Name: Diaries and Letters of Early Nebraska Settlers [Summer Speaker Series]
Start: 2025-08-26T18:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-08-26T19:30:00-05:00
Location: 308 W Prospect Ave, Norfolk, NE, United States, Nebraska 68701

Diaries and Letters of Early Nebraska Settlers [Summer Speaker Series]

Diaries and Letters of Early Nebraska Settlers presented by Lucy Adkins
Women pioneers and homesteaders played an important part in the development and heritage of Nebraska. In this program, poet and writer Lucy Adkins will honor them, featuring excerpts from diaries and letters of plains women of the past. In addition, she will share poems she has written about the history and experiences of her own plains family.
Lucy Adkins grew up in rural Nebraska, attended country schools, and received her degree from Auburn University and her MFA in Creative Writing is from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Her poetry has been published in journals which include Rhino, Northeast, South Dakota Review, Concho River Review, and several anthologies. Her chapbook, One Life Shining: Addie Finch, Farmwife was published in 2007 by Pudding House Press. In addition, she co-authored Writing in Community: Say Goodbye to Writer’s Block and Transform Your Life which won a Silver “Ippy” in the Independent Publishers Book Awards.