CCC News Release: Humanities Nebraska Speaker to Appear in Grand Island

            (Grand Island, Neb.) – Historian Jeff Barnes will present a program “Custer in Nebraska: The Royal Buffalo Hunt of 1872” at 2 p.m. on Oct. 25 at Central Community College-Grand Island.

            The presentation is offered free of charge by Humanities Nebraska, the Nebraska Cultural Endowment and CCC as part of the Humanities Nebraska Speakers Bureau.

            Barnes will share the fascinating tale and photographs of Nebraska’s “Buffalo Bill” Cody and Gen. George Armstrong Custer entertaining the Grand Duke Alexis of Russia for the last of the great buffalo hunts on the Great Plains.

            To register for the program, contact Christopher Dierks at 308-398-7441; toll-free in Nebraska at 1-877-222-0780, ext. 7441; or [email protected].

            “Custer in Nebraska” is one of about 300 programs offered through the Humanities Nebraska Speakers Bureau. The more than 165 speakers are available to any nonprofit organization in Nebraska. For more information, visit www.humanitiesnebraska.org or contact Humanities Nebraska at 402-474-2131 or [email protected].