part of southeastern Nebraska I visited the coolest bookstore I have ever visited. An antiqutian bookstore in an old high school in a little town of Brownville, as in John Brown the abolitionist. I wander the halls of this store and found gems that have rivaled anything I found in bookstores in Boston and Cambridge all in a little town in Nebraska. Culture really does exist beyond both coasts - or should I say between both coasts. You just have to know the right people and open your mind....
Tomorrow begins another leg of the journey. Out of Nebraska and into Colorado....until next time....
I am in Peru, Nebraska staying with my dear friends Kent and Becki. Peru, Nebraska is not an accidental tourist destination, rather it is a place you have to intend on visiting. Peru is a teeny tiny midwest town on the banks of the Missouri River and between cornfields. Peru is about an hour from Lincoln, Nebraska and not really off of any highway, nor on the way to anywhere. However, this little towm of 575 people has been the highlight of my trip. I have spent 2 days in Peru and will be sad to leave tomorrow morning. One of the most fascinating parts of the visit was seeing the National Arbor Day foundation and learning that Arbor Day was founded in Nebraska City, Nebraska by Sterling Morton as in Morton, Salt. What was so ironic for me was that just the day before in Chicago I visited the Morton Arboretuem and took Hank for a walk, but never anything to tell me the history. I was amazed a day later to be in another arboreteum started by the same man. I guess he loved trees! This was also a stop on the Lewis and Clark expedition and I visited the Lewis and Clark interpretive center. And as I rode my bike along the banks of the Missouri this morning I imagined floating along the river....
And in this remote part of southeastern Nebraska I visited the coolest bookstore I have ever visited. An antiqutian bookstore in an old high school in a little town of Brownville, as in John Brown the abolitionist. I wander the halls of this store and found gems that have rivaled anything I found in bookstores in Boston and Cambridge all in a little town in Nebraska. Culture really does exist beyond both coasts - or should I say between both coasts. You just have to know the right people and open your mind....
Tomorrow begins another leg of the journey. Out of Nebraska and into Colorado....until next time....
posted by Brenda at 7:45 PM
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"I guess he loved trees"; love that.
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