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Nebraska
The Nebraska Center for the Book will promote the National Book Festival at the first Nebraska Book Festival, which will be held in central Nebraska in Grand Island on Sept. 13-14, and through activities preceding the festival. The Stuhr Museum of the Prairie Pioneer will host the Nebraska Book Festival. The festival's theme, "A Sense of Time, A Sense of Place," underscores the state's historical past: "a sense of who we are as Americans, as Nebraskans, as a community, as a member of a family." Information about the National Book Festival will be distributed to more than 400 participating students and teachers on Student Day (Sept. 13) and highlighted at all Nebraska Book Festival program venues on both Sept. 13 and Sept. 14. National Book Festival posters and bookmarks will be distributed and remarks about the National Book Festival will be highlighted at the celebratory Nebraska Book Awards dinner on Sept. 13. The Stuhr Museum will put information about the National Book Festival in their Visitor's Center as soon as it is available (last year 40,000 people visited the museum during the summer and fall) and link the museum's Web site to the National Book Festival's Web site. It also will promote the National Book Festival during the Central Nebraska Ethnic Festival hosted by the museum on July 26-28, which celebrates the cultures of more than 30 countries and different ethnic groups.
Contact: Joan Birnie, phone: 308-872-2927, fax: 308-872-2927, e-mail: bb12849@alltel.net.