by DCHSADMIN | Feb 3, 2023 | Blog
By Tara Spencer In the late 1930s, a group of men in New York City decided they wanted to show off their culinary talents to their peers. Thus, the Society of Amateur Chefs was formed. Their first organizational meeting was held at the Hotel New Yorker in October,...
by DCHSADMIN | Jan 13, 2023 | Uncategorized
By: Natalie Kammerer Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy as a civil rights leader is reflected in the history of the school that was named for him. It was the first Omaha Public School named for an African American, and the first commemoration of Dr. King in Omaha. Its...
by DCHSADMIN | Dec 23, 2022 | Blog
By: Natalie Kammerer In continuation of our holiday exhibit and blog series dedicated to Highlighting our Heroes, we’ve done a deep-dive into some of our collections that tell the early history of Omaha’s Fire Department. We unfortunately don’t have names to put to...
by DCHSADMIN | Dec 9, 2022 | Blog
By: Tara Spencer There’s something about the dainty, plucky sound of a ukulele that immediately puts one at ease. Perhaps it’s the association with Hawaii—a paradise on Earth—or the often soothing voices that accompany it, such as Israel Kamakawiwo‘ole and Queen...
by DCHSADMIN | Nov 18, 2022 | Blog
By Rita Shelley For her coming out party in 1890, Miss Anna Millard wore a Paris gown of pale pink mousseline de soie, trimmed with a garland of tiny pink hyacinth buds. The daughter of former mayor and First National Bank President Ezra Millard also wore hyacinths in...
by DCHSADMIN | Oct 28, 2022 | Blog
By Tara Spencer Every community has its own tales of spiritual happenings, hauntings, and horror. In my hometown, there was an abandoned house known simply as Unity where people claimed to have seen buckets of blood in the barn and experienced forces pushing them and...
by DCHSADMIN | Oct 14, 2022 | Blog
By Rita Shelley This story started as one about several dresses in the DCHS textiles collection. When Collections Coordinator Natalie Kammerer proposed the idea of delving into the history of several of dresses in the Society’s archives, she explained that they had...
by DCHSADMIN | Sep 30, 2022 | Blog
By Elise O’Neil Humans are resilient. When horrific events or tragedies inevitably take place, we attempt to rationalize them. Finding some meaning, a motive, a reason why – can help us to cope with disaster, move on, and trust that the circumstances that...
by DCHSADMIN | Sep 8, 2022 | Blog
by Tara Spencer Where there are now some rather bland industrial and government-style buildings, there used to stand a stately structure that housed the Pacific School. Surrounded by tidy residential homes, this school was where Ella Fleishman was educated....
by DCHSADMIN | Aug 25, 2022 | Blog
by Kelli Bello After the first few sentences of a Benson Sun article from 1962, I felt like I had met my new best friend. In her profile of the late great Esther Green, writer Rosemary Madison opined, “She’s a dynamo. She’s as resilient as a cork bobbing in water....
