![](media/image1.png){width="0.6354166666666666in"
height="0.8333333333333334in"} **Homestead National Monument of
America**

**Beatrice, NE**

2008 Special Events and Programs

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**Admission to all events, exhibits and displays is free**

# [JANUARY]{.underline} 

## *Special Exhibition Smithsonian Institutes: Inspiration from the Forest* 

## On exhibit at the Education Center, Opens January 7

## Sunday, January 13, 1 pm & 3 pm Tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr.

## Saturday, January 26, 1 pm & 3 pm Artist Sonia Domsch demonstrates bobbin lacemaking

## In partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the Smithsonian Institute

## FEBRUARY 

## *Special Exhibition Smithsonian Institutes: Inspiration from the Forest*

##  On exhibit at the Education Center, Closes February 24

## Sunday, February 10, 1 pm & 3 pm Celebration of Black History Month 

## Saturday, February 16, 1 pm -- 4 pm Book signing by Bobbi and Steve Olson, Authors of Marking 

## Program at 2 pm Time -- Nebraska's Historic Places

## Sunday, February 17, 1 pm & 3 pm *Lincoln and the West,* By Historian Todd Arrington

## MARCH 

## *Special Exhibition Solomon Butcher: Photograph Exhibit*

##  Brought to you by the Museum of Nebraska Art

## On exhibit at the Education Center

## Sunday, March 2, 1 pm & 3 pm Celebration of Women's History Month

## Sunday, March 16, 1 pm & 3 pm *George Norris and Rural Electrification*

## By Historian Todd Arrington

## Saturday, March 29, 1 pm -- 4 pm Book signing by Dennis Vossberg, Author of Hector's Bliss -- 

## Program at 2 pm Black Homesteaders at Goose Lake, Nebraska

# [APRIL]{.underline}

## *Special Exhibition Solomon Butcher: Photograph Exhibit*

##  Brought to you by the Museum of Nebraska Art

## On exhibit at the Education Center

**Saturday, April 5, 7 pm Film Premiere "Land of Dreams: Homesteading
America"**

> at the Hevelone Center for Performing Arts, Beatrice, NE

**Saturday -Sunday, April 19-27 National Park Week**

**Sunday, April 20, 1 pm & 3 pm Remembering the Oklahoma Land Rush**

**Saturday, April 26, 9-3 pm** **Homestead Prairie Walk: A March for
Parks Event**

## MAY

## *Special Exhibition Solomon Butcher: Photograph Exhibit*

##  Brought to you by the Museum of Nebraska Art

## On exhibit at the Education Center

**Thursday-Friday, May 1-2, 10-3 pm 10th Annual Heartland Storytelling
Festival**

**Friday, May 2, 7 pm Public Storytelling Performance**

**Saturday, May 24, 10 am -9 pm 10th Annual Monumental Fiddling
Championship and Acoustic Band Contest -** Funded by the Coffin
Foundation, Nebraska Arts Council, and Eastern National.

**[JUNE]{.underline}**

## *Special Exhibition Solomon Butcher: Photograph Exhibit*

## June 7 -- 30, daily Park Ranger led programs at the Freeman School, 

## Palmer-Epard Cabin and demonstration prairie

**Friday-Sunday, June 13-15 Homestead Days**

# Craft demonstrators, entertainment, homestead history, antique farm and horse-drawn equipment demonstrations

**Saturday, June 14, 2 pm** **U.S. Immigration Naturalization Ceremony**

# Witness 75-100 people becoming United States citizens.

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# [JULY]{.underline}

## July 1 -- 31, daily Park Ranger led programs at the Freeman School, 

## Palmer-Epard Cabin and demonstration prairie

**Friday, July 4, 7:30 pm 4^th^ of July Heritage Campfire Program**

**Saturdays, July 12, 19, 26, 7:30 pm Campfire Programs**

# [AUGUST]{.underline}

## August 1 -- 31, daily Park Ranger led programs at the Freeman School,

## Palmer-Epard Cabin and demonstration prairie

# Saturdays, August 2, 9, 16, 23, 7:30 pm Campfire Programs

# [SEPTEMBER]{.underline}

**Wednesday, September 17, 1:30 pm U.S. Immigration Naturalization
Ceremony**

# Witness 75-100 people becoming United States citizens.

# Saturday, September 27, 9:30 am Public Lands Day Volunteer Project -- Deer Survey

**Sunday-Saturday, September 28** **Prairie Appreciation Week**

**- October 4**

## Saturday, September 28, 1 pm & 3 pm Program and Book signing by Jeffery Lockwood, 

## Author of Locust

# [OCTOBER]{.underline}

## *Special Exhibition Joel Sartore Photographs -- "On the Land",* 

## Featured at the Education Center

# Friday, October 3 Prairie Vision: High School Literary Day

# Registration Required

**Saturday, October 4, 9:30 am** **Prairie Work Day -** a Prairie
Appreciation Week Event

**Thursday-Friday, October 9-10 Pioneer Days**

**Saturday, October 25, 6:30 pm Howling Homestead**

# [NOVEMBER]{.underline} 

## *Special Exhibition Joel Sartore Photographs -- "On the Land",* 

## Featured at the Education Center

# *Special Exhibition* Winter Festival of Prairie Cultures 

> On exhibit at the Education Center Opens November 28

**Sunday, November 30, 1 pm & 3 pm Winter Festival of Prairie Cultures
special program**

# [DECEMBER]{.underline} 

## *Special Exhibition Joel Sartore Photographs -- "On the Land",* 

## Featured at the Education Center

## *Special Exhibition* Winter Festival of Prairie Cultures 

> On exhibit at the Education Center Closes December 31

**Sunday, December 7 & 14, 1 pm & 3 pm Winter Festival of Prairie
Cultures special programs**

***Homestead National Monument of America is located 4 miles northwest
of Beatrice, Nebraska on State Highway 4. The park is open daily from
8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Weekend hours from Labor Day to Memorial Day are
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The park is closed Thanksgiving Day, December 25,
and January 1. Admission to all events is free. For more information,
call [(402) 223-3514]{.underline} or visit us on the web at
[www.nps.gov/home/](http://www.nps.gov/home/).** Some programs partially
funded by the Nebraska Humanities Council and the Nebraska Arts
Council.*