Tails From Tennessee: LINCOLN, NEBRASKA AND THE LAND OF CORNHUSKER FOOTBALL

We left Pender, NE headed for Lincoln. The corn fields were either full of dried corn or stripped of everything. Now I know where the Cornhuskers got their name. There was really nothing to see as we drove thru little townships east towards Omaha and them south to Lincoln. A boring drive, but we did see some quilt blocks on buildings and houses.

We hadn't eaten since breakfast, which was a quick bite so that we could get on the road. After we arrived we looked up some restaurants in the area and decided on Laslo's which happened to be in the Haymarket District. Old buildings in the downtown area turned into new businesses and lots of restaurants and brew pubs. I wish I had taken more pictures because it was such an interesting area. We passed the arena and stadium on the way here. Lots of young guys with man buns and lots of young people in general. Many were riding push scooters all around. It is definitely a college town.

The campground we were in was quite a surprise as it was in a beautiful park like setting, but sitting between two major highways. If you were sitting outside you could hear some of the traffic, but it was not bothersome. The CG had lots of trees and lots of squirrels--the kitties LOVED it. We always carry peanuts with us when we travel to entice the squirrels and the squirrels and our kitties were pretty happy about it.

Finnegan, who is always afraid of everything just couldn't stop looking out the door while Bentley was out in the stroller. And Nicholas was right behind him.

The weather was cool here 68-72, so we sat out with the kitties and watched the squirrels as much as we could. There were red squirrels and black squirrels here. Black squirrels were new to us.

The second night we brought Finnegan out in the stroller to watch the squirrels. He was a happy camper and it was Bentley's turn to look out through the door.

There are just so many squirrels they didn't know which way to look.

On Saturday we went to the International Quilt Museum in Lincoln. I have been wanting to go there for years, however it was disappointing to me. It was a huge building, but very few quilts hanging. It used a lot of space for people instead of quilts. They could have displayed 4 times as many quilts as they did. They had 2 exhibits there with modern quilts that were OK, but not my style.

This was one of the quilts in the Paying It Forward Exhibit

This exhibit was on Making the Sense of Loss with a lot of memory quilts. 9-11 quilts, etc.

This quilt was made of match books.

Most of the quilts display had "maker unknown", but they were all made between late 1890s and 1936. Most were machine pieced and hand quilted.

The lily quilt looks to be the same quilt pattern we saw in the Iowa Museum. It must have been a pattern published in a newspaper, Kansas City Star or something to turn up in 2 museums.