58 NEBRASKAland • NOVEMBER 2017
Send contributions to: Portraits from the Past, NEBRASKAland Magazine, P.O. Box 30370, Lincoln, NE 68503-0370. Or e-mail to
Tim.Reigert@Nebraska.gov. Photos should show people enjoying Nebraska outdoor activities, such as camping, boating, hunting or fishing, and must have
been taken before 1980. We will give priority to unusual photos or activities. When possible, please include a story about the photograph and identify the
people, places and approximate date it was taken. Text may be edited and photos adjusted for reproduction. All photos will be returned.
This picture approximately from 1959 shows me, now 85 years old,
catching fish at the Kohrs farm pond near Johnson, Nebraska.
Six of the women had attended rural Zion Lutheran Church,
married, had families and got together once a month and called
ourselves the Round Robin bunch. When our families were grown,
we no longer got together socially, but continued to keep in touch
by writing the Round Robin letter, mailing the fat envelope to all six
couples and starting a new chain letter again.
The now remaining persons telephone each other occasionally. The
Good Life in Nebraska.
– Inez Gebers, Johnson, Nebraska
▲
From Webster County during the late 1930s – a Sunday
afternoon hunt! My uncle Carl Pearson had been to the county
church (note the tie) that morning.
My father worked at night on the railroad so he and his friends
could make an afternoon hunt.
Pictured left to right are unknown, Roy Shore, Roy Bramble and
Carl Pearson.
– Russell A. Bramble, Hastings, Nebraska
▲
At my grandparents' farm northwest of Madison in the late 1940s or
early 1950s. I am the only girl in the picture, and I can remember that day
some 67 years ago. All my uncles who lived in Omaha would come for the
weekend to fish in the Elkhorn River. They always hoped to catch enough
fish for the supper table that night. You'll notice they all had bottles of beer
brought from Omaha and orange or grape soda for my brother
and me. Pictured left to right are: Back row – my dad Joe Hekrdle;
uncle Joe Pavlis, Jr.; grandpa Joe Pavlis; my uncle's cousin Frank
Kulicek and uncle Marty Novy. Front row – brother Tom Hekrdle;
uncle Johnny Yak; and
myself. All gone now
except Tom and me.
– Mary Ann Vacha,
Madison,
Nebraska