Buffalo Commons Fest June 8-9

McCOOK, Nebraska -- The Buffalo Commons Storytelling Festival has received a grant from the Nebraska Humanities Council for the 2012 Festival -- Where History Happens.

The Nebraska Arts Council, Nebraska Travel and Tourism, the Red Willow County Lodging Tax Board and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment have also provided funding.

The 2012 Festival on June 8 and 9 will feature a Wild West Bus Ride to the Last Indian Raid Museum in Oberlin, Kansas; a Chuck Wagon Jamboree at the restored Keystone Hotel with cattle trail food, storytelling and song with Waddie Mitchell, a cowboy poet and humorist from Elko, Nevada and Sons and Brothers Band from Colorado Springs; Saturday will include day long events and a stage show at the Historic Fox Theatre on Norris Avenue in McCook.

Details are available at www.buffalocommons.org

The Nebraska Humanities Council awards more than $200,000 in grants each year. Created in 1973 as a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Nebraska Humanities Council is an independent, non-profit organization governed by a volunteer board of public and academic members.

It funds programs that explore Nebraska's heritage, build community awareness and strengthen our ties to cultural traditions at home and abroad.

Any non-profit group is eligible to apply for a grant from the Nebraska Humanities Council. Contact them at 402-474-2131 or their website: www.nebraskahumanities.org