Abandoned Nebraska: Echoes of our Past by Trish Eklund, America Through Time, Fonthill Media, England, 2018.
The pictures in this book are much more impressive than the writing. The writing is too scattered. There are no chapter breaks no titles or headings. Sometimes the next paragraph introduces an unrelated story. It is hard to know exactly what is being talked about at times.
I did gleen a couple of stories. John F. Kennedy University was in Wahoo. They had a good women's athletics program but the University only lasted ten years, 1965-1975. Dana College was a Lutheran Evangelical University which operated from 1896 to 2010 when it closed for financial reasons. It was located in Blair Nebraska.
There was a mental hospital where the Hastings Regional Center is now located. It now provides rehabilitation services. However at one tie the operation was much larger with much of the campu abandoned. It is in Hastings. Norfolk Regional Center has the same fate. Established in 1885 it now only has a 120 bed facility for sex offenders. It once housed over 1000 mentally ill patients.
She does talk about several ghost towns and provides pictures of abandoned homes and schools. The author really is a good photographer.
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