Visionary Nebraska thinkers featured at Nebraska State Historical Society's Museum of Nebraska History lecture May 15.

Does the future have a past? Everyone has wondered what the future will look like, and Nebraskans a century ago had some remarkable predictions about what the future would hold. Their prognostications will be featured in "Yesterday's Tomorrows: Nebraska's Visionary Thinkers," a noon-hour program, Thursday, May 15 at the Nebraska State Historical Society's Museum of Nebraska History, 15th & P Streets, Lincoln.  John Carter, Senior Research Associate, will explore yesterday's Nebraskans and their visions of tomorrow, ranging from the wild and wacky to the eerily clairvoyant. Some of these seers were practical as well as prophetic, like Henry Olerich of Omaha, who developed the Olerich All-Purpose Tractor in addition to outlining his utopian ideals in the book "Modern Paradise."

Carter's research was supported in part by a grant from the Nebraska Humanities Council.

The lecture is part of the Society's brown bag lectures series and is open to the public free of charge.
For more information contact the museum at 471-4754, 1-800-833-6747 or visit www.nebraskahistory.org.

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