Stories from Friday, March 6, 2026

McCOOK, Neb. - As 2026 rings in the 100th anniversary of U.S. Highway 83, one man is celebrating the trek he made down the 1,885 miles running from the northern to southern U.S. borders and was fascinated enough by what he saw and experienced to tell the tale...

Since discovering YouTube and other online video platforms in the past decade or so, early cinematography has become a guilty pleasure of mine. The early experimental kinetoscope recordings from Thomas Edison and W.K.L. Dickson in the early 1890s are, of course, fascinating technological achievements, but the real fun begins with the recordings of visitors walking through the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago and, better yet, efforts by the Lumière brothers, pioneers of practical cinematography with their Cinématographe, in 1895 and 1896.. ...